Morning journal and courier., 1883-08-11
ROtOn Point.

The Excurs1On of the Young Peoples
 Temperance Society, Church of the
 Messiah.
 A very pleasant excursion was given by the Young Peoples Temperance society of the Church of the Messiah to Roton Point on the steamer Elm City yesterday. There were about five hundred in the party, and but for the threatening sky in the early morning many more would have avaiIed themselves of the opportunity to enjoy a de- ightfnl sail. The boat left the dock at g o'clock, arriving at the Point about 12, giv- ing the excursionists till 3:30 to stay. Roton Point is a very pleasant place, with good beach and rows of bath houses for bathing, with large dancing pavilion and a pavilion for dining with dinners furnished to order, and small tables scattered here and there for the accommodation of basket picnicksrs and numbers of swings in the pleasant grove. Arriving at the Point, dinner was the order of the day, after which dancing in the psviI- ion to the music of Thomas orchestra, which accompanied the party. was engaged in. At two o'clock MT. Hermance called the cona- pany to order and announced that little Willie Johnson, the child of a poor and worthy widow with nine small children. would sing and amuse those present to the best of his ability. Willie sang several songs, after which Mr. Hermance and Captain Richard Peck interested themselves to take up col lection for his mother, which amounted, they were happy to state, to twenty eight dollars Mir. Hermance also announced that MT. Ryder had promise. that if fifteen hundred tickets are sold for his excursion next week tO Fishers Island he will give Mrs. Johnson fifty dollars. The weather throughout the day was pleasant, and the music and dancing on the boat down and back made the sail 8 very lively ones MT. Hermance said he had been assured all the week and the night before by Signal Officer Sherman that they. should have a pleasant day for their excursion and he kept his word. Supt. Peck was everywhere all day, doing all in his power to make the trip a success, as also did MT. E. l.. Converse, Mir Lamb and other members of the church and society. The pastor, Rev. MT. Houghton, and wife were present, having come from their stopping place at the east shore to at tend. Everything passed of pleasantly, ex- pressions of approval being heard on all sides.
 The party were so pleased with the picnic that they would have staid two hours longer with pleasure. The boat arrived here at twenty-five minutes past 6. MT. Frank Hermance gave all the children of the Sun day school of the Church of the Messiah, of which he is the superintendent, free excur- sion on this trip. The school numbers about 70. This was in acknowledgement of their selling so many tickets for the recent grand excursion of the Messiah church to High Rock by which the school gained $50 for an addition to their Sunday school library, and the church cleared in addition $1OO Mr. Samuel Hammond of Providence, 8 friend of Mir. Hermance's, was on board, and deposited a five dollar bill in the hat for the Johnson boy, taking an interest in the lad. MT. Hammond is building the turnpike bridge at NorwaIk and hearing that the land ing at Roton Point was so damaged during the recent storm that the Elm City could not safely land the party unless it was repaired, brought his pile driver over from Norwalk, the only one that was to be had for love or money in time for the excursion yesterday, and made the necessary repairs. He came back with the excursionists to this city. An effort will doubtless be made to give grand benefit entertainment for the Johnson boy, whose mother is a widow in straitened cir cumstances with nine children.