The morning call., 1893-06-17

unfortunate enough
not to have been there judged rightly that
THE CALLS grand outing to the newS0Oys
of San Francisco had been a complete sue
cess.
But complete is hardly the word. 1t
isn't expressive enough. 1t was bowling
success from 5 A. NJ. till P. NJ. 1t didn't
begin quite as early as the hour first men,
TONED. but scores of the lads thought it
did, as the men about Clay-street wharf at
that hour can testify, for the boys began to
congregate there at dayOreak.
OF one urchin it is related that, distrust-
ful of the faithfulnesS of the bellboy, with
whom he had left q call for 6 AM, he stayed
awake all night and missed his breakfast
in the grill room in order to be on time.
That boy did not get left, though he was a
trife sleepy on the home run.
The scene on East street from day.
break till the steamer started for Ell Campo
is worth two columns of description, but
could not be done justice in two pages.
Less than 1000 newsboyS. including
few hundred who are not of that profess
sion, finally succeeded in getting aboard
the steamer Ukiah soon after 9 O'Clock.
Then Casassa's military band went
aboard. followed by a small army of ladies
and gentlemen who had volunteered their
services in seeing that the boys did not
overeat their capacity, ana the heavily
laden provender wagons.
Last of all came 'Shorty" Dukes. The
gangplank was being hoi5ted when
Shorty" made his appearance at the
upper end of the wharf. He stopped to
explain to the gatekeeper that he had just
sold his last morning paper and sent the
money home TO his mother.
Then he made few flying leaps that
would have done credit to the man with
the seven-leagued boots. They landed
him on the stomach of Dickey Plummer
and the straw hat of "Scotchy" Branni-
gan, both OF which suffered more or less
from the unexpected contact. But
''Shorty" got there.
The Ukiah was gay with bunting, and
passing vessels saluted her as though the
rear-admiral had been on board.
The trip to FL Campo lasted about three
minutes, if reckoned by the active and en-
ergetic manner in which those newsboys
and b0otblacks and urchins Of many call
ings killed the time To many of them the
whole day passed as bright, spectacular
dream. Some of them had never been on
the water before. One of these was Eddie,
''the kid" wee, small bundle of rags and
energy. He asked ali sorts of queer ques-
tions.
whats dat place?" he said as the
Angel Island barracks came in full view
angel Island" he murmured medita-
lively when an older boy told him; IAN is
dem the angels over dere?" pointing to the
soldiers on the parade ground, who were
h I'd Iy bol
deck. There isn't much to laugh about in
''the kids" remarks. but it deserves to be
told because it is true.
Another precocity, aged and of the
hue of the ace of spades, surprised the en-
gineer not little. The
lad poked his woolly ~
head down the coal hole ESxh
! ! |. . | ! !. : : !: !. ! ; ! : ! ! |. |.
and stood watching the d
operations In the re- EsSFE1y
gions below. N8PYftpp'I
''Say, sonny, better EMh H1E
get away from there" t41Es Ell
said the engineer, ''or WI FFHs
the fireman will chuck ,G%l-E&iHl,
you in along with the HHIv n sfMI}IIIIl
COAL" iUH H&s sNiG+lIlH
Guess not" said the 4i' W. Il ~
sonny addressed. THE HEI II J
CALL chartered dis EsF
boat, an we owns it to- JIiW
day."
When the steamer IL
touched the dock at the One o. t"s f'c't'che'S'
picnic grounds only the strength of six
inch bawser stretched across the bow of
the boat kept the impetuous youngsters
within bounds. And when it was loosened
the charge upon Ell Campo would have
captured an armed fortress.
Marie Evelyn and George Boyne of THE
CALL staff, who had started out with sew
eral very neatly arranged little plans for
keeping the lads within bounds until after
luncheon, were rudely awakened to the
realization that 1000 newsboys are more
difficult to manage than an army OF SOL
diers.
Still, they did not despair, but set about
having the sandwiches and the pies and
the milk cans and the icecream and the
creased pig unpacked and spread out for
the entertainment of THE CALLS youth
full guests.