The evening world., 1894-06-21
B~loomingdale Bros. Give Them a
Sail Down the Bay.
Bonnie Thornton's Silver Rains on
the Madison Square Roof.
Jennie O'NeilI Potter Rccitcs for
the Babies Fund.
The subscriptions.

ionnle inOTHlOn, MhulhDn Sluhio hOOI
Garden IL o.
Jennie O'Neill Potter. ............ 500
Archcy Brown and others. Drooklyn..". SD
II. |. r., brooklyn 400
Yours Truly rs
Bloomingdale Bros, Flfty-ninth and
Sixtieth streets ana Third avenue.
made S87 friends yesterday after
room. 1t took them five hours
and cost them n very large sum
OF money. The excursion they gave the
Sick Babies Fund has made the dry
goods merchants name a 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
a grove OF cana filled with fresh
milk. Camp chairs were stacked
on deck by the Committee on
Comfort. n nursery supplies-and there
were sad reasons why they were not
all In requision. Notice OF Messrs.
Blocmingdale 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-
tanned a few. However, nearly 300 were
On the East Twenty-nrst 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. Cant you read
Chancellor on the bow n Blooming
dale Bros. on the fag?'
And when they yelled "Hurrah, hur-
rah!" the little girls squaked with them.
asleep clnpped their hands and called
1t; Pretty ship IN half q dozen differ
beamed with .expectant JOY, and the
parents and old people said hundreds OF
blessed words. which must come TO some
good II 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 0 o'clock In the morn
Ing. one woman came from Thompson
street with a baby and two children;
While they were resting a gust of wind
caught up the red tiCke and carried
II down the river. and for nearly four
hours the mother fretted over her loss.
too weak. TO open it's eyes or move a
muscle. 1t had had the measles and u
complication OF bronchial and throat
S'. esn tel . II sPET 1aSiins sn %or II It do na t
We'll. we wouldn't all be here she
told the freight hand who tried to res
cue the ticket. one woman. with n
came from Jersey City. and another
had nine pet lambs In tow-her own and
neighbors. There were white and col;
Persia, and nearly every country be
tween: there were half n dozen men
with brand new heirs to their misfor-
cunc in arms. who had left invalid
"SThe Evening World doctor made me
come" one Of these reluctant nurses
~a'i. 1T was a case OF funeral or fresh
air, n here we are
and created quite a fiuttcr at the dock
There were Old women carrying grand.
IAabies, with grand children OF eight and
ven TO lead them, and all were bare :
kheadcd. So were dozens and dozens of
children in the brolling, wood splitting
sun. a lamentable type was the bow
leggel child. There must have been thir-
" odd in the groups that hurried down
TwaRty-trst etrset. There were sore
faces. sore heads. sore eyes and little
bodies of dead weight in the arms Of Ill,
Fund" excursion-and no mistake nbou'
It.
Tickets were ignored at the gnngplank
) Not one presented himself or was
presented who did not deserve the treat
Fund doctors were at the rail on thu
, lookout for a possible contagious case.
- Messrs. Earl and S~haughnessy, repre-
l~senting the dry-goods merchants, re
ceived the passeGsers, ana the crew Zen
. willing hands and got everybody on boar
in less than ~ time.
The Chancellor was at the pier at eN
actly l2.45 o'clock, n in twenty MN
= utes time her flag were tiuttering an
she WAS OF towards the sea
The first on board was a "iittle mother
In a pink dress and n brown hat, with
blue ribbon on her hair and bigger arm
ful OF baby than she could manage grace
fully. The m she stepped or. dec
she remembered "Mamic and Tom an
!. Went back in the crowd to get them.
n A boy with one and ~three-quarter ear
and an orphaned suspender hppetren "
Ice cream in one hand, a spoon in ~
= other and a cup cake in his moutt
+ His appearance nearly caused a star
= pcde. When the Journey began the 81
> IoSn deck was crowded with imitator'
t The same caterer who supplies iioon
= ingdale Bros. customers, Win u y
4 served the sick babies and their friend
with tho very same dainties,
y The trip was down thc bay, wher
half the guests topplea over and weI
7 TO slecp. 1t was "A great day for II
UioominCdale bros. viii live to be Il
= greatest men on earth.
The Evening World" extends in
measurable thanks - the Messr
y Rloomlngdale, and begs to state that, Il
10 sick babies are a hundred per cent: be
"A ter for their kindness. All the har
the Fund wishes them is that not a sh.i
waist or q straw hat Will be carri,
re over. NELL NELSON.
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