Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-02-21
CITY WILL HONOR
Country FATHER
Monster Celebration to Be Held
MODday-Fifteen Hundred
Men to Parade.
BOY SCOUTS EXERCISES
TO BE HELD TOMORROW
Wreath viii Be Placed on
! Statue of George Washing
ton-Masons to Dine.

Washlngton's Birthday will be OBJ
served in this city Monday with a
parade, patriotic exercises by many
/ organizations and by the closing of
schools, banks and business houses.
me anniversary of the Father of His
Country really is tomorrow but the
celebration of the event hos been put
over one day.
Possibly the largest eventn Of a
public character that will be held in
I IS city Monday will be the parade
of $1,000 men. 1t will start from
Washington Park in the morning
The general committee today an
nouneed that official banners to be
carried by organizations taking part
in the march will be on sale near the
Washington statue before the parade.
All marchers will be required to
carry flags, which will be sold for a
nominal sum. An invitation is ex-
tended to all citizens. whether mem
bers of patriotic organizations or not,
to march in the parade, Those who
wish to march and are not connected
with any military or other organiza-
ton will form in line along Park
place.
The parade will form in three
divisions, as follows
The first division will consist of
uniformed marchers. 1t will form on
the west side of Broad street at
Washington Park. The second divi-
sion will be made up of patriotic or
ders and will form in line on the west
side of Washington street near the
Public Library The third division,
church and other religious societies,
the Boy Scouts of America and the
Boys Club, will fall in on Park place
in a line extending to the Peddie Me-
mortal Church.
Societies, orders and patriotic as
sociations having bands will be given
i The lead of the various divisions.
The parade will march down Broad
street TO Clinton avenue, to High
street, to Springfield avenue, to
Washington street, to the starting
point ut Washington Park, where it
will disband.
Outside Delegation to March.
The parade will not be merely local
in character, for the marchers will
come from many parts of the State.
Newarks' parade will be the first of
series to be held on Washington's
Birthdays in this State. Marchers
will come from the following places:
Butler, Bloomingdale, New Provi-
dence, Roosevelt, Plainifeld, Mt.
Holly. Morristown, Jersey City,
Ridgewood, Paterson, Elizabeth, Rah-
way and New Brunswick
Many of the delegations viii make
their way to this city on chartered
trains and trolley cars.
The local organization of the Boy
Scouts of America will hold patriotic
exercises at the Washington statue
tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock. The
exercises will be similar to those con-
Quoted at the Lincoln's statue in the
court house plaza on Lincoln's Birth
day. and will be under the auspices
of the Shade Tree Commission. A
wreath of flowers, the gift of the
Shade Tree Commission, will be
placed on the statue by the boys.
The public schools had their Wash
ington's Birthday exercises yester-
day. Patriotic songs, recitations and
sketches We're given by the pupils
and the teachers and principalsc
made addresses.
Nasons to Celebrate.
st. Johns Masonic Lodge, the old
est one in the country, which has not
omitted to have Washington $
Birthday celebration in ia years, will
make no exception to its rule this
year. The lodge will have a banquet
In the Palace ballroom, Washington
and Blocker streets, Monday night.
Between 500 and 500 persons includ-
ing prominent Masons from many
States. are expected to be present.
The principal speaker will be Rep
resentative Allen T. Treadway, of
Massachusetts,, who will make an ad-
+, dress on George Washington, Ma
SON.
The celebration committee consists
of G. p. Metz, Arthur Mudd, William
w. Blanchard, Herbert c.. Rorick, M.
S Shurts, Charles S. Reed, H. ]. F..
Wallhauser, Henry Bergfels, E. c..
Strempel, Wayland e. Stearns, Will
liam C. Sandy, C. Edgar Sutpen,
Alonzo Church and Scott German.