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Herald July 28'

HAPPY DAY FOR WAIFS

ANNUAL OUTING FOR STREET ARABS.

Ten Thousand Homeless Boys Enjoy a Ride
to Jackson Park, a Bountiful Dinner a
nd a Special Performance at
Buffalo Bill's Show.

Ten thousand street waifs were given an
outing yesterday. Massing on the lake
front they were taken to the exposition
grounds by the Illinois Central Railroad,
with a half dozen bands and an escort of
police. The boys were not as ragged and
dirty and hungry as usual, for they had been
thoroughly scrubbed and decently
clothed in garments contributed by the people
of Chicago. But they were just as
hilarious and noisy as ever. Dinner was
served at a buffet counter nailed up on the
common near the Sixty-second street entrance.
The shed looked like a corral, with
the inside packed to the ceiling with paper
boxes. Here were stacked 10,000 luncheons,
great wads of dry stuff running the whole
gamut of pastry and the kinds of meat from
sausage to dried beef. Each bundle con