The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-07-17
CITY MISSION OUTING TRIP.

Mansfield Grove, With Fathers and
 Mothers and Friends
 Promptly on time at 9:30 yesterday | morning eight cars of the Fair Haven | and Westvile railroad rounded the
 Elm street corner into Church street
 and lined up along the Green to take on board this weeks City Mission
 Fresh Air Excursion" It was quite as much as both Rev. MT. Mossman and Miss Hume could do to hold back
 the eager company of three or four
 hundred people, young and old, large and small, who had for some time been
 waiting for what they very properly
 called "our cars"
 All were finally comfortably seated | and then came the breezy ride away from the hot city through Fair Ha ven, East Haven and on beyond Mo- mauguin also to Mansfield Grove and | the shore of Long Island Sound. In charge of T. R. Hull as the railroads s master of transportation, and under the care of good-natured conductors and motormen, all were safely brought to the final station. This year, as last, Charles R. Bartlett welcomed the City Mission people to the use of his ample grounds at Mansfield Grove without
 charge, including also an abundant
 supply of ice water, free to all, through
 out the day.
 The lunch tables were soon occupied
 all over the grove. It was a pleasant
 sight to see not only the happy family
 parties, but also the care that was
 taken to make everyone else comforta-
 ble and happy by counting them in
 among the little groups that always
 had plenty of lunch for others besides
 themselves Some of the children had
 to come without their mothers, but they
 were soon adopted for the day by some
 of the many motherly women there.
 It may be of interest to know that
 among the many of all ages and na-
 tionalities on the excursion yesterday,
 the oldest person was over seventy years of age Thomas McGrath. of S4 Wallace street, and the youngest was only three months, Baby Carrie Spires, of 55 Crown street.
 The excursion party yesterday was largely made up of the children of the City Mission Sewing school. In place of the usual athletic games, for which the weather was quite too hot, Miss Hume the lady missionary in charge of the school, had thoughtfully arranged boat trips for the children of half or three quarters of an hour out on the waters of the Sound. Captain Edwin F. Baldwin was ready at the pier with his fine naphtha launch Lena" staunch and seaworthy and large enough to take from forty to fifty at trip. During the day several lengthy trips were made along shore and out to the Cow and Calf" light buoy and back, the last party of the afternoon being made up by Rev. MT, Mossman of those who had helped to serve the cake and cream or given their help in any other way.
 As usual on the mission excursions, plenty of cake and cream were taken along. There were twenty gallons of l ice cream nearly all donated by the | New England Dairy company, K. H. Clark, the Chapel street caterer, and | Messrs. Boschen and Hassebach, con | fectioners, with forty or fifty loaves of | cake donated in part by the Mission | Circle of the Kings Daughters, At | the childrens table Miss Hume was as- sisted by Mrs. A. B. Miller, Miss Han nah Hume Rev. Arthur D. Bissell and 1 Edward Rungee Yale s. S. 1900. At | the general table. Mrs. Fenwick, the leader of the Kings Daughters, had as q committee of her circle, Mrs, Horton, Mrs. Palmer and Mrs. Andrews, with Messrs Horton and Candee to serve the cream.
 To increase the enjoyment of the oc- ,asion, Rev. Mir Bissell responded to an urgent invitation and sang several songs, for which he was liberaly ap- plauded. MT. Bissell is a graduate of Yale Divinity school and when in New Haven was director of the Davenport church choir. He also took a post graduate course at Yale in preparation 'or his presnt position as professor at Pomona college, not far from Los An seles, California.
 That the day was thoroughly en- owed by all, and that Mansfield Grove 8 a good excursion ground was plain v shown by the reluctance o: the peo- ole to respond to MT, Mossman's call, Your cars are ready But between |
 and o'clock the return trip was 1 made to the city with lightly loaded ars, leaving quite number to enjoy | he cool breezes off the water until ate hour.
 The expense for "The Children's Ex- { ursion' each year is met in part by he Children's Day offering of the l United church to the mission Fresh Air Fund" which is appropriated for Hiss Hume's use in providing car tick it's and cake and cream for the mem- 1 ( ,ers of the Mission Sewing school. Additional subscriptions to the few all ' eady received for the Fresh Air { Tund' are very much needed to pro- $ idle not only for the expenses of the arger excursions, but to send to the | ( hore, or into the country air, not only nee but many times during this sultry ummer weather, some of the sick and eeble people, mothers and babies, and ( ome of the elderly men and women
 so. who were on the excursion yester- z ay to Mansfield Grove. J