REGATTA AND RAIN
DIVIDE THE HONORS
Second Day a Genuine Success Despite Weather
Grand Sangerfest Concerts Pending
9:00 i.m,
9:30 tm
9:45 a, m
10:00 a. m
10:15 a,' m
10:30 aJm
PBOGRAM, THIRD DAY, SATURDAY, AUG. 29,
;; FORENOON Water Sports.
.Arrival of Queen. t
.-Double shell race, championship. Trophies.
Canoe race, double paddle. Trophies.
Swimming race, boys.
Duck hunt -
-Single shell, handicap. Trophy. . .,
Net-throwing contest. First prize, $20; second, $10,
-Cutter race, six-oared, Ft. Stevens crew. First prize, $20; sec
ond, $10. . "
Punt race.
-Gasoline fish boats, handicap. First prize, $40; second, $20. ,
Hioh divinsr. .
10-45 a, tn. Double scull pleasure boats. Trophies.
11 -00 -.-Motor boats race, handicap. First prize, $30; second, $15.
Il:l5a,'m.-Fish boats tug of war (two men in each boat). First prize, $20.
I . AFTERNOON Land Sports.
l:30p.m.-Land Sports. (See special program).
EVENING.
8:00 p; m.-Macbeth's Wild West Circus. (See special program).
Country dance. (See special program).
9:15 pi -.-Scandinavian Saengerfest. (See special program).
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Yesterday was no improvement on even more manifest before the band
, r, ptta'wMther. leaves the city. At any event tney
was concerned. It rained torrent, at
intervals, all day long, and the down
pours timed themselves flagrantly and
persistantly, with the calling of the
best events of the day,' ashore and
afloat. ; Yet, in spite of all handicaps,
the day was happily spent by, thou
sands in watching the gamcy work of
the committees and contributors in
pulling-off the specialties set forth in
the program of the second Regatta
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The bay was lively with swift craft
of all 'sizes and builds and the races
came off, if not quite punctually, yet
with fair timeliness and certain spirit
which the idling crowds appreciated
and encored handsomely at each clev
er turn.
Governor Chamberlan went on
board the flagship Heather in time to
personally start the championship
single hell races yesterday morning
and'enjoyed the hospitality of Cap
tain Byrne and Admiral Shepherd
until noon, when he came ashore and
took marked interest in the events
billed for indulgence there.
- Up to a late hour last evening it
was not possible to get the scores on
the races and events of the day as
the committee in charge of these mat
ters had not been, able to close them
up in time for the morning' press, so
they will be given in these columns
tomorrow morning in their entirety.
must realize that their work has been
thoroughly appreciated.
The water events yesterday were
lively, and all charged with Regatta
spirit; the races, big and little, shell,
canoe, tub, launch, sloop, fishboat all
went off with snap and vigor, and the
funmakine stunts off the grandstand,
the greased pole, foot-log work, wa
ter-ball, etc., were frequent and laugh
able and vastly enjoyed. While up
town the ever-shifting crowds dodged
the interminable showers and hunted
the frail shelters of the "midway, as
much for refuge as for entertainment,
and found both on all side; and when
it rained so that even this recourse
was vain, the people went to the res
taurants and threatres and such dryer
resorts as were available, and man
aged, in some way, or other, to jolly
the day away in sport and .mutual
good humor.
Happily the night was clear of rain
through the hours devoted to the
grand marine parade and this offered
a compensating spectacle to the thou
sand on the docks and at the grand
stand. It was. as it always is, the
crowning glory of the Astoria regatta
season. There is nothing to compare
with it for charm and real beauty;
and last night was not sort of excep
tion to the rule. The Heather, Col
umbine, Major Guy Howard, Lurline
morrow muimug - ' . . fi
The, weather was far too unpropi-Jand scores of lesser craft swung over
tious to admit of Queen Hattie ap-
parlsg at large to and with the peo
ple and she did all that might be ex
pected in this behalf, for the rain was
persistant and drenching nearly the
whole day long. Last evening the
dainty young Queen was the guest of
the officers of the forts at the mouth
of the river, on board the post steam
er Major Guy Howard, with her maids
and court, and twice during the day
she was at the grandstand, but -was
forced to relinquish the throne on
account of the downpour.
