New-York tribune., 1916-04-25
Prizes for Every Inmate,
Regardless of Results
of Match Races.
CRIPPLED "BOYS" OF
60 LIMP TO DEFEAT
Clutches Disregarded in Enthusi.
asm Over Games -Tubercular
Patients Disappointed.

ff Benny Long had taken thougnS
ard hoped, he might have won the bas
race. Because he neither thought no'
hoped. his opponent, Frank Williams.
did the jack rabbit step across the fn-
ISL line, while 1000 Of the boys" n.
.he New York City Farm Colony o.
Staten Island. unmindful Of rheuma
tism and crutches. cheered.
There was some talk OF protestins
Franks victory on the ground that h
vas less than sixty years old, buo
Benny waived tnis right when he
learned that the second prize was the
brush that went with the winners
shaving mug. Furthermore. Berry
Lad won the potato race against such
fleet farm coionists a. Tim Cloonar'
John Cooney and Pat Costello am
could not complain.
Undoubtedly the feature OF the first
day Of the spring festival arranged oy
superintendent Joseph D. Flick was the
three-legged race. From the moment
when the rome was tied around the les
and rioht leg, respectively. Of sixty
year old John Cconey and sixty-one
year old William Gissell il was pre-
dicted that there would be trouble. II
che legs left free ror locomotion
Coonev was lame and Gissell had
rheumatism. and the John Long-Pa-
Costello combination, running sixty
l.mps to the minute. won easily.
Watch Winner Jubilant.
Late last night. when all the young
"oid fellows" were supposed 10 be IN
bed George Asquith was still asking
II any one wished to know the tine.
George had won a brass watch in the
ffty-yGrd walking match.
lin honor Of "Tiernan Day" judge J.
Harry, Of Richmond COUNTY. was there.
trying by his broad smiles TO make up
for the inclement weather or "oppO-
sition Of the elements a. he said n
his speech. The Department Of Pub
Tic Charities was represented by Dep
uty Commissioner Henry c. Wright,
who said the aim OF Commissioner
John A. Kingsbury was 20 make the
colony a home where every man had
something TO do.
To the tubercular patients. wheeled
over from Sea View Hospital, the
rnent. Some Of them. the nurses ga
mitted. would probably never have an
other chance 20 participate in the joys
Of a festival. Their pale, pinched faces
formed a marked contrast to the ruddy
compilations Of the farm inmates. Mu-
sic was furnished BY the RandalPs
Island Band, made W OF musicians
from the school and hospital for Grip
piles.
Farm Colony Praised.
1T is no disgrace TO be poor" Super
intendert Flick told the men. 81 have
read in many books that the cause OF
poverty is criminal instincts. an
not criminal; | have no bad habits
and | do not drink. Yet. if | should
lose my job here, if illness should cone
upon my family. or if | should happen
10 meet with an accident, / might 'rd
myself an applicant to this colony"
cone of the best things the people
Of New York nave done is to establish
this institution on Staten Island,
Judge Tiernan said. "and the super
best thing is that they selected men
like Mr. Flick and his assistant. James
J. O'Neill, to preside over you inmates
Entertainments were held in the As
sembly Hail late in the afternoon and
last evening. To-day will be "Crom'
well Day" in honor of State Senator
George Cromwell, and tomorrow
stephens Day" in honor of Mr.. and
Mrs. Stephen Stephens.
Friends of Superintendent Flick
have contributed 100 prizes, including
shirts, neckt.es, suspenders, shaving
outfits. soap. tobacco. playing cards ard
handkerchefs. There will be moro
than a prize for every one Of the 1880
inmates, regardless Of whether they
compete in the ninety remaining con-
tests.