Omaha daily bee., 1899-10-24
PLANS FOR MILITARY DAY
Today General Miles Is to Be the Guest
Of the Exposition.
RECEPTION IS AT THE MILLARD HOTEL
soldiers Will Form the Escort to the
Grounds where the Principal
Exercises of the Day
VIII he Held.
General Miles Dny.-

IL a. m.-Military parade from city TO
exposition, escorting General Miles
band Auditorium
fnplc Comfort building
ming over submarine mines al Manila and
maslt aeaL Dattlc between Olympia and Spanish
,,S p. m.-Indian sham battle and Wild
West. Indian village
KY p m.-Bellstedt's Concert band, Audi
loday premises to be a red letter day
IN the history of the Greater America Ex-
position. The management will have the
pleasure OF entertaining Nelson A. Miles,
seneral commanding the armies OF the
ohlteu states. The distinguished soldier
VIII reach the city at 8:15 this morning
ana VIII be escorted to the Millard hotel,
where reception will be held at 1890.
AFTER the reception accompanied by an
escort of battalion OF the Tenth infantry
from Fort Crook and the High school
cadets he will proceed to the exposition
grounds Addresses will be delivered In the
Auditorium
On arrival at the depot General
Miles will be met by General Merriam, the
exposition officials and Colonel w. f. Cody
Ihe reception committee having charge Of
the function at the Millard will consist Of
Mayor Moores, Herman .Kountze, H. e.
Palmer, j. H. Millard, Frank Murphy, Emil
Brandeis, G. f. Bidwel, G. w. Holdrege,
Thomas Fitzpatrick, e. Rosewater, General T..
Fl. Stanton, General G. B. Dandy, G. NJ.
Hitchcock, Colonel e. A. Koerper, Colonel
+. II. Hathaway, Major j. H. Duval, Major
w. II. Hammer, Major B. d. Slaughter, Cap
tain Grote Hutcheeon, Mr.. and Mrs. G. w.
Wattles, Mr.. and Mrs. L. p Kirkendall,
General and Mrs. Henderson, Major and Mrs.
r. s. Wilcox, Mr.. and Mrs. Wilhelm Mr.. and
Mrs. Penfold
At the Auditorium after the rendering OF
selection by Bellstedts band, President
Miller will deliver the address Of welcome
to the exposition. This will be followed by
an address of welcome to the city, de-
livered by Mayor Moores. Colonel Cody will
welcome the general to the great west, and
General Henderson will probably welcome
him to the state. To these addresses 1t is
expected that General Miles will respond
The speeches will conclude the exercises a,
the Auditorium, after which a reception
will be held in the Public Comfort building
and then lunch will be served The general
and his party will then visit the different
attractions on the grounds.
At o'clock a special car over the Bur.
to Billings, from which point the member!
will proceed to Red Lodge in the Big Horr
basin, when they will take horses and pro
ceed on a ten days hunting trip in the Ma
tional park.
After leaving Omaha the party will be IL
charge of Colonel Cody, and in addition tt
the general and the people who accompan!
him it Is likely that General Manager Hol
drege and General Manderson CT the Bur
lington will go along. Captain Hedgemal
and DR.. A. NJ. Jacobus of New York Cit.
and probably General Merriam will accom-
pany the party.
AS planned at this time the trip takes Il
the town of Cody in Wyoming, and Will
there General Miles will be called upon t
open a new telephone line that extends t
Red Lodge, the nearest railway station
eighty miles distant. In addition to hunting
the party will spend few days at Coone
Cody's BN ranch, near Issuewocd ...
That everything may be in readiness TO
the journey, George Burch we'll know
scout. hunter and cowboy and one of Colone
Codys confidential men, has already left 70
Red Lodge to secure the saddle horses an
have the commissary department wei
stocked with provisions for the trip.