Evening journal., 1902-11-28
EAST SIDE BOYS
EAT BIG DINNER
Guests of Mrs. T. B. Bradford
and Made turkey and
Dainties Disappear

East Side youngsters were yesterday
given a dinner at Old Swedes parish
house, and in the basement of St.
Marys r. c. Church by Mrs. Helen
Rodgers Bradford, which they will re-
member for many days to come and
possibly some of them were reminded
lfOrcibly last night, when they were
awakened from their slumbers by a de-
cidedly uneasy feeling in their stom-
achs, brought on by trying to eat
everything in sight.
Mrs. Bradford. who has done much
for the children of the East Side in the
way of picnics, excursions and parties,
conceived the idea of giving the boys
of the East Side an Old-fashiOned tur-
J key dinner about week ago. She con-
ferred with the Rev. and Mrs. Martin
b. Dunlap of Old Swedes Church, and
Father Kelley, of st. Mary's Church,
and the matter of inviting the young
guests was left to them, and the crowd
(which assembled at both places yester-
day showed plainly they had done their
work well. v as
The dinner was scheduled to come off
at / O'Clock, but long before that hour
the boys began to assemble i'm front
of the places designated.
No Girls Admitted
The affair was purely "a stag Ac-
lcording to one of the diners no girls
were invited. but several came around
and stood looking longingly at the
more fortunate sex, and in many in
stances asking them Ito slip a leg ip
their pocket for them.
The boys were not allowed in the
halls until the dinner was ready to
serve, when they were marched up,
and the expressions which escaped the
gamins when they beheld long tables
laden with turkeys done to a crisp, cell
lery, cranberry sauce, golden sweet po-
ltatces and other vegetables were ex-
tremely funny.
Some of them were "Say, Jimmie
look at de toikey. Oh, l won't do a
ting to it," Jest wait till you see me
take a fall out of dat cranberry sauce; y
"SOmebody'll have to take me away
from dis. I'll never be able to walk
when l eat all l want" Il wish
Thanksgivin' came every day, if we are
p going to git dis" and many others.
Had Good Appetites
If there were any dyspeptics in th'
crowd they were not discovered. Th'
walters were kept ON the jump all th'
time replenishing the rapidly disap
+ pearing turkey from the plates The!
, started with knives and forks, but the,
E became too slow as a means of convey
Z ling, and the boys resOrted to thei
, fingers, and the way they made tn
, good things disappear was a sight L
make a gout sufferer turn green witt
ENVY. After the table had been mad
to look as though it had been visited b,
a Kansas cyclone, the pudding wa
served. and the feast finally came to al
| end. The boys marched out and stOO
l laround the corners, telling the girls
. who had been waiting for them, wha
a great dinner they had eaten. Som
. of them were true to their promise, am
!, brought forth from mysterious source
sundry turkey bones and sweet pot
toes which they gave their friends.
r Oser 800 We're Fed
= There were about 112 at Old Swede
Z and 200 at St. Mary's. During tn
, meal several visitors came in to watc
the boys at dinner. 1t is safe to sa
, that Mrs. Bradford was the most poi
: ular person in that neighborhood yes
9 terday. The Rev. and Mrs. Dunla
: went to the boys homes and invite
y them personally to the dinner.