The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-05-29
BIG GALA DAY IN
EAST ORANGE FOR
JUNE s. s. PARADE
All the Protestant Church Bells
in the City Will Ring in
the Event.
PROCESSION in PARKWAY
TO FOLLOW EXERCISES
Full Announcement of Details for
Next Saturdays Great
Affair.

East Orange will play an important
part in the first Jun celebration of the
Essex County Sunday School Associa-
ton, to be held on Saturday afternoon.
June 6, in which close to SO, 900 sun
day school children and teachers will
march in various parts of the county
to the martial air of bands, with ban
ners and flags waving.
In East Orange the celebration will
begin at 2 p. m. with the ringing of all
the Protestant church bells throughout
the city. There will be four centers where
the different schools of that city will
congregate. At these various centres
there will be fourteen or fifteen schools
each, and similar exercises will be held
in each place. These exercises will
consist of responsive reading, singing
of hymns and addresses by the promi-
neht ministers and laymen.
The points of congregation will be as
follows;
At the Brick Presbyterian Church.
1890, the following schools will gather:
Brick Presbyterian, First Reformed,
Sanford Street Methodist, Swedish Free
Congregational n Trinity Congrega-
tional.
At the Arlington Avenue P~resbyte-
rian Church at 2:45: Prospect Street
Baptist and st. Pauls Protestant Epis-
copal.
At the Park Avenue Methodist
Church at 3; Arlington Avenue Presby-
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At the First Baptist Church at 8 there
will be several of the schools, although
all of these have not yet been decided
on, this decision not being complete.
When these exercises are over the
various schools will go directly to the
Parkway, where they will fall in line,
and with several bands leading them
they will march through the Parkway
past the reviewing stand and finally
disperse to their various churches,
where refreshments will be served and
the exercises concluded.
The procession will begin about
4 p. m. at the beginning of the Park
way, and will extend the length of the
Parkway. AS the marchers pass the
reviewing stand, which will be in the
Parkway, they will be reviewed by
various persons prominent in religious,
political and civic affairs. These will
possibly include the Governor, and it is
a positive fact that the Mayor and
the City Council will be on hand in
the reviewing stand.
Arrangements have beer made to
decorate the line of march along the
various streets, n especially along
the Parkway, and the citizens are
asked to cooperate in this direction.
making June 6 a gala day, and every
one in East Orange who owns a flag
is asked. to have it out that day. The
Parkway itself will be decorated. and
these poles flags and steamers will
be flying. Add to his the bright faces
of the children, the variegated coloring
of their dresses with flying flags and
playing bands, and the line of march
crowded with interested mothers and
fathers, with the streets crowded with
onlookers, and the inspiring part of the
parade car be easily appreciated.
As a preliminary of the parade itself
in East Orange there will be a band
concert in the Parkway from $3.50 to
p. M. Should the day prove stormy
there will be no general gathering for
march, but each of the schools will
in its own church, where exercises
will be held and refreshments served.
George H. Neidlinger, of $50 North
Arlington street. is marshal for the
East Orange division, with Ralph Pet
erson as his secretary and assistant. :