The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-10-04
IS
READY FOR
BIG TIME \
Old Home Week to Show
Creation That The City
Is Some Pumpkins.

IL ~ DE@s
here is in readiness for the celebration
of Old Home Week. which begins on
Sunday with special services in every
: church and continues until the Satur-
day following. The main business
streets are a riot of flags and bunting,
the decorations surprising anything
lever seen in the city, just as the eele-
bration is expected to surpass by far
all others in its history.
Fraternal organizations, societies,
clubs and organizations of every kim
are on edge for the celebration to
begin, for all have planned to take
prominent parts. On no similar event
in years have the people of Elizabeth
so centered their interest as upon this
coming festival. It is Elizabeth's first
formal attempt at playing the host to
the wanderers from its gates, and 1T
docs not mean to fail to favorably
acquit itself in its initial effort.
For months committees, numbering
six score of the clty's most prominent
citizens. have been perfectinG the de-
tails for the monster festival under the
direction of an u~ntiring executive COM
mittee, and if careful, conscientious,
enthusiastic and whole-hearted efforts
lOflDS BuCCcSS l1S OlQ I1OIilt WIN a
Infval will be the greatest ever wit
messed in the State.
Everything that goes to make per-
feet a popular jubilee has been thought
Of by these committees, from a pro-
gram of athletic sports, in which some
of the greatest athletes in the country
will participate, to a German music,
festival, in which every singing So
ciety in the city will a k part.
Whatever slight feeling of opposition
to the project at first existed, due to
the fear that it might degenerate into
a Coney Island sort of Mard Gras, has
entirely disappeared, because it
been demonstrated conclusively that
the celebration is not to be a mere car
nival, but rather a sober, if merry,
Jubilee of thanksgiving for the accom-
plishments of the last twenty years
and a. demonstration to the world at
large that Elizabeth is a ~wide-awake
American city.
Every effort has been made to max
this a real Old Home Week, and in
vitations have been sent to every part
of the country where former Eliza
bethaps have gone n search of fame
and fortune. While it is extremely diff
cult to make this feature the predomi-
nant one in a city near a metropolis
like New York, the committee believes
that there will be a considerable num-
Der of former residents as visitors, and
assurances of attendance have been
received from as far away as Mexico
and California.
There will be during the week four
parades, and each in its way is ex-
pected to surpass anything of a SINH
lar character previously witnessed in
Elizabeth. Monday afternoon there will
be a. civic parade in which nearly every
fraternal organization n also every
business house will be represented.
Friday evening there will be a Mardi
Gras procession in which thousands
will participate. and for which fifteen
handsome floats have been prepared.
Thursday evening, under. the auspices
of the Elizabeth Yacht Club, there will
be a gorgeous water carnival on Staten
Island Sound, in which boat clubs from
every BART of New Jersey and New
York will take part, and on the closing
evening of the celebration in automo-
bile parade will be seen in which some
500 machines will participate.
These four spectacles alone would
make the celebration notable, but the
program is more versatile than that,
and a glance at the following con-
densed list of events for each day will
show why Elizabethans are so conf
dent that this is going to be the great
est time in the history of the city:
Sunday-Special services in all the
churches; free organ recital in st.
Patrick's Church.
MISUNDERSTANDING of the carnival
grounds where every sort of amuse-
ment will be found from a cane rack to
a trained animal show, or 1.-THE Fall
of Pompeii," a spectacle which at
tracted much attention at Manhattan
Beach during h past summer; crown
ing of the queen of the carnival in the
presence of many men of State promi-
nence, at 1870 p. M; military and civic
parade following.
Tuesday-Baseball for the champion
ship of the city; annual national con-
vention of the Young Men Union. at
which representatives of branches in
twenty States will be present, meeting
to be held in Y. M. C. Lyceum on Court
street, with Bishop O'Connor offici-
ating.
Wednesday-Parade of Young Mems
Catholic Union, in which nearly all
Catholics in Elizabeth will take part;
songfest and entertainment of the Lied
r. CA lii AL
societies on carnival grounds beginning
at 8 p. M; professional baseball for
city championship.
Thursday-Day free for features
on the carnival grounds: water carni-
val in evening on Staten islam Sound
under m~arshalship of Captain William
T. Cox, concluding with costly exhibit
ton of fireworks.
Friday-Mardi Gras carnival at 7
p. M, which is expected to be by far
the greatest feature of the celebration.
Saturday-Day devoted chiefly to field
sports, for which athletes of note lave
been entered and will compete for alu
able prizes; Illuminated parade of auto
mobiles in evening.
There will be numerous other attrac-
ions besides these, two Of which are
worth special mention, an exhibition Of
the work of the school children of Eliz-
abeth, prepared under the direction of
former Superintendent DR.. William ].
Shearer, and an industrial exhibit in
which sixty local mercantile establish
ments will be represented on the carni-
val grounds, the first exhibition of the
kind ever seen in this city.