Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1899-09-08
F Paul Dresser were here he would

doubtless say that through the
streets of Rock Island today there
comes the breath of new cut corn
and wheat and oats and pumpkins
and the various products of the farm,
with which the walks fronting the
business houses are lavishly and
handsomely decorated.
All arrangements have been COM
pleted for tomorrow's double event
the good roads convention and the
harvest home festival. John Ohlwei-
Ter has been chosen marshal of the
day, and has selected for his aides
James Mcnamara and Aid. Basilius
Winter. The machinery to be used in
the construction of the sample piece
of road on Twelfth street arrived last
night in charge of Messrs. Chase and
Williams, representing the Austin
Weston company. The building of
the road will he under the direction of
f. g. Harrison, chief of the govern
ment bureau of road inquiry. who
will be accom- panied to the convention
by other prominent men. As will be
seen by the program given above, the
road building will occur between 10
o'clock and noon tomorrow morning.
Addresses will follow at Turner hall
from to I. and then an hour will be
devoted to the formation of district
good roads organization.
Mayor McConochie will deliver the
address of welcome at Turner hall at
, p. m, and will be followed by
speeches by +. G. Harrison the good
roads expert, Brig. Gen. Roy Stone,
Congressman q. W. Prince and others.
Evening Features.
The evening festival will be attend
ed by numerous entertaining and
unique features, among which will
be the bicycle parade, of which Adel- |
bert Head will be marshall, his aides |
to be Louis Jones and Edmund Robb, |
the cyclists to form on Nineteenth |
street between First and Second ave-
nues; the Brownie drill directed bv |
Mrs. Mae Jacobs, who states she will |
have the assistance of 40 children
N any of whom will represent fairies. |
and a competitive drill by Woodmen |
forester teams.
The procession will be made up as
Platoon OF Police.
Bleuer's Band.
Pageant of Illuminated and DecOra ted Bicy
Petersen's Band.
Comic Features. including Mr.. and Mrs Slim
Jim in Aptnmual Costume; Preparatory
Worlds Fair: Palmer
Coxs Brownies. etc.
Woodmea Forester Drill Teams.
The parade will form at 7:15 in the
evening at Eighteenth street. right
resting on Second avenue. and will
move as follows: South on Eigh-
tenth street to Fourth avenue. east
On Fourth to Twentieth, north on
twentieth to Second, west on Second
10 Fifteenth, south on Fifteenth to
Third, east on Third to Seventeenth,
north on Seventeenth to Second, east
IN Second TO Spencer square.
The band in the first division of the
parade will ride in a conveyance. There
will be an intermission between the
.wo divisions of the procession, owing
% the fact that the bicyclists, who will
De in the first division. will move more
, 'dly than pedestrians.
During the procession the bands
will play Coming Through the Rye.
The Corn is Waving, Annie" ION
he Banks of the Wabash" and other
harvest airs
The Woodmen and Brownie drills
will occur in Market square and the
bicycle prizes will be awarded at the
street entrance of the Har-
Der house. The jugdes of the Wood
men drill will be Capt. IL. A Nc
Donald. of Rock Island, and Capt.
frank Clendenin and Lieut.. l.. r. Gay
ord. of Moline.
bicycle Parade Prizes.
Prizes for the bicycle parade have
,een offered as follows: Best float
one or more wheels) first, pair of
Iorgan & Wright tires, offered by c.
|. Spencer; second, Van Tuyl's dou- 5
lie adjustable handle-bar. Thomas
IAN Tuyl; third, pair of Morgan & l
Wright peddles, John Koch; fourth, s
,air of bicycle hose, George Ben
lett Decorated wheels: Artistic 5
-Lady's first prize. Newark Spec /
Al saddle, Mike Mint; second, Myers I