The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-07-03
PICNIC PARTY MAROON ED.
5000 EAST SIDE HEBREWs LEFT IN
IDLEWILD GROVE All NIGHT

Fatal Accidental hungry Night In the
Open Air-Barondess Made n Scapegoat.
Three thousand excursonsts who went
the annual picnic OF the Socialist Labor Union
on Saturday got back to this city at 80 o'clock
yesterday afternoon after a cold and hungry
night spent in dancing pavilion. on the
ground and on the floors OF barge Mt Idle
wild Grove. J.. l. The excursionists blame the
Myers Excursion Company for the predica-
ment they were left in. but the company blames
them for not coming back on the earlier boats
accor ling to contract. Whoever is to blame.
there was night OF suffering at tho grove.
and OF distress among friends and relatives at
home. Families had been separated at the
grove and fragments waited in anxiety all
night at the Market street pier for news Of the
other fragments. A number slept alongside
the string piece and stayed there until the
barge got in late yesterday afternoon. At that
time there were 5000 people on tho pier. who
split the air with joyful noise at seeing their
relatives and friends safe and sound.
The picnic was arranged by IorrncrtS. tho
organ Of the Socialist Labor Union. A. Teller.
the manager of the paper. had charge OF the de-
tails. and was assisted by n committee OF
which Jacob Basheim was Chairman. The
steamers Colchester and Bay Queen were
hired. and the projectors of the picnic adver-
tised that each steamer would make four round
trips The committee admit that the steam
ers we're hired to make but three round trips
each. but say that 1t was agreed that the last
steamer should leave the grove at midnight
and bring everybody back. whereas the last
steamer left at 10 O'Clock without taking any
body from the shore and leaving behind
barge with 5000 people on it.
When the Colchester started up on the first
trip at 8 o'clock Saturday morning she
couldn't take half the people who were on the
Market street pier. After the gangplank
had been hauled in several mothers. as
ruse to get on. handed their babies to
friends on board and then made great fuss
at being separated from their children. But
the Colchester sailed away leaving these clever
mothers on tho pier. The pier was already
filing up again. According to the COMMITTEES.
l.. 000 tickets had been sold at % cents each,
but 1900 on three trips. came for fresh Toad load
they we're mobbed. The barge Susquehanna.
capacity 1900 was toTed up by the Bay Queen
paid s125 extra for her,
There were many pickpockets on the boats.
OF them got licked and two OF them were
mighty near being thrown overheard from the
Rochester. 1t is said that 100 persons lost
At the grove. while the crowd was casting
about for musement. there arrived upon the
scene dozen shell men. whose pocket pres
emily 6uIged with silver IN nickel . and COPPER
scarf pins. chains. sleeve buttons. watches and
small ornaments. for they were willy persons
and overlooked no bets; But when the pic
Sd howl s esse ssy %
Frank Gibbons. who has charge at the grounds.
One Cohen acted as committee.
You shouldt chase dose vellers out pv der
road" they said.
bon you'd DO sPs sSsd ss ssf bars M fS S
can Gsffe them out Go and give Thorn
Maybe, dsy hat guns und kniiss und get
mysosbllp as fiisq said Mrs Gibbons. tber. are
hundreds ri Fl ,s so1 and not dozen OF them
efsa pR s e MSrs vas mot
ssry Ihe man picked Up his table and pre-
r!ggers. smashed their tables. tore their
sothss beat. scratched and kicked them and
where they might have stoned them to death
had 1t mo-, been for the interference of their
ssheoting Of 6-year.od Eta Re1chbach OF l53
llshed in THE Sun yesterday. In hIrryng
back 20 New York with her dying child Mrs,
children. Yetts. RebeCca andsaiie. They yI got
back yesterday afternoon.
1t was about 3 O'Clock in the Afternoon, that
Eta was shot One man says the child was
playing behind the target Of the shooting gai-
lery when bullet came clean through and en-
tered her left breast. Another. says that man
was trying some fancy shooting. and had his
back to the target aiming over his shoulder.
that two negro gambl ers got into Il fight with
some people they had swInIled: and one fired
did the shooting has not been arrested. and no
one seems to know who he is.
The Bay Queen left the grove at = O'Clock p.
M. The eNcursiOnists say that LOO people
got on her and that from 2,5O0to 5000 crowded
on the barge expecting to be towed back; The
Bay Queen sailed away without the barge.
The Colchester came up about 10 O'Clock, Ac-
eording to the excursionists. she brought up
E.lA nFNtA md hnt nly
stand aiittle illegal crowdlng and takoth barge
about fifty yards from the End Of the pier for
awhile and then turned around and headed
colchester that trim said yesterday that her
Captain remarked when he saw the crowd on
the pier ana those on the barge that he'd hG
home. On the departure Of the Colchester
me ao men were angry, t tnnd women We're
aloud. Groups formed around committeeman
who were indiscreet enough 70 show them
who had put In the day he says. irving TO
make tn ngs run smoothly. was accused by a
certain element in the party Of being reSponsi-
dess in the Jaw. Another fist reached his right
the head. Men interiSrod and BaronGes ste eI Z
changed his white canvas hat, which was the
sSd cot 81 s sHs IN sssty 10 par
Washington. three miles away. and got a train
back to New York. Later in the evening about a
man. who had been mistaken for a committee
man. told story around the east side Yesterday
to the effect that an attempt had been made
% burn him at the stake It. developed later
that IN pushing him around the crowd had
backed him up against ono Of the honir"s that
the excursionists had built in the grow" to
keep warm by. He thought they were going
70 burn him alive and made such u struggle
for existence that the crowd let him 60, There
was a general hunt yesterday around the
east side for mem ers OF the committee, which
ran the picnic. the idea being to punch their
heads. Barondess says that it is IN" editor Of
an orthodox Jewish paper who is trying to
hold him responsible.
All the food in the grove had been consumed
hy9o'clock, and there was nothing To drink hut
water from the pump Finally the pump hrnke
down. Many Of the children needed milk and
few Of the people had money. Young children
IN tho crowd. separated from their parents.
bad nobody to look after them. The wind had
become very chilly and the oXcursiOuistS set
about tearing down fences and pling up the
benches to make bonircs here and there until
the whole grove was lighted up. and Mrs
GihhonGs assistants had to hustle Str"nuOusIy
% avert II genera cOntlagratiou. some families
scoopei out little shelters for themselves in the
sand. while others tore branches from the