The daily morning journal and courier., 1902-08-22

and the whole display bore the ear marks of MT. Jewells ingenuity and originality. This display was under the direction of Manager Stewart. The Strong, Barnes & Hart Co. dis play included thirty horses, and sixteen trucks all decorated. On one live bull dressed and bedecked in ribbons of gay colors rode, calmly viewing the crowds on the sidewalk, and on another a tame lamb, also beribboned, ate from the hand of an attendant, while on a third wagon a performer entirely lack ing in skill made continuous attempt to play tunes on a flute of ancient desgn and build.
 The Connecticut Fruit and Provision Go. had eight wagons loaded with fruit. One wagon contained load of water melons. seated on which were a. half dozen colored boys busily engaged in eating melons to their hearts content. The New England Dairy Co. had sev- enteen wagons in line.
 The Merwin Provision Co. carried an elaborate display of hams, becon and bologna mounted on a six-horse truck. Their display included sixteen wagons, in one of which two live hogs were en- toying themselves.
 Oscar Boettger, Turney 6 Bomster, Dahan, Hasse, W. N. Hubbard, New Haven Public Market, Otto Dieter and others had displays in the procession. Frederick Brothers had one of the l most artistic displays in the parade. It was a display of fruit and vegetables arranged in an open delivery wagon. Hahn's pies were shown with eight wagons, and the H. L. Hardy & Co. l showed six wagons, one of which car- ried tandem team.
 Henry Copperthite, successor to H. H. Olds, showed eight wagons, the New England Dairy Co. seventeen wagons ! and the various ice companies also large numbers.
 1 The New Haven Beef Co. with every employe dressed in blue had three car riages and some seven trucks. Armour & Co. had four trucks in line and the display was followed by the Cudahy Packing company of Chicago with two trucks and plumed horses. The Hayt Beef and Produce company ended the wholesale meat dealers display with several wagons each bearing the state ment that the concern was operated by New Haven men and that the desire was to furnish New Haven people with goods.
 The display of the Connecticut Fruit and Produce company was commenda- ble from every point of view. Seven trucks, all decorated, were in line, and 1 m tho caooY1H a Ixyae IoI termelons, fifteen little "coons' or picca- ninnies ate slices of the juicy fruit or vegetable, or whatever it is in the dic- tionary, while the procession passed the streets. The little negro boys were the envy of every child on the sidewalk, and many adults were willing to change :, places with them for a while. In the same display was an entire truck with luscious fruit, grapes, plums and dates. It made one feel good just to look at that wagon.
 The big wholesalers were conspicuous by the plainness of their display, the majority of them contenting themselves with sending their trucks. out empty but the retailers more than made up for the discrepancy by decorating their wagons in gay colors and sending them out along the line of march. The Fair Haven Food Co.,, manufacturers of Ready Bits" had Smedley's automo- bile pied high with empty boxes and filled in the interior with white cloth caps bearing the words Ready Bits," but the operators of the contrivance lost the parade and the display was not in line when the parade finally got started. The men II the wagon threw thousands of the caps out into the streets, and the small boys gathered them in and wore them, fine adver- tsement for the dish. On the front seat on the vehicle was boy who must weigh at least half ton. His egs were as big as flour barrel, and when he desired to look at anything he had to rase two fat hands and pull down half a dozen layers of flesh from his eyes, His voice was high soprano. The crowds on the sidewalk decided that he was not New Haven product all though they admired him.
 A unique display was that of Conrad Rausch. It consisted of a chariot made of a flour barrel for the wheels, a soap box for the platform and decrepd mule for motive power. The driver was a boy of tender years with most for mdable expression and likewise for bidding looking whip. The display looked as much like a sample copy of a road roller as anything, and it made more noise than the real thing.
 The parade moved as follows:
 Sixteen Cowboys.
 Platoon of Police.
 Old Guard Band.
 Marshall Steitz and r Aides. Four Hacks with Committee and May l or.
 The Booth Meat Go.
 New Haven Apron Supply Co.
 MMOnarch Laundry.
 Merwn Provson Co.
 Strong, Barnes, Hart & Co.,
 H. L. Handy & Co.
 Schwaeschld & Sulzerberger Beef Co.
 New Haven Beef Co.
 Armour & Co.
 The Cudahy Packing Go.
 The Hoyt Beef and Provision Go. New Haven Baking Go.
 The Connecticut News Bureau.
 Fleischman & Co.
 Simon J. Hugo.
 Ploehn's.
 Charles Hutler.