De Caprio's splendid band did much
to dispel the gloom of the hours by
the beautiful programs rendered in
their inimitable style. The very able
leader and his able corps of players
may not have heard one-tenth of the
derer and Hndly things that have
teen said of the band since its arrival
here, but much has been said, frank
ly and generously, and may be made
the ctv channel -course in brilliant
array, with an accompaniment of
magnificent fireworks, and for two
hours every soul in jhe city who get
to the waterfront, was there, enjoying
it to the utmost.
The day was genuinely successful
and lacked only a bit more sunshine
to make it perfect. And if there is
anything in the concentrated power
of universal thought, as expressed in
the hopes for today, this should be
the banner day of the festival. There
is the superb concert of the Saenger-
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fest to come off tonight at Logan's
Hall, which, with its brilliant program
and splendid alignment of singers,
solo, and chorous, should draw the
Astorians together as they were never
marged in public before, for the com
mon indulgence of the finest musical
entertainment ever offered them in
history; all of which is to be repeated
tomorrow afternoon at the same
place.
Taken, by, and large, the Regatta,
has been wonderfully successful, and
those who are responsible for it, are
to be heartily commended for the
pluck and skill with which it has
been handled, despite the' discourag
ing weather.
In the marine parade last night
prizes were awarded as follows:
For the most attractive decorated
craft afloat, without regard to kind
or size: First prize, the Lurline, and
second to the Columbia.
Steamers of all. kinds and sizes:
First prize to the Major Guy Howard,
with second to the Electro.
In the gasoline launch class, the
first prize went to a boat not identi
fied last night; she carried a pyramid
of lights, with second prize to the
Louise.
First boats and all other kinds of
sail boats, first prize to the Donna
Francesca, with second to fish boat
carrying the number 0963.
BABY SHOW. . j
Despite torrential rains that were
almost uninterrupted during the en
tire progress of the event; with a
very comfortable, roomy tent that
might have served admirably for a
sunny hour but which was nothing
more or less than a vast sieve; with
700 people swarming about with
laugh and joke and pleasant anticipa
tions, and 150 fine specimens of As
toria infancy on display, 71 of which
were billed as competitors in the
Regatta baby show, that happy affair
was pulled off yesterday afternoon at
the Stadium, corner of Eighth and
Commercial streets, with an eclat
rarely found in matters of that sort.
Chairman Frank J. Carney and his
10 judges, and the ladies' committee
in direct charge of the enrolled
babies, had their hands full every
minute of the hour devoted to the
pleasant task. As soon as the ladies
had arranged the babies in something
approaching a group, the 11 fated
men, not one whom possessed a baby
of his own, grimly took their note
hooks and filed down the line inspect
ing right and left and making careful j gg(g)
UUICS Ul nit ucamji iu.ii..v..,
ness, melodiousness, and lack of
beauty, signied in the individual mem
bers of the infantile brigade, including
the twins, and triplets then and there
present. It was-an exacting job, for
never had these men gone up against
a battery of such sort as laughed, and
dimpled, and crowed, and cried, and
howled, as them as did these 71 en
gaging human morsels. Back and
forth through the phalanx of mothers
whose faces bore the invariable ex
pression of gentle, yet pleading anx
iety of the moment, and which no
man dare look upon long lest he were
lost; back and forth again and again,
until each judge had firmly fixed in
his mind and memoranda, the num
bers appertaining to the dear little
tots that appealed most strongly to
him, as deserving allotment in the
scale of prize-winners. "
At last they pulled themselves to
gether and with a poorly veiled at
tempt to act as though they were
really tired of the whole thing and
had simply been doing something so
familiar, so monotonously customary
that they could not conceal their
weariness, they withdrew from the
ring and disappeared (with their
hearts in their mouths), behind the
circus paraphernalia of the tent; and
there, with bated breath and perspir
ing brows, in tones tragically low,
with sibilant whisper and anxious dec
larations of comparison, wrought out
the, following list of winners, which
they took back into the great crowd
and yielded up to their chairman.
