Evening journal., 1912-10-10


The firms that participated in the
parade included:
Charles Warner Company, Bancroft
and Sons Company, Wilmington and
Philadelphia Traction Company, VIII
mington Gas Company, Delaware and
Atlantic Telephone and Telegraph co.
Morris Electric Company. Held
and Company, Bavarian Brewing Com
pany, George w. Bush and Sons Com
pany, Lobdell Car Wheel Company,
Retail Grocers Exchange, Hart and
Brothers Company, John c. Wilson,
Sisler and Company.
Peoples settlement, White Brothers
Wilmington Automobile Company
Benjamin + Shaw Company Hart
mann and Fehrenbach, James Brad
ford Company, Megary and Son Com
pany, Gomery-Schwart Motor Car
Company, Brosius and Smedley. Auto
Sales Company, Atlantic Refining
company, James Meharg Kennard and
Company, ID. Ross and Son, FOord
Bottling Company. Mcmahon Broth
ers, Franklin j. Murphy, Delaware
Terra Gotta Company, George Charles
Trump Brothers Machine Company
Robinson and Moore Adams Express
Company, Miller Brothers.
Hammond Laundry Company
Stoeckle Brewing Company. Fleich.
man Company, Armour and Company
Sulzberger g. Sons Company. United
States Express Company, Ogden-How-
ard Company Western Union Tele-
graph Company. George II. Huber Il
] II. Pusey Company. Turner Brother.
Laundry, Tyson Brothers. s. M. Keen
Wilmington Provision Company, Loe
ber's Picking Works, w c. Wilson
Eleventh Ward Bottling Works, Cole
Spring Ice and Coal Company, vii
liam II. Smalley, /. X. l.. Laundry.
Phone Girls in Line.
The Wilmington Steamboat Com
pany made creditable showing. On,
of the busiest floats in line was tha
of the Wilmington aud Philadelphi;
Traction Company, showing thre,
girls engaged receiving calls an,
talking over the wire. The animate,
conversations they appeared to b
having with supposed persons on thu
other end Of the wire gave the i'm
preston that the phones really wer'
connected.
Probably the most handsome foa
in line was that of the Bavariai
Brewing Company. It showed a seem
in Germany with two men and twi
women in German dress seate,
around a table .quailing beer fron
stone mugs and stems.
Another pretty float was that of tn
Peoples Settlement, while one fron
the Hartmann and Fehrenbach Brew
ing Company attracted much atten
tion.
The NJ. Megary and Son Compap
had a beautifully decorated wagon il
line as also did the Odgen-Howar
Company.
White Brothers had display O
machinery that was operated wit
gasoline engines showing the differen
lines Of goods sold by that firm.
The Christiana Lumber Compan
had a float in line which cause
, much laughter. On the float was
. lwash basket containing a small col
[ ored boy logged out as a baby. Aboy
> him read Watch Us Grow" Th
: smile of the "baby's" face was of IN
kind that won't come Off"
B The Joseph Bancroft and Sons Con
= lpany exhibited float containing san
| pies of all the goods it manufacture
while the Wilmington Gas COmpar
r had a decidedly pretty float in lin
: Bush and Sons Company had q flOi
q containing a small boat which was
y facsimile of the first boat used by Il
. company in its freight business b.
4 tween Wilmington and Philadelphia
The Lobdell Car Wheel Compar
|, also had pretty float in line COZ
!, tanning the products of that cOncer
j. ID. Sisler Company made a goo
: showing. Kennard and Company
float was decorated in yellow and WI
. beautiful. The Delaware Terra Cot
n Company had a big exhibit, includiI
l. wagon ON which men went throul
II the motions OF pressing bricks. III
o Flelschman Company, had a very pre-
ty exhibit in a delivery wagon cover
n with paper carnations. The wagon hi
10 23O0 pink and white carnations
|. it.
3. The line OF parade was crowd
lr with people thousands lining the Gu
A. all over the route. That the procC
I. sion was one of the best Witnessed
"a Wilmington I'm long time was [
l general opinion today Much of t
!, affair is due to Col. Slower, the gra
L marshal. and ]. Frank White {
~ chairman of the parade committee
III Council, who have been untiring
e. their efforts to make this parade
~ success,