The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-09-04
EDGE WOOD SCENE
 OF JOLL|F F|CATI ION
 BIRMINGHAM ELKS
Baby Show, Bathing Revue, Baseball And General Good
 Time Enjoyed

Edgewood park never was the scene
 of more joyous occasion than on
 Labor Day, 1923. when Birmingham
 Lodge No. 70. Benevolent Protective Oder of Elks, entertained with cele-
 bration and picnic, an old-time gloom killer prescribed annually by the
 Elks, and just as often gleefully par
 taken of by thousands of Birmingham citizens.
 The entire joy trail presented a carnival scene, typically one of care l free abandon. Early Monday morning the crowds began arriving at the park and continuing until dusk when
 acres of humanity spread like sheet
 over the entire park and immediate surroundings.
 Like the traditional three-ring clr-
 GUS, one simply could not see 1t all for the lack of eyes and inability to 1 be in more than one place at a time.
 Attracted to the Inn by waiting melo- 1 dies from Prof Otto Miller and his
 crack Elk band. one was wondering what was being missed down below where whoops of delight made it un-
 mistakable that something was go- | ing on there.
 Squalling Infants was the first in 1 terruption noticed while the band COHGtEI was III progress. HIS | tracted quite crowd, and on gaining
 a peep hole one look told the tale. A baby show was under full headWay on the gallery and one yoIngster was wing with another. It was plain
 they didn't know what it was all about. Evidently the 50 or more of 1 them thought it 6 ballyhoo contest.
 The discord they produced was not at all unlike a street fair performance. Proud mothers and prouder fathers strutted the walks anXiously awaiting
 the decisions of the judges and all the
 while the kiddies yelled, and more than one got spanked. After 1t was all over, eight or ten bouncing boys
 and girls were winners of that many
 prizes, ranging from rattlers to go- carts.
 l Vying with the lustylunged young l sters, the fats and the leans the meanwhile were making fur fly in a typical old mans contest, an imita- tion of the national pastime, and hum | dreds were shouting with glee at
 their fearful antics. They were doing
 the best they could, and their inability
 to play baseball was the joy of the crowd.
 The crack of the willow against the horsehide was followed by a barrage
 of dust as some 200-pounder puffed | to first base, and 6 beautiful stop Dy the second baseman went for naught
 when he threw the ball yards over l the first baseman's head, the runner going to second while the fielder, in
 wardly lambasting the thrower of the
 ball, fshed it out of q nearby mud
 hole. So went the baseball game. Many Attractions On Hand.
 l One simply was at loss to choose
 between the numerous attractions. Down at the pavilion. Watson's Bell Hops made feet light and hearts Lighter with their rollicking melodies while hundreds of couples enjoyed a l dance over the waters of the lake Hundreds of others enjoyed a cooling plunge in the lake. The kids as usual
 had big time.
 1 A scamperng of small feet to the 1 front of the Inn following an an nouncement through one Of the DIE 1 megaphones attracted many persons | to the scene. There, a pie-eating con- ltest was being arranged and the hun
 gry looking kids, many of whom hau l depriyed themselves of meal all 1 day were eager to participate. Ihey
 were lined up against rope ana all handed a pie. The Age-Herld photoS : Erapher was there to get picture, but he didn't have a moving picture ma chine and of necessity had to qulet
 the impatient youngsters before a photograph could be taken. Mucn ol | his patience was exhausted peIoFe that was finally accompllSheu. 10 besmeared kids they were after the contest was over, and some broken :
 hearted also, because they couldh
 all win prizes, though not a shlrker was there among them.
 During the land festivities numer, ous aviation stunts were Under fuli
 headway They included number or death defying nose dives, tall splhs'
 looping the loop and others. 1 The afternoon program concluded
 with an elaborate array of Birming-
 ham beauties in a bathing beauty
 revue at Mountain View Inn. Prizes were awarded to Miss Tena Roper
 Miss Jessie Truitt and Miss Thelma | Williams in the order named.