The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-07-23
MT. Farist MOtored
 Home Assured That EyerybOdy Was Safe
Did Not Hear of the Accident Until He Reached Kaes-
 mans Drug Store.
RUSHED TO WRECK
 SCENE TO GIVE AID
Point Union Mission Was Founded s7 Years Ago and Has, Held Similar Outings Yearly Since Without Any Mfshap.

Yearly Since Without Amy Mishap.
 Eor the g years that the Point Union Mission has been established the children and those connected with 1t have enjoyed picnic every summer and this is the first time an accident of any sort has occurred to mar the occasion.
 Indeed such unusually good care has always been exercised by the elder members of the Mission picnic parties that many mothers living on the Hast Side whose children do not attend the Mission Sunday school have al-s ties feeling that with the Mission foIlzsr their little anes were safe.
 J. windsor F1arist of the Frartst Steel Works, whose father, the late Joel Eaarist. was the leading spirit in found Ing the mission, went to the picnic in lis autouohtIe.
 At Roton Point MT. F'arist waited until he saw all members of the Sum- day school party safely aboard the three trolley cars and on their way to Bridgeport Then he drove. home in his automobile feeling satisfied that off without nishap and memories of another pleasant picnic would finger long with those who participated He little knew the terrible calamity which was impending the happy party he had started on it's way home.
 He reached Stratford avenue and Hast Main street about e;3o and went into John Kaesn ans drug store. MT. X Aaesman spoke up saying:
 Well, d1d everybody have a good time,S and did you get your children started horne all right7
 tYes. answered MT. F'arist they are all on the way. Everything went or all right and everyone had g, good ti1ne.'''
 A few minutes later. the telephone bell in the drug store rang. Mr. Kaes- nan answered. Tt was the wife Of Police Sergeant James Walker, who with her children was on the picnic and she requested that her husband be told of the accident and that she and the little ones were all right It was the first news of the accident to reach Bridgeport MT Kaesnan broke the news to Mr. Farist
 Mir. F'arist's wife. his sister, Miss Lulu Farists Mrs. George z-sJof Fair field wife Of his farmer and A6r. and Mrs. William Gillespie. also employees of MT. Fsarfsts were all at the picnic. They elected to ride home in the trolley cars- On learning of stf1e ayc- cident MT. Far1st Immediately started for the scene in his car. He found
 
 badly Injured and taken to Norwalk hospital. He took Mrs. Hull back to the farm in his car. She had escaped u1ahlrt Miss Farist was not injured
 News that there had been an acci- cent spread quickly on the East Side and soon g, vast crowd had collected about the rooms of the Mission at East Main and Nichols street. Frantic mothers half hystericaI with grief I sought news Of their loved ones As the survivors and slightly injured be- \ gan to arrive the excitement increas- to the scene in charge of Lieut.. Red gate and Sergt. Walker, whose wife and children had been with the pie nickers.
 When Mrs. Frank Fisher mother of Andrew Thompson heard the picnic party had been in an accident, she Joined the throng in front of the Mis- sion rooms. Soon some Of the re- turning Nsurvivors brought the news that her son was among the dead. The through the crowd until 1t reached the ears Of Mrs. Fisher. When she heard it she shrieked and immediately went into mysteries Neighbors car ried her to her home and called Dr. Gerber who was with her for several hours before she became quAted through exhaustion The store which she conducts at S46 East Main street win remain closed until after the fu- neral of her son.
 Shortly afterwaTd someone told Mrs I Alice Higgins, who conducts confec- l that her fourteen -year-oId son, Earl had been killed. Mrs. Higgins Tainted 1 and was just returning to conscious ness when her boy walked in safe and sound.
 T didn't think you would worry I about me nother,s he said. T could | have been home earlier but stayed | to carry water for some of the boys I and girls who got hurt
 Mrs Higgins clasped her son in her | arms tearfully giving thanks to God | that he had been spared to her.
 The scenes in and about the Mission l rooms from the time the news Of theS accident began to spread until after | midnight, beggars description. The whole gamut of the human enotionsl4 were displayed in the crowd that gath cred The anxious. the fearful, the | hysterical the sympathetic, the cal louse and the curious were all there. By the spirit of human sympathy, always | so manifest in an American crowd whenever or wherever there is cal | amity, predonninated. At the elbows of the fearful mothers whose loved ones were as yet unaccounted for, were l other women more fortunate, who | sought by word and act to lessen the | anxiety or the heart ache Persons in the vicinity willingly threw open E their homes to those overcome by their feelings. aided in restoring them and allowed the use of their telephones | in sending or receiving messages re- garding the accident. It was after midnight before the crowd that gath cred about the mission had disappear ed.
 The Point Union Mission was estab- lished 37 years ago Its purpose is through Sunday school instruction to l unite with the Episcopal church chill .1-- r-.-- cas .