The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-10-21

to New Haven is cut down by the far | mers and the carts have to ford the | stream.
 The first Commencement at New | Haven was the subject of the fourth | scene. The setting was that of the house of Rev. MT. Moves, the rector which was on Elm street near the present site of Osborn Hall. In Col | lege House erected on the site of the rector's house the name of "Yale" was | first proposed. The episode which GOV cred the founding of the college clos ed with this scene.
 The bodies taking part in this epi- sode besides individual actors and par ticipants were: Class of 1917; The School of Forestry; First Church ot | Christ; Davenport Church; Pilgrim
 Church; Taylor Church; Trinity | Church; Improved Order of Red Men;
 Daughters of Pocahontas; St. Paul's | Girls Friendship League. The first interlude was undertaken
 by the Association of Collegiate Alum l nae and the School Children of New Haven. It was entitled '"The Pass l ing of the Arts and Sciences from the old world to the new" and was alle-
 gericaL The school children gave
 many dances on the green turf, and | there were special figures carried out
 by the older participants.
 The Second episode was of the Rev olutionary period of New Haven Col eny, It opened in the period after the Battle of Concord and Lexington.
 The local company of militia, perpet-
 uated as the Second Company Gov ernor's Foot Guards, is shown on the
 village green, its Captain, Benedict Ar mold, demanding the keys of the pow der house from the selectman. This scene was familiar one to New Haven
 people as it is re-enacted in part ecah May when the company holds its an-
 nual field day. The scene was put on much more elaborately and with many
 more actorsy
 The second scene was that of the in vasion of New Haven by the British in 1779. Former Governor Baldwin wrote the chapter for this scene. Its chief action was that in which Prof. Daggett of Yale took part. The pro- lessor had urged defence of New Ha- ven but the volunteers were few. Dag gett himself had used a gun and is captured by the British, commander. Afterwards his plea saved the town from being burned. Gen.. Garth, the commander saying 1t was too beauti- full a town to burn.
 The third scene was the hanging of Nathan Hale, and the fourth. the visit of Gen. George Washington to New Haven. The character of Washing ton was taken by Dean Jones of the College. This closed the episode of the period.
 The organizations undertaking the scenes were: The Class of 1917; Sec ond Company Governors Foot Guards; details from militia companies; The Sons of Veterans; The Daughters of the American Revolution of New Ha- ven, Waterbury, Meriden, Ansonia. Derby and Seymour. the Young Wom- ens Christian Association; the New Haven Caledonian Club.
 The third episode was of the early Nineteenth Century, and the chapter. was written around college incidents of 1841, 1854 and 1858. The first scene reproduced the famous town and scene reproduced the famous town and gown riots, for many times the stu dents clashed with the townspeople often with bloodshed. As portrayed the chief scene was that of a foot ball game between sophomores and freshmen on corner of the village green While it is at its height fire men from the town in their red shirts and with hose, try to break up the game. ASfree-for-all fight follows. This was realistically carried out.
 The second scene was a revival of of the college custom known as "The Burial of Euclid" It was a yearly event from 1845 to 1860.
 The third scene illustrated the re- cruiting of a company of colonists to go to Kansas to settle the land. This was in 1856 and Henry Ward Beecher addressed the meeting which raised $1,0O0 and Prof. Silliman of Yale and others pledged fifty rifles.
 Scene Four was that of the death of Theodore winthrop, the first Union officer to die in the Civil War and who had been graduated from Yale ten years before. His body lies in Grove street cemetery here.
 The organizations in the third epi- sode were: The classes of 1918, 1919, and 1918 S; the Graduate School; The School of Fine Arts; The Law School; The Yale Southern Club; Company L, .7th Regiment, New York; Grand Ar my Veterans; New Haven Police De- partment; New Haven Fire Depart ment; Savin Rock Hose Company; The Grand Avenue Church; The Church of the Redeemer; and individual assist ants. ...|
 The second interlude was an allegory of War and Peace written by Francis Hartman Markoe, the pagea Int mas ter.' In it took part many military bodies, women's organizations and so- cial and fraternal societies, the num- Der of performers being very large