The evening world., 1888-06-25
DIVERS ARMADA AFLOAT.
FIFTEEN THOUSAND FOURTH AND SIXTH
wARDERs SAIL UP THE HUDSON.

Tugs-The start from the Foot OF Dover
s~treet-Fresh Air and Cool Brcezes for
Overhea,ed, Women and Chiidren-Oceans
Of Beer and Good Music.
The feet of the P. Diver Association. on
its cruise from the foot of Dover street, East
River, "'round the horn" and up North
River, to-day, presented a picturesque scene.
Capt. Lynch, Of the steamer Long Branch,
was the commodore of the feet. which con-
sisted Of the six barges Geraldine, Coxsackie,
| William Myers, William Haskell, Walter
Sands and William H. Morton. lashed to the
sides of the flagship, three on either side.
and outside of all, the busy. putting, snorting
little steam giants. the tugs Neptune and
Eagle.
These nine craft, all abreast. presented q
company front Of $50 feet, and they moved
on majestically up the river to Riverview,
opposite Yonkers, o. the Hudson.
They were freighted with $1,000 human
lives and the wherewitha' TO keep life going
for a day.
II the association bearing the name and
organized in honor of the Alderman from
the Second Assembly District never did any
thing else than to give this ANIMAL picnic ex-
Gu rsion to the tired and oyerheated working
people of tbs Fourth and Sixth Wards, its
reason for existence would be of the very
best.
From o O'Clock. and for nearly two hours
thereafter, this morning all the streets lead.
inf, to the Dover street wharf were thronged
with people. III
There were people from every walk Of life,
from the ealaried and trusted municipal Off
cial to the bookblack or the ~apple-woman..
OF women there were hundreds; Of child
rem thousands. Tired mothers with the
CLEAN of expectant pleasure in their eyes,
toted a babe on one. arm and a basket OF
lunch on the other, while one, two or three
children tugged at her skirts.
Girls and young women in white gowns OF
seasonable gowns of bright hues; boys and
the same objective point.
The Diver picnic!
Prof. Ellis's orchestra-seventy-fve pieces
in all-played lively airs from the upper
decks while the hurrying throngs clambered
over the %gangplanks and swarmed the good
ships which were to take them way from the
parched city to green groves and grassy hill
sides beside the broad Hudson for q days
outing.
John Dolan and Tom Foley, with o corps
of 100 ~bartenders. sandwich-makers and
cashiers,y were full of business. They had
paid 1000 for the 4" privileges" and they
had business before them to make q round
profit. Three hundred and fifty half barrels
Of cool lager were rolled on board n dis.
tributed among the vessels Of the feet. A
like number of cases, twenty-four quart
bottles each, of sarsaparilla, ginger ale and
other light beverages were there, and $50 lus.
cious watermelons, 100 hams and bread
enough for $4,000 sandwiches, bologna,
bananas, pineapples. tongues, lemons and
range enough for an army.
It was q great event. Perhaps the greatest
Of its kind ever known to the city. Bridge
Officer Michael Lally and o squad of ten
special policemen we're there to keep order.
There were Q host of prominent mer
among the guests, for the excursion is free
to all who are lucky enough to receive invi.
tations.
Among the excursionists were Aldermen
pivvor, Oakley, Bowling ana Mccarthy; Con.
gresham Spinola, Commissioner Croker, OF.
Aldermen Shells. Farley and Fitzpatrick
Commissioner of Jurors Charles Reilly
Coroner Levy, ex-Coroner Kennedy. James
Dunphy, Judges Clancy and Steokler,
Sheriff Grant, Register Slevin, County
Clerk Flack. Daniel Patterson, George Hall
Barney O'Rourke. John Henry Mccarthy
Senators Murphy and Reilly, Samuel Wolf,
Joseph L. Meyer, Michael Parker. ex-As
semblyman John Brcgan, sergts; Farley and
Meccan and Officers Levy and Edward Ryan
of the Oak street station, and ex-Assembly.
men Charlie Smith, of the Silver Dollar
and Timothy Dry-Dollar Sullivan.
The party will be home again at 8. 80 thil
| evening.