New-York tribune., 1921-06-13
Flag Day Will
BeObseryed by
Many. Societies
Celebration Of Old CIory's
Birth Will Center in En-
ercises That Have Been
Set for City Hall Park
Elks Will Have Parade
One Feature Will Be Honor
ing of Anniversary by
AmericanizafiOn Groups

WV AfStt anniversary OIL tnG DlTGn OF
the American Flag with ceremonies
in which patriotic societies, public
officials and Americanization groups
will join.
In City Hall Park the New York His
torical Society and the Sons of the
! Revolution in the State of New York
Will cooperate in the exercises, accom-
panying the restoration and erection
Of the old Liberty Pole on it's former
site. The exercises will be held at
o'clock. The Very Rev. Howard
Chandler Robbins, dean of the Cathe-
dral Of st. John the Divine and chap
lain OF the Sons of the Revolution, will
pronounce the invocation, and John A.
Weekes, president of the New York
Liberty Pole to the Park Commissioner.
This will be followed by an historical
account Of the Liberty Pole by Robert
| Olyphant, president of the Sons of the
Revolution.
Park Commissioner Gallatin will ac-
cept the pole and then present it to
the City of New York. Mayor Hylan
will make the speech of acceptance.
Miss Kathryn Bayard Montgomery
then will raise the flag. Afterward the
regular Flag Day celebration of the
Sons of the Revolution will take place.
Members of the two societies conduct
ing the ceremonies will parade with the
Society OF the Cincinnati and the Sons
of the American Revolution from
Fraunces' Tavern to City Hall PARK,
starting promptly at $3.50 p. m.
Elks to Honor Old Glory
The Brooklyn Lodge Of Elks Will
hold Flag Day exercises at Prison
| Ship Martyrs, Monument, in Fort
Greene Park, Brooklyn, at 3 p. m. Gov
ernor Edwards of New Jersey will
! make the principal address, and his
official staff, together with delegation
Of Elks from Jersey City Lodge, Of
which he is member, will accompany
him to the park. The Police Band will
lead the parade to the park. 1t is ex-
Brooklyn lodge will be in line.
Exalted Ruler John +. Lantry will
pleside and in addition to the address
/ by Governor Edwards DIR. Simon R.
! Cohen will speak. The Rev. William
B. Farrell will offer the prayer and
! DR.. Samuel +. Lindsay will pronounce
| the invocation. Past Exalted Ruler
Jch1s j. Delaney will read the history
! OF the flag. Expected to. attend as
honor guests are Mayor Hylan, Police
! Commissioner Enright, Park Commits
! Calder, former Governor Alfred Z.
! Smith and Borough President Riegel-
/ MANN
/ Ceremonies dedicating schiff Park
( way in honor OF the late Jacob n
I Schif, banker and philanthropist, will
i take place in the afternoon under the
direction of the Delancey Street Mer-
Grants Association. Recently the
| Beard of Aldermen passed an ordinance
designating Deancey Street, from the
williamsburg Bridge plaza to the Bow
the Schif family will be in attendance.
The celebration will last until June l8.
Veterans Will Parade
There will be celebration to-mor-
row night at the Memorial Church,
Campbell Building, Broadway and Six
ty-slxth Street, under the auspices of
West Side and Harlem patriotic bodies.
f. ii. La Guardia, President of the
Board Of Aldermen, is scheduled to ad-
dsess an outdoor meeting which will
pc held at the Sixty-seventh Street
Sntrance to the church. The Veterans
o. Foreign Wars of the United States
the American Legion, the Spanish War
Veterans and the G. A. r. posts of the
west Side and Harlem will participate.
The first benefit for the vacation
tund OF the Students Club, composed
OF disabled veterans of the World War
taking training under the Federal
Board for Vocational Education. will
be Fla2 Day dance to be held at $3.50
Tomorrow night in the ballroom of the
pennsylvania Hotel. The dance will
be held under the auspices of the Con-
tinental Chapter of the Daughters of
the Revolution. Mrs. Axel O. Ihlsonr.
OF 126 East Thirty-fourth Street, is
chairman ai of the dance committee.
The Society of Colonial Danes will
nold Flag Day exercises at the Van
Cortlandt Mansion tomorrow at 10
o'clock. New York Lodge !, r. p. q q
Elks, will conduct patriotic exercises
at the lodge rooms, 108 West Forty
i third Street, at $3.50 p. m. United
States Senator Stanley, of Kentucky,
will deliver an address.
The class in Amercanization at Pub
lie School 4, 173d Street and Third
Avenue, will be presented with GER
tificates at the school at $3.50 to-mor-
row morning.
Excursion for Soldiers
One hundred and seventy-five pupils
of the public schools will receive
medals for compositions on the life
| PHiAoHtHlOPiC dCllVltleS Oh Peter
Cooper at meeting in Cooper Union
at 8 o'clock tomorrow night. The
medals are the gift of Colonel Michael
Friedsam. The program consists of
the salute to the flag, addresses by AL
bert Ulmann and Thomas w. Churchill,
and the distribution of the medals by
Colonel Friedsam. There also will be
| a musical program.
Wounded and disabled ex-service
men now in the hospitals of New York
City will go on Flag Day outing to-
morrow. The outing will be conducted
by the committee appointed by Mayor.
Hylan for the purpose of making ar
/ rangements for and supervising week
ly excursion trips. Rodman Wana-
maker represents the city, Miss Fay C.
Sawyer the American Legion, Mrs.
Nelson Henry the Mayors Women's
Committee and Mrs. Irene Lamb the
Kings County auxiliaries. The men
will leave st. Georges Ferry, Staten
I! Island, at in one of the Staten Island
boats and will return at 4. Members
of S. Rankin Drew Post of the
American Legion, which has many
actors ir its membership ranks, will
entertain the soldiers during the trip
Refreshments will be served by mem
bers of the Women's Auxiliaries of
Kings County.
Church Window IL Dedicated