The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1886-07-28
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CHXNAMEN IN NEW YORK.
How They Amusc Themselves ON
Picnic Excursion.


How They Amusc Themselves ON q
Picnic Excursion.
The folds of an ample yellow flag bearing
very fierce dragon foated over the steam
boat Grand Republic as she started from The
foot of West 22d street. Fifteen hundred
happy Cinnamon, members of the Sunday
School Union of Brooklyn, New York,
and Jersey City, dressed in their best silk
dolmans, wandered about the decks of the
huge steamer in their childlike way, and as
many pretty Sunday school teachers did
heir best o make them happy for the China
men had given the picnic to the teachers.
Hardly had the Grand Republic headed
up the river for 0scawanna Island, the
Mecca of the excursion, when scores of red
tops with caliope attachments were screech-
ing on the upper deck while a sawed-oif
piano and a bobtailed organ ON the lower
deck ground out barbaric Moody and Sanky
hymn tunes in sympathy. No beer was
sold on board, but oceans of ginger pop and
lemonade were consumed.
Those of the Cinnamon who were not
thirsty or unsteady inclined sat with their
teachers or played toss with the fascinating
bean bag. One or two favored ones had
rubber balls, and the womanish manner in
which they threw them would have filled
the breast of an American boy with unutter-
able scorn.
When the boat reached Oscawanna Island
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party learned what certain mysterious bags
which nearly every Chinaman carried con
tanned. One Lung, little Chinaman ii
a cutaway coat and striped trousers, opened
his bag first and drew out n string of fire
crackers ten feet long, with peculiar drum
shaped box on the end of it. He fastened
the box to the limb of a tree, and then lit
The lower end of the string. The fire crack
srs went off in the ordinary Fourth of-July
way, and nobody was surprised, but every
body was kept in state of feverish expect
ancy to see what the box would do.
It took about five minutes to solve the
problem, and then it was solved with noise
like the continuous reports of a Calling gun
The innocent looking red box was Gag,
for about 500 cannon crackers.
The first thing on the programme at the
grove was o big dinner, to which only the
fortunate possessors of red tickets with
Chinese characters ON them were allowed to
partake. After the dinner the picnic pro
crossed in truly American way. Swings
were patronized, and Coney Island cane
board man reaped silver harvest. The
only peculiar things in the picnic were kite
flying and fire-crackers. The rest was MS
usual even to the surreptitious bar peculiar
to temperance picnic.
On the return trip Lee Gang, Mott street
Chinaman, the happy possessor of q green,
hawk shaped kite, flew his treasure from the
upper deck. AS the kite sailed high in the
air it looked exactly like hawk watching
for barnyard chicken. Two unsophisti-
Gated blue herons, which were starting out
for their nights work in the marshes, evil
IDENTIFY thought so, for as soon as they espied
their hereditary enemy they made for him.
After circling slowly around the supposed
hawk two or three times, they made COM
bined attack, which nearly lost Lee Gang
his kite The kite merely responded with
wag of its tail, and the herons saw thai
they were sold. Uttering hoarse croaa
they flew disgustedly away.