Los Angeles herald., 1909-08-06
ORPHANS ENJOY
PIERCE PICNIC
BEACH Is INVADED BY HAPPY
CHILDREN
EXCURSION PROMOTER TREATS
15o LITTLE FOLKS
Sights and Sounds on the Sands
Where Fatherless Youngsters
Are Given Taste of Pleas
ures New to Them


They carried it through to the last
long amen"
Then, his religious duties performed,
Mick Hennessey the red-headed boy at
the end of the long table, made one
quick grab. Gimme sandrich!' he
cried and the riot began.
c. M. Pierce is a plain, homely citl-
zen. with a businesslike air, and he
does not look differently from other
men with the same characteristics. But
he has a constituency that believes him
handsome, sanity and good, ana VINO
would canonize him by unanimous
vote before any diet in the world.
These enthusiasts are children, and
their love and devotion found origin In
the picnic he gave them yesterday at
Playa del Rey, after balloon route
excursion trip. The little ones were OF
the sort to whom picnics come but sell
dom, to whom a car ride to the beach
Is an event, and to whom fish dinner
where the fresh breeze blows and the
boom of the surf accompanies-eVen II
IL does not interrupt-the conversation,
Is little short of heavenly. They are Or
phans, dependent on charity for their
| existence.
Pierce is the proprietor of the system
of Seeing Things" on a personally
conducted plan. Not long ago he was
a poor man; now he is successful. But
he doesn't forget the days when picnlcs
and pleasures were rare in his own
| life, and he is making good the wants
of the little folks whom others f1nd II
too easy to forget
Women Give Aid
In two big new 200" cars of the Los
Angeles Pacific Railway company yes
| terday morning $50 youngsters were
transported to the beach. SeVehty-nVe
| that
grace before their dinner-Were
brought over from South Pasadena
early in the morning in those wonder
ful big red automobiles that will carry
thirty passengers and leave room tor
lunch baskets. These children are in
mates of the home conductea py . tne
| Rows and Girls Aid society. Mrs. May
Grimes was in charge of them, and she
was assisted by Olive Mclean ana
Misses Ida and Cora Ward.
The other children were from the
Christian orphanage, 1924 Kent street
and the home established by the vol
unteers of America, known as the MAUD
! Rooth home, corner of TWenty-thlrd
street and Vermont avenue. win tiie
orphanage children came Miss Ada
| J2ishee and Miss Lucy Loring. In
charge of the Booth home children were
Mrs. Major Hughes and MINES. Capts'
Tilsley and Retta Gray
| There was SOIltlillilS PoNi'NNAo
the Measures these unfortunate llttle
| folks took in their outing. But there
| s,as nothing of pathos to them. The
sand itself was mystery. When tnat
was explored and the wonder or IL pc
gan to disappear they tried the ocean,
! and found it good
the sand a shawl thrown over him.
A passerby knelt and touched his
shoulder. and a disconsolate face was
upturned. .... ,,. s;o,, -,
The lad shook his head and sWal-
! lowed ,-. o...,
ly. "Look-a there!"
Discovers New Law
He pointed up to bar of wood above
him the prop of a very busy SWING.
And hanging from that bar of WOOD
| ton-side, down, with salt sea water
dripping slowly from numerous points
on the band, and with the sea preeze
swinging them dejectedly too ana Iro'
hung a pair of abbreviated pants ne
had found a natural law relating TO
waves. .., 49,
They took care of each other and the
women who accompanied them lounged
on the sands with only one eye on thelr
charges. They amused themselves.
They tried experiments with swings
and shells and shovels made OF boards
and boats made of paper, and with the
'teeter-totters," and with the damp
sand.
They had to be urged to leave play
for dinner and then they had to be
gently but firmly removed from the
renast. Pierce had fish for them-not
bloaters nor haddies, not Goldfish, but
a fresh. sweet new kind of fish that
never saw a box or can.
They were cautioned to wait until
all were served That's polite, you
| know" the women said. Well they
waited pretty patiently but one baoy
who could Just look over the edge OF
the table cheated little-just a little.
she stuck her thumb in the fish and
then-sucked the thumb.
After dinner a pair of babies drifted
away from the others and sat down
on the sand, hand in hand. 1t looked
precocious They were urged that 1T
wasn't just the proper thing-that they
wernt old enough.
Two pairs of eyes: baby blue and
clearest brown looked up innocently.
! "Why?" asked the man, aged six.
shes my sister. She lives in the Or
punange an live in the Aid s'ciety.
l don't see her very much"
There were 150 different tots and each
of them had $50 little adventures. And
when o'clock came and the car
whistle shrilled they looked at each
other in amazement while more than
one lip pouted and more than one baby
chin quivered.-
"Is it time? Must We go?"
Mr.. Pierce's annual treat to the or
phans of Los Angeles and vicinity (it
is the fifth year that funny man has
entertained himself this way) has been
spread over a whole week this sum-
mer. Tuesday there were children from
the Missionary home of the Sisters of
the Sacred Heart. Wednesday those
from the Los Angeles and Jewish Or
phanges, today there will be those from
the Boyle Heights institution and on
Saturday the guests will come from
the Hollenbeck Old Peoples home.
So they would canonize this plain
man, c. NJ Pierce.
BEAUTIFUL LAKE TAHOE
On top of the Sierras, a mile above
the sea. The most popular mountain
| raeort IN California Snan6 xxat,y H,ooo