Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-08-03
ExCURsIoNIsTs STRANDED.
Some of the Visitors to North Beach
 Saturday Got Left.

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 Saturday Got Left.
 About 2,000 people from Waterbury, Naugatuck, Seymour, Ansonia and Derby went on the excursion Of the St Joseph's T. A. society to North Beach on Saturday. It was a big disappoint- ment in more than one way. Several ddsagTeeable incidents occurred for which the society was not to blame, yet they produced rather unkindly feeling among many of the excursion dsts. The first trouble occurred when the trains arrived in New Haven about 7:30. The trains were side tracked at Canal dock instead of Belle dock, where the steamboat was moored. After tedious delay the ex- cursionists had to board the trains again and were carried to the proper dock. Owing to this delay the steam boat St John was over an hour late in leaving New Haven. It arrived at North Beach about o'clock and here the most ddsagreeable incident oc- cured. The boat. some claim, was advertised to leave the beach at o'clock, while others claim that 5 o'clock was set as the hour. At any rate, the boat left about 4:45 Over 100 excursionists whlo thought that the hour of sailing was o'clock were left behind Many of them arrived at the dock just in time Ito see the boat sail- ing away. "A number of the excursion ists who were so unfortunate as to be left behind were In quandary. They had little or no money in their pocket One man in this city went to the res cue of a party of ten or twelve and bought tickets for them from New York to Waterbury. Others spent the might with friends and relatives. John McGrath had peculiar experience He went over to a brother-in-law's house. to spend Mhe night, but found that he had left that day for Water bury.
 A number Of the excursiondsts who had spent their money went over to New York from the beach by the ferry and then sought aid ait the nearest police station. Tn nearly every case they secured the necessary money to pay their fare to Waterbury. They left New York on the S:12 train and reached New Haven in time to catch the excursion trains at that point. They reached Waterbury about 12 o'clock. The New York Trtbune had the fol- lowing to say about some excursion ists who were wrecked:
 s'INhe ferry from the beach to 188th street carried over score or more of the number of the party who had been left by the steamboat. These had no xAT f6n Yan y- est police station There were di- rected there, and a dozen found their way to the East 126th street station.
 .'lt was early in the evening when Joseph Mclaughlin, Frederick Blod- gett, William Burwill and James Far rington of Waterbury entered the sta- ton and told Sergeant Magnn their story. They wanted to know what to do. Mag1in went down into his peek ct and handed over S6, the price of the car fares for the four young men to Waterbury. They were profuse in their thanks, and said they would re- turn the money as soon as they got to Waterbury. Five minutes later Jen- nie and Mary Anderson. fourteen and fifteen years old, of Waterbury, told the same story to the sergeant. Pc liceman Healy was listening. and he pulled out S8 and gave dt to the girls. They almost wept at the thought of being able to get home without stay ing all night. Ten minutes afterward 8 farmer and his wife told their story, and Nraglin handed over the carfare again to them. They promised to send 1t back promptly and were over joyed to be able to get to their farm before morning. A few others were also helped out"
 The Sit Joseph's T. A. society were in no way to blame for the several dis agreeable incidents mentioned above. Notwithstanding the several unpleas- ant incidents the excursionists had a fine time.