The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-08-10
BIG MAYORS BIG OUTING.
GLEASON TAKES 10000 CHILDREN
AND PARENTS FOR a SAIL.

went on Five stea.ors nna Five BsrEca-
Gleason Leads the sinEing with m Axe
Zoo Gallons or Ice Creau. 1000 ounTts
OF MIN. and = Ton or Cakes Consumed.
Patrick Jerome Gleason took moro than 10, 900
school children OF the Greater New York, with
the mothers and fathers OF some Of them, on an
excursion yesterday. He took them on Ave
steamers and tugs and Ave barges; he fed them
with 600 gallons OF Ice cream, loo quarts Of
milk. and ono ton OF fancy cakes. He cared for
them with forty policemen and two doctors.
with al. these precautions" the Mayor said
last night. after he had seen the last Of his
$4,000 guests started for homo, there wasn't q
baby born during the day. And that, sir, 10
what I oall the worst kind OF hard luck" On q
former excursion, 1t IL said, two babies wero
born.
Perhaps there were, az tho Mayor said, only
$4,000 of his guests. But from the amount of
noise the greater part made when he came down
the railroad pier at the foot Of Third street,
Long Island City. there might have been q mil
lion. Small boys hung over the rails on all tho
decks Of all the barEes and steamers and waved
their arms and screamed until they were blue
in tho face, and woro hauled back to tho docks
to DO resuscitated by anxious but happy parents,
who were themselves not disinclined to emit
disultory yells as they caught sight from time
to time OF his Honor. the Mayor Of Long Island
City.
When the Mayor first planned his free school
childrens' picnics, he intended to entertain only
his young friends Of Long Island City, but just
now the Mayor of Long Island City aspires to be
the Chief Magistrate Of the Greater New York.
and at the last moment he decided to take into
his Wholesale invitation those over whom no Is
to rule hereafter. He invited the children Of tho
future borougbs Of Kings. Manhattan. Richmond
and the Bronx to come along. In a speech which
he made going down past the Battery, tho
Mayor explained to his friends what his aspira-
lions were. He made his speech from the mar
row space in front Of the pilothouse. on the top
most deck of tho steamer Mohawk. the centre
Of the first division Of the fiotilla- Two bands
were playing on tho adjacent barges. and only
the folks on the deck directly beneath him heard
what he had to say. This is what he said:
my dear children tall the rest Of you arc
along to take caro- Of the children and you don't
count; If you don't like It. jump overheard and
to the devil with youl, when l am tho Mayor Of
Greater New York, instead Of bargcs. tugs, and
steamers, 1t is my intention to charter all the
White Star. cunard, Hamburg. and ali the rest.
lash 'em ali together, and take each and every
SSS,la e av SSn9O eS afS fs shall III h sSSsFs aSe pounds SSMa 'e oe
I candy, and we'll land on Sandy Hook. and every
sSs safll G ny II ,n swilt%tRiins and 1 / Sope You You & s1 t III
DO with me the next timo ! give an excursion
. oh naS nS" in "s such ~ete crowd SSti is infectio Sns'. and
everybody cheerod. As they shouted the atten;
: ton A. Of 81 bearers and an a,h heed a. S. alike LIKE, T goss directed q TED
Mohawk. Mayor Gleason was magnificent In
8 his curling Iai5 gbrimmn%5 ed straw hat ~ h s. blue a sergs
. ing mustache. Ho raised a folded newspaper In
t Labsrty f E1lI n1% olRR1'sth6s the w @oar iS[''q he shout shouted
A per programme previously printed and dis
t THU we will now sing MY Country lis OF
Z The Mayors daughter Jessie, who sat on /.
: Dih%iIssoSdi IN Gef his ear MN f Rs'i%sa ay Hss dGss1Ss, aeS
: into the pilot house and came back with an axe
9 o oPfRfGi R esss o, f fiTs.' 'f he SGa le9't the hei fSs n es'
the F PISd ss saa raised a.e ls sns axe Ss sis sSo IN sdr' "Now
N The drums Gnsu 81 7" both sthf bands rolled the long roll
! t shsl %sO T,t frs e ea orcwd Ib began axe to SANG sins tho dST hymn ant
> sweet land Of ISsrty%
The song ended with O chesr that started tug
and ferry6oats in both rivers and In the bay 4
footing. The song ended, the crowd began to b,
hfn n . a. A sHi%py.. e tSs 5G Mayo A!sp IiloS sS%aop Il
ger esE..l, and sno !, n1.I manager G4oMa in p al leu, a,
and child who came over tho gangplank to be
s saa With Il en Gass,S'd tho a b sisfst which To aetr ssis
r. Battery was passed, the holders Of ,refreshmen
y on the lower deck. Every ticket holder took,
Z pail for milk and a basket for ice cream and cak
q TO the rsfreshment counters; They lined up theF
tickets in tie air and ciamored to be diIed. i
1t The circumambient air flashed with tin pail
ID and thundered with cnss words; Each ma
rs Bss i nfss saf g. h %ads h into ntM1fihIiHI sms sPa Sr SAUSAGE sei
q enef e an Mssd V with ni0t apai PfSHt Of milk, a &c lee :
al cakes. and a full sized grin.
[. II one thing moro than another characterize
N the l3lAAann aXrnrAiOl. IL WAS good nature
at his call to restore. lost children TO ,thel
or mothers. The men stationed through the boat
40 brought. them to him, and he held on to ther
70 while his Immediate staff sought out the di
10 der his care became 80 numerous that his tc
n TTRRsersb were Ted not enough f%a bt for them TO f inGStb :
and strung rue eP the sab t@? h naaGk alonH that .0s''he
The excursion went up the Hudson to Yonkeri
In passing Grants, tomb on the way up, Mayo
Cd ""T1HhssG Star r spa aai d B &a%a; No landing ntIHinT Va
nsde. The steamers and 6srgs ss got back
TO- host stood by tho gangplank until he saw II
10 crowd Ct ds safely Est started TED up 9TH the Pier; 4 double a1u6E i Y
as full 4a i length oSy The I pier. WI When 'G ehe Mayor s'SR %alf u
LIB of he got an ovation. Boys took their hats o
al and howled .Hoorsy fer Paddy Gleason!" II
to The fssthars schoed L and Isip the Mayor yas shoe
The Mayor did not 60 homo until he had soc
as the last oh OF his w guests started 6.s a. away on on the The SKI six
ito in' them tfensf ho sneI fr sa'ef He nH inspected ns e ede eaeh load d be 10
of he would let the car start. and kissed each ar
lie every pretty girl in It; One motorman got awe
within half a block OF the ferry and took his ia
ny most exactingly. He told the motorman to loo
nd 1T goes not well with any man." no sal
os, who would keep Pat Gleason from his ow
oil Sure am 1 not a father to them all n
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