Norwich bulletin., 1911-07-05

Founder Hon. Guilford Smith and Of
ficers of the executive board in car
riage; Chief Edward Card and driver
in Concord buggy: s. W. f. Depart
ment, 80 men, with spick and span
new uniforms; steamer drawn by four
horses: followed by two badger hose
or chemical wagons; S. W. f. d, sup
ply wagon.
Third division-Lyman Names Con-
solidated drum corps, comprising the
pick of the drummers and fifers from
the old Nathan Hale, East Hampton
and Wiliimantic drum corps, under
the leadership of Lyman Maine, II
men in aiI-fand you could hear. them
all dayD The drums were decorated
with small American flags and the
men We're in shirtsleeyes rolled back
for business. Grand Army men in
three seated buckboard; another Wag-
on depicting Boys of 81 with stacked
muskets and flag; other veterans of
Francis J.. Long post. No. 80, g. A. r.,
IN carriages; Woman's Relief corps,
No %. open carriage, dainty decorat-
ed with canopy of white handker-
chiefs, the spclSes of the wheels wound
with haBdl<erchiefs, neat and dainty
effect Four ladies rode in this car
riage; d. A. r. float with spinning
wheel, trimmed in red, white and blue,
five young girls riding therein: depict
ing Betsy Ross making first American
flag.
Attractive Floats.
Floats from the First Congregation
al church-SOdalitas in letters woven
with ram bier roses carried by twenty
girls dressed in white, with Maypole
and streamers; Grex club, d crowd of
club boys standing on tiers that were
covered with green and white, boys
holding lEdicrous signs; float, Queens
of Avalon and X K. club, body of
float trimmed with greens and sup
porting a canopy Of red. white and
blue and American fIkgs; float of
Willimantic Woman's club green and
white, in which four young ladies and
Il young girls rode, representing art,
literature, music and ciyics; handsome
artificial flowers added to the beauty
of this float; across the rear of the
float was the motto, For mutual good
and mutual need; float of the Ladies
of the Maccabees. open carriage daint-
lily trimmed in red. white and blue, lin
which rode four ladies carrying Jap
anese parasCls; float of Societa Ital-
lana. open earr12g e, prettily dressed
in the American and Italian national
colors, in which rode Rev. NJ. ].
Lynch ard four members. of the So
ciety: the side of the carriage bore
the inscription Scotia Italiana Oper
ala Iii Mutun Socorso St. Michele"
Knights of King Arthur float. boys
dressed to represent band Of aborigi-
scene. Pilgrims of Avalon, float, rep
resenting an insane float, al 1.-The small
boys being fit subjects for the hos
pital. having bandages upon various
parts of their anatomy, but supremacy
happy nevertheless, red white and blue
predominated with the red cross in
the decorations of this float; the
PAGES of Arthur rode with the Pill
grims.
TaftviIe Society in Line.
st. Jean Baptiste society of Taft
vile, nine men mounted. under COM
mand of Capt. Isadore Boucher: Bal
tic band, % men, F. E. GaFceau, drum
major: St. Jean Baptiste of Baltic,
% men, in charge of Louis Fontaine,
chairman: open carriage with officers
ST. Jean Baptiste society of TaftVille;
st. Jean Baptiste of TaftvilIe, 10 men,
marching; Court ST, Mary. f. of A,
of Willimantic, 30 men: Consiel ST.
Cecile ct Florimond float, ladies rid
ing and men marching; this float was
one of the prettiesr in the procession
decorated in colonnade style, wound
with Sandstone steamers; float of
Garde Ste. Cecile. perhaps one of the
prettiest. if not the most elaborate
made up of cardboard ,atticeWorlz
style, with a BACKGROUND of green
crepe paper and festoons and artifi-
eial chrysarthenums in baskets be-
tween the screens; eight young ladies
as pretty as the float rode there;
Court Florida float, No. 14S, l. o. F.,
trimmed in red. white and blue and
adorned with greens, American and
French flags; the Owls float. a four
horse team wagon owned by Coutu
Bros. and decorated with evergreen
and birds of the order. followed by an
unknown trapper on foot with his
catch of skins; Herbert Wells came
next. dressed to represent an American
Indian and was mounted.
Norwich Band Leading.
| Fifth division-Tubbs' Military
band of Norwich, % men, c. A. Potter,
drum major; Societe st. Jean de Bap-
tiste of Willimantic. marching body of
| 50 men with President Alphonse Chag-
non in commando; carriage with off
GERS of the Polish society, with Rev.
| O. e. Beaumeister riding; st. Joseph's
Polish society in charge of Marshal
Stanley Nowak, seventy strong.
marching. The men all wore white
+. caps. white shirts. and dark trousers,
| Wore belts and carried canes They
also carried the American flag, as did
| every ereanizat ton in. line The caps
| We're trimmed with a neat band of red,
| white and blue. This organization was
| one of the best marching bodies in line
outside of the regular soldiers of the