Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-11-19
PARADE TO CLOSE
CONVENTION OF
SUNDAY SCHOOLS
Procession Tonight as Wind
Up of State Associations
Gathering.

The last day of the annual conven-
ton of the New Jersey Sunday School
Association in the First Presbyterian
Church today was marked with a
noon meeting of the county officers at
the Franklin Street M. E. Church.
The convention will close tonight with
a final session in the First Presby-
terrain Church, when the retiring
president, Edward W. Cooper, of Or
ange will introduce the new presi-
dent, Samuel w. Downer, of the ham
let which bears his family name in
Gloucester county, where he was born
and always has lived.
Mr.. DoWner, who is the first resi-
dent of southern New Jersey to hold
the presidency in fifteen years, gradu-
ated from Phillips Exeter Academy,
in Exeter, N H.. in 1896, spent two
years at the Ohio Wesleyan Univer-
sity, at Delaware, o., but because of
the illness of his mother changed to
the University of Pennsylvania,
where he graduated with the class of
1899.
He has been for years a warm
friend of DIR. George w. Bailey,
former president of the Worlds Sun
day School Association, who COM
menced his career as a Sunday
school organizer in Gloucester
county. Mr.. Downer has been a Sun
school worker for fifteen years, and
for eight years Gloucester county's
representative on the executive COM
mittee of the State association. He
was elected president of the G ou-
cester County Association this fall.
The principal feature of the con-
vention for those not members will
be the parade tonight from City Hall
to the North Reformed Church on
Broad street, opposite Washington
Park. where w. c. Pearce, of Chica-
go. superintendent of adult class
work for the International Sunday
School Association, will deliver an
address.
The parade will form under direc-
ton Of Marshal Wintsch, with State
officers, Sunday school sperintendents,
speakers and guests on the right of
line, at the southeast corner of Broad
and Walnut streets, forming division
No. l. Division No. ., under com
mand OF Assistant Marshal e. S. Mac
Nabb and comprised of men from
Atlantic, Bergen and Burlington
counties, will assemble on the east
side of Broad street, south of Walnut.
Division No. win include men from
Camden, Cape May and Cumberland
counties and will form on the east
side of Broad street, south of Walnut,
under command of Assistant Marshal
w c. Genung. The men from Essex
county will form Division No. 4,
under command of Assistant Marshal
U. c. Ryerson, and will assemble on
the north side of East Kinney street,
east of Broad street.
Men from Gloucester, Hunterdon
and Hudson counties form Division
No. D. under command of Assistant
Marshal w. S. S. Rowland, and will
ASSEMBLE on the north side of Wal
nut street, east of Broad street. Men
from Mercer, Middlesex and Mon
mouth counties form Division No. 6,
under command of Assistant Marshal
j. w. Dewar, and will assemble on
the north side of Walnut street, east
of Broad street. Men from Morris,
Passaic and Ocean counties form
Division No. 7, under command of
Assistant Marshal A. L. Baggott. and
will assemble on the north side of
Walnut street, east of Broad street.
Men from Salem, Somerset and Sus-
sex counties form Division No. 8,
under command of Assistant Marshal
w. F. Kimber, and will assemble on
the north side of Franklin street, east
of Broad street. Men from Union and
Warren counties form Division No. 9,
under command of Assistant Marshal
A. e. Brakeman, and will assemble on
the north side of Franklin street. east
Of Broad street.
The lines will march eight abreast
and will carry school banners.