Kentucky Irish American. (Louisville, Ky.) 1898-1968, 1898-11-12
Great Preparations Being Made
to Give the Boys a Ken
lucky Welcome.
The Celebration VIII Be Par
ticipated i'm by All Glasses
of Citizens.
WAR DEPARTMENT OFFICIALS INVITED

The movement to give our soldier boys
rousing welcome home has taken def
mite shape, and all the details are being
rapidly completed. Itpromises to be one
OF the most notable events of recent
years, and will be participated in by all
the local civic societies as we'll as citizens
generally.
AT meeting Monday night of the
Executive Committee much progress was
made. TWAS decided to have the Jubilee
celebration last three days, and it was also
decided to ask a number of the nations
celebrities to be the city's guests during
the jubilee.
Gen. Basil Duke will go to Atlanta and
ask Gen. Zoe" Wheeler to come, and a
committee of five, with Logan Murray as
Chairman, have gone to Washington City
bearing an invitation from Louisville to
the War Department
The programme for the three DAYS of
jubilation will be made up as follows:
The first day committees with bands
are to meet each section of the regiment
as it arrives at the depot and escort it to
the old Armory, OH Seventh street, where
the men will stack their arms and equip
ments and be dismissed for the day. At
night all the arches and public buildings
and private residences, gay with pretty
bunting and decorations, will be bril-
liantly illuminated. All the combined
bands in the city will give a concert of
patriotic music in front of the court
house
Promptly at 10 o'clock on the morning
OF the second day the big parade will
start. The great number of civic, munich
pal and military bodies will make it two
or three hours to pass any given point.
! Besides the marchers on foot there win
be dozens of carriages containing noted
civic and military dignitaries. When the
parade is over the Legion will be escorted
to the banquet hall, where an elaborate
dinner will be spread for them by the
Ladies' Auxiliary of the Commercial
Club. AT its close there will be toasts
and speeches of welcome ad libitum by
civilian guests.
The home welcome to the Legion will
be the night feature at the Auditorium
All the members of the First Kentucky
will be seated in the parquette and in
the front rows of the dress circle. The
other seats can be taken by those FORUM
ate enough to secure tickets of admis-
sion.
On the stage will be chorus of sew
eral hundred school children, dressed in
national colors and arranged as a flag.
They will sing patriotic airs and the COM
bined bands will give an elaborate pro-
granme of popular melodies. Sand
wiched between will be appropriate adj
dresses by Secretary of War Alger, Gen.
Joe Wheeler and other celebrities, if they
come here. This will end the second
days celebration.
III the middle of the afternoon the First
Kentucky boys, in full dress uniform, as
sisted by visiting regiments, will give a
grand dress parade and pass in review
before Gems. Alger, Wheeler and other
military chiefs. That night at the Aud
itorium an "Auld Lang Syne" welcome
will be given the returning warriors, in
which every one is invited to take part.
1t has been decided to present each
member of the Legion with a handsome
bronze medal, a memento of the short
war that resulted in such complete and
glorious victory for the American arms
The medal will be the size of silver dol
lar. The design of the medal will be
simple but neat and effective, appropri-
ately inscribed.
A dispatch from Washington states that
the committee representing the CONNER
cial Club called upon the Secretary of
War Thursday morning and had an order
issued granting sixty days furlough to
the First Kentucky regiment, now in
Ponce, Porto Rico. The regiment will
leave on the transport Mississippi next
week, and is expected to reach Louisville
about the Goth of this month, to where
they have been ordered direct. They
will come either by way of Newport News
or Savannah. The committee also called
upon President Mckinley in the interests
of the First Kentucky and Col. Castle
man. They were very kindly received
by the President, but could give him no
information about the regiment not al
ready in his possession. He spoke in the
highest terms of the services rendered by
the regiment in Porto Rico, of Col. Cas-
tleman commanding the regiment, and
the other officers and men, and said he
would always remember the services of
the regiment. 1t is the wish of many
citizens and military men that the Presi-
dent will make Col. Castleman Briga~
der General.
Joe Cans and Jack DAILY have been
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