The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1920-08-17
PIL CARNAGE
 TO HISTORIC
 OLD SAYBR00k
Five Hundred Excursionists to Serenade Rev. J. V. Illusion on Saturday,
 August 18th.

Not since the Colonial days when General Tryon and his daring red coated soldiers. bent on pi1lage and destruction, wrought havoc in the stafd Connecticut shore towns until he was stopped at Fort Griswold, now New London, have the residents of Saybrook had cause to be aroused from their peaceful and staid country life. It is believed, however, that on the evening of Saturday, August zS. when over 500 Bridgeporters arrive in their midst to pay tribute to the Rev. James V. Illusion, the beloved parish priest of St. Johns. the natives will have cause to rejoice. For this party will appear as serenaders and not crusaders like the British soldiers of more than a century ago.
 At an enthusiastic meeting or a temporary committee, held in St. Joseph's T. B. & L Association rooms last night, tentative plans were for mu1ated to make the occasion. to be known as Bridgeport Night, at the annual fair of the Town Parish, an- other page in Saybrook's history. The undertaking is not parish but a city affair which is to be pro- noted by mostly all of the Catholic
 
 societies of the various parishes are invited to participate in paying this tribute to Father Illusion, who was formerly Chaplain of the Holy Name society of St. Charles church and or ] ganizer of the first Holy Name bas- ketbaH league in this city.
 The Francis Meagher branch of the Friends of Irish Freedom in this city l and of which organization Father ! Illusion was chaplain, have already /, appointed a committee of five to CO l operate. The committee consists o1 1 John J. O'Neil, Simon Crehan, Scar ! Conway, Jeremiah O'Sullivan ane | Matthew Lyman. It is expected tha7 1 the Bridgeport Chapter of the Knight: 1 of Columbus as we'll as the local di vision of the A. O. H. will also len6 their support to the undertaking | St Joseph's T. B. & l.. Asso, have al l ready signife ed their intention of talk l ing prominent part in the affair. l Stephen F. Boucher, former city 1 clerk, and whose efforts in making l the memorable Heating Day" sue | cess, will never be forgotten, vii | take a prominent part He alread!
 has communicated with the oficiaI l of the New Haven road relative tt
 reservation of a special train to trans l port the excursionists.
 The quaint old town of Saybrook i replete with historic centers. It wa. settled in 1649, only 19 years after tn i Pilgrim Fathers landed at Plymoutl Rock. Valet college had it's first sit in Old Saybrook and even to this da, the remains of old Fort Say-Brooke at the mouth of the Connection
 river, where the CoIonists took shel
 ter when attacked by the Indians 0 I frih he
 visible.
 Along the shores of Long Is1an
 Sound at beautiful Saybrook Point i
 one of the most beautiful summe
 Millionaire Colonies between Ne,
 York and Newport. One of tn picturesque home-sites is that of tn ! Hon. Morgan G. Bulkley, former gov ernor of Connecticut and the frs president of the National Baseba Lea gue.
 5 On the extreme outer edge of tn Point, silent and alone and undis
 turbed save for the swashing of an , gry waves and the solem warnin i gong of it's keeper to warn the marin , CT that he is nearing the Saybroo y shoals, stands the historic Saybroo
 lighthouse. Remodeled, but tn
 same lighthouse that warned the sai , ors in the days of the first U. S. navs
 fleet, commandered by the memorabl Capt. Jack Barry.
 These and many other histori 7 places will be visited by the pi1grir = age. In the evening they will a' tend the annual parish fair of S Johns church, of which Father Hu: s sion is now pastor. It is expecte l. that the special train will leave tn l city between and 3 o'clock in tn t afternoon, returning, leave Saybroo = in time to have the party in the g homes about midnight.
 At the meeting last night the fo
 lowing committee was appointed { . 1 handle the affair:
 - Francis P. Dunnigan, chairman
 John J. O'Nei1, secretary; executiy
 | committee, Joseph c. Ivers, Stephe 2 F. Boucher, John F. Moran, Andre 7, F. Creagh, Thomas F. Buggie, Rol
 ert Noonan, John F. Ryan, Daniel ]
 McPadden, Matthew Lyman, Simo
 Crehan, Jeremiah O'Su1livan, Sea
 | Conway.
 Further details will be considere
 | after arrangements have been co1
 cluded with the New Haven road of . cials. The meeting adjourned sul . ject to a call from the chair. It . planned to hold the next meeting (
 Wednesday night.