136 ADVENTURES IN IDEALISM 



The real jubilation started at the installation of the 

 newly chosen officers. An inaugural festival of the 

 Borough of Woodbine was entered into by a home 

 commencement of the local public school; music by 

 the Woodbine Military band; recitations by the grad- 

 uates ; tableaux and addresses by the late Dr. Blaustein 

 of New York, the late Dr. Radin and the County 

 Superintendent. 



The next day, Memorial Day, 1903, was welcomed 

 by a salute to the flag on the Agricultural School cam- 

 pus, at sunrise. All the one hundred boys of the Agri- 

 cultural School, in their uniforms, paid the beautiful 

 tribute to the emblem of freedom from the children 

 of foreign lands, who saw not only the natural dawn, 

 but the dawn of a new civic regime. A large banner 

 was presented to my husband the first Jewish Mayor 

 of the first Jewish community in the name of the kin- 

 dergarten. The Girls' Club brought as their offering 

 a wreath of white roses and smilax intertwined, with 

 an emblematic white dove. The day's festivities were 

 varied and interesting, and at twilight there was a 

 pageant, which included members of every organiza- 

 tion in Woodbine. This was a sight the like of which 

 Woodbine never saw before, and which would have 

 done honor to any large city. After the parade a ball 

 was given by the fire company. A banquet was given 

 to the newly-elected officers and their wives in the 

 Baron de Hirsch Fund Hall, and thus the celebration 

 of the new borough ended. 



