The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1877-06-27

The Bound Brook Railroad assum-
ed ycrterday the delicate task OF
bringing from Philadelphia to New
York . load of girls from the Phila-
de,phia Normal Schocl-the gradna-
ting class. Mr.. A. H. Fracker, the
Master Of Transportation on that
road, has q daughter in the class
There were two hundred and TWEEN
ty-fve girls in all. They started at
s:30 o'clock in the morning and got
there at 10. Wraps, parasols, girls
and all were marched to the ferry
boat Communipaw. The fair voya-
gers did everything which a proper.
" subdued ferry passenger should
not do. They elambered to- the up
per deck and stood about with
skirts, hair and ribbons flying, until
they found refuge 10 the pilot-house
~bothering the man at the wheel with
all sorts of difficult problems of navi-
CATION and geography. The pilot
warned off answers for q while, but
was Aoored at last by the demand,
What's that thing for namely,
the Tribune tower.
The DO at was run about the point
Of the Battery and up the East river
to the bridge towers. Then she pu,
back and went up the North river 10
F~ifty-ninth street. Here the north
wind introduced a fine smell of gar
bage uncere n~oniou:ly. There was a
hurdle race up the dock and to the
waiting ears at Tenth avenue and
Fifty-ninth street over piles of lam
Der, heaps Of stone, and mountains
of general rubbish. The girls were
en- route to the New York City Nor
NAL College, and a reception commit
tee of thirty from that institution
was seer coming down the hill from
the Roosevelt Hospital at q gallop,
handkerchiefs waving and skirts iiy-
ing. The committee took the visit
ors by storm, kissed the whole 225
and hurried them off to the college
At the college 1,400 girls sang 10 the
guests, some speeches were
made by male officials, backward and
forward, but short, and then the two
graduating classes-235 in the New
York elass-were turned loose upon
the chapel floor, mingling freely and
discussing everything under the sun.
1t was babel intensified. The Phil.
adelphia visitors were older, but,
though they were fair, the New York
girls were fai.er. Under the leader
Ship of Miss Nellie Grant and Miss
Redield the hosts resolved them
selves into q corps Of pretty waiter
girls. and daintily served ices and
cakes tc their travelled friends. Ev-
e~rything in the college was freely ex-
hibited, even ''the night Waterman
as the skeleton in the zoology-room
is dubbed, was brought forth, decked
out with a paper hat and q crayon
cigar, and introduced. The visitors,
however, had to go to Central Park,
and the hour of parting came. Fifty
two thousand eight hundred and
seventy-ive kisses were shcwered
by 235 hosts upon 225 guests, not
counting the World reporter, and
while the windows Of the college
were yet white with auttering hand
kerchiefs the procession of visitors
gained the Park. They ate a sub
stantial lunch, looked at the animals,
marched down Fifth avenue to Thir-
ty-fourth street and saw Mrs. Stew
arts marble house, took unnumbered
stages thence to the Domestic build
ing, and went TO the cupola thereof;
locked into Stewards and saw the
100000 Eugenie laces, then storm
ed the new Postofiice and the West
ern Union building, and finally, be-
tween G and !, a fatigued but talka-
tive, bedraggled but interesting com,
pany plodded down Liberty street
apd went home. The New York
girls have been invited to return the
visit, but the professors shake their
heads as yet.