Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1915-05-22
New York Children
Visit Palisade Under
Rev. Lee W. Beattie

DR.. Beattie brought over from his
New York church last Saturday a
large company of young children from
poor families, and they had royal
time. The ladies of the Palisade
Union Church entertained them most
deliberately, and DR.. Beattie allowed
his charges to romp over the woods
here till late in the afternoon, when
they left by the Edgewater ferry.
Just before the party left the Play
grounds the report was started that
three of the children were missing
and could not be accounted for There
were l01 in the party, and r. K.
brown announced the state Of affairs
to the young men playing ball on the
Fairgrounds, and it was resolved to
start out a hunting party for the
The report was all wrong, however,
for when DR.. Beattie got them all
down at the ferry, he counted noses
AGAIN and found all present.
DIR. Beattie has sent the "Pali-
diam the following letter about the
ylsit to Palisade:
l thank you for your generous
spirit to me to let the "Palisadian"
be my mouth piece in conveying to
the ladies of Palisade who had hand
in making happy and filling the
stomachs of the one hundred and one
little girls and their leaders and
teachers on last Saturday in the base
ment OF the Union Church, "the deep
est, highest, widest, longest and
bestes thanks" as one of the girls
expressed it, for the delicious and
bountiful lunch with which they re-
freshed US. AS one little Italian girl
expressed it, "Oh, my, l was SO filled
up with sandwiches, milk, ice cream,
cake and bananas as never before in
my life"
What increases our gratitude is
that not only was the lunch served so
finely with fine chiny and napkins"
but the ladies seemed to do it all so
heartily, and | was informed that so
many wanted to have hand in it
that many outside of the church
Clipped in and so made it unneces-
sary to solicit all of the ladies Of the
church who are always ready to
"lend hand" to make others happy.
Perhaps some of those who are not
as well acquainted with who this
bunch of girls were as others, might
be interested in knowing, and how it
comes the Union Church is asked to
give the lunch. Well here is the an
swer, l believe that the truest Chris
tian life is developed only where those
who call themselves Christians cult
vate and enjoy in giving themselves
as we'll as their money to the service
and happiness of their fellows, espe-
cially their more unfortunate fellows;
and SO when preaching here three
years ago, | asked the Church and
Sunday School to give the little girls
who composed the Sewing School of
the Madison Square Church House in
New York City, girls from the tene-
ments on the middle East Side, little
treat when they came over, for their
annual outing-The Church responded
and "set it up so fine" that ever since,
whenever the annual outing comes
around these youngsters will not con-
slider any other place but Palisade
and chose beautiful ladies who give
you hot soup, ice cream, and great
big pieces, too, none of your penny d
lick" This school was organized by
Miss Dessert, children's worker at the
Church House, and with the influx of
Italians in the neighborhood, has
grown still larger by the addition of
the Italian contingent under the lead
ership of Miss Howard. They learn not
only to sew, but to make their own
dresses, many of whom wore the one
they had made this past winter, of
which one of the good ladies of Pail
SADIE said, 4 couldn't make as good
dress as that myself" They ex-
pressed their gratitude by giving
their "yell'' not only at the luncheon,
but as parting vote of thanks when
leaving the woods for the ferry.
We shall never forget you ladies';
we hope you won't forget US. From
the handsome way you treated us, we
think you must have enjoyed The OPP
portunity. We certainly did, and,
judging from the way we disposed of
what you set before us, you know we
thank you, Oh, so much!
This sewing school reflects in nina
ture our cosmopolitan population.
There were represented in it's men,
bership, English, German, Swiss,
Austrian, French, Irish, Italian, Span
ish, South American, Algerian, Finn,
Bohemian, Armenian, American. One
little girls mother went down on the
Lusitania, leaving five little ones
motherless, but the long looked for
opportunity of returning to her native
land to see her aged mother after
many years, came by sick sister-in-
law offering to pay all expenses to
| accompany her nromiSinp she could