| 296Chicago Waifs' Mission Messengers.
CHICAGO, July 27, 1893.
WHERE SENT-Hon. William F. Cody.
ADDRESS-Buffalo Bill's Wild West. P
AID And still in debt.
CHARGES-None for life.
WAIFS OF CHICAGO.
(Signature of Sender.)
Per T. E. DANIELS,
Director General Poor Children's Day.
On the reverse side of the card is this inscription:
"A slight expression of our gratitude for your
efforts in behalf of Poor Children's Day, 1883."
Preparations for the Day.
For weeks past preparations have been
making for Poor Children's day. Urgent
appeals, magnificently responded to, were
made the charitably inclined to see that
the waifs had enough to eat and
to wear, and for weeks the mission
rooms on State street have
had every appearance of a wholesale clothing
establishment. Boxes and bundles of
wearing apparel were everywhere and yesterday
and the day before the boxes of food
were sent in. There were countless thousands
of them. They came from everywhere
in the city and filled the mission
storerooms. The contents of these packages
went a long way toward rounding out
the day and filling it chock full of joy.
As early as 8 o'clock children from the
Waifs' mission, Chicago Hebrew mission,
Unity Church Industrial school, Home for
the Friendless, Chicago Nursery and Half
Orphan asylum, Englewood nursery, and
the Jewish Training school began gatherings
THE LEAP RACE.
at Madison and Market streets. It took
nearly an hour to get the little folks in line,
and when they finally started for the Van
Buren street depot of the Illinois Central
road it was in the following order:
Order of the Parade.
Police.
Professor Hensler's American Cadet band, of
Milwaukee.
Director General T. E. Daniels and aids, as
follows: J. L. Mulgreen, marshal; Theodore
Murphy, Walter Martin, William Fritts,
George Glisby, Walter Courlin, William Hein,
George W. Brock, Albert Hagaland, Thomas
Fitzpatrick, Georgė Bamberger, Roscoe J.
Clizbie.
Waifs' mission girls in tally-ho coaches.
Chicago Home for the Friendless, Miss A. F.
Rexford, superintendent.
Major Nevans' Illinois State band.
Waifs' mission messengers.
Waifs' mission boys.
Newsboys' home, Mrs. Bowman, matron.
Chicago Hebrew mission. B. Angel, superintendent.
Unity church industrial school, Ada J. Hayes. matron.
Chicago Musical Association band
Englewood nursery, Mrs. Kingman, matron.
Waifs' mission express.
First regiment band.
Newspaper boys.
Tailing on to the procession was a crowd
of several hundred ragtag and bobtail, not
belonging to. anything in particular, but
coming, with unmistakable propriety, under
the general head of "poor children."
They were every whit as proud and as happy as
though they marched under a banner
all their own, and were just as eager as
their fellows to "get there."
Loading the Trains.
Arriving at the Van Buren street viaduct
the boys and girls were shot down a chute
specially reserved for them, leading to
trains which were in waiting to convey
them to Sixty-fourth street. As one train
was filled and pulled out another took its
place, until four trains of five cars each
had been loaded and dispatched.
It was a noisy crowd that disembarked
at Sixty-fourth, but the marshals got the
youngsters in order finally, and walked
them over to the vast open space bounded
by Sixty-second. Sixty-third, Stony Island
avenue and the Illinois Central tracks.
The title of this plat rests in J. Irving
Pierce's name, but the waifs owned it yesterday.
They improvised a diamond and played
baseball and carried out a long programme
of running races. These were arranged in
fifteen classes, ranging from fifty to 300
yards, each class having five prizes. There
were special classes for the girls. Besides
the running races the list of sports included
a sack race, a potato race, and a
competitive boot-blacking contest.
All these sporting eveņts were entered
into with the greatest gusto, the list being
concluded just about the time dinner was
announced.
And such a dinner! It is doubtful if a
Chicago waif ever saw its like before.
It was served in pasteboard
boxes instead of courses, but the
guests were not there so much
for style as for the purpose of appeasing a
large and healthy appetite. Literally
everything went, and the mystery was that
even 10,000 children, could hold so much.
Nobody counted the wagon-loads of boxes
and hampers, or the barrels of lemonade.
After each 1little jacket was comfortably
distended the Arabs were rounded up and
taken over to Buffalò Bill's. They would
have liked to be headed the other way
first and taken into The Fair grounds, but
this pleasure was denied them. Mrs. Potter
Palmer made an urgent plea in their
behalf some time ago, and this was supplemented
by other appeals calculated to
soften the heart of anybody but an exposi-
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OPENING THE LUCH BOXES
tion manager, but none available. President
Higtinbothan is quoted as saving that
he did not care to throw the
grounds open to such undesirable guests
So the tittle men and women took in the
| 296Chicago Waifs' Mission Messengers.
