The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-08-04
RECORD BROKEN ON
FOURTH FRESH AIR
OUTING FOR BABIES
EVENING STARS Trip Benefits
Over 1000 Little Ones
and Mothers.
ALL HAVE FINE TIME
DOWN AT COMFY ISLE
Generous Persons Do Every.
thing Possible to Make Ex-
cursion Enjoyable.

More babies In arms and in little
wicker carriages and more toddling tots
We're on THE EVENING STARS fourth
outing on the steamboat Majestic to
Coney Island yesterday than went with
either of the previous excursions this
season. On the boat 1856 babies were
served with milk, also 230 tots lip to 2
years of age. and above that age to 7
years there We're as many more. All of
the children were benefited by the ex-
cursion. and so We're the hundreds of
mothers.
When the party left the boat at the
Steeplechase pier twenty-three baby
carriages were wheeled or carried from
the Majestic by the officers and decle
hands, and in three of the carriages
were the cunningest pairs of twins one
ever saw. The twins were petted by
men and women on the boat and the
pier, and they looked and laughed IN
blue-eyed wonder at their admirers,
while the mothers faces glowed with
pleasure.
They Wade Into the Sea.
At the island the mothers as well as
the children had great fun. After the
babies were left on the cool sand under
the pier, where they scooped up the
sand, the mothers removed shoes and
stockings from the larger children, so
they could enjoy the surf.
After lunch the tots and older chill
dren had a glorious time in the big
amusement hall, where the soup BOWL
the actic floor and tunnel breezes, the
little roulettes, the pipe" and other at
fractions were free to them. The moth
erS stood around the edge of the big
soup bowl" in the floor and laughed at
the efforts of the children TO ciimb out
of the slippery side of the bowl to the
floor. Women would sit on the edge Of
the bowl and extend an umbrella to a
boy or girl trying to get out, and gen.
orally the child would slide back among
the other children, sprawling in a heap
at the bottom of the bowl. There was
fun for the mothers and children at the
Human Niagara" where men and
women bumped down from a height on
~carpeted rollers.
Bowery Visited.
Many of the women took their fami-
lies out of the park and looked at the
amusing scenes in the Bowery.
While the mothers and children were
returning to the Majestic a short time
before 5 o'clock 1t became known that
200 children taken to the island by the
steamboat Warden, on tickets dis
tributed by Mayor Haussling were
stranded on the island because the
Warden had been upheld in Newark
on her return trip and held at the dock.
The officers of the Majestic decided to
offer to take the stranded children
home, and the purser went in search OF
them. He returned with the informa-
ton that the Warden people had ar
ranged to have the party sent to New
ark on another boat.
On the return trip to Newark THE
EVENING STARS party enjoyed the
cool breeze and the scenery on the
shores. Babies slept in carriages and
on the laps of mothers, n tots doZezd
on long upholstered seats in the saloon.
Children Well Cared For.
DR.. w. j. Douglas, of the City Hos
pital, and Miss Agnes Brainard and
Miss Hannah M. Golden. nurses from
the hospital, and Mrs. Mccarthy, ma
iron of the board, were there to care
for all on board.
Music was furnished on the boat
through the courtesy Of Newark Must
cal Union No. Is, which sent an orches-
ira on the outing last week. The band
yesterday consisted of VIII Blythe,
director; Joseph Schaaf, piccolo; VIII