Daily Republican., 1881-06-14
FOURTH EDITION.
ANDALU sIl.
A Place Becoming Famous for Ex.
cursiOn Parties-A Sketch of its
Surroundings.

| ANDAhO Slbs
l. A Place BecOmipg Famous for Ex
cursiOn Parties-A Sketch Of IL.
! Surroundings.
l. Scott NJ. Il. Sunday School gave
If their usual annual excursion yesterday
70 on the steamer FELTON, this year to An
= dalusia, Bucks county, Pa. The excur'
sion was to have come off on Friday
Il last but the weather being inclement il
e was postponed until yesterday. In the
! morning the clouds were lowering and
If threatening lettering many from going
r along who had intended TO go, but not
withstanding this about $50 left this
city and the number was increased to
72j at Marcus Hook by taking on a
. small school from that place. Owing to
various circumstances the excursion
did not leave the French street wharf
until 7.4j o'clock, and the tide and wind
. being down the river the progress of the
FELTON, was slow and the wharf at An
daluSia was not reached until 11.45
o'clock. The ride however seemed
short as the continually varying and
changing scenes along the river from
Marcus hook to the stopping place
broke the mOnotony and made the four
hours i'll the boat appear as abrief space
of time, The children enjoyed them
selves and cared not whether it rained
or cleared. Pastor Rawlins, Superin.
tendcnt Foulk, and Thomas Wilson
Were here and there and everywhere
looking after the safety and comfort of
eNcursionists and il there was one un-
happy individual aboard they Were not
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reached the wharf every body made for
the II acre woods, about three squares
from the landing and soon the grove was
resounding with the happy shouts of
children. But there were other sounds
in the woods All around were young
lads dressed in uniform, the red caps
and braided coats reminding us of red. |
headed w0OdpeCkerS. A dance was 60
| ing on i'll the pavilion and the air was
| full of thearOma of cooked dinners. The
| little red-headed fellows were fife and
drum corps from Philadelphia whose
day 1t was in the woods and of course as
ScotG's day was last Friday, they were
only permitted to occupy part of the
grounds by the sutlerance OftEe little red |
headS. No inconvenience however was
experienced between the parties and the
behavior of the two COntraSted was large
y i'll favor of the Wilmington parties.
A hotel about II mile and Il quarter away
was frequently visited by the red headed
lads, and by the middle of the afternoon
quite Il number Of them We're stretched
ont in an adjoining field awaiting re-
pairs. These boys never got their de-
SertS if their mothers failed tog give them
good spanking when they got home.
The red-headS however intertered but
little with the pleasures of the Sunday
School. Four hours were spent very
agreeably i'll the woods, and at AZ
o'clock the boat left for home arriving
tere at ~.
Much is due to the City Cornet band
for the pleasures of the excursion. There
being two excursions the band was en-
ployed for each which neCeSSitatcd di-
viding it, but by calling in Mr.. Oglesby
and one or two other members Of OgleS-
by's band from Chester, both excursions
were supplied with soul stirring, eXhi- j
arating music. The members of the
band also showed that they were gen !
tlemen as well as musicians on the trip !
and won golden opinions from all.
Now a word for AndaluSia Park and
the proprietor Mr. f. Snyder. This is ]
the largest park on the Delaware be- J
tween Philadelphia and Trenton. The
park contains about II acres of beauti- .
tul native woods, ofpoplar, hickory oak
and chestnut. A number of wells With
pumps furnish never failing supply of ,
ice cold water. The ground is level,
without being marshy, and well adapt !
ed to croQuet, pitching quoits and other ]
athletic exercises.
Eight box swings are kept in good
order and are at the service Of eXCur- {
Between fifty and sixty tables I
W tn benches afford eating facilities for
over thousand people at once. The S
pavilion is II very large one, and the l
dining apartments shingIcd i'll and sur !
by picket fence will seat two
hundred persons at once. The COOK
house is a fewVstepS from the dining |
saloon. There is also a restaurant stand I
from which ice cream, cakes and fruit \
are retailed. A small camp meeting /
was held on the grounds last year, and I
a large building for sleeping accommo- !
iations was erected Should a day be
there are building enough on the {
ground TO shelter the largest excursion +
Falling in with Mr.. Snyder, the gem
tlemanly proprietor of the grounds, the
of the REPUBLICAN and
a few friends were conducted to the \
family vault of the Bickwell family, {
the first owners of the farm on which I
the excursion grounds are located. The l
vault is a little rusty rlckety alfalr
in clump of trees. A marble tablet :
evidently inserted not many years ago
contains the simple inscription Here
lie the remains of the Bicknell family"
Mr.. Snyder resting himself against the
brick projection faced the audience of
dozen, and gave the following biograph-
ical sketch of the Bicknells. You
see," said he, "there were four brothers
of them who came to this country and
bought this farm of 1893 acres and built
that brick mansion down there on the
river. They were all bachelors and veal
thy. TO perpetuate their name and
inherit their property they adopted boy
named Wharton and had his name
to Bicknell. The four bache-
lorS died and their remains were laid \
away in this vault. The adopted son
married and had four sons, but these
four sons soon made way with the prop =
erty and it was sold by the sheriff and !
is out of the hands Of the HJknells'.
Mr.. Snyder then took his auditors
through a grove to carriage house ,
where was kept in good state of pre-
the Bickwell family carriage,
brought over from England away back
on the days of English rule in this
country, before the little fuss took place
i'll the plains OF Lexington. The car
riage was quite a curiosity and the COM
pany fingered long to look at it. The S
farm has been divided, Mr. Snyder
having leased about 122 acres of it and
nearly the whole of which is open for u
the benefit of eXcursionistS.
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