New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-18
DEVERY FEEDS $4,000.
MOB WILD OYER EX-CHIEF.
Crozcd Consumes 1900 Quarts OF
Ice Cream-5OO Babies There.

Not less than twenty five thousand persons
were at the picnic of William 5. Devery IN
Suffers Harlem River Park, yesterday after
noon and evening. Deyery said between sixty
thousand and seventy-ive thousand attended
Although the picnic was for women ana chli-
dren. primarily. tickets were sold to men at 20
cents EACH and at this rate ten thousand men
paid to see the show Herman sulzer gave the
free use of the park to the picnckers, and the
ex-Chief of Police furnished the ice cream,
lemonade cake, vaudeville performance and
other enjoyments for the throng.
The festivities, under the name of The Grand
Afternoon ana Summer Nights Festival of the
William S. Devery Association" were to have
begun at o'clock, but at noon several thou
sand women and children waited outside the
gates of the park, and as it rapidly in
creasing crowd the gates were ordered opened
by one of Devery's ieutenants. and the crowd
swarmed In from then on.
Every man, woman and child who entered re-
ceived a ticket for ice cream, cakes and lemon
ade. with "the compliments of w. s. Devery."
The ex-ehiefs managers said that twelve thou
sand quarts of ice cream were consumed. That
amount would make eighty-four thousand big
dishes. There also barrels of lemonade
and almost innumerable cake The men with
badges who had extra tickets for refreshments
were beseged by the children, and the rush for
ice cream was so great at times that much OF
it went the ground
The big pavilion for dancing gay. A
Punch and Judy show enivened the afternoon
for children, and thousands of them owned the
place till evening Five hundred babies were
carried to the park in carriages.
In the evening there jam OF people.
The park never before contained so many per-
at one time. it said. Devery said he
had been told that coming and going all day
nearly seventy-five thousand persons attended
the show. Two bands played and young people
danced away a programme twice the usual
length. "Mr Devery' was played again and
again, and the crowd seemed to enjoy it as
something new every time, while il Joined in
the singing of the song.
The excitement reached a climax about
p. M. when Devery and his friends arrived AZ
the park He was with George Washington
Gibbons, Assemblyman Butler, Wallace Hunter,
Eddie" Schneider and others One of the bands
marched over to him and began to play, and a
rush by the thousands in the park to get close
to the ex-chief, was made, which it was feared
for time, might turn into panic. The crush
TO see the leader was terrific.
George Washington Gibbons proposed three
cheers for Deyery, and the widest shout of the
entire day night went up all over the park.
Devery smiled. Then lie arose, bowed and said:
so nobly but I'm astonished to see so many men
here. That's a good response of n common people
ana downtrodden people You are the people
that's being highwayed and robbed by a lot of
trusts and monopoles have done that art gallery
pointing to the crowd of boys in front Of HIM,
and those boys in that condition from trusts.
and not decent stitch of clothes on them.
l want the mothers and wives and daughters
here take hold in the campaign and compel their
husbands sons. brothers and fathers to be on the
right side the day out OF S65 and on the
other S64 too ] want the women n understand
get which don't make both ends and the middle
meet. You are being highwayed and robbed. Even
the girls, with the they get, don't have
enough to buy decent hats and clothes and go out
holders fight II is for the people. Cut the poll
ticans cut of il. Republicans and Democrats alike
should teach the political grafters lesson. In
sist that the male bers of your families vote
cudgel for the common people: If I'm elected II
will not be Carnegie or Rockefeller or Morgan
libraries. which you can't eat. It'll he coal and
wood. and food you'll get. If I'm elected. II I'm
elected I'll look after interests and won't let
the politicians make you look like 80 cents. That's
ali I've got TO say now
Devery was cheered again and again and the
crowd wild him till he disappeared 10
give them rest.
Wallace B. Hunter made speech, in which he
outlined at length the platform he said Devery
would for Mayor on. Devery asked
about this platform, and he said one had
been authorized TO announce platform for him
TO run
No one knows what I'm going to do he said,
except me. It's too soon. We want TO see
what the others are going to do AS soon as We
md out they'll hear our music"