New-York tribune., 1906-07-05
ICE CREAM FESTIVAL.
&ul6e'ry Blenders Enjoy Fourth Of
.Js!y Treat.

sSeSo vas an Ice cream riot yesterday morning
az tSe i!ttie restaurant No Il Centre street II
tec ewo large policemen, the restaurant keeper and
Dis assistant ard Dr.. Charles Wilbur de lyon
Nichc;s, secretary of the New York kindergarten
Association, 20 QIe the mob Of 200 little Italians
aisO each clutchlag a ticket from the association
calling 70. 2 cake of ice cream and a cherry tart
were climbing each others heads in their ef
forts 10 &c: in a:st'
e. Nichols. who founded tie Sunday Kinder
Eartea Association believes in reaching the children
of the roor through their aesthetic sensibities and
once week these small denizens of Mulberry Bend
are gathered together and put through catechsm.
which like ihis:
..Q:-.How aid The Creeks differ from the EgyP2-
ways aimed at proportions and HARMONY. They
both in their works of art and in their conduct
Simplicity and repose were the elements OF the
It is long eatechism. bu: Dr. Nichols says that
the little Mslbeny Benders take such delight in it
that they cry because it isn't longer. They are
gently urged live up tho ideals it embodes. and
perhaps they do most times. but when the hour for
the Fourth Of July treat arrives simplicity
pose" not for them Like the Greeks. they have
sclear-cut IDEAS but what they aim at is not har
mony: it is ice cream.
QUELLING THE MOB.
There are only sixty seats in the Centre street
restaurant, and DR.. Nichols. the policemen and the
restaurant people made a valiant effort to divide
the besieging army into lots and get them in in a
Gently. gently. There viii be another chance
for these who don't get in now,' admonished the
The restaurant keeper adopted more drastic
methods He planted an elbow IN the Sn stSmscn n OF
bu;fed FoII4b ont Uitb his head Somehow or
other the first sixty seated. and then the
two policemen braced themselves against the
II was curious to watch the change that came
oyer ne faos OF those ragged LITTLE ones as Jhey ~
nrst." their faces fierce old. desperate. Once
inside they became calm and smiling The fight
But little Jennie Bardarooco wasn't hsppy when
had lost her brother She plucked the doctors s
please. doctor, my brother amt in she i'm
ploned- Al last. At the risk of losing her own
appeared triumphant. with black-eyed three-year-
The patfefic little mothers there were in that
crowd How the babies they carried escaped injury
and @oi :! ts ne bn e1Fsq seem
ing, others bowling, and no wonder
LITTLE MOTHERS"
Tessie Gardeli WAS another of these old faced lit
tie mothers When she got in she seated her baby
carefully. and when the cream was served she fed
baby before she ate herself. It curious. con-
sidering how the children fought to get in. to
how little gTeedness they showed when the treat
set before them. Most Of them ate slowly and
nicely-too slowly TO suit the man who serving
them.
Don't choke yourself. but do it quick See. We
want to get troo an shut up. he admonished them
home in its oiled paper wrapping. DR.. Nichols ex-
plsined that they were taking il to some sick
member Of the family.
We used TO give extra cake of ice to
every child who reported a sick friend he said.
but the number of invalids in the neighborhood
increased rapidly that couldn't keep up that
practice.
JoSEPHINE'S HEROIC MOTHER.
One little dark eyed girl. who sat eating her ice
cream slowly and daintily Josephine Repuzzi.
Josephine more neatly dressed than any of the
others. and you wouldn't have guessed. to look at
her, that her mother is the only support of the
family. whom she keeps by pedling fruit from
basket There are several other children. and the
father half dead with consumption. Josephine
send her through the elementary school. is strain
ing every nerve now TO enter her at high school
next fall.
When three lots of children had been fed and all
the besieging army satisfied. twenty-eight portions
OF the ice cream remained undevoured.
worried look. Here he said the boys
''Chsse over TO Baxter street and bring back some
Of the poorest children YOU can find.
The boy chased. Other bows Joined the search
peared, hauling foTorn looking youngster by the
Here's poor boy he yelled. triumphantly
Other poor boys and poor girls appeared in squads
of increasing size. and the twenty-eight helps of
ice melted away like magic.
Gee. but that ice cream tasted like moret' said
boy. deXteTousy removing with his tongue a
bit that fingered on his nose
Then the crowd drfted away from the restaurant
leaving one little boy, in pair of tattered mems
gazing mournfully in al the door.