New-York tribune., 1917-07-20
Riddles Make Merry as
They Ride on Ferry
and Train
Get Royal Welcome
Jennie, Susie, Tom and Jerry
Sure to Return Benefited
by Vacation

blngndmtOn dUNudl tribune fIeST
Air party left New York for the coun
try yesterday morning. 1t was the
largest party Of the present Fresh All
season to date, numbering 263 chill
dren, both boys and girls.
Two hundred and sixty-three chill.
dren are a lot, especially when each one
carries most of his or her wardrobe ef'
fects in a bundle that sets each stag.
| gerinc so that he or she advances like
a catboat sailing against the wind
! They seemed to fill up everything they
ceme to. First they filed the Lacka
wanna ferry house at Barclay Street
filled the floor space with their bodies
and bundles and filled the air with theiI
laughing and shouting.
Then by an eventful progress-which
reached its climax when Mary lost hold
on her dunnage al the top of the stairs
leading to the upper deck Of the ferry
boat and let it go bounding down the
steps, playing ninepins with ascending
spindleshanks and bowling over Jennie
and Susie, Johnny and Jerry in its
| fight-the many attained and filed the
upper cabin of the boat.
Then they fought their way through
an almost overwhelming tide Of New
! York bound commuters and flled-Just
! comfortably, thanks 70 generous rail
} road managcment-four coaches of the
I Binghamton Mail.
Riddles Anxious to Start
Then they began to fill the ears Of
: George j. Michelbach, his wife and
niece and three other Binghamtonians,
! who had come all the way to New York
10 escort the children TO their vacation
| places, with questions:
mister, when do we start?'
"Missus, when do we get there ~
Teacher, how many miles is it?"
Lady, what station is this ~
"ls them mountains"
"C'n we 60 swimmin'?"
On the ferry they wanted TO know if
they would have 10 go on the ocean TO
get 10 "Binglngton." At Washington,
/ y. J.. after reading the name over the
station door, they wanted TO know
where the President lived.
At Scranton they weren't interested
at all in that city's pet problem OF the
fright OF surface support" but they
glued their noses TO the windows to
see the coal mines that gave rise TO
the problem, and, of course. wanted TO
know "Does our coal come from here :?
The only thing encountered during
the journey that the pfrty didn't NIL
was the station plaza at Binghamton.
That was already filed to overfowing
by the citys population, which had
turned out on masse to welcome the
guests of its Fresh Air committee.
Get Royal Welcome
Here way for the party had 70 be
made by the police, who also had 70
guard the Youngsters from motherly-
hearted women who hadn't invited chill
dren, but who couldn't resist the temp
tation to run off with one or more If
them once they had seen them come
scrambling off the cars, train-worn and
weary.
But there we're no guests for short
sighted hosts. Every Fresh Air motn-
or was on hand 70 claim her daughter
for-two-weeks, and soon after their ar
rival the youngsters were driving away
from INc sldL4Ou. 0lASAg HHu 'iI NSNf'N
and groups, in buggies and hayracks
and fivvers to the farms just outside
Binghamton. where they are to be en-
tertained.
There they are to stay for the next
two weeks, and when they come home
on August 2, filling coaches and boats
and ferryhouses, physically and vocally,
they will show signs of having them
selves been subjected to a filing
process. Then, if Mary's dunnage
wants TO 90 bounding down the Bar
clay Street stairs again, when the party
lands in New York, il will find the
underpinnings Of Jennie and Susie and
Johnnie and Jerry bearing a much
closer resemblance TO the ninepin than
did the pipestem shanks it made snort
with yesterday.
Sure to Put on Weight
It's safe guess that the party will
weigh half a ton more when II gets
back TO the city than it did on setting
out.
The large size Of the party Of chill
dren entertained by the Binghamton
committee this year is partly due 10
the generosity of Willis Sharpe Kilmer.
Of Binghamton. who is meeting the en-
tire expense of the outings of seventy
five boys and girls.
..-,A..,a.. ., Tbs TrIhun, Tr,,h Air Fund