Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1915-04-22
FOLDER PREPARED
BY COMMITTEE
ON ANNIVERSARY
Program Tells Chief Features
Arranged for the Jubi-
z =. lee Year.

The Committee of One Hundred
which is arranging for the celebra-
ton of Newark's 250th anniversary,
has issued an attractive folder
printed in colors, telling thes chief
features already arranged rdr the
jubilee year
The story is told under tlhe fol-
lowing headings: "A Business Like
Exhibit of NewarlSs Business, THE
Pageant of old and New Newark.
Making NewarlS's History fbr To-
day and Tomorrow, "ParadtEs and
Decorations, Education anQ Fra
ternity,'' Making Newark and It's
Progress Widely Known" 'NEsswarll k
IN History, Poetry and FICTION,
Sports and Pastimes" and -EXhi-
bit of the, City's own Busines s.
Part of the plan of the manumaetur-
ers and trades committee is tile erec-
tion in ~ location central to aulway
and trolley travel. of q building to
house a Aomprehensive exhibit. Of the
products Of NewarlS's factories. This
building win display all exh Eoits to
the best possible advantage, and IN
it or on the grounds about II Will be
space for legitimate concessions, IN
cludfng food and refreshment booths
and high-clasS amusements.
This exhibit of the products cf New
nrlt's manufacturers is in mikny re-
spects the most important PAL I OF the
whole celebration. Newark Is a
business city before it is fmythtng
else. and an exposition OF IT'S bust
ness ability in its chosen jobs of
making things to sell, and OF making
them well and OF selling themi to good
advantage, all in the face q strong
competition from every oti ger COM
munity in the country, to say nothing
AZ fhe rest OF the world-sm exposi-
ton of all this is going to draw. It
will tell Newark about itself, and IL
carefully planned on a general scale,
and managed as we'll az the best New
ark factories are managed, then II VIII
draw thousands of visitors and, with
The right kind of publicity. Will carry
the Newark business idea and the
story of what Newark ma kes ana OF
how well she makes III TO business
men all over the country.
The Newark products display Will
be open for two or three months III
will be comprehensive without oelns
too big to see, and will 'oe so care
fully arranged that man can go
direct to the special prod uet or ma
chine or process he wan Is to knoW
about and take it in quicker and
peter than he could in the factory
itself. If Newark can do anything
well. then it can conduct a good busi-
ness enterprise, and it will, If the
committee has It's way, and prove this
fact to all who see it's business snow
The products display should open
in May and continue during June ana
into July, after which the building
will be used for a mus ical festival,
will
devoted to municipal and civic SUBJ
jects.
The success of these plans depends
on the sum made avail able for the
purpose by the Newark public.
Pageant of Old and New Newark.
The committee on pa ageantry has
engaged the services Of Thomas Wood
stevens, the foremost pageant master
of the country. MIR. stevens produced
.he pageant in St. Louis last summer,
the greatest outdoor spectacle ever
staged in America. It was witnessed
bv 4OO. 900 persons, and attracted to
st. Louis tens of thousands of out
side visitors.
The committee knows Newark can
surpass St. Louis, for it has the st.
Louis success to build on, and for this
reason 1t feel justified in calling for
an appropriation sufficient to- stage
great historical outdoor play in Wee
quahic Park, where a beautiful nat
ural amphitheatre has been found.
This pageant play will illustrate the
history of Newark, from the first
settlement by eolonists from Con-
necticut to the present day, and will
conclude with a splendid vision of the
city's future. From 5000 to 5000 Of
our people-men, women and children
will take part in the pageant. Each
performances can be seen by 100000
persons, for 40, 900 of whom seats win
be provided.
This will give to Newark a high
name in a new field and will prove
to be, the committee believes, a real
educational force. The pageant VIII
be the feature of the celebration,
partAdes, music, sports, amusements
and plays may be built. The ex-
perieAlce of other cities plainly shows
that ghis part of the celebration s
program will attract enormous crowds
from I'd and near.
AIaIting Newsrk's History.
The monuments and tablets CON-
mittee hs prepared plan for erect
ing tablets and monuments to mark
the historical spots In which New.
ark is so rich, and for other tablets
to commemorate the more significant
events in the history of the city
Some of tRe places of particular in
terest follow:
Seth Boy,len-Site of his foundry
and workshop; rear of 30 Orange
street, in east side of Broad.
Cockloft Hall-At the northeas
corner of Gouverneur street and Mt
Pleasant avenue; home of Gouverneul
Kemble. frequently visited by Wash
ington Irving and other literary mer
of New YORK. and made famous IL
Irving's "Salrnagundi
-Four Corners founder
started their village at the poin
where Market and Broad street
cross.
Kearny Homastead-Site of Stat
Normal School Here General Phili
Kearny spent the greater part of hi
boyhood.
Market Place-What is now Wash
ington Park was set aside as a mar
ket place by the settlers In 1876.
Old Burying Ground-Was locates
Immediately back of the Firs
Church, extended to what is nov
Halsey street, nearly to what is not
William street. on the south, and (
the ponds which were close to Mar
1xo+ efraet on the north