New Britain herald., 1918-12-09
New Rritain's Celebration.


Nowhere in the United States was
British Day observed with any more
spirit and whole heartedness than it
was in the city of New Britain. For
weeks a. committee was hard at work
perfec&ing plans. Their efforts were
rewarded by the parade and celebra-
ton of last Saturday when this city
oReriid itself to pay q tribute to it's
country's ally, England. Many years
ago this city boosted of its pure New
England stock of inhabitants. Years
ago this city sent forth it's men into
battles which were fought against the
very country whom they hcnored Sat
urday. For years in this old New
England city real hatred was borne
against England because Of her many
unfriendly acts toward the United
States. All that is changed now. This
city came forth on Saturday to show
England that she had done great
work in this war. The reason the
feeling of this community has been
lessened is because of the fact that
many New Britain boys have fought
shoulder to shoulder with the Eng
fish '~rommies' and the valiant SOL
diers of Canada during this terrible
letters glowing with praise and adj
miration for the work of these allies
and from that time on cosmopoli-
tan CITY with cosmopolitan feeling
was synchronized into city feeling
ONLY one way, most friendly toward
England and her aides.
MANY Nationalities i'm Line.
One added feature of the celebra-
L., n orb
it was the descendants English peo-
pie who worked for the success of the
dav the real success belonged to the
people of all nationalities for every
nationality in the city was represent
ed in the parade. British day had
been the common talk for weeks be-
fore the day really came and the peo-
pie were prepared for it. Much
praise is due Colonel w. w. Bullen
who marshalled the parade. He used
good Judgment which was appreciat-
ed by the paraders when he reduced
the line of march TO minimum be-
cause of the weather. The weather
was keen and was noticed by the peo-
pie standing watching the parade and
thew felt for the people, especially the
Young women who sat unmoved on
many of the floats. To the commit
tee headed by Stephen Robb, which
had charge of securing the music for
the parade a special word is hitting.
The music was really the feature of
the whole afternoon and was COM
nented on by all the by-standers.
Those I'm Reviewing Stand.
The parade was reviewed by Mayor
Quigley and many invited guests from
the stand erected on Central park.
Those in the reviewing stand We're as
follows: Mayor Cameron of Rock
vile, Messrs. Matthew Lahey and :.
l.. Wood of Suftield, Selectmen Alllng
and Brown of Berlin, Adjutant Cen
eral George M Cole of Hartford,
Captain Thomas of Bristol, Alder
man Arnold of Hartford, Selectman
Johnson of Plainville Selectmen Fol
CIV and Bishop of Southington, Select
man Scarborough Of Windsor Locks,
State Treasurer F. S. Chamberlain,
Hon. Charles r. Smith, A. G. Kim ball,
Rabbi Kaufman, 1. D. Russell, Will
liam F. Brooks, Alderman H. 7.
Richards Mrs Elise Traut, E. Allen
Moore and others.
The parade started on schedule
time at . o'clock. All the floats,
which were many in number, were
indeed worthy of special mention
and showed that a. great deal of time
and money was spent by the various
factories in preparing their floats TOR
the prade The float of the Stanley
Works the British batleshlp Britain
MIA. which necessitated the use or
three auto trucks and trailer in
construction, was the prize float or
the parade. 1t was however large
and unwieldly on the turns which
tells a little story. The float itself
was too large to turn around on Main
street and when the parade started
the drivers started up Elm street in
tending to meet the parade and be IN
it coming down from st. Mary's
church When the float started up
Elm street, part of the marchers in
the parade started after it, and there
were two parades, one up Elm street
and one the right one, Up Main
street and past the reviewing stand.
Everything turned out right and all
the divisions were in the parade down
Main and up West Main. The float of
I4anders Trary & Clark was also
good one representing as it did the
work of the British navy. The LAth-
uanians were present with float
bearing the words 1.-THE Lithuan!ans
Are With YOU. The Red Cross float
was O beautiful ore and much favor