The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-07-08
HEALTH GLOW ON
SICK TOTS CHEEKS
AFTER STAR OUTING
L. S. Plaut & Co. Sponsors for
dreds to Coney.
Vig0r to Sick Babies,
LUNA PARK EMPLOYEES
DEVOTED TIME TO BABIES
Little Ones Played on Sands,
Padded in Ocean and Had
Time OF Their Lives.

More babies In arms were on the free
babies and tots yesterday than on any
previous excursion to Coney Island,
the sail and the play on the cool sard
of the beach. Many of the babies were
SO cunning and pretty that many per-
sons at the island stopped to look at
and admire them and also give them
pennies.
The babies, the larger boys and girls
had on clean and well-starched and
ironed clothes. The mothers, many of
them women who support two or three
little children by days work, must
have been up at o'clock in the morn
ing to dress and clean three to five
children each, but the children were
little ladies and gentlemen on the
steamboat and at the island.
The excursion was the L. S. Plaut &
Co. outing, for that company donated
500 for the first of the STARS out
ings this season. The Plauts also gave
out yesterday Japanese fans and tiny
metal rocking horses as mementoes of
the occasion Two young women rep
resented LIS. Plaut & Co. on the ex-
cursion, and they assisted in looking
after the babies and the toddling 0ks
on the boat and at the island beach.
Volunteer walters served glasses of
| cool milk to the children on the way
down Newark bay Scores of glasses
were filled on planks laid on wooden
horses at the bow and near the stern
of each { *, ~ ysiters, several
policemen, Mrs. Annie Mullaley, the
! Salvation Army's angel of charity tc
the poor and employees of the STAR
helped serve the milk and then the hot
frankfurters and rolls. Several young
musicians volunteered their services to
play tunes for the babies and mothers
and the larger boys and girls romped
and played games in time to the music
Nurses Look After Children.
DR.. John p. Rohm, of the City Hos
pital, was on board with two trained
nurses from that institution, Miss May
Henderson and Miss Catherine Morice,
but they had no serious cases of sick
ness to look after, only two or three
cases of nassau and headache
1t was high noon when the Newark
arrived at Steeplechase pier in Coney
Island. and 1t did not take the women
/ and children long to get to the sandy
beach, where the babies scooped white
sand into little tin pals and rolled on
the sand. having the time Of their lives
| The older boys romped and played tag
and other games on the beach. Those
! who had lunch boxes opened them and
mothers and children ate in the pavll-
ions or under the piers in the shade,
The STAR artist got snapshots of cum
ming babies sprawled on the beach.
| See Wonders of Luna Park.
] Through the generosity of Frederic
Thompson his wonderful Luna Park
the greatest variety of shows to amuse
old and young, was thrown open tc
everybody who had on a STAR badge
as an outing ticket. The babies and
tots wondered at the big elephants or
the boardwalk, and some were given a
ride on the ponies. The big auditorium
was crowded by babies, tots and moth
ers at 2 o'clock, and the working OF a
Marconi wireless telegraph apparatus
by Jack Binns, the operator, on a
crippled steamer at sea was indeed a
treat The scene on the ocean and on
the steamer while the auditorium Gas
dark were fine. Mr.. Mcclellan, the
superintendent of the park, and James
Robbins, the press agent, took personal
charge of the excursionists and devoted
about three hours and a half of their
time entertaining the STARS guests.
In saying good-hy they remarked,
Come again as often as you like
After enjoying the sights in Luna
Park the outing party went back to
the beach, where many hundreds of
people were taking dip In the surf,
and the babies and tots had a great
time rolling on the sand again. The
mothers sat beside them and breathed
the salt air from the ocean.
Commodore George c. Wiedenmayer,
owner of the Newark and the Males
tic. came home with the mothers and
the babies. Dozens of the latter slept
in the laps of their mothers and on
camp stools while the boat passed
through the Kill Won Kull and Newark
bay, but coming up the Passaic river
all were awake and cooling. they were
SO happy and SO revived by the days
outing to wonderful Coney Island.
Candy and Uneeda biscuits and milk
were distributed on the return trip.
1t was a very happy regiment of
babies. tots and mothers that left the
boat at the dock.
The STAR Free Ice and Outing Fund
passed the $1,000 mark today.
through the generosity of number of
warm-hearted people who desire to see
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