The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1900-05-19
COLUMBIA PARKS FLAG.
Elaborate Exercises Prepared
for Decoration Day.

At a meeting of the Columbia Park
Flag and Pole Committee last evening,
at Arrnbrusters Hotel, Greenyille
Schuetzen Park, the programme for the
flag raising exercises was arranged. A
provisional compazg of 100 men of the
Fourth Regiment, under the command OF
Captain Manuel LIera, will participate.
The company will be photographed at the
Armory and will then march along Ber-
gen to Duncan avenues, to the Boule-
ward, and then to Columbia Park, which
it lis scheduled to reach at 10 A. NJ The
color squad of the company Will raise
the flag After the exercises the COM
pany will march down PearsaH avenue
to Garfield, to Arlington, to Union street,
to Boyd avenue, to the Boulevard. along
the Boulevard to Clifford place, to Bergen
avenue, and thence to the Armory
The flag raising exercises will begin
promptly at 10 A. NJ, Decoration Day.
A temporary stand will be erected near
the pole The exercises will begin with
prayer by the Rev. J. J. Mcdowell rec
tor of St Paul's Roman Catholic Churcn'
after which an address will be delivered
nv the Rev Charles e. Allen of the
Greenyille Reformed Church. Following
this viii be the presentation of the flag
to the city by President Henry Gott-
hardt. Mayor Hoos will receive the nag
in behalf of the city and will deliver a
short address. The flag will then be
unfurled and salute of tWenty-one
bombs fired Following this will be pa
triotic addresses by ex-Judge Robert
Hudspeth and ex-Judge Henry Puster.
A reception committee of seventy-five
will be appointed at future meeting TO
care for the visitors. The committee ex-
poets that the spirit of patriotism Will De
abroad that day, and that vast crowd
will witness the exercises. While the
exercises are in progress the Jersey CITY
Letter Carriers Band will play patriotlc
airs The children who rendered the
committee valuable assistance by giving
an entertainment for the benefit OF the
fund will be presented with souvenir
badges, and will also be provided with re-
served seats near the speakers stand
At the meeting last night Treasurer Ho-
man reported that sufficient funds had
been collected to successfully carry the
project through. The committee has done
considerable hustling since its organ1za-
ton, and is naturally pleased with the
success attending its efforts. In ceieora-
ton of its success the committee Will holo
a social session at Armbruster's Hotel at
the conclusion of the fag-raising exel-
cises.
The flag pole and flag have been pur-
chased with funds raised by popular sub
scrintion. The residents of the west side
of the Greenville section, in WHICH Col
umbia Park is located, felt that thcir
Measure ground would be much more at
tractiye if adorned with handsome poe
and fag. and decided to procure them
Raising funds was trifie difficult, but
by persevering he committee succeeded,
and If will on Decoration Day have the
Measure of witnessing the success of the
project.
The pole will be furnished by Newark
firm. 1t is a lower and upper mast. The
main mast is or Oregon pine, and the top
mast is of spruce The total height
above ground will be 100 feet. 1t will be
erected near the centre of the park,
where the ground is high. A handsome
flag of best American navy bunting 2OxSo
feet will adorn the pole. The flag was
made by Bicycle Officer Nicholas Clemen-
son. who was a man-of-wars man before
he was appointed on the Police Depart
ment The committee is well pleased with
the flag.
The officers of the Pole Committee are:
Henry Gotthardt, president; Captain
William Zimmerman, vice president;
Adolph A. Langer, secretary, and John
Homan, treasurer. A special meeting
will be called some evening next week to
completes details for the exercises.