The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-04
GREAT DAYS At PATCHOGuV.
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SufInRfime Jubilee has came'
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An suffolk county gathered In Patchogie
yesterday TO help tho villagers start their
threr days Trade Carnival. which tbs
pa'chogle Merchants Association have got
up TO let the wide world knew that Pat
chogue.tcrp are sitting up awake, thank
you, an hope you'll come right down now TO
spend The summer.
Flags dropped from Undertaken will
Danes house; banners OF the carnival
color-. green, yellow and white yellow,
green and white they were originally, but
Aloysius O'Seill had them changed few OF
Main street and the other thoroughfare.
Ocean VEN singls ngs' stuffed with folks
block traffic, and George Link has put n
~phonogrs;.n in the Old Oak Tavern for tbs
occasion,
Every time the visitor looked down Main
street he say Billy Bands one horse power
sloop rugged sta &c coming from the station
loaded to the backstairs with visitors.
ANY one that ever lived in Patchogue came
back TO town for the exercises, even Weasel
Dayton. who. after that laet affair, was old
positively and finally never to darken the
village doors again. Henry Roch. who
closed his Main street bakery in 1893 and
went TO Pea pack, n. D.. to become a pretzel
polisher. got of the train with Mrs. Roch
and eight little Rochs amid cheers Of well
come early in the day,
The Patchogue brass band, which consists
OF seventeen pieces sixteen horns and
Frank Donnelly the drlim-major-was
everywhere. The leader, Harry Weeks,
who works in the ~Patchogue post Office
all day and doubles in brass at night. got
his band on the programme for a regular
concert in front of Roe's Hotel at $50 p. NJ,
when the band played Moonlight" and
Wait Till the Sun Shines. Nellie" and he
, also gave irregular concerts during the
day whenever he had time 20 think of them.
There were to be two star attractions
yesterday, the Official opening Of the car
nival by Prof. NJ. A. Allen, Of Dansville,
who was to make a balloon ascension from
the baseball grounds. and a tight wire
performance on Main street. Besides these
there was a wine agent from the city in
town most till 9 O'Clock,
Thousands that hadn't heard Of the wine
agents presence went out to see the pro-
lessor going up. put were disappointed.
A strong land breeze was blowing SOU
southwest by SOU toward the ocean. The
professor has an engagement in Evansville
tonight. Nothing doing,
When the professor said he wasn't going
up all the crowd, except the committee in
-horoo ~ Tho uipa n oant bprriad from tha
ball park to Bartlett's Hotel porch to see
Prof. staraut and Lavardo do a daringly
dangerous and death defying tight wire
and slide for life performance. There was
30 much going on all over town at this time
that many Of the villagers forgot to 60
down to the station to see the 4:40 train
come in.
After the evening band concert on Main
street there we're s%tereopticon views on
Main street, and at sl5 p. NJ, there was a
vaudeville show on Main street.
Folks that think these carnival exercises
were all planned in a day are mistaken.
In tho first place Edwin Bailey, Jr president
of the village corporation, and Chairman
L. b. Green each had to make the original
suggestion to get up the affair, lmmedi-
ately committees were obliged to raise 500
in a week. Later It was announced that a
| Queen of the Carnival was to be elected
| by popular vote, which rave the men Of
the younger set much thought:
vote stood 1902 for Miss Edith Ginocchio
of the Patohogue Candy Castle-the first
girl 10 ride a horse astride on Long leland
TO l2,032 for Mics Doris .Wildsmith. the
lace makers candidate. The Queen and
her maids Of honor will occupy the leading
float of the industrial parade on Saturday.
The Patchogue, paper says they will be
call dressed In lace"
Plemmer Wilkinson, the Poet OF East
Patchogue, has been writing Jubilee songs
Il wrote a poem before this" he eaid
Yesterday, called WIZ Do I Liver When
il came back from the editor down to the
city he put in a note that said, Because
YOU sent this poem by mail instead Of bring
Ing It personally
Yesterday Plemmer wore a hard hat
P~atchoguese for derby-and a soft boiled
shirt that swelled with pride, while Plem-
mer told the reporter, OF the greatness OF
P~atohogue and her industries.
he said, aare Just like busy bees. just
take our laoe-oan any place at making
lace keep up our paoe2 In woodwork,
too, we really do a great deal, though our
here with cash because we never feed EN-
hash. And az for drink, they never think
in that respect we're on the blink But,
il you fear the water here, ~l-thanks-say,
Ed, make mine o beer
But no matter how folks try some one is
bound to kick. When Scim calkins drove
over from back Of Yaphank yesterday
afternoon he merely took one tim down
Main street, said HUH" n started Tor
home.
aPatchogue amt a name, anyway; it's
a sneeze, said Scim while waiting for Mrs.
Calkins TO bring the rig up to the Bartlett
house, where Scim had gone on q matter Of
business. when this village got up nerve
to give itself a name old Hiram Avery was
told by a committee to pick one from a list
Of Indian tribe names hereabouts. On the
list they give him was M~assapegua, Anna
gansett, Ronkonkoma, Shinecook and CO.
narie, an they give him a free, go's-fer-as-
you-Rke ch'ce. So he called the place Pat
chogue, which is a sneeze,"
Judge Arlington Carnan and Bill Graham
said that yesterday was not a marker to
tho things hat will happen o-day and
tomorrow.