The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-05-02
SELL TICKETS FOR VICTORY JUBILEE
Great Celebration on May & Biggest Affair Ever
 Held,

Tickets for the much talked of Vic tory Jubilee to be held in this city on Thursday, May 8, made their appear ance this morning and were eagerly bought up. Policemen, firemen and letter carriers, not to mention several mem bers of the 102nd regiment, were pervayers of the tickets. Reports to the members of the general commit tee at noon were to the effect that first sales of the tickets were so large that success for the jubilee was ab- solutely assured.
 The cooperation of the overseas men with the Victory Jubilee com mittee seemed to be especially gratify- ing to the purchasers of tickets. The work of the men in furthering the in- terests of the jubilee seemed to in dicate that the first local public dem onstration following the war was meeting with the approval of men just | discharged from the service, The | get together, which is assured for the | overseas men and their friends is something long looked forS
 The ex-soldiers who are co-operat- ing in the sale of the tickets and the advertising of the jubilee are: Fred eric KeI1er,1 1853 North avenue; Joseph w, Jennings, 135 Fox street; Martin Lombardo, 126 North avenue; Joseph | Rich, 449 Bunnell steet and Harry Monahan, 1522 Iranistan avenue. All these men returned from France | within the past few weeks,
 Tickets for the jubilee were dis | tributed to the salesmen at a meeting | of the jubilee committee yesterday The meeting was attended by upwards
 of 50 men, including delegations from | the Letter Carriers association, the
 Mail Clerks association, several mem ' bers of the police department and | representatives of the members or the | fire department.
 | The attitude of the former service
 men at the meeting yesterday was the l source of an agreeable surprise to the | members of the committee. When l the committee inquired as to the req | son for the unlimited offer of assist | ance from the men one of them re- | piled that they were all sure that the | Victory Jubilee would prove the 1 greatest affair ever held in the city of l Rridgeport The spokesman also | stated that the soldiers were certain | that officials from other cities would l watch the results of the jubilee with l keen interest and for that reason as
 much as any other the soldiers were | anxious that their efforts should be a 1 factor in it's ultimate success. The marvellous exhibition of fire | works to be held was minutely de- ] scribed in 8 report of a committee which has consulted the Connecticut 1 Fireworks Go. Officials of the com | pany gave their assurance to the com l mittee that the exhibition would not | lack anything in extraordinary fea- | lures and would be absolutely the 1 greatest pyrotechnic demonstration 1 ever held in New England.
 The greatest display of the evening
 will be a sham battle of two miDia-
 ture battle cruisers, both sixty feet
 in length. One of these will repre-
 sent Uncle Sam's navy and the other 1 the German navy. According to the
 officials of the fireworks company this
 particular display costing approxi-
 mate1y $2,50O, is the most spectacu-
 lar ever conceived by the chemists of
 the company. It will be the feature
 of the evening and will be well worth
 several tinez the price admission 1 to the jubilee.
 Another portion of the program
 of fireworks will be a repetition of
 the firing at Verdun. The almost
 superhuman efforts of the Germans . to batter down the fortresses of this , historic place will be reproduced ir
 graphic manner and will, without } doubt, meet with the approval of the entire gathering at the jubilee. The members of the executive committed l which arrange for this demonstra-
 ton includes B. F. von Wettberg, A E. Lavery and D. Fairchild Wheeler
 Many additional features are planned , for the evenings entertainment, but every piece on the fireworks display 3 will depict some war scene.
 Already reports from various New England cities have been received tc t the effect that delegations will visit l Bridgeport on the evening of the eel
 ebration. These representatives vii . view with great interest the fireworkt " display and the manner in which the 7 entire program is carried through
 with @ view of reporting back to theil a home committees on Brfdgeport's eel e ebration It is likely that many othel
 cities will follow the plan of the loca f committee in similar celebrations dur s ing the summer.