New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1909-08-25
hay AT LYNDHURST
,,a, Folks Make Merry on Mss
coulRs TarTytO5cn Estate.

.-e corner which Miss Helen Miller
if - aside al I.yndhurst. her estate at
s'1 for such uses never had a jollier pic
iFs !, !, than yesterday, when the Volunteers
49, took Eve hundred tenement mothers
/ & A .osrsr there az her invitation FOR the day.
. --,.p worked hard all Monday al the head
W. ~ the Volunteers IN 2Sth street. cutting
,s,cbes and squeezing lemons and otherwise
$50 Cor the outing. Five hundred big
30 ives. full OF goodies. six hundred bananas
90 ..rs q. milk proyisioned the Sea Gull which
- -, ,sr1y ND the Hudson 90 Tarrytown.
~ -,a,bers had worked hard getting ready for
81 100 Every child was washed and
~ and dressed in his or her best. though that
ss.-,eh, not be very good. one typical family
800 I'D at one side OF the deck, the mother
8 - hab,, in her arms and six small youngsters
80 Of a size al her SIDE
-. was up at $50 o'clock this mornin'," she
seven children 20 wash is a good many
o. But amt II nice gettin' out in the good
Sea Gull left some sad hearts behind when 1t
- These were the women who were asked TO
So couldn't because their children were sick
- had a days work they couldn I leave. one
-, wrote Mrs. Beall, volunteer worker in the
- Mis- Beel. cant 60 My baby has got
-, coff and ] must stay NIT him by the gas
-, q, the children around the West 45th street
~ rom which the Sea Gull sailed. scented some
- doing and swarlned down there. They crowd
! J, the gangplank and implored Captain Char
I, pooth Major Mccormack and the other Volun-
- officers IN chlrge Of The expedition 10 take
esn along.
pssss mister. leave me go" ''Oh. mister. I
-, 10 co." they chorused, sticking out their
INV hands beseechingly. Some Of them suddenly
severed relatives In the crowd on the boat.
Vs brudder's in deere. Can't I go Wild him.
al one small chap IN a pair OF mans overalls.
!. N a, the knees. The officers melted in a few
,p, bu; the sea Gull had its limits.
Ne babies liked the long trip up the Hudson
ny showed their appreciation by going 20 sleep
heir mothers arms on improIdsed camp
ear beds and sleeping as they never sleep in
~, tenement homes. They slept in spite OF the
nj that played 90 amuse the mothers and older
-aren and IN spite Of the fact that everybody
ru.nd them was getting hungry and consuming
entities a. cake and milk
Tree trolley cars took the party from the larry
M dock 10 Lyndhurst and there was much ex-
sment when Z; struck the first woods The chill
~ liked the evergreens because they knew what
rE were
SCI the Christmas trees"' they shouted.
hey knew green apples when they saw them.
n
n Stopping now and then. there We're not many
rs trees along the route that they didn't pay
| W respects 10. However, the physician who pre-
~ over the clinics held by the Volunteers OF
iaIHca accompanied the party, with a nurse and
lriy OF pareEoric
lE Could is IN tie Catskills. but Archbold
i-,e supcrntendent Of her estate, was there 20
. aat everything Went well. There was a huge
z there were woods, swings for the children and
iM 10 play games In. First the lunch boxes
~ given out, the lemonade and milk We're served,
q everybody ate. Then there were races, espe-
ally some races in potato sacks that delighted the
SMOKERS hugely-and all too soon came the time 20
G home
Nm al those who were taken were mothers or
1ll1fet Among the guests were two little old
gay haired sisters. who live together IN a single
iom and sew, sew all the year round, earning just
cough 10 keep body and soul together. This was
nff trst outing IN a long time.