The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-06-05
MAYOR WANSER EXPRESSES HIS PLEASURE

AS "The News went to press yester-
day the parade of the Jersey City Sunday
schools was going or. 1t was successful
in every respect. The parade had been
planned with an attention to detail which
left nothing to be desired. Each school
had been informed of the exact time to
leave its church and had each school left
at the time designated there would have
been no hitch. AS 1t was the lines We're
delayed twenty minutes at the entrance
OF Van Worst Park Until the dilatory
schools came into place. The Van Worst
Park division was the largest of the four.
There were eighteen school in the divi-
sion. The schools south of the railroad
We're formed into column A and the
schools north column 3. There was no
deviation from the order assigned. Each
school fell into the place in line desig-
mated and when the march had once start
ed there We're no gaps or breaks. Long
before the time for the schools to assem-
Die the police cleared the park and sta
toned at each path, kept back the crowds
that gathered at the sidewalks. Only those
bearing the magic cards of admission to
the reviewing stand were admitted with
IN the sacred precincts. and at them the
crowds gazed in awe and admiration. The
schools of column A formed on the east
or York street, with the head of the coli
umn at the park entrance in the middle
Of the block leading to the fountain, and
with the head Of the column at the same
entrance. As the columns reached their
stations the band stationed in the park
fountain, playing Liberty Bell" AT the
tountain the band left the line and the
columns, directed by. Division Marshal
about the park. AS tie schools reached
the fountain column A turned to the right.
marchea out to York street, back the
same pain 70 the fountain and down to
left ait the fountain, marched rs Mont
gomery street, back again and down to
barrow street. When both columns had
marched back the way they came inside
the line following in their wake. Arrived
at Jersey avenue, the two columns
PACK to the churches. The positions IF
the schools in the columns were:-
Soi4 II AsFree Reformed s. s.: Ger
fist 5; s; John Knox Presbyterian S. s.;
8 s.; Tabernaels s, S. Hsdding N. i. s.
zion ". E. s. s; German Reformed s. s.:
seeo I'D Pregsbyterian $ S; Grace T, Il, s.
~ 4 Ill ilC p p, 0cOIcn 1reSDY-
terrain S. s.; North Baptist S. s.: Cen
tenary M. E. s. S.
The two largest schools in the division
were the Tabernacle and the St. PanIs
Methodist. The Tabernacle line was a
little the longer, swelled as it was by
the Independent Cadets, the Columbia
Cadets, the Kings Sons and the Home
of the Homeless. Each of these schools
had between $50 and 500 in line. of the
IS schools in the division not one had less
than $50 in line, and most of them had
about 100.
Only one tangle occurred in the line.
Marshal Farrier was interchangeable and
succeeded in preventing all but this one
blunder. The German Church. in Column
B. when doubling at Barrow street,
doubled the wrong way and turned at the
fountain towards York street instead of
following the column to Montgomery
In consequence there was a tangle, from
which the school was finally extricated,
and Column B left the park a few min
utes later than Column A. 1t was Just
thirty minutes after the schools entered
the park that the last one left.
Altogether it was a beautiful sight. The
banners flying, the light dresses, and.
above all; or, rather, beneath the ban
/ ners, the happy faces of the little ones.
Marshal Forster and his aide, Mr.. Blake.
arrived at the stand when the schools
were about departing.