Perth Amboy evening news., 1921-05-10
BABY PARADE GREAT
SUCCESS; fine FLOATS
INCLUDED IN EVENT
City Nurses, School Children and Babies of All Sizes Make
Up Unique Parade Here Rejecting Great Credit for
Those in Charge Of Opening Event in Child Welfare
Week. Prize Winners Announced Tomorrow.

Through the efforts of the Board
of Health baby parade, the first of
Its kind ever held in Perth Amboy,
took place yesterday afternoon to
the extreme qualification of the en-
tire community in which several
hundred youngsters from ten months
of age up into school years, decor
ated automobiles and floats, nurses
and midwives took part. Babies OF
all nationalities. black and white
5 cross and good-natured, in vehicles
representing anything from bowers
of flowers to the old shoe wherein
dwelt the old woman and her many
children, and including Indians,
fairies, farmers. Yama Yama's.
Uncle Sans, queens, kewpies.
jockey, a vamp, Orientals, cowboys,
bride and groom and numerous
other characterizations were all
products of ingenious minds and
showed exceptional originality, maxi
ing it most difficult for the judges to
decide upon the prize winners. The
many streets which were included in
the route were thronged on both
sides by interested and adniring
townspeople and excla nations of
surprise and pleasure evidenced the
endorsement of the affair which will,
as is already planned, become an an
nual event in Perth Amboy.
The parade starting from the vi
cinity of the library at ago O'Clock
took forty minutes to pass given
point and was of such length that
the last participants had not left the
starting point when the head of the
line was vending its way down High
street towards Commerce, from
whence the route included Me-
cAanic, Fayette and Madison. Leav-
ing the library, the line wound UP
Maple, down Market to High.
The Boy Scouts leading, made
fine showing and were followed by
the public school children who turn
ed out in large numbers from
schools 5, Q, 6. s and 2, each school
representation carrying May poles
of varied elaborateness. The la
bies, including the infants in car
riages, the little children afoot, the
youngsters with doll carriages and
small fancy pieces came next and
were received with great enthusi-
asm everywhere along the line. The
parochial schools, including st.
Mary's and the Holy Trinity in
cluding their particular floats were
particularly commendable and were
followed by the large floats and the
uctOi dubOiiiopiiSS.
ST. Mary's school has the distinc-
ton of having won first place among
the schools, School No. running a
close second. To st. Mary's goes
the American flag, five dollar gold
piece to School No. 2; five dollar
gold piece to the Just Married.
automobile, entered by Peter Van
Sycltle and the same amount for the
fourth place to the baby in the bath
tub float.
st. Mary's children were almost
military in their marching and pure
white of the girls and the black and
white. of the boys garb, along with
the splendid array of babies easily
won the first honor. School No. 2
was most interesting with its "nutri-
tion brigade" in which each of the
participants carried wholesome food
of some kind--bread, cereal. milk
and the elaborate May pole. repre-
senting recreation" was most at
tractive.
The Just Married" automobile
was decorated as bridal equipage
and two tots. dressed as bride and
groom, sat in great dignity upon the
back seat.
1t was most difficult for the judges
of the floats, Miss Alice Mihliss, Miss
Helen Grannis, Mrs. Mary Danan-
hauer and Henry S. Hulse, Jr., to
make their decisions for the floats
snd automobiles all were most at
tractive and the school representa-
tions all. deserved much credit Be-
cause of the lack of prizes these
three classes were necessarily COM
bined. AS far as places were con-
cerned, the schools stood with st.
Mary's. school No. 2. Holy Trinity,
followed by School No g.
The automobiles were: The clinic
which was part of the Holy Trinity
entry, the old woman In the shoe,
which was the Board of Health en-
try: the Girls Club float, which was
several little darkies fitted out with
crepe paper of orange to represent
black eyed susans ond Just Mar
ried."
The prize babies will not be an
nounced until tomorrow as there is
considerable discussion as to the
most deserving Judging the babies
and their carriages was the most
difficult task of all and at further
conference this afternoon final de-
cision will be made. There were
only seven prizes offered whereas
almost every participant was deserv-
ing OF recognition.
Entrants in the baby section in
cluded the following: Raymond
Jacobsen, Dorothy Barry, Bessie
Bunten. Violet Farra, Catherine
Calvin. Catherine LarlSin, jeanette
Clark, Eva Friis, Virginia Barkelew,
Dorothy Barkelew. Martin Barns,
Bernie Boroman, Veronica Marcy,
Mrs Hratko and infant, Mrs. Nell
son and baby. Mrs. Evans and baby.
Lucille Bacbarotto. Evelyn Marsack,