New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-04-04
$500 Children of All Kinds
Open Week of Merry
Carnival.
CELEBRATE START OF
NEW SCENT LINE
King" Greets Queen Bronx in
Climax of Parade Seen by
$4,000 Enthusiasts.

Babies, babies twenty-five hundred
Of them fat babies. musical, sleepy
and noisy babies; white, pink. dusky
and ebony black babies; eugenic. twi-
light sleep and just ordinary babies,
scowing. smiling, dimpled, weeping,
bald-headed and pretty. were on eX-
hibition yesterday in Harlem in what
was probably the greatest baby parade
ever seen in New York City.
-Iarlem, in merry carnival, is cele-
brating this week the union Of Harlem
and The Bronx in the opening of the
new ive-cent car line from The Bronx
10 Fort Lee ferry. ana yesterday was
babies day Spring and sunshine
did almost their best; the babies did
theirs. too-even smiling accommodate
ingiy when they passed the movie men.
Every mother was out 10 win prize,
which explains why the judges were
two hours picking the winners.
The parade itself was miniature
Mardi Gras. In floats, designs, decora-
tions, novelties, costumes and pretty
children IL was marvel 10 the $4,000
Harlemtes who fought with Inspector
Ryan and his 600 special policemen for
glimpse as 1t passed.
king Harlem Leads.
Two sections started from opposite
sides OF Harlem shortly after noon.
The West Side children gathered IN
Morningside Park and marched east
across l25th Street TO meet the East
Siders. East Side children met at
ll6th Street and Third Avenue and
marched north TO l25th Street, then
west
The West Side children were led by
King Harlem lmpersonated in the
twentieth century By -year-old
Paul Forrest, OF 30 Convent Avenue.
Elsie Schlicsser, nine years old, OF %
East 1921 Street. as Queen Bronx
led the East Side children. These two
stately children, riding snow white
ponies. met at Fifth Avenue, where
they solemnly shook hands, IN the we'd
ding of Harlem and The Bronx, while
a chorus Of cameras clicked, and every
person who could crowd the busy cor
ner cheered.
Escorted then by Marjorie Sterrett.
whose dime started the Battleship
Fund. the youthful King and Queen
led the united parade between police
lines down Fifth Avenue TO l2ith
Street, and west TO the judges stand,
al Mount Morris PAX West and 10th
Street,
Harlem was filled with pride as the
tiny paraders, led by their King and
Queen, on gold and purple bedecked
chargers, tripping Sayly IN the IN
SEPARATION OF a stirring march played by
the boys Of the Letter Carriers Sons
Band. swung into Mount Morris PARK
before the reviewing stand. Every
child was in his best bib and tucker,
and every childs mothers and sisters
and aunt's and great grandfather's
hearts beat furiously. Il was the
children's day.
The Prize Winners.
JUDGES then became masters and
subjects of silent prayers. The judges
were Mrs. Douglas Mathewson, wife or
the Borough President, Mrs. William
Randolph Hearst, Mrs. Thomas p. Fow-
Ter, wife Of the president of the Har-
lem On -mber OF Commerce; Mrs. Ma
than Lemlein and Mrs. Edwin Won der
Horstkoch. These are the prize win
ncrs:
Best baby carriages -Katharir- HYDE % eIs7
lnirl Avenue. 81 a stlloAi, EI.fl VIZ piIH io't's
Ruth and Thomas K0.s9n. o. kdgewater whose
cart rspresnted drcus. AMI tlith wash. o. Sal
West 1881 Street an Oh woman "a El0e
Float priKes William McC0urt and josephine
Bel. both u .455 Second Avenu.. riding on a load
~ nay drawn b. Two goats. Charles Quinn. u 81
Last I29d Stree. and John Burns u go West
liad slreel. IN al Cd osken bucket. drawn by tao
ponies.
Best costume prizes king Harlem and Queen
Bronx" LILLIAN Hdrtg OF A. last l-Sth Street. as
dove n peace. ant Andrew and Marie kehr-
vieder ~ 2512 Second Avenue. bride audi u..dr.
groom. repre-eutng The welded Bronx ani Ia .eni
l3ith street. Emmett. Brsdi.y. - Sf2 Wcs. lssth
Street. and Wafer Nit,ke. ~ 90 Mes- iils.
street