The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-08-26

| vision marched to the centre of the
| stage and executed a difficult maneuver
while the 700 little girls marched
| through the aisles and appeared on the
| platform from the mouths of caves and
grottoes.
The band paused in the lively march
II was playing, an 20 the music of
fife and drum. puartuated by bugle
calls. three hundred rough riders, boys
8 to IL years of age, marched through
the aisles to the centre of the platform.
There they went through a drill and
exercises which brought down the great
crowd In a tumult of applause. Tho
children formed In line. the gipsies
forming the rear line In single file, the
girls In white dresses next and the
Rough Riders" each with his Quaker
| gun, in front.
There was a moment of silence in
| which a whisper could have been easily
heard. Then from LOO childish threats
came the notes of yankee Doodle
| Boy" in a great volume of sound which
! drowned the music of the band and
filed the Auditorium with such q
chorus as it had never heard before.
1t lasted but a few moments, when an
answering roar, swelling into a din,
came back from the big audience. Quiet
reigned again for a m n then
came the answering notes of the
chorus.
Audience Joins In.
Back and forth between audience
and singers swayed the chorus. A trio
gave time for the audience to collect
its senses and the next number, the
chorus "R~epentance' was unmarried lay
the terrific cheering which had inter-
rupted the first.
After an hours concert came the
grand finale. "A Night in Camp and
1.-THE Peace Congress of Nations"
There was heard In the distance the
bugle sounding taps, and the electric
lights were gradually put out until the
place was almost in total darkness.
with the exception of the tiny lights
in the caves. One Of the chimes in the
organ gave out 10 o'clock. A male
voice quartet, consisting of Archibald
p. Hackett, Willis Marloe-Jones, Mark
ham Talmage and Donald Chalmers,
sang unaccompanied back of the or
gan my Old Kentucky Home;r the
children sang very softly annie
Laurie" the adult festival chorus,
which was seated under the gallery in
the rear of the Auditorium, sang "a
Soldiers Farewell" and the male voice
quartet again sang I'VE Are Tenting
Tonight" the refrain being repeated
by the festival chorus in tho rear. max
ing a most beautiful effect. The chill
dren then sang "Then You'll Remember
Me- The Auditorium Quartet. con-
sisting of Grace Underwood. Marie Still
well. Archibald Hackett and Donald
Chalmers, sang behind the organ
Dixie Land" which at once called
forth a round of cheers.
Choruses of All Nations.
During this time the gypsy girls in
the rear had disappeared or either side
m INTO the caves, where they were
ready for the next scene. The orchestra
struc up the national German anthem.
Watch on the Rhine" when in trooped
a company of twenty-four girls carry
ing the German flag. Then came the
French flag TO the "Marseillaise." fol-
lowed by the Russian and then the Eng
fish flags. The Goddess of Liberty, Miss
Mary f.. Lambert. assembled a high
pedestal back of the heart, and on either
side came twenty young women dressed
i'm Grecian robes and each bearing an
American banner, and at the same time
on the lower platform the band of
gypsies came out with the American
flags. The electric flag in the rear
flashed out it's light, the great white
heart threw a flood of light over the
platform, and the Goddess Of Liberty.
whose crown and shield were studded
with electric lights, suddenly blazed out
in glory. Sousa's stars and Stripes
Forever" was being played by the or
chestra and the organ, and as a final
boom to the already Immense enthu-
siasm the chorus of children lifted up
before them long strips of bunting.
which formed a large American flag
which covered the entire chorus from
the extreme north to the south. This
flag they moved In rhythm to the music.
The audience was on its feet shouting
like mad, and then the entire scene
ended by singing THE Star SpangIed
Banner by the chorus and the au-
dience.
Visitors at Resort.
Registered at the Norman House are
7. Babbige and Miss A.. y. Morn
of East Orange. and the Misses
Amelia Eichorn and Elizabeth Heiss,
of Newark.
Stopping at the Aurora from Newark
are Miss Constance Louder, James r..
Mcknight and Mrs. Mcknight.
Visitors at the Ormond include Mrs.
l.. Bullenart, OF Orange.
At the Langdon, where they will re-
main until after Labor Day. are Mrs.
r. Lyon n Miss Bertha T.. Lyon. Of
Newark.
n. j. Hill, of East Orange. is sojourn-
ing at the Arborton.