Los Angeles herald., 1905-07-07
DAY IN FA|RYLAND
FOR C|TY'S POOR
TOTS AND MOTHERS GUESTS
OF ARMY LASSIES
LUNCH BASKETS EMPTIED
Youngsters and Their Parents to the
Number of Five Hundred Have
Day Of Their Lives at
Redondo
LUNCH BASKETS EMPTlE0
All aboard for Redondo.

All aboard for Redondo.
A brakeman on Santa Fe train ut
tered the magic sentence at $3.50 o'clock
yesterday morning and q minute later
300 women and children were rolling
away to fairyland for a whole day in
a land where work is unknown.
Redondo was fairyland and the Sal
walton army was host. combination
the youngsters think is hard to beat
For days these same women and chill
dren have been counting the hours un-
til the time for the first summer picnic
of the Salvation army to arrive and
yesterday their dreams became real
ities.
The five hundred tickets were distrt-
buted to persons in different parts Of
the city, each branch having a certain
number at its disposal, and the care
with which they had been placed was
evidenced by the presence of so many
to whom such pleasure is almost un-
known.
Little Tots There
Many little tots had never before
known the boundless delight of build
ing castles in the sand or playing tag
with the ocean waves, and many a
tired mother was there who has not
known such a day Of rest, perhaps,
since she too played in the sand as a
little girl.
The Salvation army left nothing un-
done to make it day Of days in the
lives of the little pleasure seekers. AS
soon as the Juvenile army arrived on
the spot they took possession Of every
thing in sight from the genial proprie
tor of the bath house to the italian pea
nut man, and they did not relinquish
their rule until the train carried them
homeward at $50 O'Clock.
The Santa Fe furnished transporta-
tion free, the Redondo Beach Improve
ment association opened the surf bath
7 house, the merrySgo=round vert round,
and you did not have to pay cent, if
you wore a Salvation army badge.
The morning was spent on the beach
and in the water. AS soon as the
crowd. which filed eight coaches, was
landed safely there was wild rush for
the bath house and bathing suits. The
attendants had a busy time finding Co.'S
tunes to fit the small bundles of hui
applied to them but when the last one
received his suit the suits were not
seen again until night.
The Salvation army lassies moved in
and out Of the different groups on the
beaches relieving a mother of the care
of baby too tiny to enjoy the water
sports or in other ways looking out for
the comfort of their guests.
Signal for Lunch -
At 12 o'clock Captain Zimmerman sent
forth a blast from his bugle which re-
the other. The signal for lunch, and
this time the mad rush was for the
lunch pavilion, where six hundred lit
tie white boxes each containing store
of goodies calculated to please the pal
ate of the most exacting, were await
Ing the invasion of the hungry horde.
Salt air didn't serve to diminish the
appetite with which usually healthy
boys are credited and the army lassies
who spent a whole day in putting UP
lunches did not reckon without this
appetizer. 1t had taken a whole bag
gage car an hour to carry the lunch
to the beach but in about one half that
time the food in each paper box had
been slowed away in spot where II
was welcome. When every one had
eaten until it was a physical impossi-
bility to eat any more, and when fifty
gallons Of milk had gone the way OF
the lunches other forms of amusement
were introduced.
In the afternoon the merry crowd was
taken for an ocean trip on the tug
Redondo. and before returning to Los
Angeles they again visited the lunch
pavilion, where ice cream and cake
all they could eat and then some fol-
the times they had wanted and couldn't
get it were served.
When the train left Redondo it car
ried crowd of happy youngsters, all
tired but o, so happy.
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CROWN OF GLORY