The sun., 1916-10-22
$4,000 SEE PAGEANT
OF YALE'S HISTORY
1000 Actors Take Part i'm
Celebrating Colleges Found
ing 200 Years Ago.
TOWN AND GOWN IN RIOT
Wharlic" Taft Hanged ~
Nathan Halc-HOOpskirt
Dance in the Bowl.

NEW HAVEN. Conn, Oct. 2l.--In the
presence Of 10000 persons. including
Vale alumni and their friends from all
parts Of the country. the Yale pageant
commemorating the 200th anniversary
~ the removal Of Yale College to New
Haven from Saybrook was given In the
Bowl this afternoon under splendid
weather conditions. II was one Of the
most colorful out of door performances
ever given in America.
Seven thousand actors did their part
IN reproducing the several more impor-
tant historical scenes affecting New
Haven and Yale since the founding Of
the college two centuries ago. one Of
the features being "a wave scene In
which Leo girls from the public schools
descended III" deep stairways of the
Bowl and swept On the green surface.
The pageant attracted nearly $1,000
persons from out Of town and brought
20 this city the largest number ~ auto
mobiles the place ever saw with the ex-
ception OF the crowd at the Yale-Har-
ward football game which opened the
Bowl two years ago.
NJ uitch Takes Place.
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eight months work on the part OF town
ana gown. and It was conducted with
out n hitch. and the action was enough
TO keep the great crowd interested.
Francis Hartman Markoe. Yale '0s.
was The master Of the pageant. and IN.
II being show.red with congratulations
Tonight. The allcgory Of war and peace.
In which more than u thousand women
In striking gowns took part, was one OF
fha mast vx n l.l. xs.u.s ~ tn. ..fta,-
Yale was founded all over again 4.
George Washington aud a band Of his
soldiers visited the city IS Of ynrc :
Nathan Hale. portrayed by Charlie Taft.
son of William Howard Taft. was
hanged outside Of IN. Bowl the body ~
Theodore Winthrop. tine first Yale nan
killed In in. civil war. vas turned over
10 the Grand Army veterans New
Haven was invaded by the British and
other events of great historical interest
were depicted true t. tradition.
Two thousand Yale students took part
and a drill by the Yale battalion. which
recently came back from "A summer AZ
Tobyhanna, was a feature. Dean Fred
erick &. Jones of the academic depart
ment of the university tool The part of
George Washington.
Mrs. Arson Phelps stokes. wife OF the
DeTTethT. Ol lUt university. ppl lTdy'u
Yale In the grand finale. and Mrs. Ed
ward e. auckland represented Peace in
the beautiful peace panel group. The
part Of Margaret Ap ienkyn, the founder
OF the name of Yale. was taken by Mrs.
Edward Bliss Reed. wife OF one IF the
professors in the college.
TOwm nnd Gown Riot.
A scene which for action was the mos;
enjoyable of the afternoon was the town
and 6own riot. famous IN Yale and New
Haven history. This is the scene In which
the hre department attempted to break
up a Yale football game, and In doing so
used q stream Of water Oh the students.
To-day the stream from a big fire hose,
much larger tina that which wet tbs
Vale men in the Did days. was turned Oh
the student and many Of them were
dr-nched. The students were augmented
by 100 men from the stands. and finally
the tlremen were put TO rout.
One OF the prettiesl SCENES vas the
hoopekirt promenade. In which 100 so
ciety girls OF New Haven. with Yale un-
de~rgraduates and graduates. tool part
n went through "a series OF old time
dances. Each girl wore the once popular
o cpskirt and the men were attlred In
the clothes of 100 years ago. \ chorus
Of 500 voices san during the pageant
and the band was Of 100 pieces.
This evening there was a great cele'
bration on the green, he clty's end OF
the b~i-centenniat. and II was enjoyed BY
nearly o,0Oo persons.