New-York tribune., 1910-06-03
Orphans Rouse Sleepy Anphlb-
ians at Coney Island.
HUNDREDS RIDE IN AUTOS
Motorists Entertain Foundlings
in Round Of Pleasure
at Dreamland.

Automobile Day Association. whiskeo away
10 Coney Island, through the avenues ana
alcrz the cool roads Of the parks end de-
r,sited about 1890 O'Clock st the door OF
Dreamlard for four hours OF unalloyeo
IliSs
For six years the automobile Taoe O
New York has done this gracetul tnlns'
maker competing with maker TO o1er 1ne
largest number Of cars for the use Of the
children and their attendants There lsn
2 faint OF trade in the day-it is perhaps
The one day in the year when Automobile
Row" nuts aside its feverish itch for pub
l-~itv.. and It's strenuous rush TO sell cars
snd forzets whether a four-cycle motor
Eeared three-to-one will go certain NUM-
he Of miles in an hour or not
Ru. The dav means weeks OF work, ana
there has been a committee with trade rep
resentatives. men and women from the IN
stftuttons. and busy business men sitting on
Il who have met regularly ana "oTheU
hard
7-b,s year the demands were greater than
ever before ONLY four hundred children
rent on the first outing. six years ago. The
increase to 1880 yesterday taxed the facl-
ties OF The committee 10 the limit Many
well known person offered their cars, in
ending many Theatrical people, who went
along and helped
Il was Ike handling an army-tne assign
fucnt OF cars 10 each institution the d
sisnnent OF rnarshals 10 each division aho
tbe gathering OF the touring cars taAlcaDs'
,.-uousines iandsulets, racing cars an0
torpeco bodies. But Il was DONE and WIKI
o5t = hitch. W !. Morgan. chairman OF
the committee. and Alexander SchWs4oach'
secretary did q lot OF the work
II was the biggest automobile parade Rev
York ever saw. Here is the roster Tour
Ing cars. Is4: taxicabs. 10; opera buses g.
sightseeing buses, 10; commercial lrucAS'
3: total So vehicles.
TIE Weather Man has always been good
n The orphans. Perhaps he Is an orphan
himself. And before the formation, on the
streets between I'D and 18th west OF Broad
vav the sky was clear and the sun was
bright. Il was cool, which probably &C
counts for the small number Of cases OF
Sickness which developed All these cases
were caused by the ''sessick" motion Of the
cars and were soon relieved by the heo
Cross cars that constantly skirted the line
zach division picked up its children at
the home where they lived and then went
L. the meeting point. Promptly al 1910
o'clock the chief marshal. Colonel Kirby {.
P.rfee. Of The Maxwell Briscoe Motor Com
rany. who is president OF the ASSOCIATION
cave the order 10 start. Hts assistant was
" r.. Wurster. Of WyCoff, Church & Pars-
ridSe. who has worked very hard for the
success Of the day
There were four bands IN line from the
Catholic Protectory. the Hebrew Sheltering
Guardian Society. the Leake and Watts
ASYLUM and a military asylum
some OF the automobiles were packed so
fuIl that II seemed as If their doors must
hurst amen Th. commercial trucks, with
SEATS built in tiers. were specially ett-ac-
rlRe. The children were in a frenzy Of joy,
singing. shouting. waving Dredmiand fags.
with which each child had been provided,
and trying honestly to give the attendants
as little trouble as they could; but Of
course. sly uokings II the ribs with hag
ends and tvveaHing OF hair braids were not
really bad-just part Of the general JOY OF
the DAY
TIE route was down Broadway. through
4grh street ID Fifth avenue. 70 57th street
70 the Greensboro Bridge. through Brook
lrn. FIatb1sh. Prospect Park and the Ocean
Parkway 20 the island. The police arrange
nents were in charge Of Deputy Comnis-
sioner Bugher. who personally supervised
the force a. work Between 72d street and
Coney Island there We're more than five
hundred men, mounted, on foot and on
motorcycles
Everywhere along the route people
stopped. read the signs On the cars, glanced
a. he chidren's faces and then stopped
waited and waited Till the last car had
gone wearing meanwhile q queer little
srnile-that was pretty close 10 tears IN
many instances.
A. r0reE Island the unloading was not
So much q matter Of tine as might be sup
POSED. The motorcycle squad took this
under fts special care. and. with the volun-
tre- help Of people watching the arrival
snd -re attendants. Unloaded about fifteen
cars a. time.
F5-=- came luncheon. TWO thousand chill
d-e- sa- down 20 the H-st table and about
as many sat down 70 the second. Tbs
luncheon was e good stew. milk. bread
Ice cream 0of Course} and an orange Hugh
Chalmers gave 500 toward the luncheon
and t1e committee made up the deficit.
LsDcHeou over the afternoon stretched
away in q golden vista. Everything was
r-ee-every-hing. Even the favored friend
or ire press agent OF DresmIaud could not
see more fo- less
And tle ''tarkers" and '-ballyhoos" had
thought -.g new speeches for the kidGies
T-her seemed 10 enjoy il as much any
body
There Mas no doubt about the most popu
lar sh0w-it was shooting the chUtes
Manv and ingenious were the methods
adoUted by W-iggIinz children 70 get into
the inclosure the second time. Not q child
appeared tinid. and -heir screams wher
they struck the water made the sleepy
crocodile in the show near by wink an eye
They rode the per.lOus pa sses Of the Crea'
Divide. shive-ed in the ice gorges Of tht
Glacier. regarded with grave puzzlemen'
.
Nisspent Life shrieked az the antics o.
the nuge person Ia front Of The Devil,
Tr-u1b. ard even helped the ckauffeurs ap
pIaud the show on the platform IN front Of
the big bin which said Egypt, the Priu.
oess E.aia Turkia-" But they didn't see tha
snow because the chauffeurs wouldn't z,
away from = long enough
A. Reeves and Sam Miles bought one o.
fa= merry -go-roUuds for the entire after
noon and took all round its windings
Al 4gg O'Clock the loading for home Be
gar. and -4at was "A task accomplished
VITA ease and aUicklless- There was n'
serious accident. II Brooklyn. going down
one of TIE sightseeing buses was run int
snd The back seat knocked OF. spilling Ia
CHILDREN into the street. One or Two wer'
bruised but they cd not miss the day.
TENNEy STICKS TO BASEBALL
Lowell Mass. June Fred Tenney. fo-
gnerly of the Boston snc New York Nation