Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1910-08-06
1000 ON ASBURY
OUT|N G OF CLARK
HREADEMPLOYEES
Great Stream Of Humanity Fills
Seven-sectiOn Train on
Big Excursion.

A stream of men, women nj chill
dren poured into the Broad street sta
ton of the Central Railroad Of New
Jersey for more than two hours this
morning. the magnet of attraction be-
ing the thirty-ninth annual outing of
the employees of the Clark Thread
Company in the great Newark and
Kearny mills to Asbury Park and
Ocean Grove. Every trolley car that
ran down Broad street left parents and
their children and uncles and aunts
and cousins and other relatives at the
station, and every car that ran up or
down Market street left a load Of hap
by people at the -Four Corners" from
which the adults and the children
walked to the railroad station.
Many hundreds walked from Kearny,
East Newark and Harrison, for the
trolley cars could not carry off o frac-
ton of the men and ONE and chill
dren from those towns who went on
the outing, the great day in a year
for them. Scores of men carried baby
carriages folded and strapped and
nearly every woman n girl carried
q lunch box or basket and many had
hand satchels filled with bottled milk
Inc "sweeties'' for the children. Sew
eral thousand women were hatless.
All the young women, most of whom
had on white dresses, were without
hats. Only the grandmas and a few
matrons wore hats. There were many
hundreds of babies in arms and a
couple of thousand tots and romping
boys and girls.
Before 7 o'clock the wide south plat
form In the station was crowded east
to the Mulberry street bridge with
men, women and children who wanted
to go on the first section of the ex-
cursion train so as to have a couple
Of extra hours at Asbury Park. The
first section of the train started out
of the station al z o'clock. 1t con
sisted of twelve passenger cars and
a combination car. The seats in every
a were occupied in less than five
minutes after the doors were unlocked.
There was another great crowd wait
ing on the platform for the second
section of twelve cars. which were
crowded in a few minutes after they
were opened.
A stream of humanity continued to
pour from the station entrance cor-
ridor and the third. fourth and fifth
sections were quickly crowded and
started away. The committee in
charge of the outing had planned for
six sections. but 50 many people
came that another section was or
dered, and for a time 1t was thought
1t would be necessary to have an
eighth section.
1000 Make Trip.
But It was found hat seven sections
of a train were enough. and the last
section ran out of the station at 9:1S
o'clock. At that time the people whoh
went on the first and second trains
had arrived at Asbury Park. In the
seven sections there were sixty-nine
passenger cars and combination cars.
It was estimated that upward Of 1000
persons. including the babies in arms
and the tots, e or the outing. Last
year over 1900 tickets were sold for
the outing, and today's outing crowd
was a great deal larger. The officers
of the Clark Thread Company's Relief
Society. which had charge of the out
Ing, was delighted at it's great success
The big general committee of arrange
ments was divided into sub-commit-
tees to look after the adults and child
rem on each Of the seven sections of
the trains. The superintendents and
foremen in the Newark and Kearny
mills went on the outing with their
families and several doctors were on
the cars.