Perth Amboy evening news. [volume] (Perth Amboy, N.J.) 1903-1959, 1909-10-04
GH|LDREN'S FESTIVALS
IN PLEASANT PLAINS
AND IN TOTTENVILLE
Hundreds in Line
and Thousands
Applaud.
EXERCISES AND PARADE
speolaI to tAs EVENINe NEwa.

Special to the EVENING NEWS.
Tottenville, Oct. At is estimated
that more than 700 school children
from public schools No. /, Tottenville,
and No. 2, Richmond Valley; and ST
Louis Academy in Main street, Totten.
Vilie, took part in the childrens festival
IN Iottenville Saturday afternoon. All
OF the youngsters were in costume,
many being dressed like Henry Hud.
son, many as Robert Fulton. scores al
Indians and others impersonatinQ cef.
ebrities of the past and Illustrating
the customs In America in the last 3O0
years.
The parade, which started promptly
at o'clock from Main street and
Arents avenue, was participated in hv
many others besides the children, who
walked with them in the procession.
The whole place swarmed with cele.
brants, as 1t was Children = Dav
throughout the entire city. Over 1000
people gathered on the rink field.
i where exercises appropriate to the dis.
covery of the Hudson river by Henry
Hudson and the Tooth celebration Of
/ the navigation by steam of Robert
Fulton first boat, were held. The
parade was one Of the grandest of it's
kind that Tottenville has ever seen.
Many people from out of town stood
along the curbs to witness it as il
passed by and to cheer the children in
their quaint garb. There were seven
floats, each representing a different pc.
rlod from the early days of Henry Hud.
son to the present time.
The procession wac headed bv
squad or police under the command Of
Lieutenant John L. Pearse, of the 9eth
Precinct station, followed by the COM
mittee in charge of Chairman Charles
A. Marshall and the Tottenville band.
which made up the first division.
In the second division was the Auue-
houga float, in charge of Charles M.
Winant and Mrs W. ID. Frerichs
There were many boys and girls on
horseback and about fifty on foot fol.
lowing the float, dressed in Indian eos.
tune. The float represented the early
days of the Aquehouga Indians on Sta
ten Island and Hu1s6a = welenme y
the Redskins. Next came the Dutch
4 float representing colonial life on sta
ten Island. Mrs. Stephen H. Cossey
was in charge.
This was followed by the Richmond
Valley float in charge Of Mrs Max Be-
dell, which represented the Half Moon
on its first ascent up the Hudson. The
English float, which came next, and
was in charge Of Mrs. A. r. Campbell
and Miss Blanche Brown, showed the
surrender Of Peter Stuyvesant to the
English in 1904. Following the hoaH
were twelve English dancing girls, the
town crier, IN a cart, with lantern and
bell,and an English May-pole float,
with fifty boys and girls carrying Eng
lish flags. The Revolutionary ColoniM
float in charge of Mrs. r. w Wood gnd
Mrs. Charles Higbee, of the SPhilemon
Literary and Historical Society de.
4 picted Revolutionary times and the
conference of Admiral Lord Howe with
Benjamin Franklin, John Adams and
/ Edward Rutledge at the BilIop house,
1 Lord Howe' was attended by two
British soldiers in costume. A feature
OF the float were two couples in cos
Times of the period and fifty or moro
/ boys and girls carrying flags
The English Colonial float led by the
Washington Fife and Drum Corps, of
Tottenville, was in charge of Mrs q.
W. Slaight and Mrs. Calvin Videon. It
represented Fulton explaining the
I iHOuci VI his htedAHDpdI 10 iJlNlUEBI0u4
After the float came girls as folk
dancers and fifty or more girls and
boys as American pioneers The ST.
Louis Academy float, representing the
present time, came last, with Uncle
Sam, Miss Columbia Father Knicker-
booker soldiers and sailors, and fol.
lowed by pony cart and boys aud ,girls
with American flags. AS the floats en-
tered the grounds after the parade they
formed in Half Moon effect, after
which the audience, accompanied by
the hand, sang America
| After an address by Chairman Mar
shall, a salute to the flag by the chill
dren took place This was followed by
the tahleaux Of the different floats;
snake dance by twelve girls in costume;
singing of festival song composed by
Walter G. Moon; Dutch dance by four
girls; Maypole dance by eight girls;
minuet by six girls in costume; boat
dance by eight girls; and singing by
the children Of st. Louis Academy An
address was also made by Mr. Moon,
who was the assistant Hudson Fulton
parade commissioner Of this borough.
/ At the close of the program the
"Star Spangled Banner was sung by
all and large American flag was un-
furled in front Of the stand on which
the exercises were held. Many wagons
and automobiles followed in the pa
rade and all along the line of march
houses and places Of business were dec
Grated with American flags, bunting
and Hudson-Fulton flags.
Some Of those on the stand from optr
of town were Superintendent y g.
Bardwell, of the schools Of ths-sD0f-
ouqh; DIR. Arthur Holkok AID Ralph
Mckee, Of the local hoart Of eduea-
ton
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