Palisadian., 1923-06-01
MEMORIAL DAY OBSERVED IN
BOTH B0ROUCHS; PARADE IN FORT
Lee; MEETING IN CL|FF.Pk.
Largest Parade in History of Fort Lee Mayor Council
and County Notables Review Procession Meeting in
c. H. S. Very Fine; Many Speakers

Memorial Day was celebrated in the
two boroughs of Cliffside Park and
Fort Lee with fitting ceremonies.
The first big event of the day took
place in the morning in Fort Lee,
where thousands witnessed one of the
finest and largest parades ever held in
the borough
A grand stand was erected to the
right of the Municipal building, where
Mayor Hill, the local councilmen and
a number of county notables reviewed
the procession.
Main street and the stores and
buildings facing thereon were bedeck-
ed with flags and bunting and pre-
sented a real Memorial Day appear
ance.
The parade started promptly at
10:30 a. m. and marched west on Main
street.
Immediately following the escort of
police the One Hundred and Fourth
Engineers, under the command Of
Colonel o. M. Hurd, marched in per-
feet order to martial music. Next in
line came the Civil and Spanish War
Veterans, the Army and Navy Club
and the Edgewater American Legion.
Troops of Boy Scouts from Fair
view and Hoboken were followed by
American Legion members.
The second division was in charge
of George B. Tracey and was COM
posed of firemen from Fort Lee, En-
glewood Cliffs, Fairview and Grant
wood
The children of the public and pa
rochial schools composed the third di-
vision and was under the direction of
Fred L. Sbarbaro.
The civic organizations of Fort Lee
and other boroughs marched in the
fourth division.
The line of march was north on
Palisade avenue, west on Main street
! to Jones Road, north on Jones Road to
Church street, where one of the graves
was formally decorated and volleys
fired, then along Church street to
Hafey's lane, south to Main street,
then east to the borough hall, where
Colonel Hurd and his staff and other
invited guests of the Army and Navy
Club reviewed the One Hundred and
Fourth Regiment and parade.
The One Hundred and Fourth En-
gineer's band furnished the music for
it's regiment, while the Fairview Boy
Scouts fife and drum corps and Pat
erson's boys band as we'll as the Fort
Lee boys band played for other
marchers.
Two aeroplanes from Hasbrouck
Heights flew over the parade until
they were directly above the ceme-
terry, where they dropped poppies over
the graves.
Captain John ]. Aikens, president of
the Army and Navy Club of Fort Lee,
acted as marshal of the parade
The committee in charge of the pa
rade follows:
R. Garoni, L. Tracey, J. Vogel, c.
Lehman, F. Fuller, o. Cassi G. Brei-
denberg, G. Tracey, G. Schlosser, M.
McDermott F. Sbarbaro and F. Troy.
Memorial Day was appropriately OBJ
served in Cliffside Park through the
efforts of the Alan Mutt Post of the
American Legion in the borough.
The exercises were held in the Cliff
side Park High School on Wednesday
evening and We're attended by an au-
dience which should have been far
larger
The program was opened with
prayer by Rev. N. c. Cause and closed
with prayer by Rev. S. C. Gozzo.
w. j. Byron of the local Legion pre-
sided and introduced the many speak
ers.
Lieutenant Colonel Samuel Hodkin-
son was the first speaker, as beftted
his rank and his position also as our
only surviving local veteran of the
Civil War, the most erect and soldier
ly in his bearing of all the men on the
platform. wearing his eighty years
wonderfully, never having succumbed,
as have so many others, to the drink
or tobacco influences of that war time.