The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-05-06

The symphonic melody of twenty five bands and the staccato rhythm of tens of thousands of marching feet will herald arrival of the long awaited Tercentenary Festival of New Haven when, before multitude of Elm Cityites and their visitors, a mammoth street parade on May 28 opens the two-week celebration of the city's 300th birthday.
 New Haven has already begun to don its best party dress for this occasion of occasions, and when May 28 brings to the city the first of hundreds of thousands of visitors a huge birthday cake, 20 feet high and illuminated by 300 lighted elec- tric candles, will stand amid the most lavish decorations ever in- stalled on the historic New Haven Green. By that time, too, the cen- tral streets will be decorated with flags and bunting to guide the path of marchers in the largest parade ever held in Southern Connecticut.
 Marshaps Aides
 Major Charles E. Lockhart and his Tercentenary parade committee colleagues, Major James M. Quinn and Major Leonard A. Maloney, are unable to estimate the number of parade participants at present, but an idea of the immense proportions which this outstanding procession will assume may be gleaned from the fact that one lone division will have between 4,000 and 5000 marcherS.
 The parade will start at 2:3O o'clock on Saturday, May 28. and will include in it's ranks the normal Memorial Day parade participants. Practically every military outfit having units in Connecticut will be represented by large delegations, Ill addition to fraternal, civic, racial, service and other societies, veterans and youth organizations.
 While the marching units will in many cases augment their ShoWngS with colorful floats, one entire divis- ion is to be given over to additional mounted displays, some of which will be entered by communities outside New Haven which made up the original colony 300 years ago.
 Spectacular Parade
 Certainly one of the most spectac- ular phases of the parade will be the appearance of 20 or more units of the Centennial Legion of Historic Military Commands, which includes ancient and honorable militia com- panies from New Hampshire to Georgia. The divisional set-up of the parade, according to tentative plans, follows:
 Division l, Grand Army of the Republic and other Memorial Day commemorative groups; Division ?, military units of New Haven ana vicinity; Division 3, Centennial Legion; Division 4. marching dele cations from towns in the original colony; Division 5, representatives of State Firemens Association, with ancient and modern apparatus; Di- vision 6, Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, Campfire Girls, Catholic Boys Bri- gade: Division 2, Service Clubs; Di- vision 8, Fraternal organizations and auxiliaries; Division 9, Italian American societies; Division l0' Polish, German, Greek, French, British, Irish, Scottish and other racial groups: Division Il. Jewish societies; Division 12, floats of the Colonial era.
 The parade over, tercentenary visitors will turn to Yale Field for other stirring events in the city's festival. On the following day peo- pie of all creeds will participate in a community praise and memorial service in the famous Yale Bowl, a combined choir of New Haven sing CTS leading the audience in the sing ing of ancient hymns, with a large