The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1908-11-03
KING MOMUS
RULED TOWN
Jollity Was Supreme and
Everybody Had a Good
Time Friday Evening.
MANY FINE FLOATS in PARADE


motley crew held Morristown under
their sway Friday night. Thousands
of people crowded the sidewalks about
the park and the adjacent streets and
made merry with the aid of confetti
and other annoyers. It was good
natured throng and the police had
no trouble in handling it being aided
by the board of fire wardens.
At seven O'Clock the Morristown
band played concert on the park.
1t was nearly eight O'Clock before the
parade got under way. Grand Mar
shall Frank e. Pierson, preceded by
platoon of fire wardens mounted, led
the procession After them marched
/ the Morristown band with forty
pieces. and then came the throne float
bearing the king and queen of the car
nival, DR.. Robert Van d. Totten and
Miss Carrie Schweickhart. They we're
surrounded by soldiers and courtiers,
prominent among their protectors be-
ing w. Franklin Hartenstine, wear
ing burlesque "cop' costume.
1t was impossible to keep the mask
ers on foot in any kind. Of order and
they fell in and fell out at will. In
consequence they we're sprinkled all
along the line.
All kinds and styles Of costumes
were worn from Robert Jolley as a
skeleton and mounted upon a skeleton
horse, winning the silver stein offered
for the most grotesquely dressed man,
to Mrs. j. Leslie Shawger, who cap
tured the toilet set offered for the
ladies, wearing a mans costume OF
khaki, burnt cork on her face and Sc
dately marching along smoking a pipe.
Stiner Brothers won the silver cup
offered for the best business mems
float They had two little tots sitting
upright in a crib, wearing nighties
and with the inscription wide awake
grocers.n
The other cup, offered for the best
appearing organization went to the
Morris Light Infantry. Their float
illustrated the Birth and Life of our
4 Flag" /" Betsy Ross" was represented
on q high pedestal sitting on an old
fashion chair sewing on the first flag
with an old fashion spinning wheel by
her side. In front of her was repre-
sented the Spirit of '76'' from which
she is supposed to get her inspiration.
Grouped about Betsy Ross" we're
soldiers representing the U. S. soldier
as he was in each of our principle wars
from '76, to the present time, namely,
1776, 1872, Mexican, Civil, Spanish
American Wars and the modern sol
dier up-to-date. 1st Sergeant Butler,
organizer and drill master of the COM
pany designed and arranged the float.
Merritt Lacey impersonated Uncle
Sam James d. Rennick, a continen-
tai Thomas f. Morris was Betsy
Ross" Henry Moreland, Frank Frost
and William Stewart presented the
\ tabeau "The Spirit of '76" William
E. Foster represented the war of 1872;
Harry Weir the Mexican war; Howard
Millen and Joseph Penn the Civil war !;
} Morgan Morris and John Vanderberg
the Spanish-American war, and Rob
ert Dickson the modern o. S. soldier
A detail of light infantry men accom-
panied the float.
: A float that made big hit with the
spectators was the first trolley car in
: MorriStown as represented by the
: Knockers club. 1t was a good repre-
sentation of trolley car, despite the
! fact that " Motorman" Henry Hedden
) handled pair of reins instead of a
controller and an airbrake. Robert
Hipson was the conductor. and the
passengers included Harry zwinger as
policeman; Walter Selvage, an Es-
quimo; Raymond Mills, sailor; Wal
ter Melick, dude Campbell Voorhees,,
negro and several other members of
the club in citizens clothing.
The ID. d." club made a fine ap-
pearance, having float full of witches.
The Jaqui Company, A. w. Theiler's
Sons, John X. Boniface, Moding and
Company, the French Millinery, Pier
sons Laundry, Jacob Stiner, A. APP
gar, all had prettily decorated floats
and delivery wagons in the pageant.
The line of march was down Wash
ington street to Atno avenue, to Early
street, to Speedwell avenue, to the
park, to Market street, to Maple ayen-
ne, to James street, to South street,
to the park. From there the process
sion went down Morris street, to Elm
street to South street and disbanded
| in front of the Miller building. The
judges, who awarded the prizes, were
Wilbur +. Day, jr., John K. Boniface
and DIR. Gustav A. Becker.
After lively battle with the ballots
! Miss Carrie Schweikhart was elected
queen and Dr. Robert ". d. Totten
was chosen king. Miss Schweikhart
received 42,O44 votes and DR.. Totten
3S, ,344. The vote for other leading
candidates was e. Allan Carpenter, 20,-
129: Ferdinand Titus, 13,807; Cornelius
r. Maloney, 3,794; Miss Margaret
Keefe, 27, ,724 Miss Emma Loree, 5,941.
A total of 15l, 1888 ballots were cast for
the seven leaders. The result was in
doubt until the last ballot was counted
for thousands of votes were deposited
on Wednesday evening just before the
| nnliS closed The iudQeS Wilhur H.