The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1869-07-15

A COUNTRY EDITOR ON A CRY EDIroR's
EXCURSION We took advantage of the re-
cent breathing spell afforded US to visit a
relative in Philadelphia. and while there
had the good fortune to secure for curself
aud wife an invitation to join an excursion
party to Atlantic City, gotten up at his own
expense by Geo. w. Childs, Esq, editor and
propr ietor Of the Public Ledger. and par
ticipaJed in by some fifteen hundred persons.
The excursion Has made up almost cxclu-
siveIy Of the employ es Of Mr. Chiids and
their families, aud a more happy and better
behaved party we never had the pleasure vi
seeing assembled together on any occasion.
1t was our first visit to the sea shore, and
it is needless to say that we enjoyed the
trip and its attendant pleasures to the ut
most extent. 1t required twenty-one cars
to convey the excur&Ionists from Camden to
Atlantic City, a distaECe Of some sixty
miles, and 1t required such an abundance Of
/ viotuals to feed the party when 1t arrived
/ there, that we confess our innate nodesty
prevented US from reaching the tables III
time to obtain q good square meal 9TH
erWise we met with no disappointment
Beck's celebrated bard accompanied the ex-
curtionists and discoursed the sweetest mu-
sic we ever listened to, while string music
was furnished and the merry dance went on
in one portion Of the immense dining hall
Of the Sea View Excursion House, while ia
the other part, separated by movable parti-
tions, hungry rnOrtais sought to satiate the
cravings Of the inner man. The bathing
was delightful. bathing dresses were fur
Dished to all who wished to use them at Mr.
Childs' expense, and very many enjoyed
that pLeasurable luxury to their hearts CON
tent.
That one man could conceive, much less
execute, such stupendeus enterprise for
for the sole purpose of rendering happy so
many of his fellow mortals, is something
which almost surpasses belief, and we doubt
whether one man IN one hundred thousand,
able though he might be, would undergo
tie expense and trouble of such monster
undertak ing But Mr.. Childs proved him
self equal to the task, as he has done on
several somewhat similar occasions, and we
venture to say that not a happier heart
turned home from that delightful excursion
than the one which SO generously pulsated
in The manly breast of the noble and patri-
otto gentleman who had the magnanimity
to undertake and the generosity and courage
to execute SO brilliant and successful al en-
terprise Like Mr.. Peabody, Mr.. Childs
prefers to see the good effects of his benif-
cence while living, and that day of delight
full enjoyment, afforded to some fifteen hun
dred people, was but one link in the chain
of good and generous deeds which he has
done to bind himself and his employees
more closely together in their social rela-
tions with each other. Happy the work
men blessed with such an employer!
The excursionists reached the city be-
tween ten and eleven O'Clock. p. M, of tn
same day, monday, July 5th,) invigorated
and refreshed by their brief but pleasant So
iourn at the sea side, and no doubt deeply
grateful for the delightful recreation so gen
erousIy afforded them. Not one individual
in the entire party was in the slightest de-
gree intoxicated, and nothing occurred to
mar the pleasure and festivities of the occa-
sion, which were of the most gratifying and
enjoyable character.