New-York tribune., 1907-06-07
COLER SAVES THE DAY
SO PARADE COMES OFF.
GoUernor Misses Brooklyn Children's
Celebration, but Bird Is There.

Beneath the cloudy sky. broken occasionally by
bursts Of sunlight. 10000 Sunday school children IN
white summer clothes paraded the streets and
parks OF Brooklyn yesterday IN honor OF anniver-
sary day. At the youngsters, marshalled by
their big sisters and their mothers began to
semble at the churches all over the borough. and
earlier in the day companies OF the great
army boarded trolley and with banners flying
and bands playing. rode of 10 Prospect Park.
Here. in the long meadow which runs for a mile
alone the western side, the principal review
occur.
The May walk began promptly at 2:3O o'clock and
for hour and half the twenty-th.ee divisions
marching from the 293 churches and the side
streets. whore they had been drawn up along tho
lire OF march before the ranks were filed Each
division had its marshal and its own reviewing
stand, where the prominent men Of the borough
and visitors from Of town stood while tho little
trotted past. While thousands OF sightseers
lined the sidewalks wherever the children to
be seen. the great ajority Of spectators crowded
Prospect Park.
Governor Hughes to have been the reviewing
officer at the stand I'm the long meadow near tho
plaza, but early in the day Chief Marshal c. H.
Rue received from Albany Il message explaining
tho Governors inability 10 attend and expressing
his regret.
The Duke of the Abruzzl had also been invited to
review the parade but the officials were compelled
TO content themselves with polite note of regret
But Brooklyn lacked not a man capable OF ris-
ing TO the demands OF tho hour. Borough Presi-
dent Coer slipped into the vacancy md saved the
day.
In the Prospect Park division were thirty-four
Sunday schools. with nearly twenty thousand pa
raiders. They entered the park from all directions
through the western and southern entrances cen
trlhS toward the rolling section of the meadow
path leading to the Sd and Union street entrances
Here the chief spectacle the day was to be seen
Led by their officers and Sunday school teachers
the children manHuvred over the wide field and
between the two sections of the grandstand their
white clothes cleaning against the dark back
ground of the grass and the trees. their blue and
red banners and silk flags futter!ng in the wind
and bands playing III every quarter.
Before half the long lines had been reviewed tho
leading schools were passing them on the return
march TO the churches. where cakes were under
gong violent treatment at the hands of benevolent
and attractive women and ice bricks were
slipping out Of their paper investments Erepara-
tory to annihilation And So amid the lneffective
efforts OF well-intentioned speakers the Jingle of
spoons and plates and hilarious shouts of the feast
crs for more" the celebration OF the seventy
eighth anniversary of the Brooklyn Sunday School
Union came to end toward suppertime
william Berri, owner of The Brooklyn Standard
Union" had prepared a lunch for the Governor and
about seventy-five others at the oxford Club La
fayette avenue and South Oxford street In the
Governors absence. the attention was divided be-
tween the Rev DR.. Hughes the Governors father.
dent of the Board Of Aldermen. and Bird s. Coler.
The chief speaker the Rev DIR. Theodore l.
Cuyler. the dean Of Brooklyn ministers
My health has been bad recently" said DR.
Cuyler, too bad to permit OF my taking part in
these exercises I would like to have done bur I
did want to grasp the hand of tho best Governor
who has been In the executive chair at Albany in
many, many years. l am sorry not to find him
here; but am glad to meet his father the frst
edition Of an upright honest and fearless man.
At las the guests were bundled into automobiles
and rushed to the reviewing stand in the park.
The Governors father and AsSemblyman Charles
F. Murphy were the reviewing officers the Hano-
Club. at Bedford avenue and Rodney street
passed. Nearly 24000 children and their teachers
who belong to the thirty-hve churches embraced
in the former Eastern District Sabbath School AS
ISOLATION affiliated with the Brooklyn Sunday
School Union. paraded from the fountain at Bed
ford and Division avenues to Hayward street,
whore tFe counter marching began. and on their
return through Bedford avenue the army was re-
viewed by prominent residents and officials at the
grandstand In front OF the Hanover Club and tie
reviewing stand at the fountain.
There was reception to the reviewing officers
ana invited guests at the Hanover Club after the
parade. In the throng of guests were many clergy
men. not only from Brooklyn, but from Nah
haitian
The Greenpoint Sunday schools turned out about
6oW children and teachers. The parade had two
Street, north or Norman avenue, and the second In
Norman avenue. east of Leonard street Both di-
visions marched and counter marched In leonard
street The grand marshal Seymour Sears OF
Methodist Episcopal Church headed the parade
The grandstand was at Norman avenue and IAon-
ard street, and the parade reviewed by many
prominent residents OF Greenpoint