Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1915-09-24
CHILDREN PARADE In
GREAT DEMONSTRATION
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couple of hours this morning the little
schoolhouse of twenty and thirty and
forty and fifty years ago was Just
around the corner where the bands
were playing.
The Long Column of HopefuIs
Headed by President Harry A.
Boyer. chairman of the committee that
planned and worked out the greatest
color spectacle of the celebration, the
long column of school children got
into motion shortly after 10 o'clock.
Secretary d. d. Hammelbaugh and DR..
+. e: Downes, school superintendent,
marched with Mr.. Boyer. Then came
the directorate. Here and there in
the parade marched other directors
who had helped develop and extend
and enlarge Harrisburg's public school
system in fifteen years.
Perhaps President Boyer couldn't be
censured for the way he stepped along
at the head of the column. He must
Lave known that his display was the
prize taker of the celebration to date.
Certainly every pretty teacher every
serious professor, marched along as if
they realized it. But enough about
the grown -ups-this is to be a story
of the children.
CoIorfuI? My. Yes
Flags and colors of fourteen build
ings naturally help to make up some
color scheme, and when pale blues
and navy blues, and browns, and colds
and reds and puppies, and greens and
plnks and grays and maroons and so
on are interminEled effectively in mid
dies and boomers and peaked hats
and flower dresses and great sashes
and things, the streets on the parade
route are bound to show it. And
they did.
Readin', 'ritin' and 'rithmetic days
were prettily recalled as the thousands
OF Youngsters tramped by. Blue eyes
cleaned deeper blue. brown ewes a
deeper brown, gray eyes flashed a
more sparkly gray meath curls of
brown and gold as proud mammas and
papas and big brothers and sisters
cheered from the crowded curbs.
AS for the small marchers them
selves they had the time of their lives.
or thereabouts.
Rivalry? OF Course!
On the countermarch the little folks
naturally had to pass each other. and
the small boys and girls had a chance
10 look upon their ow-pupils. Nat
Crally the way Cameron or Calder Or
Harris or Maclay had begarbed itself
didn't appeal very particularly to Mel
rose ana Forney and Cameron and
Foose '''iN
'"Aw' youuns amt so great"
Copy hats"
Huh! we licked you'uns in the track
meet anyway even If y have got
balloons nowi"
These are Just examples of the hits
of repartee that were exchanged on
route. 'ii
The erown-ups paid their tribute
10 the rising generation % when the
Central and Technical high school stu
dents on the countermarch tramped
past the grammar schools. Cheers for
Ihe schooi that was passing were
always Forthcoming.
NOW and then the smaller schools
returned the compliment-esneciaI
when the football and track athletes
OF the high schools marched by.
school Days"
The bands caught the spirit of the
occasion, too. Going down Market
street one band swung into school
Days" But the passing of the Fornev
school with its rows on rows of tiny
boys in overalls and broad -brimne cd
straw hats and dainty little misses in
lowered sunbonnets gave a passine
band the real tip-and the band swung
into The Old Oaken Bucket"
Students Sing
Heading the right of the great lonp
line marched the Central High school
student body. The athletes had ths
right of the command-and the girls
led off. In a cheerful groun tho
varsity girls in big sweaters-the has
ketball girls-tramped along. Brother
athletes followed. All of them carried
gray and blue megaphones; now and
then the big student crowd sang.
Then row after row in white gowns
and aprons and business-like LOOKING
caps marched the girls of the domes-
tic science course. For many reasons
the old graduates regretted the fact
that fifteen years ago they didn't have
such things in High school An at
tractive float decorated in blue AMI
gray and bearing a pretty senior tyne
ing away at modern typewriter and
another clicking off the figures of q