Five Mile Beach weekly journal., 1908-10-16
FOUNDERS WEEK
Another Letter From Our PhiIa-
deIphia Correspondent

Hurrah well the festival of Foun-
der's week Is over. The weather es
wished for has been in every way high
ly favorable up to sunset on the last
day, Saturday. Then came notice
from the weather clerk that the good
spiggot could pass no more fine wealth
er, that the reservoir was empty and
down came a fine drizzle getting
heavier and heavier as the hours Of the
night progressed, but that did not in
terfere with the program for the
Knights Templer undaunted as the
Knights Of old carried out their part of
the festive proceedings, nor were their
acts unseen, for thousands were therein
the rain to witness the imposing cere-
monies. AS arranged, before midnight
the many thousand electric lights that
had illuminated City Hall so beauti-
fully were extinguished and every
thing vas dark; then unexpected,
came a grand surprise. Suddenly
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the Knight Templar emblem, the NAL
tese cross, cheered by the immense az
semblage. Then everybody went
home. Now we have danced and now
we will have to pay the piper. How
much? That we don't know yet but
will surely find out. 1t will be a con-
aid hIxy arcar onxn than xuoa ooIoula
ted, but the whole affair turned out
considerably more than the most ex-
pectant thought. 1t grew as it went
along to colossal proportions. The
Wednesdays Industrial parade as
shortly stated in my previous account
was indescribably beautiful all the way
effort of an industry car exhibit; for
instance, the iron workers showed the
progress Of it by representing the prim-
tive way Of working, then the iron
furnace in VIM. PENIS time and the
modern; the food products by the old
fashioned market shed and butcher
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house; the textile industry, an exhibit
OF carpets, rugs, laces, ETC.; the rubber
goods industry, natives In the tropics
tapping gum trees and then the man
ner Of manufacturing what they col
lected and the product OF their labors;
the brewers bad a representation of the
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temple, a brew shed in PENIS days
and the modern brewery together with
a bottling establishment; the exhibit
Of the Telegraph and Telephone COM
panies was "a rare one together with
other electrical exhibits. The was also
q combined show of the building
trades, or the leather manufacturing
and leather goods trades, Of the drug
and chemical, paint and oil trades, the
furniture and house decorative trades,
machinery and metal products, tobac-
co, clothing, soap manufacturing and
ice companies exhibits; the transporta-
ton from the old Couestoga wagon aud
hiob tOCOLlOLtNC W In AhOOClu BdSotIl-
ger cars. There were many other fea-
lures too numerous to mention here;
among the grandest were those of the
Baldwin locomotive works, Henry Dis
ston &sSons, ga vs. and other tools, Otto
gas engines and Bement miles works,
Singer sewing machinery, Fleishers
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the labor union parades took place over
tbs same route but that part was dis
appointing, in the first place in point
of numbers and then without notice
through within of their chief marshal
cutting the route short of the announce
ment, ignoring the presence of the
many thousands who were anxiously
wishing to see them at the upper end
of the announced route. There was in
short a lack of union spirit in the
union. On Thursday in honor of the
festival and the warvessels of the
United States, the river pageant took
place. Every available space along
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thuslastic spectators as well on the
New Jersey side as on the Philadel-
phia shore. The prettiest sight was
when the U. S. Ship, Sunflower, lead
ing the naval procession followed by
those large excursion steamers holding
several thousand persons, such as the
Columbia, Brandywine, Burlington,
Sylvan Dell, City of Chester, Bristol,
Clyde, Twilight and others had gone
up over the route on the Philadelphia
side and were coming down on the
New Jersey side with ferryboats cros-
sing both ways and launches between.
1t was literally a moving sight, while
the other boats of the procession were
sailing up on the Philadelphia side.
Our Israella boat was unfortunate in