New-York tribune., 1902-08-17
ALL TURN OUT FOR DEVERY.
BIG BILL" ENTERTAINED BY ENIhh-
PRISING CITIZENS OF ROCkA"A1-
GREAT THINGS HE PROMISES.

Yesterday was Devery Day at Rockaway Beach
and Arverne. The Testimonial TO the ex-Chief
| was got up by OF the enterprlslng business
men at the beach, and was not as expected an
excursion Of Big Bits" IXth District adherents'
/ although II was said several trains on the Long
Island Railroad had been chartered Inc "iioie
thing" as one of Devery's intimate friehos en-
| planned, was intended surprise party LOT the
1 Chief but through the volubility Of some OF the
enthusiasts II leaked out TO the Chiefs ears.
The publication OF list of features OF the function
enlarged the leak, until Mr.. Deyery and MS ram
fly got enthusiastic and elaboratey decorated thelr
house. and that took all the surprise out OF the
| affair
The "triumvir" arch which the people behind the
show had planned not in evidence you see
said Joe Cooney Of the police captain OF the
same name, we found didn't have time to
build the arch that had intended. and we WASH
going TO put I'D no bum arch for the Chief. so We
put the money into decorating the buildings Inc
Devery portrait posters used in the 1Ath DlsiiE''
with the words. ''Our choice for leader. William =
Devery" were q conspicuous feature OF the oecoTa-
,tons In one hotel all the literary matter was
cut from the posters long row OF which hung
on posts on the veranda beneath permanent signs
relating to the bill OF fare. One pended direcuy
under the large gilt words, Live Lobster" and
another blotted out the word "chowoer OF the
most generally displayed sign in all the Rocka-
ways.
The theatres were free. Maggie Cline sang spe-
cial Devery song, and "Devery at the Pump was
he
ing picture show on the beach GYPSY fortune tell
ers displayed Devery portraits and the proprietors
Of merry -go-rounds. roller coaster railways ana
toboggans solicited custom by using the politicians
The expectation at the Devery home. at Atlantic
ave and the Boulevard. Arverne. that the surprise
would be sprung about 1 o'clock. was disappointed
The committee left Felios after o'clock. and the
real exercises did not begin until Big Bill ar
rived at Seaside about iS0 O'Clock The COM
had haau the crowd. which at
that hour was as large usual on a cool sat
urday afternoon IN August
"Deve" FeIjo's hotel was headquarters. and its
balcony was the reviewing stand. The parade con-
sisted of the committee and Deverys intimate
friends In about thirty carriages gayly decorated
After Jaunt taking IN all the passabe streets
at the Dea6a ea at re it head With William Wainwright
the Father Of Rockaway Beach and the president
In Introducing Mr. Devery TO the crowd Mr. Vain
right said he had done great deal !0r te paGe
done more in week than / have done in all my
right who kept Rockaway Beach from being Ing
sether stsa couIda Do He stopped the garbage dump
ing where the refuse of New-York all hoated In on
wanrghts 5emsTks were interuPtsd TERI by
/ Of engine bells and merry-go-round gongs and
other summer day sounds u,--,,,+
led him n''tt forward He said everybody had come
there for fun and not for hped Hp de
| thing TO build up Rockaway Beach, he declared.
| Il stopped Waring from dumping his bottomlesSS
! scows down there by Sandy Hook, where we got all
| the garbage and done something else too. When
| that fire happened down here. Rockaway haon
one foot Of hose TO compete with the nadnes, d
| took hand in IT, and now we've got $4,000 worth
OF apparatus to compete with fires and were go
| ing to have All Rockaway needs Is the peo-
| pie and they're going to come here They oon
want to go Jersey. where II takes them three or
four hours to get there. and they have TO stay ali
night. We are going to have a boardwaik AK IrI,n ON
| Fdgemere to the Point, We can Walk along the
| beach either way FIVE miles That's What we we
want and take my word for IT. we II get II IN TWO
| years Now. l hope you'll beat out the fremen IN IN
The creased pig and the three legged race ana
| the sack race, They are going TO parade TINS TINS
| afternoon and they're good runners, but you can
| heat them Now go and turn head over heels in
the ocean, and have your 1un lhat . "Hdt Sou 10
| here for so I'll say good day. ,
l,The prirne movers in the celebration Were Will
lam Wainwrieht John Remsen. David Felfo. San
| ford Murray Henry Buckley. Joseph Cooney and
| charles Brckley The neglect to provide a brass
| hand for the parade attributed TO the size OF
the Committee Of arrangements consisting or apout
twenty members each of whom naturally expected
| that one Of the others would attend TO IT.
When Mr. Devery's genial press agent dscoyereo
the omission the six-piece band in one OF the shows
vas Impressed into service for the games later IN
tho dav The elusiveness of the creased pig pro
| yoked from Of the friends Of MT; Devery the
remark II .ope Big Bill won't mo the leaoershp
as slippery as that