The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-09-02
1t Will Be More Generally
Observed This Year
Than Ever Before.
RECORD OF EVENTS TO TAKE PLACE
Knights of Labor Celebration
PYthian Field Day-The
Fair at Waverly.

thousands of persons will engage In
r%ecreations they have anticipated for
weeks past. There are a great number
of social events that win attract ali sorts
of persons. athletic events, picnics. land
and water excursions, fishing trips, the
theatres, In fact every sort OF amuse-
ment.
Perhaps the most appropriate event is
hat of District Assembly No. 1877.
Knights of Labor. The seventh annual
picnic and games of the Assembly will
be held at Caledonia park. The list of
entries for the several events was ex-
clusivsly published in The JERSEY CITY
NEWS last night.
The Tin ana Sheet Iron Workers AS
ISOLATION of Hudson County will picnic
at Glendale Park. Tn park Is a magnid-
cent place. and in selscting it the mem
bsrs showed good judgment. There
will be a series Of athletic events.
Athletic crauks will have the oppor-
tunity Of having their appetites satiated
by attending the carnival Of sports Of the
New Jersey Athletic Club at Bayonne.
1t will be the greatest athletic event of
the year.
Another athletic meet that will attract
the attention of hundreds Is the set of
games at the Y.M.C.A. grounds. Chapel
J avenue, Greenville. The Jersey City
and Grsenvills branches have united in
this event, and it will no doubt be a
grand success.
1t would be impossible to tell of all the
baseball games tina will be played.
Suffice it to say every vacant lot will
have its quota OF baseball tossers. young
and old.
THE sUABIANs.
at the Greenville ScnuetZen Park will
begin the two days festival of the
Schwabischer K. U. V. Of Hudson
county. The programme is q unique one
ose aud should attract a large gathering.
The Grand industrial and historical par
ads will take place at nine A: NJ. They
will leave headquarters and proceed
through the principal streets OF Jersey
City and Greenville. aud thence proceed
to the PARK. The line of march is as
follows:-
From headquarters through Ocean
avenue to Grand street, to CommuniDaw
avenue, to Pacific avenue. to johnson
avenue, to Grand street. TO Washin gton
street, TO Montgomery street. TO Newark
avenue. to jersey avenue, to Grand
street. 10 CommuntEaw avenue, to Jack
son venue to Kearny avenue, to Ocsan
avenue, to Dantorth avenue. 10 o. B.
Road to Linden avenue, to Ocean ave.
nue., to car stables, TO Garfield avenue,
to Whitfield avenue. to Columbia place.
to Greenville avenue, to Bergen avenue.
TO Park.
The parade Will consist of the follow.
ing:-Part hrst-Mounted police, mar
shat and heralds. eight German knights,
first music wagon. officers and arrange
ments committee in coaches. first grand
float, representing Americas We leone
TO All Natfons;" aid-de-camps.
Part second = Second music wagon,
grand float by G. Kruse. representing
Flora" members aud guests in coaches.
the Village School and Schoolmaster,
costumed and civil equestrians. Part
third-Businass Wagons.
At the park an unusually strong pro-
gramme has been prepared. This will
be repeated on the second day.
KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS FIELD DAY.
An event that will attract u number of
Jersey Cityites out of town is the field
day Of the Knights of Pythias al Free
hold. A committee Of the local lodges
has made arrangements for the trans
portation of the Hudson County Pythlan 8.
A special train will leave the Peunsyl-
vania depot at eight thirty A. NJ, and
returning will leave Freehold at eight
O'Clock. The three County districts will
be well represented.
The exercises will open promptly at
ten thirty o'clock A. M., with rhs COM
petiUiye drills, which Will be held in the
fair grounds. The drill will consist OF
ffty-six movements. The division may
drill with twenty-four sir knights and
dve officers. or sixteen knights and five
officers. Divisions drilling with the latter
number will be subject TO a discount of
| ten per cent. Thirty miautes Will be the
longest time allowed for the execution of
the schedule. and the drill must be con-
Quoted without drum or music of any
kind. Any division completing the pro.
gramme before the expiration of tue
allotted lime may execute any move
ments that they may desire, for
ruh{rh thAv will roca{va dina Crnjjf
The Grand Lodges donation Of
5000 for PRIZES will be distributed
az fnIiews:-Hf rst prIzs, $50; secoud
pr'z-. $50; third prize. $40; fourth prize,
SOTO the division having the largest
percentage of attendance In the parade.
Major Brensinger and Colonel Abernethy
of the First Brigade, aud Captain Beck
of Company E, Seventh Regiment. N. G.
N. j., have signified their willingness to
act as judges.
The parade in the afternoon will move
promptly at half past two O'Clock, and
the march will occupy about one hours
time. The parade will be reviewed. from
a stand in front Of the Court House by
the Grand Chancellor, Grand Lodge off,
cers, Supreme Representatives, Past
Grand officers, town and county officials
and Generals Richard Donnelly and Bird
w. Spencer. with their staffs, n. G. N. j.
Governor Werts has also been invited.
and is expected TO be present. The par
ade will end with the dress parade Of
regiments and ~brigades, uniform rank,
at the fair grounds. Assistant, division
and district marshals aud chancelIors in
| command of lodges must report at the
headquarters of the Grand Marshal i'm
| msdiately on their arrival, to be assigned
positions In line and receive dinner
badges.
The residents of freehold nave pre-
pared a grand welcome for the visitors.
STAT AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.
The thirty first annual exhibition OF
the State Agricultural Society will bagin
ut Waverly Park. on the line of the Penn.
svlvania Raailroad. between Newark and
Elizabeth on Labor Day. and will con-
| time five days. The admission for Labor
Day will be twenty-five cents; other
days. fifty cents. The buildings on the
grounds, including the horse stables,
cattle sheds, sheep and swine pens. have
all been put in thorough repair. The
grand stand has been overhauled and
strengthened, making 1t one of the most
comfortable of its find In the State,
The prospects for q large exhibition
were never more promising than they are
at present. The entries are larger than
usual in every department. Ths exhibi-
ton OF horses and neat, thoroughbred
cattle will far surpasS any previous exhi-
bition held on tina Waverly grounds. The
entries of sheep, swine and poultry are
numerous, coming from the best breed
ers In this State, and competition will be
Lively and exciting.
The agricultural implements and i'm
nvo~1d -t>av e -. ~ aaht.x .vr 4 T.