The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-08-18
DEVERY PUTS PLATFORM OUT
INCIDENT TO DANCING AND A
FEW PICNIC REM ARKS.


Big Bill Devery treated 10000 women to
leo cream. cake and milk yesterday, led
the grand march at ball with woman he
didn't know and announced his platform
as candidate for Mayor in the next cam
paign.
All this happened at the picnic at Suffers
Harlem River Park, which began yesterday
noon and wound up at o'clock this morn
ing, and at which the William 8. Devery
Association was the host and women and
children from all over town were the guests.
Men folks were charged quarter head
to get into the grounds. The receipts are
to be used to buy next winters coal for the
poor--before election.
There were at least 5000 men there, so
there's $1,000 as a starter for the Devery
free coal fund. Estimates OF the total
attendance for the day and eveping varie d
all the way from 20 900 to $4,000.
Tom Foley, the Tammany leader OF the
Second Assembly district, fioated into the
ballroom in the course OF the evening,
looked the crowd over and walked out
again His estimate was 10000 people
But Tom is Tammany man. Big Bills
own estimate was $4,000. and az he paid
all the bills, he ought to know
There were 10000 people there in the
course of the day, anyhow. And when
Big Bill sat on an upturped empty ice cream
freezer along about midnight with a nursing
bottle in his right hand and hungry baby
in his left arm, which he was gOod-naturedly
attending while tired mother retired
behind a tree to fix up, he figured that the
memories of his picnic would add at least
10000 to his total vote on election day.
l;ln't fr thu r,arl till
after the afternoon crush Of babies and small
boys had been filed to the muzzles with
ice cream and cake. Before leaving the
Pump at Twenty eighth street he rcdd
the evening paper stories about the great
naval inspection at Oyster Bay. and they
gave him an idea.
He called up Eddie Schneider, his fac
totum, at the Harlem River Park, and gave
him this message over the telephone
Il want to walk into the joint between
double line Of rooters that will make that
warship game down to Oyster Bay look
like Prohibition rally on Second avenue.
$50 Just line up the Bugs on one side OF
the hall and the mothers and babies on
the other and I'll walk down between EN-
Have the bands play 'Devery Every.
Schneider did his full duty and got enough
Bugs away from the bar and enough babies
away from the ice cream freezers TO make
a crush of admirers, and five bands played
together the Devery anthem.
aTheres two great events in this country
to-day" said Big Bill after he reached the
platform. Here's one right here that
the other is down at Oyster Bay, which
ought to be called Washington.
but they amt the same. Down there
thousand or 80 warships that belong to the
people are shooting of a million dollars
worth of the peoples powder to tickle one
man, who says there amt enough babies
coming along in this country
But the babies are right here and the
only money that's being spent is for the
people and not out of their pockets, There's
the difference between these great events
| spoke about I'd rather walk down
the line on my own feet between this noble
line of Bugs who will fight for the people
and these babies than sail down on some
body ese's boat between lot OF some
body else's ships that are shooting OH
other peoples money.
there's more votes in the cry Of the
downtrod baby that s got stomach from
too much free ice cream than there ia IN
the roar of twenty-one guns.
Il see by the papers that the Grand Duke
Dick Croker Is raising chickens in England
to give away to Abe Hummel, who thinks
he knows something about art
"I'll tell you something about art. You
see those naked babies painted on that
stage scenery over theref Them are
Cupids That's what they call art That $
what happened when Nero was Mayor Of
Rome.
"'rhe common people didn't have enough
money to buy clothes for the babies. II
Bill Devery is Mayor the art OF New York
will mean pictures of babies in clothes
playing on free recreation piers and throw
in coal and food at the fishes because there
is so much Of it.