Monster Children's Fete A MUNIFICENT GLASGOW MERCHANT.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 218, 3 September 1887, Page 7

Monster Children's Fete

A MUNIFICENT GLASGOW MERCHANT.

The Jubilee trip to Rothesay, given by Mr Walter Wilson, of the Colos&eum Warehouse, took place on June 21 st. About 22,000 poor boys and girls of Glasgow hud received tickets, of which about 16,000 were taken advantage of. The youngpeople began to collect at the Steamboat Quay, immediately below Glasgow Blidge, as early as six o'clock, their parents in maay cases seeing them off. The first .steamer to leave was the Athole, at 6.35, carrying 1,250 children. The Columba, which leaves at 7, was able to take u'oo, and the Lord of the Isles, at 7.20 took 1,000. At 8 o'clock the Eagle started with 500, taking, like the others, its usual passengers, and the Lancelot, one of the five steamers specially chartered, carried 1,400. The Guinevere— thecommodore'sboat.havingMr Wilson himself and the Pollokshields Choir on board — accommodated no fewer than 1,5G0 boys and girls, and was followed by the Shandon with 1,200. As Mr Wilson could not^et enough of steamers for his young guests detachments were conveyed per rail and steamer, via Craigendoran, Greenock, and Wemyss Bay. The children thoroughly enjoyed themselves. The refreshments were abundant and of excellent quality, as the following list of the commissariat will show :— IG,OOO packages, each containing two bifceuits and a scone, eight cartloads milk, eight cartloads aerated waters, numerous cases sandwiches, 361 cases of confections, a lorryload of oranges, &c, &c. Handsome prizes were given for the various sports, and in addition to the prizes, gifts numbering 10,000 were presented to the children, consisting of toys and objects valued by children. The heat was intense, indeed overpowering. Those boys, therefore, who bathed in the lake running from Loch Fad at the end of the park were fortunate ; but many others who knew nothing of the stream lay panting on the ground. ' Watering-carts perambulated the lield distributing water to the thirsty, but the less robust, overcome by the heat, were assisted or carried into the cool rooms under the platform and laid upon tables. Drs. Clark, Hall, and Lawson attended the young patients ; but as sick children were being carried in rapidly, the medical gentlemen had their hands full. Mattresses and sheets were obtained, and the children whose cases seemed the worst were laid upon them. All were brought round, thanks to the care given to them, and there was no other accident during the day. Mr Wilson, in the course of the sail home in the Guinivere, mentioned in a neat speech after dinner that in consequence of the great heat of the day ho had found it expedient to postpone the most of the sports, prizes to the value of £400 not having been competed foi\ He intended at an early date to have the adjourned sports resumed in a field near Glasgow, when all the prizes would be offered for competition to the children who had been at the trip.

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