Arizona republican., 1914-07-01
NEWS|ES HAVE
 GREAT PICNIC
Carriers and Newsboys Have Riverside and Willow Parks Turned Over to Them and All Day Enjoy Water, Boats and Feed
By One Who Saw

If you are willing to pay $100,09 just to be boy again. then you'd have gladly paid million yesterday to have been one of the 100 Phoenix newsboys that participated in the First Annual Riverside Park News boys Picnic. Maybe you heard those wild joy y-packed yells that the little dev-rascals turned loose as the pro- cession of autos went through town about eight yesterday morning. And the noise never subsded until it was quenched by the fresh, cool water of the Phoenix ocean, at Riverside where about seventy of the kids made headquarters, while the other thirty demanding more ride, and a regular free -for-all time, insisted upon being taken down to the "Wil- lows" where Joe England generously turned the entire resort over to the enterprising young newspapermen for the day.
 At Riverside three special guardians were needed besides the parks regu- lar force of police and life guards Every Phoenix newsie can swim like d LUCK, WueTc llley HODOuN knows. but it you don't think that they can swim circles around you, just get up a real picnic like the one that Maitland Davies framed up for them yesterday. There's only one art wherein they excel swimming. and right here is where typewriters seem like feeble equipment to aid in description. for when it came to "eats.' why, the mammoth hot-dog | factories of Armour and Swift to- gether couldn't begin to run even with the newsies' demands They started in their dainty lunch with a | big bowl of sure enough clam chow | der prepared by Chef Cummins from | Davies own recipe, and then it was l 100 per cent ham sandwiches without ! which no picnic is complete, then two delicious courses of hot dog" and then when every kid voted "nuf." " although it was Donoforio's best strawberry. it wasn't deemed wise to let any of the delicate little dears'' l have more than seven cones, so that was made the limit. It was no won der that every boy had a full grown appetite for besides the three hour swim there had been about a dozen regular races pulled off in the morn ing. in which every kid. big or nttle had taken part. Riverside Park was | inspected from one corner to another. every swing and teeter worked till it was dizzy. every animal interviewed every concession inspected. Hopkins. who runs the Fruitola and hot dog stand near the ocean" was voted all O. K. by the boys, for besides the sandwiches and wieners furnished for the dinner, he fixed mp a whole tub full of the delicious Fruitola for the kids in the middle of the morning
 The boys are all talking about Riv- erside tonight. and all are wishing that some good excuse will soon turn up for another picnic, and all hope that that man Davies will have the planning of it. together with Mana ger Dick Hall. who fired a lot oi
 bombs and sent up a dandy airshir especially for their benefit.
 It was fine and breezy at Riverside yesterday. the water just right, and on all sides crews of Workmen busy on improvements for the newsies aren't the only ones who enjoy the
 new Park, and the patronage is stil
 increasing so regularly that new benches and shelters are being built
 right along. A dandy. long. steer
 slide into the pool will be finished
 tomorrow, this will be brass lined and have a constant stream of water
 running down it, and will be quite
 a fine addition to the delightful
 features of the big tank. Over neal
 the entrance the ball grounds and
 big grandstand are getting their last
 touches and soon Riverside will have
 another feature too good to stay
 away from, the national game.
 At the Willows
 The bunch of thirty of the boys
 who went down to the Willows came
 back swearing by the place. The
 good hearted manager as soon as he
 had seen the bunch on the way, turn
 ed the whole place over to them ant
 bade them help themselves. They die l