CHICAGO, July 27, 1893.
WHERE SENT-Hon. William F. Cody.
ADDRESS-Buffalo Bill's Wild West. P
AID And still in debt.
CHARGES-None for life.
WAIFS OF CHICAGO.
(Signature of Sender.)
Per T. E. DANIELS,
Director General Poor Children's Day.
On the reverse side of the card is this inscription:
"A slight expression of our gratitude for your
efforts in behalf of Poor Children's Day, 1883."
Preparations for the Day.
For weeks past preparations have been
making for Poor Children's day. Urgent
appeals, magnificently responded to, were
made the charitably inclined to see that
the waifs had enough to eat and
to wear, and for weeks the mission
rooms on State street have
had every appearance of a wholesale clothing
establishment. Boxes and bundles of
wearing apparel were everywhere and yesterday
and the day before the boxes of food
were sent in. There were countless thousands
of them. They came from everywhere
in the city and filled the mission
storerooms. The contents of these packages
went a long way toward rounding out
the day and filling it chock full of joy.
As early as 8 o'clock children from the
Waifs' mission, Chicago Hebrew mission,
Unity Church Industrial school, Home for
the Friendless, Chicago Nursery and Half
Orphan asylum, Englewood nursery, and
the Jewish Training school began gatherings
THE LEAP RACE.
at Madison and Market streets. It took
nearly an hour to get the little folks in line,
and when they finally started for the Van
Buren street depot of the Illinois Central
road it was in the following order:
Order of the Parade.
Police.
Professor Hensler's American Cadet band, of
Milwaukee.
Director General T. E. Daniels and aids, as
follows: J. L. Mulgreen, marshal; Theodore
Murphy, Walter Martin, William Fritts,
George Glisby, Walter Courlin, William Hein,
George W. Brock, Albert Hagaland, Thomas
Fitzpatrick, Georgė Bamberger, Roscoe J.
Clizbie.
Waifs' mission girls in tally-ho coaches.
Chicago Home for the Friendless, Miss A. F.
Rexford, superintendent.
Major Nevans' Illinois State band.
Waifs' mission messengers.
Waifs' mission boys.
Newsboys' home, Mrs. Bowman, matron.
Chicago Hebrew mission. B. Angel, superintendent.
Unity church industrial school, Ada J. Hayes. matron.
Chicago Musical Association band
Englewood nursery, Mrs. Kingman, matron.
Waifs' mission express.
First regiment band.
Newspaper boys.
Tailing on to the procession was a crowd
of several hundred ragtag and bobtail, not
belonging to. anything in particular, but
coming, with unmistakable propriety, under
the general head of "poor children."
They were every whit as proud and as happy as
though they marched under a banner
all their own, and were just as eager as
their fellows to "get there."
Loading the Trains.
Arriving at the Van Buren street viaduct
the boys and girls were shot down a schute
specially reserved for them, leading to
trains which were in waiting to convey
them to Sixty-fourth street. As one train
was filled and pulled out another took its
place, until four trains of five cars each
had been loaded and dispatched.
It was a noisy crowd that disembarked
at Sixty-fourth, but the marshals got the
youngsters in order finally, and walked
them over to the vast open space bounded
by Sixty-second. Sixty-third, Stony Island
avenue and the Illinois Central tracks.
The title of this plat rests in J. Irving
Pierce's name, but the waifs owned it yesterday.
They improvised a diamond and played
baseball and carried out a long programme
of running races. These were arranged in
fifteen classes, ranging from fifty to 300
yards, each class having five prizes. There
were special classes for the girls. Besides
the running races the list of sports included
a sack race, a potato race, and a
competitive boot-blacking contest.
All these sporting eveņts were entered
into with the greatest gusto, the list being
concluded just about the time dinner was
announced.
And such a dinner! It is doubtful if a
Chicago waif ever saw its like before.
It was served in pasteboard
boxes instead of courses, but the
guests were not there so much
for style as for the purpose of appeasing a
large and healthy appetite. Literally
everything went, and the mystery was that
even 10,000 children, could hold so much.
Nobody counted the wagon-loads of boxes
and hampers, or the barrels of lemonade.
After each 1little jacket was comfortably
distended the Arabs were rounded up and
taken over to Buffalò Bill's. They would
have liked to be headed the other way
first and taken into The Fair grounds, but
this pleasure was denied them. Mrs. Potter
Palmer made an urgent plea in their
behalf some time ago, and this was supplemented
by other appeals calculated to
soften the heart of anybody but an exposi-
[Image]
OPENING THE LUCH BOXES
tion manager, but none available. President
Higtinbothan is quoted as saving that
he did not care to throw the
grounds open to such undersirable guests
So the tittle men and women took in the
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