New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-07-27
LEADS OFF 278 CHILDREN
Modern Pied Piper Will Bring
Them Back-Fat and Rosy.
ALL FRESH AIR YOUNGSTERS
Binghamton Editor Invites IS
More Boys and Girls To
Be His Guests.

The Pied Piper sets ont on his second
trip to-day. That is n say this is the
second II YOU don't count the ancient on-
he made from Hamelin town some cen
turtles sso.
He got back from his first modern trip
day before Yesterday. To be sure he
wasn't pied and he wasn't a piper He
had exchanged his parti-coored suit for
ono NJ everyday store cothess and II he
had 4 pine anywhere about his person II
was not n musical instrument
Still. IL was no sure enough You could
tell that by the brood Of children tripping
and skipping along AZ his heels.
AU tho little bows and girls.
With -osy checks ard haNan ~ir'7.
ma parking ewes and teeth Ike warts.
n all happened-this first modern home
coming when the Fresh Air Flyer" rum
bied into the Hoboken terminal OF the Del
aware. Lackawanna & Western Railroad
az ; .05 p. N. TUESDAY.
As soon as the FLYER had come IN
full stop down stepped the Piper. Not
that you would have recognized him right
off, but YOU would in minute, for things
happened in the regulation Pied Piper wa
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. excepting the piping
and the pied garments.
There was rustling that seemed Ike bust
ling.
OF merry crowds justlIns at pitching and hust-
Small feet we're pattering, ragged shoes clat-
Little hands clappluE and little tongues chat
And out came the children running.
Children There we're 27s Of them. gay
young friskers" all And that's prob
ably more than the ancient and honorable
Piper led out Of Hamelin in the good old
days. never To return-and that Is just the
word which calls 70 mind the great differ
ence between the Piper who piped and the
Piper who didn't.
In the olden times the 0urghers and their
wives stood and wept as they saw their
children dancing ont Of their sight. This
time those who took the places Of the
burgers and their ladies waved the young
sters merry adieus and shouted Glad
you're going" "iave a good time I" Come
back fat" and other good wishes.
You see there was no ado about the
thousand guilders this time. The Tribune
Fresh Air Fund had looked after that end
Of the business and the Durghers and LADY
burghers knew that their smiling offspring
would come back 20 them happier anu
healthier than they went away
So the Piper-the modern one-ied his
first brood up 70 the country around Bing-
hamtOn, y. Z.
oyoue band.
Joining tho town and just AZ hand.
Where waters gusned and fruit trees grew
And flowers put forth flirer hue,
And everything was strange and new.
There the first band was treated SO row
allv that when Willis Kilmer the pub
Usher NJ THE Binghamton u. " Press. '
sent an invitation 20 seventy-fve more
little Tribune Fresh Airs TO come up ana
visit him at his expense. mothers ana
fathers vied with each other in handing
their sons and daughters over 10 tho Fresh
Afr Piper. And these seventy-nve are the
ones he Is piping "over the hills and far
awav'' this morning
Others are being piped away ~ Cort-
land. y Y and TO lnterlaken. Mass All
told the days parties number lf.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT