_250th Anniversary Pageant_: Pageant of Newark by Thomas Wood Stevens. 4,000 performers. Given May 30, 31, June 1, 2, 1916, at 8 p. m., in Weequahic Park. Seating accommodations for 40,000, including 20,000 free seats. Attended by the greatest crowds ever handled by police department. Prologue showed the passing of the explorers Cabot, Verrazano, Hudson, and the Peace Legend of the original Indians of N. J. 1st to 3rd Movements showed landing of Robert Treat, purchase of land, land riots of 1746, revolutionary times, Marquis de Lafayette's visit, first signs of industrial growth, and Lincoln's visit. 4th Movement was symbolic of the forces which have shaped the life of the city. Music composed for this occasion by Henry C. Hadley. _250th Anniversary School Work Exhibit_: See Exhibitions _Ungraded Schools_: See Delinquent Children _Vacant Lot Cultivation_: _Acres_ _Acres_ _No._ _Value_ _Available_ _Cultivated_ _Gardens_ _Crop_ 1915 550 10 175 $ 4,200 1916 550 22 375 10,600 1917 540 193 3,288 114,572 1918 540 225 4,000 135,000 1918. 18,000 backyard gardens, 20' × 25', also cultivated, with total value of crop, $180,000. 23 school garden plots planted and cared for by pupils in manual training, physical culture and science classes. This work is carried on by the Vacant Lot Assoc. _Vailsburg_: Annexed, Jan. 1, 1905. Area thus added, 885.1 acres or 1.383 sq. miles. _Vehicular Tunnel_: Act giving power to the N. J. Inter-State Bridge and Tunnel Commission, acting jointly with the N. Y. Commission, for construction and operation of a tunnel for vehicular traffic under the Hudson River, from New York to Jersey City, passed by both N. Y. and N. J. Legislatures, 1919. By this means traffic congestion will be relieved, difficulties of fog and ice overcome to a great extent, freight handled more cheaply and mails expedited. Interstate freight traffic will no longer be entirely dependent on ferry and barge service, as was the case during the harbor strike in the winter of 1918. Gen. Goethals, builder of the Panama Canal, has estimated that a tunnel wide enough to allow 3 trucks to travel side by side and providing for a foot path will cost $12,000,000. Maintenance will amount to about $125,000 annually. About 2 years will be required for construction. As U. S. Congress has voted against federal aid, the expense will be met jointly by New York and New Jersey. _Venereal Diseases, Bureau of--Board of Health_: Established July, 1918. Clinics already in operation were developed, attendants and nurses appointed. _Vocational Schools_: See Boys' Vocational School; Girls' Vocational School; Technical School. _Wages_: Comparison as illustrated by 7 important trades. These figures for Newark drawn from U. S. Bur. of Labor Statistics: