The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1914-08-21
HISTORIC OLD MILFORD STARTS TOMORROW
 CELEBRATION OF HER 275TH ANNIVERSARY

| rom her c1G1ZenS 10 De ner guests, the | three surviving members of the MeIn- orial Committee which had charge of l the erection of the Memorial Bridge: Hon. Charles w. Beardsley, Hon. W. | Cecil Durand and Hon. Charles Tom IHnson.
 | presided over by William B. McCar- | thy. Speeches will be delivered by l Congressman Reilly, Congressman Kennedy, Mayor Wilson and Mayor Rice.
 After the exercises in the park, a clambake will be given to the guests
 on the lawn at MT. McCarthy's resi-
 dence.
 | Accompanying the Governors Foot Guard will be their famous band which will give two concerts in the park in the evening.
 One of the most Interesting parts of the program will be the pageants in | the evening which portray historical
 events of the town. These will be- held in thePark on Broad street. The pageants have been written by Miss l Julia. Rogers Beach who Is also direct ling their production. Miss Beach, who is a. native of Milford and g. great great granddaughter of Stephen Stowe MfIford's only martyr, is graduate of the School of Expression of Boston.
 As far as possible the descendants of the settlers who figure in the pa lgeants wtlH take their parts to-mor- row evening.
 Towns History In Pageants
 The first scene will depict an Indian encampment and will show the Puri-. tans as they come to purchase the land of Milford for six coats, 12 hatchets, 12 hoes. one kettle and one dozen small mirrors. The Indians break up camp and leave The Milford tribe
 of Red Men will have the parts of the Indians, while the Indian Maidens will be portrayed by the Housatonic Camp fire Girls. Thomas sT1bbaIs who led the people through the wilderness | from New Haven, will be portrayed ] by Albert Tibbals; Benjamin Tenn, lI-by Benjamin Tenn; William Fowler I who built the mill, by the Rev. Henry I Marshall, Alexander Bryan by Frank Platt, and zachariah Whitman by George P1att. -
 The second scene is before the meet ing house. Because of the hostility of the Indians, it has been necessary Ito erect a stockade about the town centre and the PuT1tans are seen com ing to church armed. They are led by their first pastor, Peter Prudden. A hostile Indian works his way through the palisade and jeers at the sentinel. The people desert the
 church to look forehim and he creeps ,around and trys to burn the church
 but is prevented from doing so by the Regicides, Whalley and Gofe.
 I In this scene, the Rev. Peter Prud- den is portrayed by Rev. Nathan T.
 Merwin. the hostile Indian by John 1 Blake, sWhalley by Winthrope Whit tier and Goffe by Carlton Quirk.
 The third part is a Revolutionary scene sand shows the home of Stephen
 Stowe, Afilford's only martyr in the Revolution. A British ship comes of wretched, half starved prisoners,
 whom Stowe takes into his home and cares for.
 In this scene, stephen Stowe is DOT
 trayed by Nathan Stowe, Freelove | Baldwin Stowe, his wife by Carrol Stowe Platt; Esther, his daughter, by
 Elizabeth Stowe Platt and Isaac Miles by Henry Miles.
 The fourth scene is a series of tab Il leaux of which the first shows the
 Boys of '61, which are taken by the 4 Boy Scouts, cheered by the Daughters
 of Veterans and the Woman's Relief Corps as they Start for the front" ,"
 Another tableau shows them Tat the front Then the Grand Army of
 To-Day are shown in a taDbleau of their own men. The pageant ends
 with a grand processionaI of the whole east.
 Between the scenes a chorus of
 some forty small girls, dressed in Gre clan robes and carrying trumpets and flowers, will sing appropriate verses T showing the changing Of the tide, ' ! Perkins Orchestra of Milford will
 accompany them.
 The members of the chorus are: 1 Priscilla Holmes, Mildred #QIlirI<, Cla- Ira Louise Bristol. Elizabeth Brewer, | Katherine Longbottom, Mabel B. II Hutchinson, Sarah Stowe Whftcornb,
 Jeannette B. Robinson. Elizabeth # Beach, Alice Perkins, Edith Whit comb, Hattie Smith, Evelyn White, Doris Stormont. Lucy Conlin, Susan II Woodruff, Eunice Doherty, Elizabeth Bangs, Augusta Johnston, Dorothy Clark, Alice Summer, Josephine Clark, ! Charlotte Mcdonald, Esther Tibbals. Il Grace Whitcomb, Grace Platt, Peggy VogeI, Helen Smith, Ethel Eddy, Ruth Mahoney, Hattie Smith, Florence Will cox, Grace Eddy, Marcia Augur. Der tha Law, Martha Tibba1s, Ruth Tomp- xins, Esther Almstead, Laura Cham ! berlin, Dorothy Jennings, Lucy Mer- } win, Florence Fem, Rose Baldwin,
 and Carol Abbott.
 The Monster Parade
 A huge parade is scheduled for the
 afternoon. Those who will march , will report to Marshal M. J. Cheney at F'ord's fountain The parade win start at o'clock from Ford's Foun- tain, going west around the green to
 West River street, across the cement r bridge to North street, to Governor s avenue, to Cherry street. through Riv- , | CT street and back to the green where ! the Governors Foot Guard will give some exhibition drilling.
 : There will be a great number of : floats in the parade but most of the
 societies are keeping the subjects
 which their floats will represent a se-
 cret.
 Those who will march will be the
 Governors Foot Guard band of 25 3 pieces and some 200 invited guests . and the town officials, the George l l Winthrope Post, the Milford Wheel 3 Club; the Red Mems Band, with 200 : Red Men marching and a float; the l Polish Society with 50 men; the Coast . Artillery band and the Engine com