New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-09-02
FOLEY HOST TO DISTRICT
Ex.Sheriff Entertains "Kids" in
Afternoon, GroWn-Ups at Night.
CALLS ALL BY FIRST NAMES
Everything Is Free for Downtown
Tammany Folks, Whether
Voters or Not.

Tom Foley took the youngsters OF his
Downtown Tammany Club on his annual
summer treat to Suffers Harlem River
Park yesterday, and the usual fafnlIy
gathering of the Foley following filled In
the late evening hours after the young ones
had gone home.
They started at 230 o'clock. when the
Second avenue car line lined up some forty
special cars for the transportation OF the
youngsters and their mothers from worth
street north TO 18th street. The boys were
provided with the noisiest tin horns that
could be found In the I'd Assembly District,
and the girls carried flags. Both were In
constant use all the way up Second ave-
nue..
The usual prize for the largest family
representation went to Mrs. Pardue, OF
Catherine street. with somewhere between
eighteen and twenty youngsters. including
a few collections of twins. and, so far as
could be learned yesterday. not voter in
the bunch yet. Lieutenant tom" Glynn, OF
the Police Department, was a second,
though not close one. with ten children
In his delegation-mostly boys.
Up at the park. after much hilarity and
were ushered in. they found that everything
was free-merry- rounds. moving pict-
ures. swings and so on-and they worked
those amusements at a dizzy pace. The
shrewd ones in the juvenile delegation as
certained first thing just what time the
eats would be started. and when they
found that the line for ice cream, cake,
orangeade and such things would begin to
mo n hou 4 n nm elICl1
frivolities as swings and merry-go-rounds
and devoted all their attention to getting
a good place in the eats" line.
They say there were something like seven
hundred gallons Of ice cream on hand and
equally generous supplies of other refresh
ments, but the kids took no chances. even
when 1t was reported 10 them that Mister
Foley would see that every one got his
share, even If he had to send out for more.
Tom" Lee. the Mayor" of Chinatown.
sent delegation of Chinese children along.
and their silken flowing garb furnished
some contrast to the holiday" clean
dresses Of the more Americanized children.
At that, there was some representation Of
children of almost every race that is set
tied in New York, not forgetting even those
of the persuasion of Jack" johnson.
Along about o'clock the youngsters
began to start for their downtown homes
again, surfeited with pleasure. food and
candy. and about the same time the older
brothers and sisters began TO take posses
sion of the park. Dancing. vaudeville and
moving pictures furnished the entertain
ment for them. and for the older folks, too,
for Tom Foleys summer outing is strict
ly family affair and not 10 be mentioned
in the same breath with such 'rackets' as
big Tim" Sullivans or any other Tam
many leaders outings.
TON" Foley himself puts I'm the after
noon and early evening working his broad
smile for the benefit of the youngsters and
their mothers, and just to show them all
what family gathering II is, he manages
somehow or other to call each of the
elders by name-no small feat. considering
the fact that there are names of at least
a dozen different races represented at his
outing.
Later in the evening Tom" repeats the
same feat with the elder brothers and sis
tiers. though this crowd is somewhat more
interested in the dance floor than in
Toms" smile, and, anyway. about the
time the dancing starts the 1ammany dis
trict leaders begin to drop around to pass
greetings to the ex-Sheriff.
Last night was no exception. and one
after another nearly every prominent dis
trict leader I'm the city came in. if only for
a few minutes Representatives from the
Legislature, the Board of Aldermen. the
police and fire departments and the bench
were as thick as they usually are at
Foleys family gathering, and 1t would be
far easier TO give list of prominent Tam
manyites who were not there than to give
the list of those who were. Even at that
il might not be safe. for though no one
recalled seeing Big Tim Sullivan or the
big boss, Charles f. Murphy. they might
possibly have slipped in and out again
without stopping for more than to shake
Foeys hand