The sun., 1918-12-31
SMITH FAMILY'S
EXIT Is INFORMAL
Neighbors Arc Sorry They
Didn't Have Chance to Give
Rousing Send Off. !
CHILDREN CARRY LOADS
Baggage Ranges From Great
Dane to Dolls-House Here
to Be Kept Open.

Probably no demonstration that cau
be arranged TO honor Alfred 70. Smitne
who becomes Governor of New fofN
State Tomorrow. will ever please him
more than rhe informal gathering OF
few friends and nelghbors at the door
OF his little red brick house at % Oliver
street whaA ne and Mrs. Smith, the hve
little Smiths and the Great Dane Cesan
left for Albany yesterday morning.
The feeling " these folk was well exJ
pressed probably by a motherly old
woman, who said: "It we'd only known
II in time we'd given 'em sendoft
they'd remember. II certainly II great
TO see our good Al go TO be Governor,
And it's so god to know that he's well
and all right and can so. Heaven blesA
him"
1t was the general impression that this
Governors and his family would NOS
go to Albany until Tuesday because of
his illness and It was not until two closed
automobiles turned from chatham
Square into oliver street that the neigils
bors realized that the Smiths were going
away. One of the machines contalnen
the aged mother Of the incoming GoVs
ernor. She said she Just could not stay
away from Albany on the day her son
was inaugurated. but she has no inten"
ton OF living with him In the Executive
Mansion.
The Governor-elect said that his old
home in oliver street would be kept open
and that he would return there when~
ever he came back to the city, which ha
hoped would be often.
No sooner had the automobiles arrived
than little Arthur, eleven years old,
burst out on the sidewalk. staggering
undIr the weight OF n big English bag.
Gee, I've been working like horse,i
1. a. ~ friends
"Whaty'u going TO do in the Guvn'rs
house in Albany" fred one OF the lads
at Arthur, thinking to have some fun
with him.
"Gwan. cut the bull! You're con-
man" shouted Arthur, shaking his hst
at his friend.
HE can lick any guy OF his size in
Albany" remarked one OF the boys
admirers in the crowd.
Just then came Waiter. the youngest
swinging a big swagger stick Both
boys were shooed into the automobile
by Bob" FtzmaurIce, who always Just
happens around whenever his friend Al
Smith needs any assistance He was
really needed a moment later when ALI
fred e, Jr., who is seventeen years
old. tried to get Caesar, the Great Dane.
into the tonneau OF one of the cars. II
required all their persuasion and skill
to get the dog inside the car.
Next came Catharine, fourteen years
old, with two big wax dolls, which she
deposited on the front seat OF one OF
the cars with the warning to the chauf-
feur that he must not let them fall out.
Sixteen year old Emily came out with
her mother and the family was COM
plete with the exception Of Mr.. Smith.
Goodbye kittic." called the women
to Mrs smith while others Rugged and
kissed the little boys.
Az the station Caesar tried to escape
as his picture was being taken with
his master and the family, but young
Al dragged him back after he had got
half way across the rotunda. Then he
was taken in charge by n porter, who
banshed him TO baggage car, while
the family fled into the Pullman Sigrid.