The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-06-07
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Thesn werr Joined Nv others In Manhattan
and In Brooklyn until thern were 10 "
them when thov got Ia Conov Island.
There werr three bands. mo from tho
Isake and Watts Orphan Homo In ionkers
and two from tho Hebrew Shcltoring and
Guardian Association Their wprr four
divisions. nd. white, hluo aud yellow
Gen. John T.. Cutting waa grand marshal.
and he was assisted 10y Dr. j, O. Howell,
II. n. Johnston. + q Chiffon and Or. C.
@. Moore. W !. Morgan. chairman Of the
committee on tours and nun Of tho motor
club, was the general factotum and made
al the arrangements.
There were all kinds " machines In the
procession, from tl2.OOo imported cara
down to great electric trucks which held
from thirty to forty children The trade
came to the rescue Of tho club and sent
demonstrating cars by the score. Each
child had a flag, and all the cars were
decorated, 80, that they made a brave
showing az they started out. Bicycle
oops cleared the way down Broadway
and mounted police acted az an escort to
the Brooklyn Bridge.
The Mayor came out Of his office when
the cars massed themselves on the plaza in
front Of the City Hall. Then word was
sent to clear the bridge Of vehicles and the
procession moved across. On the Brooklyn
side four motor cycle cops met the paraders
and escorted them through the streets.
In the West Drive of Prospect Park the
oops had all they could do to keep down
the speed. As soon as the Boulevard YES
reached trouble began in earnest. For
fuvo n,ilac tho ,,tf1 a-a lya,.t - .,;,x-lo nj
and then Christopher Dalton of Senator
McCarren's office, who was in a big ma
chine, told his chauffeur to move out and
get away. The chauffeur tried it. Police
man Ennis threatened him with arrest.
He drew back, but the damage had been
done.
At once all those chauffeurs put on speed.
The charge was like a regiment of cavalry.
The motor cops had to run for their lives.
They leaned back and motioned and finally
got the machines into four columns that
filled up the road, all Of them Gathering
and honking and going like mad, The
boys screamed with delight. Many of the
girls put handkerchiefs before their faces.
The little tots crouched in the bottom Of
the cars.
The motor cops shouted and shouted
and waved, but they might as well have
tried to stop a tornado Indeed, the sight
did resemble a tornado from a distance,
for a great cloud of Swirling dust went
up and moved with the procession. The
race was at the rate of more than twenty
miles an hour. Eight numbering trucks
were caught in the, midst of it and they
nearly exhausted their electric batteries
to keep up. Fortunately all of them had a
speed capacity and these elephants of the
stampede did as well as the rest.
A wilder set of screaming children could
not be imagined than in that mad rush. 1t
kept up for ten minutes. The lamps of no
less than fifteen cars were smashed in the
minor collisions that took place in the
rush.
Motor Cop Ennis saw that there as
danger of a great pile up at the end Of the
boulevard if he did not check the speed.
His machine is capable of a speed of nearly
fifty miles an hour. He lit out and at the
bottom of the road, got a water wagon and
a big express Wagon and put them across
the road. That made the chauffeurs slow
up. When the kids came in sight of the big
Coney rubberneck wagons that eh large
10 cents for a ride, they sent up shouts OF
derision.
Ex-Sherif Buttling and Ex-senator Rey-
nolds met the little ones at Dreamland and
gave them free entry to everything. The
party had been divided up theoretically
by Press Agent Brown into six groups;
each with a schedule of time and place and
the fun began at once.
Everybody loosened his heartstrings at
the sight of the orphans, especially the po-
hcemen detailed to look after them.
sI've got four of my own" said a big cop
as he helped carry the cripplee who couldn't
walk around. The first batch that got into
Creation had a scary time. They had
been warned, but when il got all dark and
the explosions came and a mountain blew
up there were cries and shouts and a general
shutting, and it was apparent that a STAN
pede was near. Roundsman Kennedy and
Patrolman O'Rourke Immediately started
up a handclapping. The big boys took it
up and soon the place was ringing with
cheers as the Dawn of Creation" was hur-
ried on.
The whole batch was summoned to dinner
In the big ballroom. George A. Kessler
paid for the food. After it was over
the youngsters, led by the bands, sang
America" and cheered for Mr., Kessler,
After that it was go as you please about the
place. All the entrances were guarded, 30
that none of the children should get out and
become lost. They went about hand in
hand and shot the chutes, sailed in Venice, |
rolled over the mountains in Switzerland,
Razed at the open air hippodrome, went in
Bostock's and saw the bears perform, and
visited the Midget Village.
They saw Indians, real 1njins, mind you,
dance and prance with real snakes in their
hands. and a wise medicine man do tricks
for them. Scores of them shook ha ndS with