New Britain herald., 1918-05-20
NORTH & JUDD IS : AWARDED BANNER
Had Best Float Of All in Red
 Cross Parade

Hats off to the ladies! Saturdays parade, ushering in the big Red Cross drive for tho collection of $1O0OOO in this city :. as New Britains share of the $100,000,000 Red Cross War Fund was bigger, better and brighter than any parade of it's kind ever before witnessed here. The parade was re- splendent with numerous and artis- tically decorated floats, the Home Guard and City Guard companies added the necessary military touch to the occasion, the Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts and Tierney Cadets showed the interest which the younger generation has in the Great War. but it remained for the ladies to make the success of the parade a certainty. There were literally thousands of them in the parade, most of whom were dressed in pure white, with the significant cap and Red Cross bands of the Am erican Red Cross nurses. The con- tinuous stream of humanity which flowed for over an hour from Frank lin Square, through the center of the city to Walnut Hill park, presented the most inspiring sight that it has ' been the privilege of local people to see in a long, long time. And it was the ladies and their cooperation, which made this thing possible.
 North & Judd Wins Prize,
 There was great interest in the decorated float which was adjudged as the winner of the silk flag prize. The judges were Mayor G. A. Quiz ley, William F. Brooks, Rev. Lucyan Bojnowslli, Rev. J. T. Winters and Rev. J. E. Klingberg. Selecting the winner was a difficult task, but the honors were finally awarded to the float of the North & Judd Manufac- turing company, the rules of the con- test preventing the five floats entered by the Red Cross and surgical dress ings stations from competing. The winning float was divided into two sections, showing the work of the Red Cross lover here" where women knit, sew. etc, and the Red Gross work lover there,' where Red Cross nurses administered to wounded sol diers Practically everybody in tho city who was able to be out saw Sat urdav's parade, so an enumeration o1 the floats and further description O the affair is not only unnecessary bu wholly impossible.
 Because of the war time intere5 manifest at this time however, men ton might be made of. two trucks en tered by the New Britain Machine company, which is manufacturin! gun mounts for anti-aifcraft gun and assembling the guns and mount ing them on White chassis at the To cal factory. Two of the guns, mount ed on the regulation White chassis appearing just as they will in battle were in the parade with a full com plement of men representing the gul crew. The guns, wicked looking en zines of destruction, were of the [ m. m. type, which has a bore o slightly less than three inches. On of the guns was painted a brown col or, while the other was a riot of zi gag colors, having been especiall camouf1aged for the occasion and pre- senting exactly the same appearanc it will when sent out to protect som Allied town from the air raiders sen over by the Huns, In other section of the parade marched young wome carving large Red Cross or America flags stretched out between them an { into these flags the onlookers poure a generous stream of4silNerf and cop