The Topeka state journal., 1899-10-12
Gallant Members of Twentieth
to Pass Along Kansas Ave.
Plan Is to Turn West at Tenth
Avenue.
THESCHOOL CHILDREN
They Will Be In Double Line
Along Line of March.
Each Child Will Wave an
American Flag.
Magnificent Fireworks Display
From State House.
THESCHOOL CHILDREN

When the Twentieth gets home it will
march along Kansas avenue all the
way from Second street to Tenth ave
nue., and probably around the state
house square, in order to give the boys
a chance to see the people of the state
who come to Topeka to do them honor
and to allow the people of the state TO
see them.
The question of the parade and how
best to handle the crowds while the pa
rade is in progress was the principal
subject considered by the twentieth
Kansas reception committee at its
meeting last night. The parade com
mittee, of which Captain A M ruler
is chairman, submitted written report
giving its views Of the matter II IS
proposed to form the parade on F1Ith
street with the right resting on Quincy.
The various divisions will be between
Quincy and the Santa Fe and on the
side streets opening into Fifth
The parade, as planned by the parade
committee in its written report, viii be
headed by the veterans OF the clvli war
as an escort to the Twentieth Follow
ing them Will come General Funston in
his carriage, and then will come the he
roes of the Twentieth in three battaI-
ions in command of Colonel Metcalf,
Lieutenant Colonel Little and the other
officers of the regiment. After the
Twentieth will come the Twenty-frst,
Twenty second and twenty -LnlfQ TeSl-
ments in regular order.
When the committee made out its re-
port it was not known that any of the
regular army would be present to par
ticipate in the reception, and no pro
vision was made for the regulars IN the
parade, but since it is known they are
to be present, provision will probably be
made for them Immediately following
the regiments of the Spanish-American
war. The Kansas National Guard will
assist in restraining the crowd at the
depot and will then bring up the rear of
the parade. The committee is constant
ly receiving applications from other mil
itary organizations for a place in the
line, and such will probably be assigned
in the rear of the regulars.
The line of march as mapped out by
the parade committee was west on
Fifth to Quincy, north on Quincy to
Second, west on Second to Kansas av-
enue south on Kansas avenue to ninth,
west on Ninth to Jackson, and then to
maneuver so as to bring the old soldiers
up on either side Of the front of the
south approach to the state house,
where the reviewing stand will be
erected. 1t is the idea of the committee
that the Twentieth should be massed
directly in front of the south approach
with the other regiments and OrganiZa-
tions behind them.
The general committee at once said
that this line of march would not be
long enough to allow all the people to
see the parade. D. J. GreenWald called
blocks long, and after considerable dis
cussion the general committee recon-
mended that the line be extended south
on Kansas avenue to Tenth avenue, and
then encircle the state house square,
which wiz give many more people an
opportunity TO see it.
Captain Fuller. who planned the line
of march, was not present at the meet
ing last night, but it is known that he
objected to this plan because it would
result in multitude of people immedi-
ately in front of the reviewing stand
before the regiment got to it, and he
said it would be almost impossible to
get the crowd away so as to give suffi-
cient room to let the regiment and 9TH
er organizations in.
The parade committee also recon-
mended that the school children be
massed on Ninth and Jackson streets to
see the regiment march by, and that
they then be massed on the south steps
of the state house where they can wit
ness the ceremony of the returning of
the flag to the governor by Colonel Met
calf. This plan did not meet with the
favor OF the general committee The
committee thought the suggestion
about masstng them on the state house
steps after the parade an excellent idea,
but during the parade the committee
recommended that the children be
ranged in a row on either side of Kan
sas avenue from Ninth street to Sixth
avenue, or perhaps Fifth, each child
with flag to wave, and those that can
get them, with bouquets to shower the
regiment. There will be about 5000
children in the line.
Colonel Norton thought the children
might become too tired if that program
We're carried out, but Major Anderson
said:
If they are not in line they will be
in the crowd. 1t will be impossible to
keep them away from the parade while
II IS in progress, and they will not get
as tired in line as they will if they are
struggling with the crowd
E-sr
Anderson, don't get out and raise
hades when the regiment comes home,
I'll disown en-
In connection with the children came
the question Of how to best handle the
crowd on the streets. It was the SEN
timent Of most of the committee that
the people must be made to stay on the
walks and not allowed to get on the
streets This would give more people a
chance to see and would string them
out further along the street, and would
also give a chance to place the school
chlldren about five feet outside the
curbltne, where they would not be
crowded Some members Of the COM
mfttee said the crowd could not be kent
on the streets. but others said it was
done in larger cities and could be done
done.
A communication from Robert II
Ndize, headmaster of St. Johns Military
school at Salina. was read in which he
said that the cadets of his school prob
ably to the number of so. wanted to
have a part in the receDtiOn and asl-e6
if they would be assigned a place in tba
parade. The cadets are finely uniform
ed and well drilled and present an ex-
cellent appearance.
One of the biggest features abol1t the
reception will be the fireworks display
which will be in charge of the F1am-
beau club. This display will be largely
from the dome and roof of the state
house, and will be the greatest exhibit
fion Of pyrotechnicS ever seen in the