Quad-City Times from Davenport, Iowa • 60

SUNDAY morning THE DEMOCRAT AND LEADER, DAVENPORT, IOWA JUNE 4, 1950 500 School Children Enjoy First Boat Ride of Season 9s V-v 60 K'Afvi I 1 I i2sxxssl 1 rSr fewU Afv xtL-ar- lit 1 A A iiwiiiiii I 'S 1. x. in I I CP WIND-SWEPT TOP DECK POPULAR Despite a cool wind blowing off the river Saturday, the top deck of the Steamer Avalon was a popular gathering place for many of the kids. Many would have liked to go. up higher, but a watchman stationed at the stairway recited the maritime law forbidding such a venture to each "gang; Not without incident, the excursionists were grounded on the Rock Island levee for several minutes and then delayed in mid-river for a half hour below a tardy openjng Crescent bridge.

HAPPY "SAILORS" MAKE A LANDING Approximately 500 Quad-city school children, their mothers and some of their teachers, inaugurated the river excursion season Saturday. afternoon with a trip down the Mississippi. 4 fSj A. the boys and girls weren't worrying. The day was theirs and so was the boat and three and a half hours was an awful short time in 'which AND NOT A SEASICK CASE IN THE BUNCH A statistician could have kept himself busy Saturday estimating the gallons of soft drinks and the bushels of popcorn consumed by the 486 passengers.

But CAPTAIN AND THE KIDS Captain Charles Hall was a popular man on the boat. Wherever he went a swarm of children followed him to hear him bark his orders to the crejv. This picture shows him on his platform on the foredeck supervising embarking operations in Davenport. to spend a life at sea. VVHSv-c ii2 id aged to beach it with all the ability of the U.

S. Navy. They JUST CRUISING NO SNOOZING All that talk finally set the plank down after having to move several about romances aboard ship must have seemed a little cx- THEY KNEW SHE WAS COMING But they didn't know where. Nearly 300 passengers who waited for the bolt in Rock Island chased the elusive gangplank up and down fee waterfront for a half hour while the crew man- covered later that most of the "men" on the boat building a stag line around a dance floor downstars. Downstairs they could compete with anybody.

aggcrated to Mary Lou Gaffery. left, and her sister Kath of the cars from the levee. leen. The two girls, students at Holy Family school, dis-.