Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-12-18
XMAS PAGEANT
PLANS ELABORATE
Churches, Lodges and Schools
to Take Part in Municipal
Tree Program.


cieties of the city will take part in
the elaborate pageant of the Munich
pal Christmas Tree Association in
Military Park from Christmas eve to
New Years eve.
The plans were practically COM
pieted yesterday b. the program
; committee at meeting in the Board
OF Trade rooms.
Carl Bannwart, secretary of the as
ISOLATION and chairman of the pro-
gram committee, will present the tree
on Christmas night, and it will be
accepted by Mayor Jacob Haussling
Rt. Rev. Edwin S. Lines, bishop of
the Newark diocese of the Episcopal
CHURCH. has accepted the invitation
to offer a dedicatory prayer at the
christmas night celebration.
On the recommendation of Mrs.
george j. Holmes, chairman of the
lighting committee, it was decided to
nave three-foot star on the top of
the Christmas tree. The ornament
VIII cost about $35. To further bring
the spirit of the movement into the
various homes throughout the city the
committee on program decided to have
io,OOO buttons made and have them
distributed among the school children.
Those in charge of the Christmas
night program are Rev. Charles N
Inomas, pastor of the West Side
Presbyterian Church, chairman Mrs.
Charles r. G. Smith, the president of
the association, and Wa r j. Kidd.
The list of subscribers to the Mu-
nicipal Christmas Tree yesterday is:
previously acknowledged, $521.;
christian Feigenspan, Inc, $25; Pro-
gressive City Committee STEPS; Will
lam b. Kinney, $40; A. V. Hamburg,
30; Frederick Frelighuysen, $40;
Charles g. Ellsworth, SIS; Albert
Colonel j. w. Howard, SIS; Mercer c.
Johnston. So; Aaron Ward e. Sons
$5; Herbert P. Gleason, So; j. London
Craig, $780, George w. DeLisser, 50;
A. ID. Page, 50, Spencer S. Marsh, So;
w J. Morgan, ST. A Friend, 81; Mrs
Frank w. Moore, 81; DIR. Theodore
w Corwin, 81; Miss Annie L. ITCH
B. Fowler, 81; Miss Pine, ST.; J. AL
fred Wilson, ST. John r. Hardin, 81;
Total, $64175.
The complete program for the cele-
hration follows:
Wednesday, December "a christmas
Eye)-Tree lighted, 6 to u p. m. City to
be divided into. 14O districts of eight
blocks each. The churches to which the
respective district are assigned to send
out bands of children as carol singers, one
bandf for each district. These children to
sing Christmas carols for about twenty
minutes or half an hour in their district,
either about to 1880 O'Clock Christmas
Eve or on Christmas morning. This part
of the program to be under the general
direction of DR.. Carl III. Wintsch
Thursday christmas Day. : Church
chimes and bells all over the city to ring
out Immediately after midnight for IF
mil Ram nf oh cir ,ofl 10
carols in the 140 districts, except where
this took place the preceding evening.
The time should be about z or 1880 a. m.
o'clock. chimes of i've churches stimuli
taneously;. 1880 to 7:45 o'clock, fanfare of
trumpets from Trinity Church tower; 7:45
70 o'clock, short presentation ceremony
Mayor Haussling accepting tree on be-
half of the city, and short dedicatory
prayer by Bishop Edwin $. Lines, closing
with the Lords Prayer;.S to. $3.50 O'clock
band concert; $50 to 10 O'Clock, singing. by
English churches Robert A. L. Smith.
Central High School, conducting.
Friday, to 10 p. M.-Holy Name Soci-
ETY., Boy Scouts. Big Brothers, hospitals.
represented by doctors and nurses; Off
GERS Of charitable organizations, also chill
dren's homes, probation officers, typical
forces set in motion by Christianity. Or
CARNATIONS to come in procession and uni
form. Singing by church choirs.
Saturday, to 10 P. M:-veterans and
National Guard, drum and fife corps and
other uniformed bodies attending, arriving
in a body and marching in procession to
assigned places. One hour for singing In
English Tall Esen Morgan's choir of 200
voices. One hour for singing in German
massed choirs from German churches, I'M
der direction of Rev. o. q. Braune and
Rev. William L. Siebert, chorales, hymns
and carols, to include the following
Hymn an die Naeht" lBeethoyen),
'stille Naeht, Heilige Nacht, '.Ihr Kin,
derlein Kommet, 20 Tannenbaum,"
30 du Froehliche, o du Selige," ''Hosi-
anna, Gelobet," Der Christbaum list der
Schoenste Baum. ''Jauchzet ihr Himmel,
frohlocket ihr Engel in choren," and
"Diess list der Tag den Colt gemacht."
The United Singers will also participate.
Sunday, Innocents' Day-Afternoon: $3.50
o'clock, church bells to ring in all the
o'clock, rally of children from churches
and Sunday schools, TO come in body,
bringing church or school banners; carols
in English, led by boy choirs and altar
choirs from various churches; short ad-
dresses by representatives of the Cath
ole church and Rev. William J. Dawson;
singing. to include THE Star-Spangled
Janner' tree to be lighted at O'Clock
for forty-five minutes and singing in Eng
(1sh; one hour for singing in German by
Peters st. Benedicts, st. Augustin's and
! st. AIMS German Catholic churches
Monday, School Children's Rally-After-
noon, to $50 o'clock: Children of gram
mar grades from public and parochial
schools; short talks by respective super
intendents DR.. Addison B. Poland and
Rev John A. Dillon; Randall Warden to
assist in maintenance of discipline; New
ark City Home Band. children from or
phanages in organized bodies; 1000 chill
dren gathering in circles around tree,
with red white and blue pOmpOns. each
circle fifty feet wide, going In opposite
directions. Evening, to $3.50 o'clock
One hour for exercises in English; one
hour for singing in Italian, under general
dancing (weather permitting), tarantella,
Hungarian chardos, Russian song dances
and Greek circular dance.
The school children have been drilled
by Miss Louise Westwood. supervisor of
music, assisted by Miss ]. Harris and
Tuesday, to 10 P. M.-Masons, Eagles.
and Knights of Pythias, celebration around
tree: band concert by organization, II
possible dancing (weather permitting);
half hour for carol singing by choirs from
st. Casimir's and St. Stanislaus's Polish
churches, under general direction of Rev:
paul Knappek; choirs from colored
churches, Austin Purriss. director Saliva
ton Army and Volunteers.
Wednesday New Years Eve), to
o'cIock--Dancing under tree; . to 1O;SO
O'clock. band concert interspersed; twenty
minutes to sing by Ruthenians, under the
direction of Cantor kaskiew; ensemble
carols (Orpheus, Lyric, Schubert, Arion;
Aurora, Concordia), forming massed
chorus; national airs, hymns familiar to
various religious bodies; II o'clock, Or
pheus Club. Ave Maria; lib oci % M
30 God Our Help in Ages Past II ~
o'clock, trombones; II 40 o'clock, ring
out. wild Bells; reading Of ninety-nr
Psalm or other suitable selection, fol,