Arizona republican., 1895-05-04
A DAY OF JOY. Union Sunday School
 Picnic. The City Empties Itself on This Occasion. And Celebrates the Opening of a New Anu sement Era. A Single and Not Serious Accident in Twelve Hours of U nre-
 stricted Pleasure.

Phoenix initiated new industry yes terday, the industry of natural amuse- ment.
 Heretofore Phoenix has enjoyed her share of artificial recreation in the way of outside transforming Thespians. opera troupes and minstrel amusers. She has had amateur theatricals, con- certs, circuses, base ball and bicycle tournaments, not to mention balloon ascensions and north and south rail- road celebration. But she has never before had ''really" natural outside.
 That is to say an excursion some where from home by rail to point not before visited by the rank and file of her population.
 So the possibility ofa trip to Brill's farm, three miles south of Wickenburg | and 60 miles from Phoenix, at the nominal tariff of $1 for the round ex- curslon, with half rates for kids, tempted two train loads of people to accept the seductive offer. Fifteen hundred men, women and children went to Brill's farm yesterday. One thousand of them were Sunday school children and the balance paid all ex- penses with probably g surplus of $200 or more to be distributed among the 1 six Sunday schools for whose benefit the days travel was projected.
 The Sunday schools interested ln- cluded the Washington street, the Metho- dist south, the Free Methodist, the Presbyterian, i the Baptist and the | Christian church denominations. All the little ones who had recited cate
 chisms formany months without ex- pecting any carnaF reward therefore
 participated in the days outing free of
 expense and those non-communicants
 whose monetary contribution made the excursion possible felt amply repaid both in personal enjoyment and the realization that they were making twice their number happy besides.
 Although the hour for starting had
 been fixed at 8. ID. the little ones be-
 gan trooping down to First avenue and Jackson streets an hour earlier. Electric
 cars came in from the east and the
 west laden with juvenility. Flat bot
 toned transfer wagons, duly decorated
 creaked beneath their burden of ex'
 pectant infants. Carriages drove to
 the station laden to the axles with
 voyageurs and lunch baskets, whilst pedestrians exceeded in intensity any
 locust cloud that ever over shadowed
 Kansas.
 , One train of seven coaches and three
 cahooses proved too small to accommo
 date the surging crowds an so second
 installment of six COW cars duly provid ed with seats followed immediately
 afterwards.
 Manager Ira G. Smith of the s. F.. P. & F., Phoenix office had charge o the first real railroad excursion out oI
 this city. He realized fully that the
 safety of 1500 human beings depended upon his watchful supervision and all day, till every mothers baby, the
 mother herself, the growing boys anc
 girls, not to omit the paterfamiliases
 had been safely returned to the start
 ling point, he abated not ones tiJtle of
 the watchtulness that such a sacred . trust necessitates.
 0 Manager Smith forgot to provide him e self with proper travelling credentials and when the conductor threatened te put him of, the Sunday school scholar loyally pinned the badges of theil s various schools upon his broad breas 8 SD that he personated for once more !. religious denominations than he cer f tainIy had done before and possibly
 will ever represent again.
 @ The run to Brill's ranch was made il d two hours and half and then tht '- great crowd spread over the Hassayam : pa bottoms and the uplands there e abouts, with huge lunch baskets, in al @ amazingly short time, Up and dow1 s the river for two miles and across tn, 'f valley for half mile they disposed J. themselves under the abundant shad l. that there abounds. Some selected tn n tall cottonwoods, of which nobl specimen, planted twenty-six year " ago, now overspreads the Brill home 1T stead. Others nestled under the um a brage of the Brill apple trees that nov
 are potent with the green fruit whict
 means cholera morbus to it's earl
 youthful masticators. Many nor
 camped beneath the Towering mesquit e and palo verde in whose branche
 myriads of honey bees sang soporif a choruses.
 It After dinner little tours were taken @ The peak west of the Hessayamp at V tracted many. Kodak and more seri @ ous photographic artists got in thei l. work. Hartwell got some portrait l. that will serve as mementoes of th
 day for years to come. Little one