The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1894-06-05
HAPPY CHILDREN.
Celebrate the Fortieth An
niVersary of the Jersey
City Sunday Schools.
MAGNIFICENT DIVISION PARADES
Streets Crowded, Especially in
the Neighborhood Of the
Several Reviewing
Stands.
How the Children Appeared, the
Banners and Emblems They
Carried, and Who We're
With Them.
MAGNIFICENT DIVISION pARADES

a prettier or mole interesting sight than
that whioA the streets presented this afternoon
could scarcely have been witnessed. From all
points hundreds, yes, thousands of we'll
dressed, bright-eyed, rosy-cheeked children
were making their way towards the several
churches in the city, for this sunny fifth day
in June is the fortieth annual parade of the
Jersey City Sunday schools.
This day of the three hundred and sixty
five in the year is looked forward to by every
scholar, whose only thought is that the
weather may be kind and the rain shall keep
away at least until it is alloyer. When they
are safely housed in the schools after the
march, and the ice-cream sandwiches and
cakes are being rapidly slowed away in so
many capacious little stomachs, it really
doesn't matter TO the small paraders whether
it is raining cats and dogs or hailing motor
cars, so long as the march can take place
without pretty hats and dainty costumes
being wet and spoiled.
None of these direful things occurred al
though every one was kept on the anxious
seat all morning, but about noon, the sky
cleared and the san smiled on the paraders
as if it, too, was glad to bs able to contribute
something towards making the parade
complete success.
The leaders of the Jersey City Army of
Sunday School children have always re-
GREETED that Jersey City possesses no big
space, no campus, no Champ de Mars, where
as in other cities, all the children in the city
can be reviewed in vast solid columns at
ones Since this city does not possess the
space yet (t may in time, now that its future
as TIE JERSEY CITY NEWS showed last
week is SO promising aud bright, Mr. J. g.
Forster, Commander-in-Ch and his cap
able aids were Obliged to divide the schools
into five brigades as it were, each COM
manded by marshal and sub officers
These brigades or divisions, as Mr.. Fors-
ster calls them, were composed Of schools il
the respective vicinities of Jersey axenua,
Van Worst Park, Sherman avenue, Bergen
Square and South Bergen, and these gave
the names to the divisions.
Schools in the first two divisions assem-
bled at three o'clock for review in Van
Worst PARK Those in the neighborhood of
Sherman avenue were reviewed there, and
SO on Wlb1 buo loiuatltH5 Two dlN ASloAo.
Two days ago THE NEWS printed the de-
tailed programme stating the assemblage of
the various schools and their line of march
So completely had the leaders carried out
the programme that to them must in a
great measure rebound the praise for SO
orderly and well-executed a procession as that
which passed the several reviewing stands.
; The teachers Of the schools must not
be forgotten, for they have devoted
much patience in making arrangements
and instilling proper esprit de corps and a
healthy rivalry among their charges to the
end that each school should endeavor to out
strip the other in appearance and discipline.
With such carefully studied arrangements
able people to carry the into effect, there is
not much wonder then that this fortieth
parade far eclipsed all preceding ones How
the children marched, how they looked, who
were there and who reviewed them, may be
learned by reading the subjoined veracious
history from the pens of THE NEWS repor-
ters, who in this, as in every other occasion,
are hic ct aLbi0ue