New Britain herald., 1916-06-08
GUESTS FROM SEVEN
 STATES ARRIVE ID ATTEND CONVENTION
600 Delegates, Representing Fif- teen Cities, at Swedish
 Singers Festival
PARADE IS POSTPONED
 BECAUSE OF WEATHER

UUUAUUu VI II uA llluN Street Parade Will Be Held Saturday Morning at 9:3O o'Clock-Concerts Tonight and Tomorrow Night Committee Disappointed by Non-
 Seek Redress in Courts
 With about 500 singers in attend ance as official guests and several hundred more people present as visi- tors from the nearby cities and towns the biennial musical festival and convention held by the American Union of Swedish Singers eastern di- vision, opened in this city today. Other guests have been arriving all day and during the sessions on Friday and Saturday they will continue to arrive until, the committee estimates, there will be from one to two thousand attendants who have been registered.
 
 Owing to the extreme inclemency of the weather it was decided this morn ing not to have the street parade which was scheduled to have started from Turner hall at 1 o'clock and march through the principal streets of the city. The marcher were to have been attired in white trousers, white shirts and caps and dark coats II cd appearance It has been decided to have the parade Saturday morning at 9:3O o'clock. Another incident, un- fortunate but entirely unavoidable on the part of the local committee, was the absence of the official souvenir badge.
 Badges Fail to Arrive.
 The committee in charge, after con- siderable indecision, finally selected a badge of most artistic design, the dye for which alone cost $42 and other articles used in it's construction brought the cost up to about $75. The committee let the contract for their manufacture to Newark, N. J., firm with the understanding that they would be here in time for distribution today. Yesterday a telegram was received stating it would be impossible to deliver the badges inside of ten days or two weeks. As the badges will be useless after this week and as the committee considers that they have a good legal case, it is probable that the committee will take action in the courts for damages.
 In a quandry as to how to secure badges, the comittee hurried to var ious Hartford manufacturers but not one of them had any suitable badges in stock. Returning to New Britain it was decided to print a simple little badge of blue ribbon and local printing establishment agreed to work late and turn them out. It required tifty-four yards of blue ribbon to make the badges and a tour of the local stores disclosed the fact that but fOrty-seven yards could be secured and then two different widths of rib bon had to be purchased. There are special badges for both the male and female guests.
 Fifteen Cities Represented.
 There are 600 official guests pres ent which the committee must entertain and they represent twenty one different singing socieies from fif- teen different cities in seven different states throughout the east. They are as follows: from Bos- ton, Mass, the Harmony Singing club, the Swedish Apollo club, the Swedish Glee club and the Muntra Muslkaner; from Bridgeport the Nor den Singing club; from Brooklyn, N. Y, the Swedish Singing club; from Hartford, the Lyran Singing society,"; from Jamestown, N. Y, the Lyrap Singing society; from Jamestown, N J., the Swedish Singing society; from Manchester, N, H., the Swedish Sing ing society; from New Britain, the Arpi SeXtette and the EOIus Singing society; from New Haven the Apollo Singing society,"; from New York the Lyran Swedish Singing society and the Svea Singing society; from Philadel- phia, Pa, the Scandinavian Glee club; from Pittsburgh, Pa, the Swedish Glee club; from Providence k. l. the Verdandi Singing society; from Spring field, Mass, the Orphei Drangar; from Worcester, Mass, the $. B. of A. Glee club and the Thule Singing society. Injured When Auto Ovcrturns. Between twenty-five and thirty delegates from Providence, R. l., made the trip to New Britain via autOmO- bile, leaving their homes early this morning. One couple in the autOmO- bile party, MT. and Mrs Joseph An derson of Providence, came to grief while passing through Willimantic when their auto skidded on the slip pery pavement and overturned. Both MT. and Mrs. Anderson were hurled violently into the road and injured. | They were taken into a nearby farm