Our Special Crowded Visits The Picnic !
HUSBANORYMENS ENCAMPMENT A
BOOMING SUCCESS.
The Wheel of Fortune Turns Again—Hundreds Lost
and Won at a Single Spin—Thousands
of People on the Grounds.
GUNTUR{ AND FRALEY WERE THERE.
J Murphy Tries In Vain for the Revolver—Who Wins
the Walking Match T—Farmer Watches it
from Day to Day—Marvelous Display of
the Fair Sex—Miss Herr takes a
Prize —List of Tent Holders.
GRANGE PARK, September 19tb, 1891.
Once more again another year has rolled
around, and the "Patrons of Fakirs" meet for a
week of glee and revelry.
The first dawn of this a new week brought to
our minds, most vividly, the scenes of years gone
by, mingled with many a happy recollection.
As I gaze'about me I am most impressively re
minded of the immortal words of Columbus, as
he first unfurled the proud standard of Spain upon
the Rockbound coasts of Maine and burst forth
in poetics strain "Comrades, Comrades, ever since
we were boys, sharing each others sorrows, shar
ing each others joys." What would the grand
old Poet not have said, could he but have gazed
for one short moment upon this display of broth-
erly and sisterly friendship ?
EARLY MONDAY MORNING.
Train after train unloaded its burden of human
freight upon the grounds,—Gustus was there.
Like the locusts of Arabia the students of P. S. C.
infested every nook and corner of the white crest•
ed camping place. In the words of Tennyson,
"Forward they rode and well
Into the walking match
That female sell
Charged the "4.10.1'
THE FREE LANCE.
One brave frock coated knight, mightier than
all the host of opposition, followed by an admir
ing mob of undergraduates, made rapid transit to
ward the show tent from which proceded the
melodious tones of "Hail to the Chief," and in
front of which the limber jawed man proclaimed
to the gawking public the degree of perfection to
which physical culture had attained on this ter
restial ball. "Three hundred and twenty miles
in three days just think of it," he exclaimed,
"and yet you stand around here, for the mere
sake of the nominal price of ten cents." It was
too much. In surged the vast mob. All day long
they hung around that ring like flies around a
cup of vesta coffee. Wildly the cavaliers cheered
the valient women, but they all not louder than
that one CO Prof.
having just arrived upon the scene on his
special car (which had been placed at his disposal
by the War Department,) elicited thundering ap
plause from the excited mob of bystanders by his
marvelous feat of blowing one hundred and fifteen
pounds on the wind testing machine. He was
ably seconded by Mr. F. N. Josephus, who with
phenominal grace forced the dial to one hundred
and twelve pounds. Other brilliant records
would doubtless have been made had it not been
for the untimely appearance of Gco. R. Rastus,
who with ones tremendeous inflation completely
shattered the apparatus.
Not satisfied with this wholesale work of dis
truction, the now excited mob of student vandals
dragged Rastus away from the clutches of the in
furiated fakir and "sicked" him on to the phono
graph, which the afore-named gentlemen imme
diately atomized by the, use of one geological
term containing twenty four sylables.
Stutie;its, fakirs and husbandrymen mingle free
ly together, partaking each of his noonday meal
of oyster crackers, raspberry lemonade and pea
nuts on the half shell, except a few
,unfortunates
CORPORAL R. W. DICK, OF HUNDINGTON
HIGH NOON AT LAST.