New-York tribune., 1901-08-01
Goodby, Brooklyn. I must leave you
Though 1t breaks my heart!

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Breaks my heart!" cried small boy. well.
1 guess not! We're glad enough to get away,
Bro oklyn, dear"
Yes. and we'd stay away if we could" added
little girl.
score of fond mothers who accompanied the
children to tn ferry cried their farewels through
the fence at the end of the slip. Some of them
had tears in their eyes, for poor mother
hates to part from her children. They would not
have had them miss the trip. though, for any
thing.
Jimmie, you be good boy while you're gone"
cried one mother. IF you don't I'll you
up when you get back
Another mother cautioned her little girls not to
eat too much, because. you know, you don't get
much to home, an it'll spoil you"
A little girl who was trying her best to keep
from joining her mother in a crying spell whis-
pered through the fence:
TN try an get 'em to gimme a an bring
1t home so as baby can have all the milk he
wants"
Cows not the only things that the children
expect to bring back with them. Ducks and chick
ems and haystacks and cornstalks even among
the things which they said they hoped would be
! given them for keeps"
! Most Of the Brooklyn children carried their
luncheons. for 1t is all night ride to Port Allie
gany. One boy had luncheon
Ma wouldn't make none" he said. She
! said I'd get much to eat in the country that
/ it wouldn't hurt me to go hungry one night
| Sides. there's not enough in the house to make
| good supper for paw"
Another lad had five cents with which to pur-
| chase food. He found way of getting many times
| his moneys worth. and showed that he had head
worthy OF a inancier. At the candy stand in the
ferryhouse he invested his nickel in gum drops Az
soon the ferry started he began to make trades
for pieces lunch. Children who had brought
more from home than they could eat were more
| than glad to trade for gum drop. He got piece
of tomato from one. a cold pancake from another.
| half sandwich, four bites of pie, two cookies. a
jelly tart and two crackers. He still had gum
drops left and Will probably have to eat than
any in the party before he gets to Allegany.
The children found the ferry good fun. Many of
them had never been boat before Little boys
foot around the broad decks. Little
girls drew chalk marks the cabin floor and
played a hopping game. They all over the
boat before the Battery rounded. Then they
all got side to see If their combined weight
would make the ferryboat tip over. Little sisters
were in their element and bossed still smaller
brothers with an iron hand
IN tell mamma when get home, II you don't
mind me-" was the threat that brought the most
unduly ones to bay.
The escorts of the party counted heads in the
Jersey City station and found that fifteen young
sters who had not been invited had slipped into the
party There great deal of trouble sitting
out those who had right to come. and for whom
no tickets had been obtained. AS the self
invited children were found they sent to the
other side of tire waiting room where they prompt
ly began cry hard.
One little girl VINO had really been invited left
the eligible ranks and crossed over to the party
which was be sent home She took firm hold OF
fearful snail boy and began to beg the escort to
take him along
Hes my sweetheart. that's what he is she
cried, IAN I won't go to any old country unless he
gees. He was invited al! right did it myself"
The appeal was just q bit too strong for the
hardened escort. Cupid won.
One of the boys who sent back to Brooklyn
admitted that he trying to steal trip.
We'll I had me ride on the ferry for me trouble"
he said finally But it'll hardly pay for the lick
ing ma will GIN me. She'll know l lied"
At Jersey City the Brooklyn party was Joined by
thirty children from another part of the city who
are going to Kane, Penn. Two children. who are
going to Warren, Penn. on special invitation. ac-
companied the party.
In the evening the scene of activity changed to
the Grand Central Station. Two hundred children
bound four different towns in this State were
sent out on two trains They arrived some little
time before the gates opened, and made the big
marble waiting room look like recreation pier
a bit of Central Park Sundays 1t quite
the finest room that some of the children had
seen.
rs the country as beautiful as this big placer
demanded one little girl, who is to get away from
a brick paved street the first time in her life
I'D Just as stay here for two weeks if it's
Just the same to you"
The train which left at $50 p. m carried the fol-
lowing parties: Seventeen to Antwerp n. Y; sixty
four to Lowville n. Y; sixty-six to Naples. N Y.
children by special invitation: Six to Oswego. n.
Y two to Biglow. " Y; three to Schenevus, y. Y;
ore to Rockdale, y. V. and to Hannibal, n. Y.
At 10 o'clock big opened for the party
of forty children who going to Franklin. The
train was not TO go until midnight. but 1t would
have been a hardship 10 keep the children up until
that hour They climbed up into the plush seats,
which were softer than the beds they were used to
at home Most of them did not know that there
was such a luxury sleeping cars and were
thoroughly satisfied to to bed in straight backed
seats Long before the train started the children
were deep in slumber and dreaming all sorts Of
strange things about the fairyland in which they
were TO awaken.
Three parties left at 9:15 over the Erie Rail-
road There were ninety-nine children in all. and
they will be distributed in the morning as follows;
Forty-nine to Olean, y. Y: ihirtysix TO Cuba, n.
Y and fourteen 10 CampbelIs. y. Y.
The children who went yesterday were invited
and will be entertained by the following people:
Port Alegany. Penn-The Rev. Jay r. Shaw.
who arranged for the party; John Anderson. J. II.
Williams the Rev. Mr. Berggren Mrs f. \.
Holden l. A Fogle, T. w. Grinde. A J. Burison.
Henry Brandt Walter Reer. Mrs. James Welsh,
Mrs Pealing Mrs. John Rhinehuts. Phebe SheT
wood Mrs Grants Winston. Mary Tupper, Mrs
Turner Mrs. o. Heath Mrs. Butch Mrs. o. A.
Kinney Mrs. George Moses. Mrs Arthur Hadley,
Mrs. Sherre, Mrs. Alpha. Mrs Clair White. l. >
Fogle Joseph Seyler, O. {. Griffin. George Fltch'
/. J. Gallup. George Mosteer Ross Meeker.
Dwight Grifin Mrs L. Davis Mrs. L. Clare. Mrs.
Chase Mrs. A. Coleman Mrs William Llibridge.
Miss Bertha Hail. Mrs. A. Barnaby. Mrs. l.. ,.