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Show PICNICS GIVEN TO LABOR FOLK Pittsburgh Industrial Concerns Entertain Employees. WEAPON AGAINST UNRES1 More Than Half a Million Persons Have Attended These Outlnjja This Summer Immense Quantities of Food Are Provided for the Merry. Makers by Their Employers Without Cost Flaos, Balloons and Buttons Free. More thnn .100.000 persons havo this year attended the picnics given by Industrial In-dustrial concerns hi Pittsburgh to their employees, according to the estimates esti-mates of amusement park managers, and n number of the most Important are yet to he held. Mill managers and corporation executives ex-ecutives look upon tho Industrial picnic pic-nic as ono of their best weapons against unrest and gladly give to their employees the day for enjoyment, while bearing nil the expenses, In many Instances even to transportation to and from the parks. Build Special Picnic Ground. Arrangements for these great gatherings gath-erings of workmen nnd their families are on a colossal scale nnd carried out by an efllclent orgnnlzntlon of trained engineers and ofllce men. It occasionally occasion-ally happens, as In the case of the Clalrton plant of tho Carnegie Steel company, thut no picnic ground was nvnllable. So tho engineers selected a nlco bit of virgin forest not far from tho town, built good roads In nnd through It, erected merry-go-rounds and other traditional amuso-mout amuso-mout dovlces, built refreshment booths and n dancing platform, and, when tho thousands of steel workers and their families reached the place for a day's enjoyment, they found It as complete com-plete ns If It had been stnndlug for yenrs. Tons of Meat Eaten. Tho quantity of provisions required for the entertainment for n big plant and Its workers astonishes those who know llttlo of such enterprises. At ono Industrial picnic held recently threo tons of beof and four tons of boiled hnm were required for tho sandwiches. Five thousand loaves of orenrt were used, mree men worKeu 50 hours to out It to size. For the -lo.OOO persons who attended attend-ed this plcnle there were Issued OTi.O(X) free tickets for park amusements; ifi,-000 ifi,-000 American lings and -lO.OOO toy balloons bal-loons for children were distributed, and lli.OOO souvenir buttons were given giv-en to the workers and their families, while f0000 knles, forks, spoons nnd plates were sent to the grounds for tho picnic supper. To provide this feast the company gave 80.0(H) plekles, 124,000 rolls, 8.000 pounds of baked beans, 1.S00 pounds of cofTeo, 50,000 pounds of frankfurters frankfurt-ers and 1,500 gallons of Ice cream. The food was cooked In an oven qroet- ODiiiijKp SupJis njiiA nutoa o.ui OJOIII A'lIIIllI pill) poimbo O.MII RJQ to jo j.iqumu u -jiio.C oi) ;o buoiJ lso2.iu iii( ;o ouo u.u tii) oi.Y ii)iujo.n s.A'iiitdmo ni;i A"q puno.i.i .'1 no po |