The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-24
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ral ..s and 5000 giuReranaps Johnny
MrrI .u. tho "horf aud" man NJ Park row,
vhuN..pl Leader CowIn review the child
rr- .radc, vouched for the figures, and
f'n'.r Is any s,atesman In this town who
know bout food u Ia Mechln.
lu- .Rcnusc the picnic was on the 23d
nj tnm month the children over the district
lor1ur who couldn't get ie crca m badges
VII NIv',n's picture on Thorn lined up
iiu.. Nr linz &C march and told the pa
.r. 'hrt they were going to a skiddoo
ret, IN that didn't bother Cowan and
,, -.. hair a. much IA a hard shower
,M.' ...p when tho thousands OF children,
han. lis Of whom were in costume and
!itug "a hlnd drawn fonts, were marching
M Madison avenue from the MohIwk
Democratic club.
An excited mother with "A pair Of diminu-
tive mnNers in her hand executed a flank
movement on the parade by rushing
through 10th street, coming out on the
avenue when about half the children had
passed.
Mamie" yelled the woman in a shrill
SHREK, heard above the five bands and three
drum corps, all pla ying ~Tammany,'
Mamie, come here you with those new
pink slippers and put your rubbers on
1t was like ceiling for John Smith at
Peapack, \. J., and the good order Of the
parade was marred somewhat when a
few hundred small NAMES in pink slippers
broke out of the line and dashed for the
point from which the seemed t.
come. The right Mamie got the rubbers
and tho others hurried back to their election
district companies-that is, all but one did.
She was the tinsel covered queen of the
Seventeenth Election district and had the
honor Of riding in a toy express wagon
with a canopy and drawn by twenty boys.
But her mother appeared on the line OF
march, too, when it was raining the hardest,
ysnked her u of the royal carriage and
took her home to stay till it cleared Off.
That was rough on Ira Goldstein, the King
OF the Seventeenth, who arrived at the park
with a rain soaked paper crown and minus
his consort. But Ira was a resourceful
King. He led his Seventeenth Election dis
trict group Of children to the top Of the
rocky and wooded hill in the middle of
the park and there established headquarters
for the day. He also plotted to get a Queen;
ifnot his own, why. then, the Queen Of some
other KID from another election district.
1t was a comparatively easy matter for
King Ira, fecause no group was so well
equipped for violence and intrigue as that
OF the Seventeenth, and Eesides his throne
was on top Of the rock and the bushes were
thick on all sides of the hill.
He waited till his followers had had their
first allotment OF ice cream and cake, which
was dealt out by James M. Levine, chair
man Of the committee, and dragged around
to the various district groups in different
parts Of the Park in hand carts.
After that the followers of King Ira were
ready for anything. There were among
them seven Indians, a Kings jester, two
arohers, a policeman, three cowboys and a
witch. From his high rock King Ira could
see Sadie Meyers, the eleven-year-old Queen
OF the Twenty-fourth Election district, eat
ing gingersnaps and ice cream in the far
corner Of the Park over by Madison avenue.
He determined to have Queen Sadie and
asked Fsta Weinfeld, his witch, what she
thought of it.
Sure says the witch. Just swipe the
kid and bring her the hill
King Ira's Jester went down through the
bushes first, followed by the Indians. the
cowboys, archers and tho cop. Thu lester
approached the doomed Queen Sadie with a
gingersnap. He stood on his head and then
did a handspring and the Queen laughed
at his wiles. lie threw a piece of gingersnap
IN in the air and caught it in his mouth.
The unsuspecting Queen said she bet he
couldn't throw a piece up behind his back
and catch it. The jester SAID that he hoped
TO die if he couldn't and then he did it.
Then the plot thi ckened fast The jester
nun t!c uIH IIlUo ihSpo9eu lnSluudunRly
10 Queen Sadie that she couldn't catch him
and offered her an ezra brick Of cream if
she could. Wherupon the Queen Jumped of
her throne under the cypress wagon canopy
and started for the deceiver with the paper
FOOLS cap on his heed. He led her straight
ocross the lawn to the foot OF the hill and
lodged within the fringe of shrubbery at
the foot. Queen Sadie followed and was
Immediately seized bv the Indians and
archers who dragged her up the rock to the
throne OF Ira.
Want TO be queen of the Seventeenth
Election di5trict?' askedth king.
No, don't, said Sadie Meyer, and when
tie witch said that she wouldn't live In
The Twenty-fouth anyway and the Indians
began to yell and wave wooden t~omahawks
The stolen girl started to cry for her mother
and her king, Samuel Schmitt, or most
anybody else in the Twenty%-fourth district
group over in the corner Of the park. She
was put on lra's throne and her lap filed
with cake from the royal stores.
'Ransom!' exclaimed Antonio Parelli Of
The hill tribe.
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