Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1888-08-31
nrnnEoRn,s BIG DAY.

The Dedication of Hts Soldiers M0nu.
ment-The Town SpIendidly Deco.
rated-The Fine Parade-The Exer.
clses - The Monument mllfOrd'n
PrinceIy Entertainment OF Three
Thousand Guests-Grand IIInmina.
tom In the Evening With Band Con
cert.
Yesterday was gala day in the history of
old Milford, and the old town did nobly,
making splendid display of decorations,
which, together with the evenings illumina-
tions, made a brilliant spectacle, and the
parade was fine one, the largest ever seen
in the town. There were, it is estimated,
five thousand strangers in the town and
about 5000 of these were from New Haven.
Like Stratford, it has broad and very long
center street, shaded its whole length by
aged elm trees. Between the rows of these
is a well trimmed park. Milford only need
ed an occasion to demonstrate its ability to
do things in style, and the dedication of its
soldiers and sailors monument of Vermont
granite thirty feet high in the center of this
park yesterday supplied it. Preparation has
been going on for weeks by the ladies and all
citizens, and at sunrise yesterday morning
sixteen guns woke the people up to realiza-
bkOu VI bA0 AdCG buhI P1ooSdnt Jay Was dDOu6
to favor them, and with the first boom the
bells of the churches and factories rang out
to entrance the general gladness.
Among the houses gsily adorned were those
of Mrs. Susan Mallory, Treat Camp, I. N.
Hawkins & Son, Baldwin 6 Lambkin, Mrs.
Nelson Darlington, 9. A. Tomlinson, d.
Beardsley, Miles Plumb, w. o. Osborne, w.
r. Ford, Jabez Smith, Mrs. VIM. Brooks, JIG.
North, DR.. Andrews, John Shepherd, P. S.
Bristol, G. w. Merwin, Mrs. G.. Tibbals, Ct.
w. Coy, J. e. Shepherd & Co., V. B. Blye,
J. E. Tibbals, Alfred Mallett Albert Plumb,
81. Cornwall, III. DeForest, J. Merwin, Oscar
Perry, G. Furman, Thomas Stowe, A. Stowe,
e. Brown, A. Baldwin, Amos T. Brown, Mr..
White, A. Noble, Frederick Cornwall, John
Cowan, L. Nettleton, George Mallory, w.
Miles, n. Mallory, E. Richel, E. Howe, j. Will
cox, w. G. Mitchell, Fl. A. Taylor, the finest
in town, Frank Munson, G. P. Oviatt, Frank
Downes, F. Babeock, g. F. Smith, L. E.
Baldwin, J. Platt, ]. T. Highly, j. c. Smith,
Nehemiah Clark, Edward Baldwin, Edward
Todd, Max Plucker, Elias E. Bradley, F.
and L. Cornwall, Mrs. Purcell, Platt &
Merwin, Mrs. J. W. Merwin, Miss Sarah
Baldwin, Milford House, II. G. Plat,
ANDREW Clark, Darius Whitcomb, S. T.
Ford, Hugh Kirk, DIR. Heady, II. L. Greg
ory, John Brown, Postofic block. N. B.
Ford, Rev. J. q. Fitzgerald, Fred Conner,
Bailey 6 Co., G.. FL. Smith & Co., J. P. and
F. NJ. Brown, G. P. Bennett, H.. w. Corn
wall, A. B. Norcross, J. ]. Gorham, Charles
Morris. Many of the houses were decked in
red, white and blue bunting and Chinese
lanterns The public park was decorated with
strings Of flags of all nations. the residences
surrounding the park were particularly pros
fuse in their decorations, while the stores
throughout the center of the town were dis
played large amount of bunting. Nearly
all the places of business were closed.
On the forenoon trains military and civic
organizations arrived, every one as appears
in the order following being present and in
line. When these were being escorted to
the positions ready to march, the spectacle
and the sounds of martial music on all sides
recalled the scenes of 1861 in the same
streets, when the very men to whose memo
ries the days festivities were to be held, were
themselves being inspired by similar condi-
tions. When the Governor and staff arrived
a salute of nineteen guns was fired, all was
in readiness, and at 11:15 the procession
formed in front of the monument and head
ed by the Wheeler & Wilson band, paraded
the streets, occupying about an hour, in the
order as follows