Cranford's Tercentenary Pageant Otters
Three Hundred Years at Gram's Ford: "~x Rahway iliver Pageants and Parkways, 1886 to 192& (This is the last oj a scries of "Indeed, the river is Cran- very youhg girls went swimming, expected spill. Canoeing on a in Venice by an eloquent visitor articles in tohich Dr. Homer J. ford.'s chief- claim .to superiority and those who did. stayed-close to .Sunday afternoon with a pretty from Roselle- who later became Hall, president of the Cranford over* hundreds of. other' towns in the Casino. girl, sinking along the river on a Governor William Sulzer of New Historical Society arid chairman the suburbs of New York. The The most fun was in the Fetts picnic party to the woods, pad- York, and Cranford became of the. frnnfftr-ii: i* >q pnrp an natnrn rp '' 1 •*•**•. ' '•*:-•; n pool..near uoering Way. A clay dles -jiivthe moonlight; dipping to -known as "The Venice of . T make it. The '-residentsI "can en- Committee, Ms 'presented a pre- bank there could be dug and the rhythm of a mandolin or ban- America.'' . • , . joy all the various water sports view," ' prepared . 'from man y smoothed for slides and chute the jo .— these were the joys that in summer, and perfect skating in • The first aquatic meets started sources'in the society's records, chutes, down which the young- summer .offered- the* winter, without the incon- by the Cranford Boating Club and of the story which will be told in sters slid like so many joyous veniences of travel which so of- Canoeing, the basis df many a Association in 1879 and.1880 had Cranford's Tercentenary Pageant otters.
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