The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-06-06
TWO BIG SCHOOL
OUTINGS DRAW
CROWD OF $500
Grammar Grades at Sugar Island
and Central High Folk at
Bots Blanc
PROGRAMS ON
BOTH PICNIC GROUNDS.
Tragedy of Start of Trips is
Leaving Behind of One
Little Girl

Thirty.hve hundred school children
went picknicking. Saturday morning,
The steamer Tashmoo carried 2.5UU
grammar school children TO Sugar ISL
and on their annual outing, and about
/ 900 Central High students and grad.
yates boarded the steamer Columbia
at S:45 o'clock for the annual alumni
picnic on Bots Blanc island
There was a great commotion on
the White Star line dock at the foot
OF Griswold-st.- While the big boat was
loading Children--swarm OF EN-
carried bundles and boxes OF lunch.
and many OF them, minus coat and
hat, iostled and crowded around the
gangplank, all a-tremble with childish
excitement. The steamboat officers,
detail OF policemen, parents and
school teachers had all they could do
10 usher the little eXcursionists safe
ly aboard the boat. Once on the
boat they ran pell-mell for the upper
decks. where they lined the rails and
raised their voices in yells. General
Manager G. F. Bielman breathed a
sigh of relief when the last rope was
cast off and the boat drifted ont into
iously happy children.
One little girl was left behind, She
was the only tot to miss the boat as
the big majority OF the boys and girls
we're on the dock long before 9 o'clock
with their tickets clutched tightly IN
their hands. The little girl waited too
long for her chum to put in an APP
pearance, and before she could make
up her mind TO go without her, the
whistle blew and the gang-plank was
hauled in. She made a pathetic little
figure in her dainty white dress and
carefully brushed hair with big pink
ribbon attached. as she daubed her
eyes with her handkerchief and
gulped hard TO keep back the yelling
tears. When the boat turned its prov
downstream and the echoing shouts
OF her friends on board the steamer
came 10 her, she could no longer hide
her grief. She leaned against the
door of the ticket Office and sobbed.
Manager Bielman would have liked
to have called back the boat for her,
but he couldn't He patted her on
t tine shoulder and promised AeF thai
she should have nice ride on his
boat some other day.
But this is the day | want to- go,
she walled, as she turned and walked
slowly up the street, her face buried
in the white handkerchief now wet
with tears
| On the Detroit q Windsor Ferry
Co.'S dock at the foot OF Randolphst.,
the Central high band serenaded while
the boat was loading The musicians
were dressed in natty uniforms con-
sisting OF white duck trousers, blue
coats and white caps Walter +.
Campbell, president OF the ferrS com
pany, went along TO personally see
TO the comfort OF the high school ex-
cursionists He was accompanied. by
Capt A. f. Stewart, supervisor OF
schools.
This afternoon three boats left for
Bots Blanc, one at | o'clock, another
at 80. and a third at 3 o'clock. The
high school boys and girls are holding
athletic sports on the island. In ad-
dition there are baseball games, dane
ing and other forms OF amusement
The athletic schedule at Sugar 49,
and includes baseball games, boys and
girls track meet, tennis, etc. The
schools taking part are Berry. Bish.
.op, Capron, Columbian. Crosman,
Doty, Fairbanks, Franklin, GILES,
Hancock. Harris Myra Jones. Nc.
Graw, Morley owen, Palmer Tilden,
Wingert, Field Bellevue, Washing
ton, Clippert, Smith, Williams, Greu.
sci, CLANCY, Thomas, and Jefferson.