The Newark star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1909, 1909-09-25
NEAR RIOT IN
RUSH FOR FETE


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had a place in the day parade and will
be on and for the night festivities.
Uzal II. McCarter, president of the
Fidelity Trust Company, took-about
forty of his friends on his steam yacht,
Old Nassau, which is in the big naval
parade today. Mr.. McCarter's guests
will dine on his yacht, which will take
part in the illuminated parade on the
river, when all vessels will be illumi-
mated with colored electric lights, fire.
works will be burned, and Manhattan
and Brooklyn buildings will be illumi-
mated. There will be displays of fire.
works on the New York and New Jer-
sey shores.
Leading State officials and men high
in the military life of the State were
today aboard the Portsmouth, vhicE
anchored directly opposite the review
ing stand at the foot of 10th street.,
North river.
Last night Governor Fort, Mrs. Fort
and Miss Margretta Fort. the Gov
ernor's daughter. and Acknowledgement
W. F. Sadler. jr., registered at the
Hotel Aston, New York. Adjutant-Gen-
eral Sadier has personal charge of the
party.
The New Jersey party was taken
aboard the Portsmouth from two tugs,
which left the Adams Express piers
in Jersey City at Has o'clock this
morning.
There were 200 persons aboard the
boat" said Adjutant-G General Sadler.
Besides the Governor and family and
a few of the Governors invited guests,
invitations were extended to the United
States Senator's. the State Senators and
their wives, the Speaker of the House,
members of the New Jersey Hudson
Fulton Commission and their wives,
General Wanser, Freeman Collins AMI
their respective staffs and the colonels
of all the regiments In the State and
their wives.
The Portsmouth, decorated in rain
bow fashion, attracted attention. 1t is
likely to be the last big function in
which the old ship will take part. The
Portsmouth was built In 1S43, and at
one time was q slave trader. She
served in the Algiers campaign, and all
through the Civil War she was used as
a training ship. In the late Spanish
American War she was abou to serve
as a hospital ship when peace was pro-
claimed.
1T will likely be the last act of the
old ship" said Adjutant-General Sad
Ter. 1--WE are trying now to get
from the government the warship
Princeton for the use of the First Bat
talon, New Jersey Naval Reserves.
We have been offered the use of sew
eral yachts. but they are not quite
large enough"
Many parties of Newark men and
women who went to Jersey City and
Hoboken up to noon today on Penn
sylvania, Central and Lackawanna
trains, and by the Plank Road trolley
cars, and also to the Palisades by way
of Kearny and H~ackenssck cars, car
ried lunch boxes n camp chairs.
More than a score of men said their
party would go to the Palisades along
the Jersey shore of the Hudson river
from above Weehawken TO near Fort
Lee to see the fleet of craft of all kinds
review the warships in the river
They intend. they said, to remain for
the Illuminated parade tonight, and
that was why they carried lunch-boyes
and camp-stools. Thousands more eX-
pected to leave Newark late this after
noon to see the night parade of vessels.
which is to start up the river from
Governors Island at Z o'clock.
Prominent citizens of Newark and
Essex county, as guests of the Friendly
Sons of st. Patrick, of New York, and
the New York State ranch of the
Irish American Historical Society, re-
viewed the naval parade from the
steamboat Asbury Park. Among the
Newarkers were Joseph M. Byrne and
former United States Senator James
Smith, jr.. who are members of the
Society of the Friendly Sons of st. Pat
rick, and jeremiah O'Rourke. John f.
bers of the Irish-American Historical
Society.
Another party of Newarkers saw
the parade from the lighter Lizzie
Henderson as the guests of the Wright
& Cobb Lighterage Company. The in
vitations were sent out yesterday by
Frank A. V~oullaire, the Newark
agent. Among those In the party v ere
Mr., and Mrs Edward N. Davis, Mr..
and Mrs. Joseph A.. Durkin, Mr..
and Mrs. George Alexander, Mr.. and
Mrs. w. r. Hart, Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas
Woodruff, Thomas L. Durkin, John G.
Morgan, Samuel McCurdy and son.,
Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob Scales, Richard c..
Rathbone. j. G. Shoemaker, Mr.. and
Mrs. Alvah W. Frazer, Benjamin
Lewis, Mr.. and Mrs. John j.. Collins.
Peter j. Smith, Mr.. and Mrs. Frank A.
youllaire and daughter. H. l.. C. Wenk
and w A. Koch.