Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-12-01
KENSINGTON ALIGHT
TONIGHT IN HONOR
/ OF ELECTRIC WEEK
Whole Northeast Joins in Pros
perity Celebration - Big
Parade a Feature of
Observance
is SIGNIFICANT EVENT

Parade In heuHtnRtoh toh'B"'' UeEI"-
,,rg a, gt45 Mt kensingtOn and Allc-
eheny avenues
The bIqgest celebration that Kensington
aver saw will be held in the northeast
ssctlon tonight in honor Of Electrical
prosperity Week" now being celebrated
throughout the country by the electrical
interests. Kensington avenue will be
blaze Of light from one end to the
o,ber and all the shops will be open
and especially decorated. a parade, con-
slsting of more than 100 automobiles, sew
eral bands, fully hundred floats and
several thousand citizens, will march
through all the prtAcipal streets, start
ing from Kensington and Allegheny ave-
nucs at 6;i5 o'clock
Tho North Kenslngton Business Mems
Association has been working and plan
ming for tcnlght's event for months, and.
according to Edwin l.. Hoffman. sccrc-
tary OF the organization. 1t Is going
IN ''tnakc II go" Tho parade and general
celebration will he held under the auspices
# the North kcnsington business Mems
Association A Prizes have been offered for
the best float and for the best decorated
automobile, and keen rivalry exists
among the residents in that section.
KENsINGToN's SLOGAN.
Ea"n automobile will carry kcnsinE-
ton's slogan on the windshcld-it is
"Kensinston Avenue, Day or Night" That
slogan has been selected because the cam
paipn has arisen for better paving
and better lights. Judges will be posted
along the route of the parade to decide
which is the best of the 400 decorated
cars.
electrical Prosperity Week" is being
celebrated in all parts of the city and
country, but 1t is doubtful If any COM
munity has made any more elaborate
preparations for its celebration than the
Kenslngton district. Almost every man
in Kensington who owns an automobile
will be in line tonight, even though his
is not decorated one of the features of
the parade will be the Philadelphia Elec
trio Company's six electric floats, show
ing the history and appliance of cleo
trcity. one float will show a miniature
house completely wired with electricity.
On the back of the house will be n
screen on which moving pictures of cleo
trcity will be projected from a trailer in
the rear of the float The Bell Telephone
Company will also have float.
WHOLE SECTION ASSURED.
Many of the Kenslngton manufacturers
will have their floats advertising their
goods The smaller shopkeepers have
also seized upon the opportunity to adj
vertise effectively, and have arranged
elaborate floats.
The route of the parade will be: Start
ing from Kensington and Allegheny ave-
nues down Allegheny to Broad street, to
Erie avenue, to Germantown avenue. to
Berks street. to Front street, to Ken
sington avenue, to Nenango street. to
Frankford avenue, to Somerset street,
where II will dismiss.
The committee In charge of the cele-
bration includes John Moore chairman:
John Barnett, Thomas Mann. Richard
Hammer, Warren Llndig, George Muir
doch, Martin Goetz. Edwin l.. Hoffman
and James Whitesides. The marshal of
the parade will be David Hanna. The
president of the North Kensington Bust
ness Mems Association Is Joseph Iredale.
THE celebration tonight will be the big
gest thing Kenslngton has ever seem"
said Edwin L. Hoffman, secretary of the
association, today, Everybody Is getting
ready for it, and it will be the greatest
thing ever attempted Every one who
has an automobile will be in line, II I can
place any faith In what they have told
me, and those who have no machines
VIII walk. Red lights, bands, fully 100
floats and several thousand citizens will
make the celebration huge success. 1t
is great boost for the northeast
ELECTRIC SHOPS OPEN HOUSE.
The Philadelphia Electric Company is
holding open house" during the week at
Its main Office, 10th and Chestnut streets,
and at the IL branch offices in various sec
tons OF the city. Tea is served every
afternoon in the Electric Shop" at the
main office. The big stores are also CO.
operating in the celebration of the week.
DtSDlaXS md 9nRNipI aaIaa hainrr held
ior the week, Several managers said that
their business In electrical goods had
already noticeably increased.
Electrical Prosperity Week." which
mas been planned to give a nationwide
stimulus to the $1,000, 100000 industry will
terminate on Saturday. Great men of the
electrical world are this week honoring
the memories of great men who have gone
before them.
EDIsoN's COMMENT.
In this time OF stress and war, while
nearly all the Industrial and economic
conditions are being disrupted, the one
most encouraging thought is the promise
as ever.
This Electrical Prosperity Week is for
tne purpose of showing how the industry
may take advantage of the recent prog
fess in applying electricity to improve
general business conditions especially as
70 the transportation, power, light, safety,
cleanliness and economy in production
and distribution.
We in America are being thrust into
industrial and economic world leadership.
NE VIII not shirk the responsibility
Never before in its history has cleo
uleity offered such wonderful help in
every commercial department OF life. 1t
promises horseless. smokeless, dirtless,
holseless cities; and so many big economic
revolutionary things that 1t would take a
whole volume even TO list them"