The Minneapolis journal., 1904-07-11
YOUNGSTERS
TO HAVE OUTING
MANY WHO APPLY TO SALVATION
ARMY TURNED AWAY.
Poor Boys and Girls and Their Moth
ers Will Spend Tomorrow at Lake
Harriet-Plans for Bully. Time,
With Plenty to Sport and Good
Things to Eat. -

When a woman with eleven chill
dren called at the Salvation Army
office this morning to get tickets for
the picnic WhichaWilL be held tomor-
when told that the 1000 tickets, the
number that can be accommodated,
had already been distributed. From
the Army headquarters up Nicollet
avenue crowds Of children stood along
the sidewalk talking excitedly about
the good time expected tomorrow.
SO many have called for tickets Of
ter they had all been disposed Of that
Ensign A. P. Storey, who has had
charge of the affair, tried to make ar
rangements to take another 500 but
the financial condition did not war
rant it.
For several weeks two men and
three women in addition to the regu-
lar visitors have. been calling in the
homes endeavoring to find the most
needy and to place tickets in their
hands. Not only children will be in
cluded in this outing but about 200
mothers as we'll will enjoy the excur-
sion.
Each child arriving at the army
station on First avenue S tomorrow
morning at 9 o'clock will be given
a badbe of blue ribbon with the num-
ber Of his company printed upon it.
In each company there will be twenty
children, who will be placed in charge
Of an adult and this organization will
continue all day. Parties will start
from the different districts. During
the morning the children will have a
general good time, while the army
band will furnish music.
When the bugle blows at IL o'clock
they will file past the great pile Of
lunch boxes and each one will re-
ceive. box filled with a good sub
St q nj three
ham sandwiches, banana, peach
and some plums as well as cake.
These were put up this AFTERNOON at
the Industrial home and stored in the
large vaults with which the hall
abounds, and which were easily con-
verted into cold storage rooms by
placing large pieces of ice in them
In the afternoon everyone will have
| a ride on the launch, and there will be
a program of sports. A number Of
prizes have been offered for the races,
| consisting for the most part of cloth
ing which different firms have do
! mated. The day will end at o'clock
so that the children may transfer to
| their own cars before the rush begins.
| Special arrangements have been made
| for the newsboys, who will want to
| return for their papers in the after
noon, and they will be allowed to come
| back early. Those who return to sell
the noon editions will be furnished
with q lunch
Ensign Storey, who has charge Of
the childrens and young peoples
work here, has managed a number
| of picnics, handling crowds of from
six hundred to five thousand, and the
system he has devised has proved
adequate on every occasion.
AS yet, of course, the financial con-
dition has not been ascertained be-
cause all the subscriptions which were
solicited by letter have not been taken
/ up and the boxes which were placed
in the stores for chance pennies or
! nickels have not all been opened. AL
tho about 75 pounds Of ham out of the
necessary 200 have been donated, 125
pounds and all the fruits will have to
| be purchased