The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1899-06-20
CHINAMEN
ON A PICNIC.
They Make Merry at the
New Brandywine
Springs Park.

I'VE have had heavenly time!" ex-
claimed one Of o cluster Of Sunduy
school teachers or the train.
They were homeward bound from the
Celestial picnic. With a sigh that was u
mixture of lanKuor and delight, the other
fair converters of the "heathen Obince'
assented. And In The whole train OF flf-
teen cars there could hnvs been found
no. blissful Chinee or casual pleasure
seeker who had not the memory OF lots OF
fun enjoyed OH the outing. II was the
annual picnic that the Christian League
of Philadelphia tenders its Mongolian
proteHees,
: All the good Chinaman who have fore
sworn Buddha were there with thelr
queues clipped and their bodies In 'Msli-
can mans" CLOTHES. Some had the CLOTHES
but retained the queues These they wore
down their backs. passed inside Of their
standing collars. Besides some almond
eyed men who still stuck to Buddha
bought tickets and went along
Lee Toy, ChinutoWn's Mayor Is Of these,
and he was there with his smiling Chinese
wife and his blinking ChInsse baby. Then
there were Cinnamon from Philadelphia
Baltimore, New York, Washington. Will
nllngto and Jersey towns, in all obout
1900. There was 1000 other people out to
sse the fun.
In the new park at Drandywins Springs
the reyelry broke loose. Special trains ran
from here morning and afternoon. or
course Rev. Frederic Poole and his CHI
nese Naval Reserves.
Oblique eyes blinkcd with the spirit of
fun as the Cinnamon tumbled out Of the
trains, and with their Caucasian friends
invaded the pretty picnic grove. Up the
slope mnrche tho band and the re-
serves with chattoring Celestiais behind
them. In the pavilion on the bluff the re-
serves aimed toward the blue sky Of o
perfect day and fired tho national salute
Of thirteen guns, while the band played
tho ''Star Spangled Banner" A little
boat put out on Che lake and hOis ed on
aft planted in the water bed, first the
flag Of Uncle Sam, then the flag of Phia-
doiphia, aud then the yellow triangle with
the black dragon. Every hour the crowd
increased and the fun waxed greater.
Trolley cars from Wilmington brought
thousands
Starce Chlnamsn failed to bring sup
ply Of flrecrackers and thrifty Celcstias
SO; up stands and sold the red packages to
their fellow countrymen. Like Yankee
youngsters on the Fourth OF July, they
ran about with glowing sticks of punk ex
plodlng crackers, burned finger tips and
singed eyebrows.
Down by u rustic bridge sat little Of
chPstra working at strange ltttie tiddles
and blowing squeaking pipes Wagner
done toIag time might sound something
like 1t. On tho pony track were sights
that kept a thousan onlookers In spasins
of laughter,
Then came dinner hour. There was no
chop sucy, and, much to tho diiHppoint-
ment of the small boys of Wilmington,
no rats, either. Instead OF chopsticks.
Cinnamon g;ngerly handled knives and
folks.
HoNoRING DEWEY.
After dinner there took place q special
performance In honor of Admiral Dewey.
FIVE big balloons labelled "Hooray for
De Acy, this hero of Manila!" wele sent
skyward. Chinamen jumped out and
yelled: "Diewee! Dlpwee Hoolay!' Then
the white skinned onlookers took up the
cry. -
In the midst of it screams Issued from q
bl: Of wo,dlawn nearby, and soon after
them two Cinnamon. Ono held wrig-
ling snake at arms length, and his teeth
chattored.
drop itr' men cried. while women
screamed.
He did. Then he explained that be-
fore that he coudnt. Tho Cinnamon and
their teachers had been hunting ferns, but
found bunch of garter sn Akes. Que rear,
cd Nv his teacher, and herotcally he had
caught it by tho tail. Then it darted
at him. and they all ran. he too scar>d to
drop The reptile.
sin Wing, IN honest looking Chinamnn,
despite his wicked name, proved the hero
Of the show. He rode around tha +: ack at
least hundred times at q nickel IL time. II
hu did thus squander the prucneds OF his
hard day washing he got lots OF applause
l,r faced all who would, and won. He
n!oped tho pony with wild yeIls, and
I.,:.ed it with his long queue.
Al flushed from his triumph Sin Wing
said to Mr. Poole: me bulleo liGer; me
l,ko lace Tod Sloan.' Dcmoniac yells and
shrill screams of laughter came from the
merry -gorouEd. where the yellow.skinnel
Christians and their Sunday School
teachers whir!od'
Two band concerts and vaudeville
show amused. In the twill light S ling Of
Arecrackers, forty feet long, fifty thousand
little snnppers, were hung from tall tree
and fred. Like IN army's continuous vol
ley the thing exploded. Tho crowd chc"red
Then rs tho nnoonligh5 Cleaned oror the
hills and lake. tho long train took tho
tired but happy picknickers aboard AMI
took them home.