The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-06-02
PLANS COMPLETE
FOR JUNE WALK Of
$1,000 CHILDREN
Eighty Sunday Schools Will Be
Represented in Festiyity
on Saturday.
BRANCH BROOK DIVISION
INCLUDES FULLY 5000
Mayor HaussIing, City Officials
and Pastors to Review Pa
rade from G~randstand.

Arrangements were today completed
for the great parade of Sunday school
children for next Saturday. More than
5000 children will join in the June
walk, which is to be an annual affair.
These children will represent the
classes in more THAI eighty different
Sunday schools.
The walk of the Branch Brook
division will be in Branch Brook Park
and 1t is expected that more than 5000
children, including every department,
from babes in carriages pushed by
their mothers, to the home classes, will
be in the demonstration.
This division is composed of the fol-
lowing schools:
Western misunderstanding Baptist.
Roseville M. E.. and Fifth Avenue
Presbyterian.
Eastern Section United Presby-
terrain, Centenary M. E., Belleville Ave
nue. Congregational, Mount Pleasant
Baptist and Eighth Avenue NJ. E.
Southern Section (over to Bank
street)-Wieklife Presbyterian, West
Presbyterian and Paramount Baptist.
They will assemble on the terraces in
front of the band stand at the west
side of the lake, arriving on the
grounds by schools, with the marshal's
aides at its head, followed by the SUI
peTintendent, pastor, official boards, a
cache at the head of each class, with
banners n flags floating, and bands
of music playing martial airs at $3.50 p.
m. The parade will form, and at AIS
sharp will move at a signal from Mar
shall Rowland, who, with his assistant
marshal, Major Palmer, preceded by the
consolidated bands, will lead off, fol-
lowed by his special aides and the
schools In the order In which they ar
rive On the grounds.
Line of March.
The line of march will be over the
green lawns of the park, passing in re-
view, the grand stand, on which will
be seated the invited guests, including
Mayor Haussling, prominent citizens
and pastors of the city, and out-of-
town churches; also a delegation
headed by the grand marshal of the
Brooklyn parade, who will TAX part
in the exercises with a brief address.
After massing the children in front
of the grand stand at AIS, the eXer-
cises will promptly commence.
The program is arranged for two or
three five or ten minute addresses,
singing patriotic and other hymns, and
reading a short Psalm, preceded by a
prayer offered by one of the clergy
men. Mr.. Wheaton, chairman of the
program committee, will preside, and
addresses will be made by the Rev.
Joseph Hunter, of Fifth Avenue Pres
byterian Church, and the Rev. DIR.
Mead, of the Centenary NJ. e. Church.
The people along the Linz of march
in each section of the division are re-
quested to cooperate by putting out
their flags, thus helping to make it a
great gala day and encourage the man
ayers as we'll as the children in this
demonstration of Sunday school work.
The lines of march of the different
sections of this division will be as fol-
lows:
South s~ection-Boston street and
Thirteenth avenue, up Thirteenth ave-
nue. to Paramount avenue, Paramount
avenue and Thirteenth avenue, through
Paramount avenue and Third street to
Orange street, Orange street to Eighth
avenue, to south entrance of park.
West -section-Gray and Warren
lt1 W ~ RtAR1Af AtAA 1tANNN
to Bathgate place, Bathgate place to
Seventh avenue, Seventh venue To
Roseville avenue, Roseville avenue to
Park avenue, Park avenue to ran
Brook Park.
East ~section-Starts at Kearny street
and Summer avenue, through Kearny
street to Garside street, GarSide street
to Park avenue and Park avenue to
park.
The United Presbyterian and Belle
Vile Avenue Congregational, from
Beleville avenue and Governor street,
through Belleville avenue to Kearny
street, then to Summer avenue; and Mt.
Pleasant Baptist go through Belleville
avenue to Kearny street, then Kearny
street to Summer avenue. The Eighth
Avenue M. E., through Summer ave-
nue. to Centenary Church, where they
will meet the Kearny contingent and
proceed to the park.
To Serve Refreshments.
At the close of the exercises the
several schools will be dismissed and
proceed to their own church, where re-
freshments will be served by a COM
mittee of ladies.
Captain William S. S. Rowland. for
merly of the New York militia, is the
marshal of this division, assisted by
Major Palmer, a member at the pres
ent time of a New York military or
g~anization, both of whom have courte-
ously volunteered their services for
the occasion. Grand Marshal Cooper
and his deputies will arrive during the
services, and review the demonstra-
tion.