New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-08-21
A CRUSH AND 4 FAMINE.
EXCITING INCIDENTS OF A BROOKLYN
FREE EXCURSION.
WOMEN TAINTED At THE PIER AND OTHERS BE
CAME III. WHEN THE PARTY STARTED
MANY HAD 40 IrNCTTEONs AND no
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MONEY TO BY EATABT.ES.

MONEY TO Buy EATABT.ES.
Tho excursion for the henei, OF the babies OF
Williamsburg and thelr mothers. given under me
auspices of The Grand Street Board OF Trade TOOK
place Yesterday. and fully ten thousand per'ohs
crowded the four barges and steamer when were
dashed together. The arrangements for The eXcur-
zion had been going on FOR weeks and Rober; l.
Whalen who was chairman OF the committee
worked jealousy with his associates. Frank r. carr
Daniel McGrath. l. :. Hagenbacher and l. W.
Menzineer 10 makenhe affair a success.
When the project first started nearly all me
members OF the Board were In hearty sympathy
with IT, bu, as the movement continued they seemed
20 become tired and left the bulk OF me WORK ~
the committee. Mr. Wha.en and his associates
worked day and night to secure subscriptions ana
they received more than was needed.
Every detail looking 10 successful start from the
end Of North Seconl- looked after. ana II
those who crowded the pier yesterday morning had
exercised liitle Judgment the crush when resulted
would NOT have occurred. The committee made one
mistake, and that was the issuing OF more tickets
than the boats were able TO accommodate. Ten
thousand tickets were first struck on. and then hVc
thousand more. Each ticket entitled A mother 10
take her children and on an average OF two chldreh
10 each woman. az least forty-hve thou-and persons
ought to have been enabled TO attend the excursion
As il was. there about nf,een tnCusand
women and children the new North Second-st
pier for hours before the hotilla started Some OF
the party arrived at the dock at o'clock IN the
morning II was after O'Clock when the barges ar
rived and were made fast to the pier Then the peo-
pie became restless because they could not go on
board the boat The crowd kept surgng forward
and many narrowly escaped being pushed overheard
Finally the crush became so great max the cries
OF children they were being i2st,ed about alarmed
their mothers. who became panic-stricken. ana
some of them tainted. 81 great the excitement
tina, word was sent to the Bedfori-ave police sta
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twenty men 10 the pier. When the police reached
there they had all they could do to restore order
In the mean time the members of the house staff of
the Eastern District Hospital who had been detailed
to accompany the excursion. attended TO me rant
Ing women. AMI friends took them away. Only about
eight thousand persons were enabled TO get board
the loiiLa and the others were obliged TO return 10
their homes.
Most of the mothers had understood when the ex-
cursion was planned that there would be- free food
Tor evrrvhody and therefore many of them did not
take lunche On baskets Those who did not have
cd soon found out that whatever they wanted to
eat would have to be paid for. The people were
indignant this OF affairs and. to add 10 the
umult many Children began to cry FOR someIhn9
to distribute money SO that the hungry ones could
obtain relief.
Many were ashamed to ask for food. and became
so i'll that they had be attended by the surgeons
Among the persons affected was Mrs. Maurice FL
Shed 81 stat and her cghi-months-od child was
dying Both were attended by surgeon.
stricken some with cholera morbus and others
with hysteria and epilepsy II was after O'Clock
reached AMI the party left the boat. TWO fourteen
y-ar-old boys. Frederick Iowser and Henry Holt.
Of No 40 Scholes-st climbed a cliff and fell, sus-
tanning severe scalp wounds and contusions.
on the way back 10 the city Miss Leonard Cor
don eighteen years Old of No IS Marcy-ave., was
seized with IN epiieptic Mt. and 1t took three men
to hold her. The sight made two other women
faint Another woman who had heard a false ru-
NOR of child falling overheard. and who mad
missed her own child for few minutes. was under
the impros sion that the runor true and that
the child was hers. She swooned. and so did her
sister and another panic nearly followed.
Just befor. Williamsburg was reached an un-
known woman handed her ne-mon h-od child TO
+ : Remsen the e-president Of the Board. 10
hold for a minute She failed to return. and when
the boat landed the child was taken 10 the city
nurse. ,
wharf Mrs Pasouana Gymar, Of No 81 North
Sccond-st. was caught in crush with her child.
and tainted. She taken TO her home in an
ambulance