Mr. Carney is a brave man; he has
all the Celtic virtue of pluck and Irish
courage rarely fails; but it failed him
yesterday. He simply could not face
the 63 mothers who were certain to
be chagrined (for there were eight
prizes to be awarded), and, at -the
very climax of his fright, turned the
delicate task of naming the winners
over to U. S. Senator Charles W.
Fulton who fo'r the sake of sparing his
old time friend, and placating a situa
tion that was likely to become actual
ly disastrous, assumed the function as
men do who lead "forlorn hopes."
Donning a huge badge securely fas
tend to his coat, he mounted a table
and. after soundly berating the un
happy chairman for his loss of nerve
at the vital moment, and openly ab
solving himself of all personal partici
nation in the conspiracy of the .11,
declared the winners to be;
No. 19 "Billie Gribbler," the pret
tiest boy baby. .
No ft "Berenice Peterson." the
prettiest baby girl.
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No. 71 "Henry Jilattson," the fat-1
test baby.
No. 24 "Japan," the leanest baby.
(This was the little mite of humanity
that has been on exhibition here this
week, as the "incubator baby."
No. 9 "Eltoii Painter," the most
melodious baby.
"D" Twins Louis and Wyatt
lurlburt, first prize.
"A" Twins- Nicholas and Martha
Theodeaus.
The boy babies were adorned with
pink ribbons, and the girlies with blue,
and all were numbered conspicuously,
so that the judges could not know
anything of the personality of the
little people. The ladies in chart;:.
Mesdames C. W. Fulton (chairman),
G. W. Sanborn, P. A. Stokes and R.
E. Howes, devised and carried out
their own scheme of handling the
matter of identity and baffled the
last man in the judges' line complete
ly; ana their adroit course, and the
jolly flaying the inspectors got at the
hands of the Senator, left that group
without much standing when the
show was concluded.
As fast an the winners were named
Mis. Fulton gave out the prizes, all
of which were of silver and very
pretty, and what, with Jhe distribu
tion of these and the dainty souvenirs
to all the babies present who did not
take the more, elaborate prizes, and
Senator Fulton's pleasant and witty
oration, the show was brought to the
happiest sort of conclusion. It was a
genuine success from first to last.
There was one prize of $100 that
was not won, and was not delivcrd.
It 'was for the "homlicst baby" on
the ground; and though the staff of
judges made a second and precise
round of inspection, no such child
could be found; it was not there;
there was not a morsel of humanity in
the tent that even approached such
classification; ; and the pric was
withdrawn, with the stipulation that
if any mother present thought her
baby entitled to it and had been over
looked, she could have recourse by
calling today at the office of Herman
F. Prael, and filing her claim.
, Senator Fulton deprecated the inu
tility of this valuable prize and broadly-intimated
that 'it was only fair to
the 11 childless judges that they be
given just one year of grace In the
premise, and if a baby should come
to any one of them in" that time,, that
the unused largess be bestowed on
the first one that appeared, since it
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must, of necessity, be ugly enough to
claim it, judging from the conglomer
ate ugliness of the "bunch" that was
pretending to judge this show, it was
a hard blow he delivered, but the 11
stood it like men.
WM1 winning mothers are mosPre
spectfully notified that the silver
pieces won in the eight leading prizes,
will be suitable, and simply, engraved
by Mr. Seymour, the jeweler, if taken
to him immediately, at the cost of the
Regatta committee. . " 1
Thus ends one of the plcasantcst
bits of Regatta history made at the
1908 festival. The judges are not nara
ed here, for obvious reasons!
AGRICULTURAL EXHIBITS.
It was with a sight of relief that
people entered the basement of the ,
court house yesterday, where the
agricultural exhibit and flower show
are held, for there' all was quiet and
the noises .of the streets could not be
heard. .A surprisingly large number
visited the exhibit, not alone of coun
try people, but many from Astoria
and from other cities and towns, for
the interest in things that-grow in the
soil seems to dwell pcrenially in the
breasts of most people, The agricul
tural exhibit is small, though excel-
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