The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-10-12
SUN SMILES AS
THOUSANDS MARCH
IN HOLY PARADE
Anti-Profanity Crusaders Pack
Downtown Streets on
March.
LARGEST GATHERING In
HISTORY OF OBSERVANCE
Thirty-seven Societies Repre-
scented in Line-Speeches
at Bayley Lyceum.

Clear weather came as a great boon
to the thousands of Holy Name paraders
in this city yesterday.
God has blessed the -four annual
parades of the Holy Name societies
with fine weather." said a priest promi-
nent In the societies. Though 1t
rained on. Saturday night, we believed
that we would have pleasant weather
today, that God would favor the men
pledged to honor His name and not to
use Indecent language"
Though the sky was clouded in the
morning, the sun came out In the after
noon, Inc many thousand men in
thirty-seven societies, led by priests,
marched in the Holy Name parade,
bearing aloft their banners and pen
nants and American flags. Grand Mar
shall William F.. Mullin and his staff,
mounted. started from Summit street
N Breintnall place at 2:45 o'clock, pre-
coded by a dozen mounted police and
followed by the first division, St.
James's Society having the right of the
line, with a band and drum corps.
AT High, Grove, Plane and Washing
ton streets the five other divisions
wheeled into line in Market street, both
sidewalks of which were lined with
spectators and the buildings were deco
rated with the national colors. There
was a great crowd at the -Four Cor
ners, and on the march north up Broad
street and up Belleville avenue the
sidewalks We're crowded by men and
women, and they were massed in the
street in two lines from four to nine
deep the entire way. 1t was the same
on Bloomfield and Park nj The
men walked fast on the route, and it
tool them one hour and twelve min
utes to go from the starting point to
Ridge street and Park avenue.
Bishop John j. O'Connor, who wore
purple berretta, cape and cassock.
with fine lace undo the cape, reviewed
the societies from an armchair on the
wide porch of the steps at the second
story of Bayley Lyceum, with many
priests on either side of him and be-
hind. He removed his berretta and
bowed as each society lowered it's BAN
ner and its American flag as the men
barred their heads, bowed and raised
their blue and white pennants in pass
ing.
Paraders Form.
1t was nearly an hour and a half
when all the Holy Name societies,
senior and junior, We're massed in the
big vacant tract of land, three-fourths
of the large city block bounded by
Park and Clifton avenues II Ridge
street, behind the new cathedral of the
Sacred Heart, which fronts on Sixth
avenue facing that entrance to Branch
Brook Park. All the Holy Name men
could not get into the tract. Outside
many thousands of men and women
filled the emf the vacant lots,
covered the high terraces at the Hos
pital for Crippled Children and roofs
and porches of houses.
Bayley Lyceum was p%rofusely deco
rated with American flags, red, white
and blue bunting, Holy Name colors
alternating in front and on the east
side, where a temporary altar had been
erected on a big platform in o of
which thousands of men were packed
in a solid mass. When an EVENING
STAR photographer took views from
the platform the men raised their ban
ners and pennants bearing the letters
IL. y ot alilC q ioe9 Ia q AACfJ
Name banner on which were the words,
Eat the name of Jesus every knee
should bend"
Among the priests on the platform
with the bishop in front of the altar
were the Rev. Charles A. Smith, chan
cellor of Newark diocese; the Rev.
Isaac p. Whelan, the Rev. John p.
Callaghan, the Rev. Maurice p. O'Con-
nor, the Rev. John II. O'Rourke, s. j.,
of New York: the Very Rev. Dean
Cody, the Very Rev. ]. R. Meagher, o.
p; the Rev. NJ. P. Corcoran, president
of the Newark district of the Diocesan
Holy Name Society. and he secretary,
the Rev. Thomas A. Walsh; the Rev.
j. j. Sheehan. the Rev. A. L. Clark, the
REV. Frederick G. O'Neil. the Rev. E. A.
Martin. o. r.: the Rev. 7. A. McHenry.