The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-10-11
DISCOVERY CELEBRATION Farades in New Haven by Knights of Columbus, To-
 night and Tomorrow
THOUSAND WILL GO
 FROM BRIDGEPORT
Italian Societies Parade Here Tn Morning Special
 Train for Knights

The first legal observance of Column | bus Day in this city will be tomorrow l when the banks the public schools, | the public library and city offices will close all day while the barber shops
 will close at noon. The big depart
 ment stores will keep open all day as
 usual and all of the principal business | houses will do likewise. In the morn
 ing all of the principal Italian socie-
 ties will parade here prior to going
 to New Haven to participate in the
 annual Columbus Day celebration of
 the Italian societies of the state.
 The societies including the Christo-
 pher Columbus Society, The George
 Dewey Society, Castlefranche Society,
 Assunta Society, Saetana Society, So- ciety of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel and | Court Roma Foresters of America, will | form in procession near Washington Park. Headed by the Coast Artillery | band and the Bridgeport Italian band the procession will march through the streets in East Bridgeport which are
 most densely settled by the Italian | residents and will come to the center of the city and march through the business center before boarding a spe- cial train for New Haven at Il o'clock The parade in New Haven will start
 
 cieties do not believe that Bridgeport should be without some kind of celebration tomorrow after the excel lent celebration it gave here last year. Therefore the parade will be given here in the morning. A number of the Italian women's societies will ride in carriages in the New Haven parade. The special train bearing the Bridge port Knights of Columbus to New Haven to take part in the Columbus Dou xx1i1 ha station at 9:20 tomorrow morning.
 The fare for the round trip will be 50 cents. The train is for the use of others, who are not Knights, who de- ] sire to attend the celehEatiQn- with Ithem.
 Final arrangements were made yes- | terday afternoon at meeting of Bridgeport Chapter, Knights of Co., lunbus, for the trip to New Haven to- morrow to take part in the Columbus Day state parade and other features of the celebration of Discovery Day, ! now a legal holiday. Over 500 signi- fled their intention of going to New Haven and with good weather the
 number is expected to exceed 1000. The time for the members of the five councils to assemble at the chapter house 871 Main street tomorrow morn ing, has been changed from S:30 to 8:15.
 In connection with the celebration
  | netting of the national directors of 1 the Knights of Columbus will be held at the national headquarters in Chap | e1 street this morning. This is the quarterly meeting, the first since the national convention held at Mobile. | Supreme Knight F1aherty of Philadel- phia will preside. Owing to the heavy calendar of business the board meeting
 may hold over into Wednesday. | Though tomorrow is the great day I<~f Iii &,-o- f,-,fS ion, <Nf
 the K. of c. in observance of the
 filth anniversary of the discovery of
 America by Columbus, one of the
 most important events of the celebra-
 ton. a fourth degree exemplification, | will take place at Music hall this af- ternoon at o'clock. There will be | fully 150 candidates to take this de- gree. About SO guests will attend. in
 cluding national directors and national
 officers. The members and candidates | will wear full dress.
 This function will be followed by a | short street parade in the center of the city, and a banquet at the Tontine.
 About 300 will attend the banquet. | Past Supreme Knights >Phelan and | Hearn have promised to be present. | Delegations from out of town coun- | ciIs, guests and visitors coming to see | the parades and attend the general | celebration are pouring into the city
 today, though most are expected to | 1 tions from Hartford will arrive on a
 special train at 9:S5 Tuesday and the | Meriden delegations at the same time. | The Tcrrington delegation is due 1 Tuesday morning at 9:5O.
 1 While the great parade will be the I biggest event of the day, which will be | most commonly enjoyed by everybody, | the other great event of the day will
 be the charity ball at the armory in
 the evening where one of the biggest | balls this city ever witnessed will wind up in blaze of glory: For a week | decorators have been at work in the
 armory and the committee have spar | ed neither pains nor expense on this
 detail of the celebration.
 | Over 1000 electric lights will illunlin-
 ate the building, the whole interior | of which is transformed into a fairy
 palace.
 | The rooms of the local aerie of
 Eagles at 132 Orange street, as well as | the club rooms of the St. Aloysius T.
 A. and B. on Chapel street will be
 thrown open to all Knights on Mon-
 day and Tuesday.
 The Circle of Daughters of Isabella
 will hold a reception at K. of c. hall,
 $50 Chapel street, from Il a. m. until 3 | open house on Columbus day as fol-
 lows: K. of c. chapter rooms, 913 | Orange street. near corner of Chapel l street; K. of c. national headquarters, | $50 Chapel street, oposite Green
 Knights of St. Patrick's club house.
 223 Orange street; Elks club, PIG l Crown street.
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