New-York tribune., 1905-06-08
ORPHANS SEE CONET.
Ne5o Motor CGasb Treats Fire Hun
dred to Automobile Ride.

Although yesterday day of clouds and
darkness. ending in fierce downpour of rain. 1t will
be forever remembered by five hundred orphan
children of the brightest of their lives. The
little folk the guests of the New-York Motor
Club on the occasion of its first annual Orphan Day
parade and it would hardly have been possible to
have devised any species of entertainment that
would have given them greater pleasure than this
outing, in which the pleasure of motor trip. a
complete novelty most Of the children, was
combined with the joys of Coney Island that para
disc of the tenements
The little folk had been. looking forward to the
affair for weeks. and bitter was the disappoint
ment at the Institute o. Mercy. in East 5st-st..
when the house was guaranteed by the health au
thorites few days ago on account of the occur
renee of a few cases of measles. Bitter also was
the disappointment in many other institutions when
the little folk awoke and found that it was rain
ing an the LeaEe and Watts Orphan Home. at
Yonkers. the children excited that they
could scarcely sleep and when their teachers came
to call them at 5 O'Clock they were all wide awake
and disconsolateiy contemplating the weeping Skies.
Happily, however. the rain cleared off in sooG
time and though it delayed the start of the parade
from Columbus Circle did not seriously interfere
with the pleasures of the day.
The parade. which formed in the side streets
around Columbus Circle LETT there shortly before
Il O'Clock and made brave showing as it proceed
ed down Broadway with music and banners and
an escort of mounted policemen. This last 70
prevent speeding. and It said that never be-
tore had many automobiles come together with
out any racing.
At City Hall the procession halted for a few min
utes and the all drawn up in the square
to be reviewed by the Mayor. Then they proceeded
across the bridge and through Brooklyn to Coney
Island and Dreamland. A few cars had mshaps
by the way. but they quickly repaired their dam
ages and ali but one arrived in good time for the
dinner provided by Sir Thomas Dewar, Of the Au-
tomobile Club of Great Britain and Ireland This
was no cold lunch such as is usually provided on
such oecasioEs. but a good hot dinner, and lit
tie orphan expressed the sentiments of all when he
! calculated:
MY! Aren't they good to us?"
After dinner all the sights Of Dreamland
open to the visitors. but they had only time for
Bostock's, the Midget City and Fighting the
Flames, which last frightened some of the younger
ones considerably.
By this time the weather. which had hitherto
remained fairly good. became extremely bad, but
at the first luIl in the storm the children
packed into the automobiles again, wrapped up as
warmly. as possible in robes and waterproof sheets
and started for their respective homes, which they
reached safely.
About one hundred and twenty-five cars were
loaned for the occasion. Among those who sent
their machines were Colonel John Jacob Astor
Richard Stevens. OF Hoboken; Alfred 6. Van0er-
bilt Percy Williams, E. G. Hgginbothan. H. H
Pottle. Mayor Mcclellan, II. NJ Sweetland, Colonel
K. c. Pardee, Maurice Brill and Charles T. Mur-
pny MIS- j. II Duneah pre- presl9ehe fd HL lTI T6;iGren
sttution. and, with the vice-presdent, Mrs; A. l.
Erlanger, accompanied her charges IN a victoria
while DR.. Anna Donoghue, one of the house phy-
sicans also went with them.
account of the weather. but when the owners found
that the party had started they dispatched their
machines TO Coney Island TO take the place OF any
that might have broken down on the first trip
The arrang gements for the affair were excellent,
and there were no accidents worth mentioning. Ihe
No. 'l3' was rather unfortunate. One car to which
this number assigned belonged TO C. H Hyde,
president of the club. and took fire the day before
the parade. Another No. 13 arrested for speed
ing about the same time and was only released IN
time to convey its quota of children TO Coney ISL
and.
vice president of the Motor Club. and Colonel A
C. Pardee acted marshal Of the procession.
There was woman chauffeur, Mrs. Z. G
Criffeth and the way she steered her car through
the trafio of Broadway provoked much adrnira-
ton.
An emergency car manned by physicians from
the Post Graduate Hospital was provided, but
happily, not needed.
BESIDES the institutions already mentioned there
were represented the Hebrew Sheltering Guardian
Society. the Mission of the Friend Of Children.
the city Institutions the Chidren's AID Society.
the Howard Mission, the Golden Hour House and
the Committee of Dependent Children