Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-12-14
HOG GELAND SPIRIT
SEEN in PAGEANT
$4,000 Employees Defy
Rain and March in Vic.
\ tory Parade
REVIEWED BY OFFICIALS
Floats Depict Scenes at Plant.
Broad Street Lined With
! Cheering Spectators
REVIEWED BY OFFICIALS

Spectacular operations and all the
multiple sounds of the worlds greatest
ehipyard in action were reproduced In
Broad street this afternoon. I'D,
Men and women workers of the Hos
'Island yard, thirty-ive thousand strong
marched through the rain in grea,
victory parade from Washington ave.
nue. to Diamond street
The demonstration might well hav,
been the workers reply TO the attack
made in the Senate today by Senator
Nardaman, of Mississippi on the man.
agement of the plant. Conspicuous In
the procession were a score or more
veterans of the world war, now EN-.
ployed at the yard. The parade was
made up of sixteen divisions Fifteen
bands furnished music. ]. p. Larrimer
was grand marshal
Passing in review before the Union
League. the shipbuilders made n pro-
cession several miles long. which re-
quired nearly two hours TO move by a
given point. In the reviewing party were
Charles Piez. now Girector general of
the Emergency Fleet Corporation How
ard Coonley, vice president: Rear Ad-
miral +. r. Bowles. assistant general
manager who has been in charge of
Hog Island from the start Matthew c.
Brush. new president. and Frederick c.
Holbrook. retiring president of the Amer
lean International Shipbuilding Corpora
tion. agents for the Government in the
operation of the yard, and other Off
cials, including officers Of the army and
navy.
Scores of motortruck floats depicted
busy scenes on shipways. in basins and
In the shops of the shipyard. Flaming
forges heating steel rivets to a white
heat; electric welding machines throw
ing showers of dazzling sparks over the
street, riNeters actually at work on
huge steel plates. driving the heated
rivets home with giant pressure guns
and many miniature steel cargo steam
ships, which We're not miniatures at all.
but seaworthy vessels of szable pro-
portions, camouf1aged and with their
boilers going at full blast and smoke
clouds pouring from their tunnels. gave
color to the spectacle and added realism
to the Illusion.
The shipyard's own motorized "trou-
bic shooters sped back and forth along
the line of march. and the wards own
pre- engines had their place in line. TO
take care of accidents or extinguish any
blaze that might be Started by flyinp
sparks from the forges and welders
Most symbolic of all the floats was n
double contriNance. on the forward part
or which rode in state the remains" of
the late unlamented Kaiser, bearing a
placard, Here He Is" and just behind,
on trailer, was the model of a standard
Hog Island ship, with the legend, This
Is What Got Him"
thousands Of the marchers, in gum
coats, rubber boots and protected from
the downpour by sea of umbrellas.
carried standards in the form of a V sy
healthy looking hog On float with
veterans of the yard, who were among
the hrst to brave the rigors of record
winter on the Delaware River marshes
to build Hog Island, were displayed sew
eral lively, squealing porkers. with min
iature ships strapped on their fat backs
The sidewalks along the entire line
of march were dense with spectators
who watched and cheered for hours in
spite of weather that might have damp
ened the ardor of less patriotic lot.
NAt Broad and Chestnut streets the
marchers, wet but determined, were
greeted with white paper showers from
the windows of office build ngs.