The daily morning journal and courier., 1907-07-04
FIFE AND DRUM CORPS TAKE TOWN City Given Over for Field Day of Companies
 From All Parts
 of State. PRIZE AWARDS
 ARE ANNOUNCED Members Dance at Music Hall All Night to Celebrate Coming
 of Fourth.

The Yale professors of history decid- ed last night unanimously that it was not the help of Lafayette which car ried the day for the Americans in the Revolution, but the valiant work done by the fife and drum corps of, the Con tinenta1 army. With this decision there came increased admiration for the British, that they stood the turmoil so long.
 With blaze of glory the drum corps of Connecticut came and with a blaze of glory they passed away, after danc- ing all night at Music hall. The sep arate corps filled the streets Jointly with the country yokels and the city nighthawks in the observance of the coming of the Fourth.
 Then came the news of the capture of John D. Rockefeller at Pittsheld. Together all the corps united in deaf ening rendering of that grand old anv them ''When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again, Hurrah, Hurrah," and with careful hearts the lovers of bon fires poured generous quantities of Standard oil on heaps of flrewood wait ing to be burned.
 The only open engagement the drum corps got into last night was on Orange street, when a party of eight met a similar sized band of Indians, consist ing of students, come back for the summer school, The students coaxed the corps to play "Boola" on their flies, and to be accommodating the flfers commenced. The result was a cross between God Save the King and H"Fair Harvard" The students didn't appreciate this and drove the fifers from the field.
 Contests of every sort were held dur ing the day, and the results were an- nounced last night at Music hall. The first prize for the best ancient drum corps went to the Deep River company and the second to the American Graph ophone corps, of Bridgeport. The first prize for the best modern drum corps went to the T. A. B. corps, of Nauga- tuck, and the second to the Father Matthew corps, of Hartford. The Ori- ental corps, of Stamford, took the first and second prizes for flute bands. The first Drize for a fife and bugle corps ..,sfsF o.ss to the Marshal, Fife, Bugle and Drum corps, of Hartford Both the prizes for corps without flies went to Hartford companies, the Plimpton Man ufacturing company corps taking the first and the Charter Oak corps the sec- ond. F. Fancher, of Bridgeport, and L. Brewster, of Hartford, took, respective ly, the first and second prizes In the individual snare drum playing contests. One of the two New Haven victors was George Cook, of the Lancraft corps, who took first prize in the individual contest on the bass drum. George Becket, of the Liberty corps, Nek Brit ain, took second prize in this event. T. H. O'Connor, of Naugatuck, took first prize as individual modern flfer c. Tarr, of New Haven, took. the sec- ond. J. McCrann, of Liberty corps New Britain, took the first prize as n- dividual ancient f1fer o. Boon, of the regimental corps at Greenwich, took second. The Oriental corps, of Stam- ford took both prizes in the individual piccolo contest, E. Bernardin taking the first prize and A. Chavolot the sec ond c. Walter of New Britain, was judged the best baton swinger, and B. Wrinn, of Southington, took second. The Crescent corps, of Thomaston, took the prize for the most ancient costume, and the regimental corps, of Green wich, for being the best appearing corps.
 The judges were Burns Moors, of this city; William Ranford, of Walllngford, and Ned c. strouse, of this city.
 All through the morning corps from different towns and cities arrived and were escorted by delegations from the Lancraft drum corps to Music hall and then to the green. Preliminary practice was held there and the place resembled Boston Common. A large number of street vendors gathered In front of Center church and did big business.
 About Ii o'clock Acting Mayor John o. Johnson and other city hall officials reviewed the parade of the corps, standing in front of Trinity church. City Sheriff Kollerstrom held the ban her, which is kept at city hall for state occasions, over the head of the receiv- ing party, shading them from the heat of the sun.
 The corps passed along in line, with the Lancraft corps, of this city, as es- cort. The others in line were the Ori- ental flute and drum corps, of Stam- ford; Marshall fife and drum corps of Hartford Graphophone corps, of Bridgeport; Deep River fife and drum corps; regimental corps, of Greenwich; Glastonbury corps; Wallingford fife and drum corps; Union City fife and drum corps; St. Francis T. A. B. corps, Of Naugatuck; E. D. Fisk corps, of Deep River; Pratt-Reed fife and drum corps, of Deep River; Puritan fife and drum corps of Plainville; military corps, of Southington; National fife and drum corps, of New Britain; Stony Creek corps; Crescent fife and drum corps, of Thomaston; Pulasky corps, of Merlden; Liberty fife and drum corps, of New Britain; Eureka corps, of Plainville; Plimpton fife and drum corps, of Hartford; Father Matthews fife and drum corps, of Hartford and last, but not least. the Edwin Bancroft Foote Boys club fife and drum corps, of this city.