The evening world., 1894-06-21
Bonnie Ihornton's Silver Rains on
the Madison Square Roof.
Jennie O'Ncill Potter Rccites for
the Babies Fund.
The subscriptIons.

made SS7 friends yesterday after
room. 1t took them five hours
and cost them very large sum
of money. The excursion they gave the
Sick Babies Fund has made the dry
goods merchants name n household
world In $500 families.
Preparations had been made for 1900;
there were bergs of Ice cream, noun
tains OF cake and bread and butter and
grove OF cans filled with fresh
milk. Camp chairs were stacked
on deck by the Committee on
Comfort, and nursery supplies-and there
were sad reasons why they were not
all in requision. Notice of Messrs.
Bloomingdale Bros. generous invitation
only allowed two days preparation, and
hundreds who wished to accept could
not get ready. Many were utterly with
out resources. and being too proud to
expose their needs remained away. Ill
ness kept scores at home, and death de-
tained a few However. nearly 800 were
on the East Twenty-first street pier
when the Chancellor threw out her
welcoming gang-plank. and 1t would
have done the hearts of the Blooming
dale Bros. good II they could have heard
the observations OF their unknown ad-
mirers. The little boys-such chips of
manhood as they were-cheered and
yelled and waved their caps.
Here she comes!
bully for Bloomingdale Bros"
That's her! A'course. Can't you read
Chancellor on the bow and Blooming
dale Bros. on the iag?"
And when they yelled 'Hurrah, hur-
rah!' the little girls squaked with them.
The babies who were not sick or
esP f. Prsy ssp hsF haf dozea a de ihse
ent languages. Little Mothers" gath
cred their broods about them and
beamed with ,expectant 10y, and the
blessed words, which must come to some
good If prayers on earth are answered on
earth. The benefactors OF these grateful
people certainly believe in good, for that
Is what their hospitality illustrated yes
terday.
Some of those unfortunate people were
on the pier at 8 o'clock in the morn
street with a baby and two children;
While they were resting u gust OF wind
caught up the red ticket and carried
It down the river, and for nearly four
Her baby was n yellow little creature,
| too weak to open It's eyes or move a
muscle. It had had the measles and a
been for '"The Evening World" doctor
| We'll, we wouldn't all be here" she
told the freight hand who tried to res
baby about the size Of mill pitcher.
came from Jersey City, and another
had nine pet lambs In tow-her own and
ored people from Russia. Italy and
Persia, and nearly every country be-
| tween there were half a dozen men
with brand-new heirs to their misfor:
| tn, hn hnI laft tnNy 4,
| wives at home.
1.-The Evening World doctor made me
come one of these reluctant nurses
said. 1T was a case Of funeral or fresh
| air, and here We are"
Two babies came in willow carriages
and created quite a futter at the dock
babies. With With grand children Of eight an ant
| headed. SO were dozens and dozens o
children in the .broiling. wood -splittinl
sun. A lamentable type was the bow
legged child. There must have been thir
ty odd in the groups that hurried dowr
Twenty first street. There were .sor'
faces sore heads sore eyes and III
starred parents. II was sick Babies
| Fund" excursion--and no mistake abou
| II.
Tickets were ignored at the gangplank
presented who did not deserve the trea,
Fund doctors were at the rail on tn
look -out for a possible contagious case.
Messrs Earl and Shaughnessy. repre-
senting the dry-goods merchants, re
ceved the passengers, and the crew len
willing hands and got everybody on boar
in less than no time.
The Chancellor was at the pier at ex
actly l2.45 o'clock and In twenty min
utes time her flags were huttertng an
she was of towards the sea,
The first on board was little mother
In a pink dress and n brown hat, with
| hlua rihhOn on her hair and bigger arm
full OF baby than she could manage grace
fully, The moment she stepped on dec
/. | she remembered Mamie and Tom. an
went back in the crowd to get them.
4 boy with one and three-quarter ear
and an orphaned suspender appeared o
deck about ll.50 o'clock with plate {
Ice cream in one hand. a spoon IN IN
other and cup cake In MS muutl
{ His appearance nearly caused stan
4 pede. When the journey began the =;
loon deck was crowded with imltator
The same caterer who supplies Bioon
2 ingdale Bros customers win iuhC
4 served the sick babies and their frient
with the very same dalnties;
The trip was down the bay. whei
half the guests toppled over and wei
| to sleen. II was n great day Tor u
babies, and II all the blessings come trt
BloOminGdale Bros. Will live 10 De u
$ greatest men on earth. =,
. The " Evening World" extends In
. | measurahle thanks to the Messr
Bloomingdale. and begs to state that u
o sick babies are a hundred per cent; he
a ter for their kindness. All the har
the Fund wishes them Is that not shi
waist or a straw hat will he carrie