New Britain herald., 1916-10-21
Thousands of Alumni Citizens and Visitor. Pour Into Elm Cit, for Spectacle
BIG BOWL HUB OF
 DAYS ACTIVITIE

More Than 6O,OOO Expected to se
 Pageant, Greatest of Its Kind if
 Country, in Which 1000 or Mos1
 Characters Are Shown-Story ToA of How Famous Institution CauI
 to City.
 New Haven, Oct. 21.-Sun arl blue skies after day and night ! wind and rain, put New Haven in gala attire for the Yale pageant t1 day. Many thousands of personI among whom Yale alumni and menI bers of their families, were largeI represented had come here for t1i event which in advance was expectd to be the most striking of any histor} cal pageant ever staged in the Unite' States. The morning exercises were hiI torical in character, following a ord cession from Woodbridge hall to Bal tell chapel in which the Yale corpor4 tion members, the faculty, membeI of the city government and represei tative citizens took part. The intrl ductory remarks were by Preside Hadley and Rev. pr. O. B. Maurer the First church of New Haven l sponded for the city churches. Sanl uel Campner acting mayor, gave ;ll city's official greeting. The sermd was by President Hadley and the hiI | torical address by Prof. Willistd Walker of the School of Religion. Long before noon thousands of vii | itors were pouring into the city arI preparing to go to the Bowl for tI| pageant.
 More Than 1000 in Pageant. | The story of the founding of tI college, of it's existencc through n Revolutionary period, it's part in tll affairs of the country prior to tlI Civil war, it's modern developmei | and growth. into a great institutioI and the Yale Of today, were told ageantry. The spectacle, staged Yale bowl before an audience Whid was expected to be fully 60,O00 pei sons, is said to have been the largeI and most gorgeous undertaking thls character ever attempted in tI1 United States. There were more Ind 7,O00 actual performers in the severl scenes which portrayed the colle1 History. The allegorical interludI required the presence of many hut dreds of school children at the sanI tune upon the green turf wfich 1ne playing ground for ." co0tbfj teams, and these children rstur,I with huhdrcds of their o'I gaf dances and were in grOIl,j,2s5 Wh.dz made the scenes Of great beauty. The university held historical ez ercises in Wnolsey hall in tho nor ing. and tonight the city's share tue occasion will he a promenade coH cett on tho central green by the pT i gearr orchestra of nearly ono huT i cred pieces. The decorative effec1 On the green have been on mo- | extensive scale than. at any previo l occasion since the bicentennlal wed | of 1902. The days events drew ] the city many thousands of persoH i from other parts Of the state, Nd 1 York and New England, while Val i men came from considerable di i tances to either take part in or witness the pageant
 The financial side of the underta ing was that it cost $6O,O0O to pr 1 duce for the period of three houl and the pageant master and his al sistants spent months in prepariI for it.
 Story of Pageant. The pageant was a spectacle f [ which a story was written based the main upon Yale college histor 1t was divided into four episodes, cad having several scenes. There was l. rrelude and the interludes were fro allegory, tradition incidents In undo graduate life and reproduction events familiar to Yale men of th& and the generation just passed. Each episode was based upon chapter of colonial or Yale life wriI ten by a distinguished son of tl& college or a member of its faculty. H the pageant book issued for the occ sion as a memcnto of the anniversaT there was the invitation to tho p& geant, in verse, by Charlton Min Lewis.
 Tn part this invitation said: "In glad libation from the brimmilE
 bowl
 Pour offering now of pageantry alN
 song;
 See where, all iris-hued in robe al
 stole, Streams to the sward an Eleusinls
 throng;
 And as one mystic maze unfolds al
 other Melodi0us numbers name the MighN
 Mother
 Our harvest-crowne Demeter of u
 soul Continued On Third Pags}s