The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-05-10
HONORS FOR
 THE LEARNED
 BLACKSMITH Peace Advocates Fittingly Cele- brate Centennial of Elihu
 Burritt in New Britain. NATIONAL REPRESENTATIVES,
 GARLAND HIS GRAVE Monster School and Civic Parade Usher in Memorial Exercises at Fairview Cemetery.
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 New Britain, May 10.-Thousands today and journeyed to the grave of Elihu Burritt. the learned blacksmith and peace advocate, whose centennial was fittingly celebrated under the aus pices of the New England Arbitration and Peace Congress.
 Never in the history of the town has one of it's citizens been so signally honored The town for days has been decorated extravagantly. the public buildings being decked in flags at the public expense and private residences at the expense of the owners. The delegates who attended the ceremonies represented the leading peace enthu- s1asts from all parts of New England and many other sections of the country. The delegates to the peace congress left on their pilgrimage in automobiles as soon as they finished lunch, follow ing a strenuous morning session in Hartford Fully 200 machines went from the capital city to New Britain. The delegates assembled in Walnut Hill Park. where they received sou venirs. The delegates then made a tour of the town taking iii every place the monster school and civic parade with fully 5000 persons ir the march. The parade for the extravaganza of it's floats and other decorative parapher- nalia has scarcely ever been surpassed in New England.
 Nearly 5000 children from the New Britain schools. followed by platoons of police, band and the carriages of the notables present formed large part of the procession.
 After passing through the principal streets of the town the parade arrived of EVoi at resentatives of the nations who re- member Burritt as having drafted the charter for the League of the Un1ver- sal Brotherhood of Man.. paid tribute to the great peace advocate.
 Burritt's grave was literally snoth- cred with wreaths and chaplets and flowers. and as the representative of each nation stepped forward he or she placed a wreath and flag on the grave. The following countries were represented at the ceremonies by men and women dressed in national cos tune and bearing national insignia: England Germany, France. Holland, Ireland, Italy, Denmark, Russia. China. Persia, Greece. L4ithuania Armenia. Sweden, Scotland. and the United States.
 The ceremonies at the grave con- from the public schools and an address by James Brown Scott. solicitor gen. eral of the State Department, Wash ington, D. C., in which the speaker outlined the life of the famous Burritt and urged the formation of many more peace societies to carry forward the ideas he inaugurated in this and other countries.
 One of the most impressive features of the celebration was the presence of thousands of foreigners who join ed with equal enthusiasm in the tri- 1J1fa fn 10 of hn Q preacher of the universal brother hood doctrine. The foreigners play ed an important part in the parade, many of their societies taking part in the second division. In every section of the great parade there was some- attention. Following the Burritt Peace Army of boys and girls and the carriages of the notables came a continuous line of floats, typifying peace in one form or another. "The Arts of Peace'- headed the floats, ar Iccal High School. Peace and the Nations followed. to which 50 young women in white typifying 50 nations were connected with ribbons to a rep resentation of Peace"
 The rear was brought up by the few remaining members of the Veter- an F'iremen's Association, appearing
 
 dragging along after them the old fashioned fire fighting apparatus
 This evening the delegates and in vited guests will be served supper at the South, Center and Methodist Church dining rooms At 7:45 o'clock parallel meetings will be held in the Center and South Churches and the celebration will be closed in a fitting manner.
 Four addresses were delivered at the peace congress session in Hartford this morning. Mrs. Lucia Ames Mead, Boston, and Miss Fannie Fern An drews, secretary of the American School Peace League, Boston, discussed the part we must play in bringing about universal peace. The conclud- ing address was by President John M. Thomas of Middlebury College, Vermont. on ''The Dynamic Of a Suc- cessful World Peace Movement