Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-08-26
400 BABIES VIE
FOR HONORS IN
ASBURY PARADE
Ocean Ave. Lined With Spec
tators for Biggest Event of
the Season.
MANY ESSEX CHILDREN
ADMIRED BY THRoNos
Clever Costumes and Floats
Characterize and BurIesque
Modern FoibIes.
(From stan Correspondent,

ASBURY PARK. Aug. 26.-Wifh
practically every member of the sum
tner colony that inhabits the Jersey
coast between Long Branch and
Spring Lake looking on. the twenty
fourth annual Asbury Park Baby
Parade was held on Ocean avenue
tnls afternoon. The weather man.
VINO this morning had held out seant
Prospects of furnishing any sun,
changed his mind before noon and
the weather was clear. if a trihe cool.
when the youngsters-more than 400
OF them-began their march before
the admiring throng.
The contestants might be divided
into the three general classes of in
fants, babies and children Some
We're so young and so small they ex-
cited the women spectators to admir-
ing "Ah-h-si Others, though, will
DC ready to put on long trousers. or
put up their hair as the case may
ne. before the time for another baby
parade rolls around.
All though, were interesting and
pretty in their elaborate costumes and
the handsomely decorated floats, baby
carriages and pony carts in which
they rode
Queen Titania XIV. and her staff
and invited guests viewed the pa
Eeant from box In the centre grand
stand.
More than ordinary interest was
shown in the parade this afternoon
because of the unpromising weather
of the morning. For several hours it
appeared that the parade could not be
held.
But neither the carnival committee
nor the parents of the youngsters who
were entered in the narade were
disheartened to any great extent by
this gloomy prospect The carnival
committee has been told so many
times that rain would make the baby
parade impossible, and has managed
TO have the parade go on notwith-
standing, that todays promise of rain
failed to awe the committee to any
great extent.
All Hope for Fair Weather.
The members of the committee went
about the work they had laid down
for today, closed Ocean avenue had it
swept clean and went through their
other preparations just as though the
sun was shining brightly. Parents of
rhildren who were scheduled to parade,
of course, would not have been scared
even though the rain had been falling
today. They would hope against hope
that the skies would clear, and today
they did hope against hope that the
threatened rain wouldn't come.
All morning long parents were en-
gagged putting the finishing touches
on the costumes, floats, baby carriages
and other necessary parts of the tiny
paraders' equipment.
Some highly original ideas were
shown in the costuming of the 400
youngsters. OF course, there was the
usual array of children who repre-
scented nothing but baby in a flower
decked go-cart, but the ingenuity of
many parents was expressed by
decking out the:1 children in strik-
ing costumes and placing them in
deliberately decorated floats, pony
carts and baby carriages.
The subjects chosen by parents for
presenting their children were in great
variety History and mythology have
been drawn on to a great degree, and
many of the youngsters were pre-
scented in clever hits at modern
foibles. With view to obeying
President Wilson's mandate regard
ing care not to stir up racial feeling
at the present time, the parents have
left the European war severely alone
but the changing fashions and sim
liar sources of fun were chosen in
great number.
Adequate provision : was made
to take care of many spectators
Grand stands were put up along
the line of march. Miss Virginia
Kelsey, Queen Titania XIV, and her
court reviewed the parade from a
box in the central stand, where Gov
ernor Fielder and members of his
staff, members Of the carnival COM
mittee and other prominent men also
sit
The list Of entrants follows:
The entries: John Ruckle. ir..
six years Trenton; Andrew w
Emmerson, nine years. Belleville;
Arthur r. Emerson. nine years
Belleville; Ruth Jean Emmerson
eleven years. Balleville: Vivian A.
Eldridge. four years. Brooklyn. N
v; Donald r. Hommell, five years,
Grove; Bernhard Hommell. eleven
Years, Ocean Grove: Charles S.
Evans. three years. Philadelphia,
Pa: Elizabeth Evans, five years,
, Philadelphia; Philip J. Koonz. eight
= years, New York; Mildred D. White
ford, nine months. Brooklyn: Rober-
Ia Megill. fourteen years, Newark:
Muriel A. Cobanks. three years. AS
bury Park; Gladys NJ. Kutcher. one
year, Newark; Anna Ruth Kutcher,
fiva years, Newark; Vincentzina SDi-
nelIi; five years. Newark; William H
Koch, three years, New York: Mil
bred P. O'Melia. three years, Corona.
j.. l.; Reginald C. O'Melia. four wears.
Corona, L. T.; Arlene j. Williams,
three years, Scranton. Pa; John D.
Premier, four years. Newark: Eliza
beth Conoyer, twelve years. Ocean
Grove; Frances /. Phillips two wears.
Rochester, N. Y: Analia Breitschadel,
enc year, Newark: Genevieve Brett
schadel six years. Newark Dorothy
Breitschadel. four years Newark,
Rose Cash, seven years. New York
A1birdia Jones. seven years. Ocean
Grove: Helen P. Mullen. seven years.
New York: Frances A. Thatcher. elev-
en- years, Bronx, n, Y. Marguerite r.
Wallace twelve years. Asburv Park;
Edna Mannigan. one year, Harrison.
N. j.: Dorothy M. Roberts, four wears,
Newark: Phyllis G. Yadwin. nine