The sun., 1905-09-12
Big TINS PICNIC WAS DAMP.
OUTDOOR SPORTS STOPPED-IN-
DOOR SPORTS BUSY.

DOOR SPOKIS BLSl.
Every Sort OF Game Went Oh the Way Up
and some Continued at College POINT
Hard Job to Feed the Crowd. VINO
Paid S5 Each and wanted Its NMue'
The campaign will now begin. Tim SUI
livan. Big Tim, has had his outing. rive
thousand constituents Of the SiXt, not to
mention deadheads. have paid their - foi
an eel break q beer dinner, the privilege
of marching behind the Paul Kelly drum
corps and the chaL, ,ce to buck the tiger
! A 7ithout annoyance. The function, how
~ r, lacked the snap ,(nd ginger OF former
va.h because it rained ,snd you can't really
sniovA \ Tammany outi Sg In the rain.
a. m MS feet, the ,rygnus and Sirius,
vars moorA l at the foot pf East Third street
". ~ o,olocN when the l\lare Of bands pro-
claimed that he chief was coming. He
.nda 40 nrancing Sharge !. He travelled ON
loot With a band beforl and 5000 white
vschtino caps, marked down to II cents,
bohh,nr behind With tho caps went
1000 seven, cent canes.
The flagship fred salut OF corks' tho
ysro dealers and roulette rna,n, the operators
~ bookmakeiy,' wheel and California poker,
snraad their lyresn cloths on beer barrels
and rot busy. The 5000 stalwarts filed
q aboard. The flagship totted. the long
shoremen on the dock raised oheer ana
.hov wsrs off--twot steame .us and twenty
games OF chance.
You could take your pick. Up Id the
cabin Of the Cygnus Big Tim was sitting
n at a game whose limit nearly blew on
he roof. Down on the lower deck oy
the bar the ctudax-a-luok dealer refused
no reasonable bet from a dime up.
.Now. gents" he ,said-he was one OF
those confidential dealers with a voice
ike a photograph getting started-Ntry
your rch,lck-a-i,ck- Muck. Two arrows on
one number pay doubleand three triple. You
may get rs cents for your money. Ace'
four and five pay. Gwan, that's the ace.
Wasthematterwidjou? A quarter for you,
sir. and here's where yoli make your 1or-
tunes, Who's the nextH In Two SECONDS
the wheel will go round"
The hopes of the Democracytfell over
one another to chuck dimes andaquRrters
on the board.
Over in the corner "bookmakersN wheel,
a game like roulette but twice as fast, did
n rushing business. BY the gang1way a
man with one eye, which never lost sight
of the bank. was dealing California poker
as fast as his fingers could 60. Ins: also.
is a quick proposition. They had to be
quick about It, because Big lin had SAID
that no apparatus could S De pl9"g9s grsiSI"ns H1
poker' gives the bank only 10 per cent
on the upper deck q dozen piker games
of poker were going on and N d. the 9apm
& ssps wsss saa lie m ali the a oelsb s
rites on board Tom Sharkey alone kept
out OF games. Tom doesn't believe IN
gambling-for Tom. Ever and anon ne
vent downstairs and buried his face. up to
OF beer Between times he sat on deck and
drew morals from the fate Of Jimmy Britt:
The fleet was moving meantime and the
river front was saluting. me tugs a., y
footed as they passed stao the Ssn'p e,%S 70 ~ the
breeze EXCURSION steamers bound up the
Sound read the poster Of the Sullivan Associ-
alton and answered with handerohieis.
Along the nds up the 9, TSst sSs i
at quarters and saluted. At Blaokweus 9
Island the guards stood on tho bTeekwater
and fred all their sparescartridgee into the
river. 1t would have been great time ior q
prison break, II the prisoners had only
known 1t. Those who were broke, orthose
who couldn't get near enough TO the games
to invest, rushed to the rails until the steamer
safssd; ssd. VA. a,,o a rush to tn. other side,
as there has been on all the College Point
excursion boats this summer. TO see North
Brother Island and the beach where the
Slooum grounded. The band stopped
playing at this point, which has also been q
custom Of this summer. -
All the tributes to his popularity did not
stir the greatest Of the Sulliyans. He
was tight In his cabin. blufing Florrie with
The two bands and the Paul Kelly Drum
Corps piped the five thousand OF tho boat
and into procession at College Point
and into the pavilion whore the head waiter
was waiting for them with 100 tip hungry
fried eels That head waiter is a wonder
He is a cross between Socialist orator
and a bucko mate.
Every time he gives an order to his corps
he waves both hands like pitcher getting
strains three vocal cords and kicks his
nearest Italian assistant. When he grows
tired and hot he stoops over table, Lifts
q corner Of the cloth and mops his face
with It,.
Tho Paul Kellys and the remnants Of
the Monk Eastmans, the Fraternal Order OF
Eagles and the plain citizens Of the Bowery
hlled two big dining rooms; Biscuits were
shot 400 biscuits at the first table. where
sat forty Paul Kellys They got only half
way round. The first In line broke on bis
cults In strings and slowed them In their
laps, In case Of future shortage. One Paul
hSliy WIdPpCu uP Si6hS cicSeAeo "' - AAssA"N
kerchief
Il paid S5to come" he said, "and 1t amt
wort half the money. Here's where get
hack eight cents"
Fried eels and clam frtters faded away
by the barrel. The head waiter had spasms
trying to get the coffee down the line fast
enough. When he failed the Monk East
mans and the Paul Kellys stood on benches
and hammered their plates with their knives.
Big Tim, over in the corner, began to look
worried. The head waiter tore of three more
fits and a spasm and relieved the thirst.
The dining room said 4Ahl' in chorus
and stopped making dough balls out Of hot
biscuits. Big Tim sighed visbly with relief.
It began to rain about this time. The
Oxfords and Timothy d. Sullivans. who
we're going to play mstoh n;sa game Sn 9, base Ssd
been tuning up to contest for the beautiful
gate and game prizes cut it out and went
up stairs to the billiard room, where forty
games OF poker opened on the instant.
Big Tim sauntered up to a private box In
one corner of the room, gathered ten henoh-
men, and the big game went on. all the
tho Paul Kellys. 1t wilted the remnant Of
the Monk Eastmans. They lay down like