The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-07-03
IN OLD BLOOMFIELD
BIG PARADE AND ATHLETIC
M TOMORROW.
Fourth Annual Celebration Under Aus
pioes of the Board of Trade Expected
to Eclipse All Others.

Tomorrow's big old-fashioned celebra-
ton In Bloomfield will be the fourth an
nual event of its kind under the direction
of the Bloomfield Board of Trade.
Theodore II. Ward, chairman of the gen.
eral committee. has been ably assisted in
preparing for it by such men as Harry L..
Osborne, who has handled the money; Sam
uel 6. Hayter, secretary of the general
committee and also chairman of the parade
committee; Hugh d. King. chairman of
the sports committee: Seymour P. Gilbert,
Matthew McCroddan, Charles Vogellus,
Fred Storms and Others.
The day will begin with the sunrise
salute fired by the Bloomfield Battery.
The parade will start from Bloomfield ave-
nue. and Liberty street at $50 q. M. The
grand marshal will be Colonel George w.
Cadmus and Colonel. s. @. Evans will be
acknowledgement. Colonel Evans was four
teen years in the United States cavalry
service and was with General Custer In the
indian wars In the Western country. IT
Is expected that there Will be four uni
formed companies of Knights of Phythias,
under the of Brigndier-General
Hitchcock, of Newark; Eureka Lodge, *.
or r, and five or six companies of uni
formed members of the Jr. o. u. A. NJ.
The police will head the procession, fol-
lowed by. Franks celebrated brass band.
Then will come an organization Of THE
Council No. IA, Jr. o. L. A. NJ; Bloom
held Camp, Modern Woodmen of America,
II uniform, chief Forester Bollenbach;
Montgomery Cadets. Mayor Sutphen ana
the Town Councilmen will likely ride in
open carriages. Then for the first time
the old veterans of William S. Pierson
will ride In carriages provided for them.
They will be followed by tho Bloomfield
Battery; the Colored Republican Club, $50
strong; the Dark Town Fire Brigade, the
z. p. G.'s. Jerome Fire Fighters, the
Brookdale Flotilla, Captain Fred Stymas;
the Bloomfield fire department, led by Chief
engineer b. F. Higgins and three assistant
engineers. The indications are that the
Business Mems Brigade will comprise some
very Interesting features and that ul the
vehicles that appear will be decorated,
some very elaborately. The line will be
formed On Bloomfield avenue, right rest
men will form In front of the truck house.
The Business Mems Brigade will form on
state street. facing south, right resting on
Liberty street.
The line of march will be from Bloom
field avenue to Liberty street, to Wash
ington avenue, to Thomas street, to Lin
Bloomfield avenue, to Orange street, to
ank street. to Washington avenue, to
Broad street, to Belleville avenue. to
Spruce street, to Montgomery avenue, to
the lower end. The fire department and
other contingents will proceed along
Williamson avenue to Liberty street, and
from thence dispense; There will be public
aeter upon the arrival of the column.
The parade will disband at Williamson
Field. where the patriotic exercises
Church will take place, President William
Biggart of the Board of Trade will pre-
side. Patriotic hymns will be sung and
the grafton will be delivered by the Rev.
Stirling Potter, of the First Baptist
Church.
There will be a baseball game on Will
hanson Field in the morning between the