The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-11
BRILLIANT CARNIVAL
500 CRAFT IN LINE IN ELIZA
BETH WATER PAGEANT.
Thousands Witness Aquatic Display and
View Fireworks-Parade
Tonight.

bLlHABEIdi OCt. 1.-The greatest
carnival ever held on Staten Island
Sound, surprising in the number of
boats entered and magnificent illumina-
tons and decoration anything ever wit
messed on these waters before, con-
cluded the fourth days Old Home Week
festivities last night, and surpassed in
general excellence and the enjoyment
it furnished any other event of the
celebration. Fully 500 gaily-decorated
craft of all descriptions, from a tiny
rowboat to a putting steamboat. pa
raded in view of many thousands of
persons lined up on both shores of the
sound. 1t was a magnificent spectacle,
and came to a fitting close with a bril-
liant display of fireworks from a scow
in the sound, opposite the Elizabeth
Yacht Clubhouse, shortly after 8
o'clock.
Nearly every yacht club in Northern
New Jersey was represented in line,
and each Wed with the other in the at
Effectiveness of its display. Not a boa
in line was without its adornment of
and banners and bunting,
and all were enthusiastically cheered
| as they passed in view of the immense
throngs. From Buckwheat Island the
police boat Anette, containing Captain
Michael Beglan, who did much of the
work in connection with the carnival,
and the tug Hudson, containing Cap
tain William T. Cox, grand marshal,
and Captain Reuben Savidge I'M a
band of ten pieces, snorted its way up
the sound to Milliken's factory, opposite
the Central Railroad, and in its wake
followed the feet, two abreast, and
sailed slowly along, with the bands on
some of the larger motor boats playing
merrily and the thousands of spectators
cheering necessarily. The steamboats,,
several score in number, sent forth
their shrill,. ear-splitting blasts; the
motor boats shrieked saucily, and all
made such q medley of harmonious dis
cord as to drown the cheering along
shore.
AS the. first boat, with Captain Beglan
at the helm, passed before the Elizabeth
| Yacht Club house the fireworks display
was started, and a more brilliant spectacle
has not been witnessed in many a day
than was furnished by these 500 boats as
they snorted and puffed down stream in
the fantastic glare of all sorts of pyro-
technic. The fireworks were furnished by
Pain, of New York, who has a show on
the carnival grounds. AS each boat came
within the radius of the lurid glow its oc-
cupants were cheered by the thousands
massed on the shores and by the review
ing committee seated on a special stand
81 ected in front of the Elizabeth Yacht
Club.
All the members of the Board of Trade
and the Old Home Week committees, be-
sides every prominent official in town were
there, and everybody said they had never
seen anything like IT,.
Aides in the carnival were Captain Reu-
ben Savidge, of the first division; Captain
James Sheehan, of the second; Captain
Seeman Green, OF the fourth; Captain w.
c. Coleman, fifth, and Captain Archie Full
Ierton. sixth. The aides on the motorboats
were Commodore John j. Dooley, vice
Commodore Philip Burnett, George Coon,
William Laurie. Louis Kunzie and Michael
Beglan, all of the Elizabeth Yacht Club,
under whose auspices the carnival was
held. The several divisions were made Zip
as follows, not including the scores of In
dependent craft
First-Pollce boat Annette, Captain
Michael Beglan; tug Hudson, Captain Will
lam #. Cox. grand marshal, assisted by
Captain Reuben I. Savidge; Shifane, com
manded by. John j. Dooley; Lillian b.
Philip Burnett; Annie Laurie, William Lau-
rie; Sadie Madeline by George Coon; Early
Bird by Theodore During; Breeze by {.
Kohlmetz; Helen Drumm by Thomas
Drumm; Elizabeth by Charles Linn: Clara
by Charles Petreins; Hong Kong, Louis
Kunze; Edna X. by Morris Zimmerman;
Hazel w. by Charles West; Madeline F.
by Julius Frank.
Second-Tug p. /. Nevius, Captain James
Sheehan; Arrow, commanded by John Gull
ty; Dove, by Max Hentsch; Francis b., by
Charles Byron: Ella, by John Decker; Sill
yer Bell, Frank c.. Taylor. Martha, Edwin
March; Alma. George Schneider; G. Y. NJ,
by james Godfrey.
Third-Tug Mascotte, Captain Seaman
Green; Sarah G., commanded by John A.
Gibbons; Willie T., Charles Tieple; r. g.
D., A. C. Alareyer; Andy Payne. by
Thomas Payne; Two Johns, by Walter
Summerton; Red Jacket, Ainslee Long.
Fourth-Lighter Daniel McElroy, Captain
Daniel McI1lroy commanding; Ripple, by
Joseph Dillon; Marguerite, William Nc
Gowan; Flora M, William Marsh; Uncle
Sam, H.. Foster; Sylvia, Joseph Palmer,
Water Boy, August schulz.
Fifth-Tug w. c. Coleman, commanded
by Captain W. c. Coleman, towing the
boats of the Newark Bay and Central
Yacht clubs.
sixth-Tug Erie, commanded by Captain
Archie Fullerton, towing the boats of the
Passaic. Railway and Bensonhurst Yacht
clubs.
Tonight there will he a parade. The