New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-12-04
Buckeye States Boy Corn
Growers Size Up Man
hattan's Rolling Acres.
LADIES' BAND LEADS
TRIP AROUND TOWN
Toots Right Through Revolving
Doors Into Aston, Too, and
Never Drops a Note.


Bureau Of Junior Contests Of the Ohio
Bosrd.of Agriculture decreed him cham
pion, bestowed upon him s25 in prize
money and gave him a free trip TO
the East on the Buckeye Corn Special
Tour with 237 other boys and girls
prize winners all-who had made three
bushels Of corn grow where one grew
before. The average yield in Ohio is
forty bushels TO the acre. None Of the
youthful farmers who reached New
York yesterday grew less than l24
bushels to the acre.
With their number swelled TO b77 by
parents and relatives. the corn cham
pion and his runners-up. having done
Washington in two days and Philadel-
phia in one, arrived in New York early
yesterday morning, intent on doing or
being done up by this city in their
eighteen short hours. At 8, when only
milkmen, policemen and Ohio farmers
were out Of bed, they disembarked
from three special trains which had
brought them to the Pennsylvania sta
ton and paraded TO the Waldorf for
breakfast.
ne IhCL tUdt lHSg Adu NV
bered until the trains pulled out Of
Philadelphia. at o'clock, had no ef-
feet on the spirits of the pilgrims, who
ranged in age from one small boy OF
six TO the eighty-one years carried by
G. G.. Thomas, Of New Carlisle. whose
patriarchal beard rippled far down on
his chest as he stepped along with the
light springy stride Of lad OF twenty
Ladies' Band Leads.
At the head Of the procession walked
T. P. Riddle. director Of the Bureau OF
Junior Contests, and guide. phlloso-
pher. frierd, emergency physician, street
directory and information bureau TO
six hundred 0hioans far from home.
Marshalling the parade were the west
ern agents of the Pennsylvania Kali
road, on whose shoulders had fallen
the burden for arranging details OF the
entire tour. Their eyes were red from
lack Of sleep.
No man, woman or child but carried
a banner of yellow and blue attached to
a cornstalk and blazoned with the
words Buckeye Corn Special Most
of them also wore yellow badges from
which wore suspended horse chestnuts'
or buckeyes" and which bore the sur
prising meteorological information that
1.-The rainbow comes down IN Ohlo'
At the head Of the procession marcned
the Marion Ladies' Band, clad in nus
sar-Ohio pronunciation. "hoosler
uniforms Of blue velvet, with gold lace,
and waking the early morning echoes
with u quickstep.
After breakfast at the Waldorf,
where amazed walters debated on
whether this could be an after supper
party, the corn planters and their rela-
tiyes were marshalled by the passenger
agents of the Pennsylvania into two
snecial subway trains and headed Tor
The Bronx The Scioto Valley Farmer
Rows Rand headed the procession this
time To the outsider their music was
insniring, but Darn that tunel" said
one pilgrim aggrievedly. They've
nlsved that thing over and over ever
since we started. ! kick all the covers
al marching to il in my sleep,
At the Geological Park the elephants
the greatest popular apprecia-
tion Whether il was the Western love
~ bigness or the practiced eye OF INC
nroducer detecting in them unlimited
bowers Of consumption Ia not known.
4 ftsr all the sights and smells OF Ihe
zoo had been sampled the parade
!, ooned back TO the subway and heaoed
fer the Battery.
There. with steam up, lay the gooa
,hin Bronx Of the municipal ferry line
"a Staten Island. Through the cour-
.ssy of r. A. C. Smith, Commissioner
~ Docks and Ferries, she had been
oaned to the Chamber OF Commerce
ybo were 10 be the hosts Of the touring
farmer, on a trip about the bay.
After a short visit to the Aquarium
no Ohioans trooped aboard and sought
eats with a sigh Of relief, their mlnds
ill.d with visions Of strange beasts.
8o1 lunchsons were provided oy tne
committee, Marcus a.
rracv' Fred B. Dalzell, Edward n.
crook. Elihu C. Church and Charles l.
iwynne.
Picnic on Ferryboat.
The staid interior Of the ferryooat
.ook upon Itself the appearance OF q
Sunday school picnic as the FARMER
folk sat together, boxes on laps, SIP
ping White Rock with raklsh ar.
rhe cabins echoed TO a speech alien 10
me accustomed eargoes Of commuters,
nasal with Rs than rolled like snare
From the Battery the boat proceeded
No the East River as far as Manhattan
Bridge. Most Of the Middle Western
ars caught their first glimpse OF a
yarship as they passed the navy yard.
They then steamed down the bay as lar
as Coney Island Point, and, turning,
.kirted the shore Of Staten island,
inally disembarking at Forty-secopd
Street
al think Liberty impresses me most,
said Champion Hanes, fresh iaced'
pleasant lad, with an almost shy man
ner. az like New York, but I'll be
glad TO get back TO Arcanum;"
Flaxen-hsired, apple checked Leeio
Jones, the girl champion, presumed
from the height Of her fourteen years
to speak weightily upon New YORK
men.
They are too much in a hurry" she
said seriously. IL like Ohio folks pet-
ter. New York Is too big, and III DC
glad to get back to high school.
DISSEMINATING from the longest water
journey many of them had ever taken
the gallant 577 marched across Forty,
second Street with the Ladies' Band
footing proudly in advance and inVaded
the Hotel Astor, Where bheS rev
main until dinner time unless ~
wanted to do some "tradins,, ~
unenlightened Fasteners call 'H'r
ping. oil. ~. ladies'
.ortinued To discourse sweet harmony
av.n when passing one by one through
a revolving door. The effect prooueeo
,,as r.ma1kable TO those who were
a,a5 ahout the lobby. IL was not
sea:su Elevator had carried the last
p rS uniform upward that the
The Chamber of Commerce enter
..;,ad the Ohioans at dinner at the
I.,or last night, and afterward took
them to the Hippodrome.
Student in Serb Aid Party Lost.
n-L,. pidge N J. Dec. 3.-Mr. and