The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1901-09-03

ator- Ahearn and ~Featherson, eI-Aldermar
John } 0'Brien. Larry Delmour. Judges
Hoffman. Bolte and Josephs. City Cham
SSrTlsin Patrick kssnan and eI-Aidsrnan
q! the cccszion He y an old member OF
the Diver Association. and II \ hH proud
boast that no gamblers have ever been
allowed 10 do business on one OF IL out
way before he was backing around for
gamblers, and pretty soon be spotted a
nan with a fohiEg table under his arm,
and q vallsc h. his hand.
If you open that here shid the Judge
calmly. the whole outnt gue- overheard.
n Won oJ"n &, a, the grove you go to a cell
on the Jump
Two other gamblers who wanted to
operate wh'rls werc warned in about the
same Language, and the result was that
neither On the loaf nor AZ the grove was
there any gambling. save a few card games
that the excunsionists got up among Them
selves.
breakfast Al College poin' was a mos,
elaborate anair. II consisted Of clam
%fritters, fried eels. beefsteak. ham and eggs,
all kinds 81 vegetables. coffee and hot
biscuit and all 800 were fed NJ once. And
whats more. they were fed ~ rapidly that
an hour after they went IN the big dining
hall they were all out again. Then the .
were tall games and track raves and n good
time generally KegS Of tcer werr allotted
a. the excursionists AT the ratio % one 20
six men. and with each keg went a
bottle II soft stuff All ~ this was Also
lutely free. the only thing tina, any one had
10 paw for being cigars Judge Diver
refused 20 allow whiskey on the outing.
and no one seemed To miss the liquor.
The only accident at the outing happened
I'M mysterious way, u Tor a time u created
n great deal q excitement. Joseph O'Brien
OF Ia North sixth street. Brooklyn, was
walking along the beach with some friends
when hs suddenly fell over In a heap. de-
caring that he had been shot. Nobody
had heard the report Of IA gun, and no one
could he found who had been shooting,
yet when O'Brien's right truuser wac pulled
up, II was found that Ibis leg was bleeding.
A doctor extracted several large shot from
the limb and declared that there were
more In there O'Brien tainted two or
three tlme-. but was finally s~traightened
out and sent home 10y train. A rfnor
was started that the Foleys had come over
with gum TO shoot Divveritee, and although
most p-ople took this a. a joke, there were
some who really thought II was 80 and
were for going ont and killing n few Foleyu
They were Calmed down after a while and
thon n squad Of policemen were sent out
10 find the man who had done this shooting
They didn't find him though.
The picnic was declared one Of the hest
that the Diver Association had ever held
Judge Diver said that he was well satts-
fied with the showing tha club had made
1t shows that the solid men Of the district
| are with US he said As for Foley and
his crowd, ] have nothing To say. I'm not
slinging any dir Let them do that
Three Catholic priests. four clergy
me- Of other denominations. eleven rabbis
from synagogues IN the downtown district
were among thoee who went with the Foley
ite- to Stimmels grove Big Tim sullivan,
the senator from the Sixth district, marched
al the head Of the Foley parade with Foley
Deputy Police Commissioner Devery,
Acting Mayor Guggenheimer, Health Com
missioner sexton and several Aldermen
and Councilman went 10 the clubrooms,
Al Chambers street and Park Row TO 500
the parade start. The Catholic Protec-
tory Band headed the Down Town Club
section and was Immediately followed
by the Hebrew Orphan Asylum Band which
led the Jewish contingent. The Italian
folsyite- had Berlinger's Military Rand
and the Grand Army Veteran Foley A.
soCiation was headed by the Shields Post
Rand The Foley IOng=horemens' As-o-
citation had a quartet OF their own, the
South Street RagpiperS, and the Dan Gala
han Association brought along a quartet
Of hnrpists from Oliver street.
Among the well-known characters Of
the district aboard the steamer were
We'll Well the Polo Grounds baseball
man. Louis Swatter, who claim- to lie
the champion rag-time dancer Of the world.
Tom Leo, the Chinese deputy sheriff, Jim
White, tie only Siame-e American voter
In the country. Greek Nicol-on. who al
though OF brts.k eNtrartiOn, ias Notsn IN
the district for t~wenty-thres years, Smoke.
the Chinatown negro. Blind Billy. who has
voted in tho district for tfty years, and
who had two men with him 10 lead him
about. Domenico Deluc-, who l. known a.
the Cuban Chinsman. Wideawake Collins,
the spaghetti manufacture and Corky Sulli-
van Ham and Eggs Were there, too Ham
is a bill collector and Eggs u a cigar manu-
facturer.
When The picnic grounds werr reached
a. ......ll. - .s ..l.ra 80 -, aFrauf
that one man. NicUloG aVelli. fell overheard,
but was quickly fi-hed out. Then came
a rush for the dining room. The COMMITTEES
IN charge at first started TO take up break
fast tickets. bur the crush ts-ane 80 great
that the proprietor Of the place had 20 put
a stop 20 the ticket aking and the crowd
rushed In pell-mell. Rig Tom Foley climbed
on a chair and declared that he would pay
for snythin & and everything that everybody
could eat lie explained that there was no
~ crowding and then he ordered
S'immel TO serve UP everything he could
get hold 81 ia the line Of food. This caliued
the crowd. which ate from ? O'Clock In the
until : at night when the start
Wa made for home.
senator sullivan umpired a baseball
game between the RofIano Club and the
Nalenti Club. and the Rofranoe won by a
score Of II toe Then the senator umpircd
a game het ween the Chrystie foleys and
the Jim DAILY teams, the foleys winning,
10 4 Mike Callahan from Chatham
won the fat mems race and former
Of Buildings Dooner the
sack racs
The surprise NJ the outing came when the
boats started homcward After they had
swung away from the wharf a short, boyi-h-
person ran Ia the end Of the pier
md declared that he. or she. was a girl and
dressed IN boys clothing for the pur-
I'm N"iIi@ Seissc Udt.s she shouted.
Three chssrS for Tom Foley. dressed