Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-06-07
TOWN IS READY
FOR CELEBRATION
Bloomfield Will Begin Its Gen.
tenniaI Observance with Big
Parade Monday.

the centennial celebration In Bloomfield
will be begun Monday afternoon with a
parade and drill of the school children,
the program for which has been com
pleted with a great amount of labor.
This will be one of the biggest events Of
the celebration. The parade will start
at 3;45 p. IN. The educational commit
tee OF the general celebration committee
will be in charge.
The chairman is Geolge Morris, super
%intendent of schools, and Miss Jessie NJ.
Colfax is secretary. Other members of
the committee are: Charles A. Hunger
ford. James c. Brown and Clarence =.
Van Wrinkle. Captain w. S. s. Rowland
Will be marshal of the parade ana his
special aides will be Roscoe r. johnson,
w, Addison Holt, John f. Max1eld and
Theodore Todd Maxtield. The marshal's
aides from the respective schools will be
as follows: High, Otto j. Walroth;
Brookslde, Edison j. Lawrence; Berkeley,
Harold H. Phillips; Sacred Heart, Her
man zeigler; st. Valentine. Andrew Ia
krenski; Centre, Bertrand O'Connell;
Brookdale, Frederick S.. Bush; Silver
Lake, James e. Wilson; Watsessing, 8.
=. Morton; Fairview. William Il. La
Quay.
The parade will form at Broad and Ben
son streets and the line Of march will
be a short one. The pupils of the High
School will conapese the first division, and
Its Subdivisions will be as follows:
Group of pupils wearing school colors
and carrying their respective pennants;
second, group of pupils carrying ban
ners and suggesting different sections OF
the United States, as follows:
First, a band of Puritans headed by
{ John Alden, Priscilla and Miles Standish,
representing New England; second, the
Dutch of early Manhattan, led by Hen
dirk Hudson, the latter's son and one OF
his sailors; third, William Penn and a
party Of Quakers from Pennsylvania. to-
(. gether with a band of Indians; fourth,
senior class, introducing characters from
Virginia /; NTH, cowboys and cotton pick
ers from Texas; sixth, Daniel Boone. pio-
neer Of the Middle West, accompanied
by farmers aud milkmaids; seventh, band
of ~'forty-ninersp; eighth, party of luin-
bernien representing the Northwest;
ninth, Alaskan miners and Esquimaux;
tenth, representatives from Porto Aico
and the island possessions; Anal of first
division, Uncle Sam, wearing the Stars
and Stripes.
Brookside School pupils win comprise
the second division.
/ In the third division will be Berkeley
School pupils and its special feature will
be a float showing the original berkeley
School, a group of little gardeners, a
troop of brownies and fairies.
Town Improvement Association division,
baseball boys and nurses, flagday patriots.
float decorated with national %colors, mem
bers of graduating class.
The Sacred Heart pupils headed by the
Bloomfield Centenary Cadets will make up
the fourth division, an army and nav
division and q union of nations" illus
of the nationalities honoring the
centennial as follows: Germany, France,
ireland, Scotland, Italy, Spain, England
md America.
st. Valentines School will comprise the
NTH division and there will be imper-
sensations of General Washington and
Kosciusko followed by pupils costumed
appropriately.
h sixth division of the parade Is al
lotted to the pupils of Centre School and