Daily Press

WILL BE A GALA DAY
Central Trades Union Celebration for Tomorrow.

ARRANGEMENTS COMPLETED

Hundreds of people will spend Labor Day at the Casino and many visitors are expected in the city.

Official Program.

Tomorrow will be a gala day in Newport News. September 4th—Monday—is Labor Day, and it will be fittingly celebrated here by the Central Trades Union.

There will be hundreds and perhaps thousands of people at the Casino, where the celebration will take place, and the city will be visited by many strangers.

The people of Hampton, Phoebus and Old Point, as well as the other smaller points on the Peninsula, will be here, and it is expected that there will be a number of visitors from Norfolk, Portsmouth and Baltimore.

That there will be a good sized delegation in Newport News from the cities on the other side of Hampton Roads there is little question, and several of the members of the union have received letters from friends in the Monumental City stating that parties from there will spend the day in this city.

It is, of course, almost impossible to make any estimate of the number of people who will be here tomorrow, but there can be no doubt but that the day and celebration will be a great success.

This has been assured ever since the Central Trades Union decided to have the celebration, and as the days and weeks have gone by the prospects for a grand success have become greater.

ALL ARRANGEMENTS MADE.

The final arrangements for the day have all been made, and but little remains to be done tomorrow morning.

Of course, there are a few minor details yet to be attended to, but all the important matters have been decided upon.

The committee which has had in hand the arrangement of the program for the Labor Day celebration of the Central Trades Union, is composed of the following gentlemen:

F. J. Reilly, chairman; E. C. Barham, secretary; J. F. McMullen, Hugh O'Connor, W. T. Pearman, J. B. Flynn, D. J. McCarthy, E. L. Hite, F. D. Moran, J. S. Sandler, Robert Basham, J. Sweeney, J. T. Shaw, R. L. Perry, J. L. Gootee, Thomas Knote, J. Dunn, W. J. Herrmann.

This general committee was divided into several sub-committees, the various gentlemen on the sub-committees being entrusted with the work of arranging the separate branches of the celebration. The sub-committeemen reported to the general committee from time to time on the headway made in the preparations.

THE LAST MEETING.

The last meeting of the executive or general committee will be held tomorrow morning at 8 o'clock. It will be an open air meeting, the gentlemen of the committee assembling at that hour at the shipyard gate to receive their assignments to duty for the day.

The celebration proper will commence at the Casino at 9 o'clock tomorrow morning. The first events have been booked to take place at that hour, and there is no reason to think there will be any delay in the starting of the exercises.

The first event on the program is the baseball game. This will be played between two well matched local teams and promises to be very interesting and exciting throughout. It will probably take some time for this event to be pulled off.

Immediately on the heels of the baseball game will be one of football. Two first class teams have been secured for this contest, and it will be watched with the greatest interest. All the remaining time of the forenoon will doubtless be taken up with this same.

In the afternoon the exercises will commence promptly at 2 o'clock. At that hour Mayor A. A. Moss will deliver the opening address, and he will be followed by well known speakers who have been secured for the celebration. These gentlemen will be introduced by Mr. Moss, who will act somewhat in the capacity of master of ceremonies.

The sporting exercises for the afternoon will be started at the same hour, few will continue, in all probability, until dark.

The evening's events will be headed by the running races, the one hundred yard dash being the first on the way.

The committee received a great deal on the bets for the various contests and will be at the Casino tomorrow morning until 1 o'clock for entries. The books will be closed for entries.

Full program, as arranged by the committee having the matter in charge, has been prepared. The events for the day will take place in the order mentioned below:

1-Baseball game.
2-Football game.
3-One-hundred-yard dash.
4-Hammer-throwing contest.
5-Putting the shot.
6-Running broad jump.
7-Wheel-barrow race.
8-Standing high jump.
9-Quoit match.
10-Two hundred and twenty yard dash.
11-Fat man's race.
12-Tug of war.
13-Four hundred and forty yard dash.
14-Tumbling contest.
15-Shoe race.
16-Three-legged race.
17-Sack race.
18-Swimming match.
19-Potato race.
20-Quarter-mile hurdle race.
21-Hop, skip and jump.
22-Bicycle race.
23-Cake walk.
24-Prize waltz.

In addition to the list previously published the following articles have been received:

One box of cigars, donated by T. W. Dyson; special committee prize, by W. C. Kelly; one bottle of Scotch whiskey, by C. F. Barrett; one hundred feet tape-measure, by Marston and James as a present to the Central Labor Union; one keg of beer, by John Magee; one ham, by Mr. Sears; one box of cigars, by Hoffman Bros.; one keg of beer, by Mark McLaughlin; one box of cigars and bottle of Cognac brandy, by Harry Westcott; one keg of beer, by M. J. Hickey; one ham, by G. C. Robinson; one ham, by G. B. Wool; two boxes of cigars, by J. H. Janney; one box of cigars and one bottle of whiskey, by R. J. Mackey.

A JOINT SMOKER.

The committee finding it impossible to assign these articles to any of the contests, have decided to hold at some future date, a "Joint Smoker," to which will be invited all the members of organized labor unions in the city.

They will by this way be enabled to dispose of these articles in an appropriate manner.

Since making out the official list of sports and prizes the committee has received from the D. S. Jones Lumber Company a hat, with the request that it be assigned to the sack race, which request was granted. They also received from T. C. Edwards, one bicycle lamp, J. A. Buxton & Co., one picture, D. C. Ashby, four bottles of wine and one bottle of champagne; one bottle of wine by the Standard Wine Co.; one box of cigars by the Ideal Pharmacy. The bicycle lamp is assigned to the bicycle race as third prize, and the picture donated by J. A. Buxton, is assigned as second prize for the standing high jump. One pair of gloves, donated by Griffiths & Lewis, is to be awarded to the lady who will lead the grand march. One hat, donated by Wertheimer & Co., to the most popular member of the Central Labor Union.