The sun., 1908-07-05
R0gND BROOK HISTORY FIXED
a, oo.yoR TELLS WHY T WAS
." "yISHINGTON VENT THERE. =.
:, s,.u,. the Railroads Hal Told the Gen'
" s,al whcre to Find the Best vacation
u,oo.--Hut the StuDcndous Parade
nv. Even More Exciting Than That.

nan George Washington spent Roou
u'n =, the spring of l777 at Bound Brook.
Gm-Iy because he didn't want to
y, ,,h n lot Of low British that were
W." ..,rs IN at all Of the best hotels in At
"n,ic City and cluttering up the mountain
resorts, ,,s,l ,ha ..s, 30
y,,, will find it stated variously in
.'.."r;es W.. of the United States by Ridpath.
t1,' nS, Nve Bancroft and Helen Green. All
=, these historians agree that Bound Brook
t,nnened merely to be one OF tho low
Iun,ns that the coarse and uncaltured
pI,isb weren't hogging at the time Gen.
W,.hnuton might have put in the spring
', ,comeryilIe, at Flagtown or at Metuohen,
h,t he happened to select Bound Brook,
@ ..., II, m Bound Brook as n likely place to
s,,sb no his bridge play in the long even
;nas With Baron Steuben and TO freshen his
aoW which happened at that time to he
Considerably on the fritz.
consequently the Independence Day adj
4,s.s delivered by the Hon. Douglass Doty
~ ,hs Century yesterday afternoon at the
warrington camp grounds just outside OF
po,nd Brook, before an assemblage which
4 .s.ohsd half way down the Watching
Maintain sounded like boasting. Mr.. Doty
said in part;
Toward the last OF May. l777. Gen. Wash
,,ator feeling that he was about to become
,hs Father OF his country lcheersl applied
~ ,hs general passenger agents Of several
,,,rt line railroads lapplausel for suggestions
=. n a suitable and comfortable resort to
which he might retire for season. Jap
nausel 1t is u noteworthy fact. and one
which should stir our hearts to tempestous
pride renewed applause and voice: On.
rou Doty,"l In our fair municipality. which is.
/ may remark In passing, no mean city. that
tho nasssn ger agents of the Jersey Central.
tbe Erie and the Pennsylvania recommended
Round Brook to Gen. Washington as the ideal
mace for a spring vacation. II seems inter
sstins to recall at this time. more than i3l
years after the correspondence between Gen.
Washington and the railway experts, the
roints Of attractveness attributed by these
gentlemen to our fair city. namely, to wit
~ convenient garages for high power auto
y mobiles,
Cheap gasolene.
Plain and fancy drinks up to A. NJ
Ticker service,
Coil, tennis, craps. bank and other forms of
athletics.
1t isn't necessary to quote any more of
Mr.. Doty's address to make clear Bound
Brooks chestiness about this accidental
visit Of Mr.. Washingtons The town has
been celebrating that event every Fourth of
July and the biggest part Of the celebration
is the reading of Washington's Farewell
Address by the Rev. P. c. Bascom, who was
made up yesterday, as for years past, to
represent G. w. Raritan. New Brunswick.
Metuchen, Finderne. Skillman and lot Of
towns around Somerset and Middlesex
counties pretend to celebrate the Fourth.
but most Of their citizens have got in the
habit Of sneaking over to Bound Brook
and declaring in on the Bound Brokers
annual racket.
Long before Grand Marshal Hank OPP
dycke headed the noted milk wagon steed
Piedmont Fannie toward Main street and
the payrade got a move on the streets
Of Bound Brook were crowded with folks
from lees favored centres of Jersey culture.
and as you drove along with Jim Dunbar
past the Berkeley Hotel and Charley Ka-
Gsch's tailor shop, where cleaning and re-
pairing is neatly done, and Hoppock's ice
cream parlor you could hear the excited
murmurings of girls in white organdie
and'pnk sashes. girls in pink organdie
and white sashes. girls in plain white, girls
in plain pink and girls in Empire dresses,
1907 model;
oh, Gurrrrlllsl Here come the soldiersl
There's Ed Bryan. Oh, look at Ed Bryan!
Why. you wouldn't hardly know Ed, would
your And will you look at Ellis Parker
Butler. Isn't he just grand!'
All the side streets were clogged with
hoais and decorated automobiles and wagon
loads Of Columbias and Uncle Sans and
the Sister States and little girls with moist
laces and hair quite stringy from the heat.
And every now and then Grand Marshal
HANK 0pdycke or his assistant grand mar
shas, Harry Donovan, Harvey j. O'Hig-
gins, the writer; W, H. Whiting, Willie
srsa Meafe eS, and Guy Briggs galloped their lath-
ered horses furiously up and down Main
street into Mountain avenue and then into
hlgh street, below ing orders:
= an this Jake kreyhngs butcher float?
AZ nght Gen. Opdycke presents his COM
pnments and requests Capt. Kreyling to
move his float along the left flank, in open
G%raer. %. until he arrives at the junction Of
high street and Mountain avenue, when
ne VIII Join the main column. Darn it,
Sase! Cans you drop that string of sausage
nng enough to salute an officer2 Giddap,
you Succotash!'
N, it was about the liveliest parade and
GTsaeoration in the history Of Bound Brook.
Jun lumbar has seen EN- all for good
many years, ever since he quit running a
poomotiye ON the Rock Island and went
ao tne real estate and livery business in
tne town, and Jim allowed there had never
Deeh nuthin' TO ekil it.
SANDING In front Of the Berkeley Hotel,
rnste the barkeeps and the coon porters
haa Knocked of work and were rubbering
h hhom the porch, while indignant patrons
aa.nilnered auied on the bar and hammered un-
o,,ILney ., ,L lot drinks, one got the best view
lhe parade. There was also Jim Dun
gar, big. red faced, good humored and yery
S.., Svocn, 70 explain who was who and what
we. % what in the passing show. Jim pointed
III number OF proud horsemen who owed
H.. b. money, not as a knock by any means.
v;a;,O ~ because It occurred to Mr.. Dunbar that
insa.S isos would like every possible detail of
p.nIt rast there was the Rittenhouse Military
d. me way from Trenton TO make a Hound
IN ip1S Ms holiday. Consider the drum major
No rS II. scarlet trappngs, for it is 10 TO s and
tSsrpa p,aee pettng that not in all Jersey was
Sa S'ie ms like. Maybe he toiled not, but
canoa ulo spin his walnut baton. Then
company NJ, Second Regiment.
mud ~ A. " under Capt. Koehler, whose
forea,oed ro,ored Khaki served exoellently as
a'aMalson Drake. "' -
acsuo uenerai was small and brown and
besG ~ rs M lox squirrel. He tutted at the
and actiS Ci seventeen equally small and brown
and 1IGAVe I1Ve Old men, their bagRy trousers
snio,nbhiue que trimmed jackets making CAV
MSnes Mnes OF color in the line.