Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-12-01
THE BANDS WILL PLAY
CENTENNIAL PARADE TO BE LIBER-
ALLY SUPPLIED WITH MUSIC.
Local Organizations to BE in Line
Program as Outlined by
Committee.

The bands will play while the District
centennial parade passes down Pennsylva-
MIA avenue the afternoon of the 18th In
slant, and as there are to be eleven and
perhaps twelve Of these musical aggrega-
lions, it Is estimated that the harmony
will be ng-drawn-out-that there Will
be at least a mile or more Of such sweet
ness. This is the substance Of a report
made to headquarters this morning by I.
F Alvey, the chairman Of the committee
on music. Haley's Band will head the line,
coming Immediately behind the police Then
will come the citizens mounted escort and
Gen. Miles and staff. followed by the army.
navy and the Marine Corps. With the
bodies representing the regular military
service will be the Marine Band, the Fort
Myer, the Washington Barracks and the
Fortress Monroe bands, respectively. -,
The President of the United States Will
be in line after the national military. and
then will come the National Guard Band.
leading the District of Columbia militia,
and with that organization will be several
bands and drum corps. The High Scnooi
Cadets will have band and then will come
the governors of states. The executive of
Virginia will be escorted by the 10th Regi-
ment of that state and the Connecticut ex-
ecutive will be accompanied by the troops
from his own state.
There will be a band with the Grand
Army and other organizations and one
with the Gonzaga Cadets. An effort will
be made to arrange some sort of schedule
that all of the bands, for example. will
not pay the same time when they pass the
reviewing stand.
Governor c. M. Barnes of Oklahoma ter
ritory, accompanied by Maj ]. E. Ball, will
attend the celebration.
There will be meeting of the executive
committee of the press committee this after
noon at 4 O'Clock, in the board of trade
rcoms, Star building.
The subcommittee on decorations, of
which Mr. Danenhower Is chairman will
meet at 4:3O o'clock Monday afternoon,
while the committee on public comfort and
order will meet Tuesday evening at 7:3O.
Thousand Troops Coming.
Bids were opened yesterday in the office
of the depot quartermaster. United States
army, for the transportation of the troops
from Fort Washington, Md; Fort Hunt,
Va, and Fort Monroe, Va, to this city
December II, to take part in the centen-
NAL parade. and the contract was awarded
to the Norfolk and Washington Steamboat
Company to bring up two batteries. the
band and staff from Fort Monroe: to the
Chesapeake and Ohio railway to bring five
batteries from Fort Monroe, and to the
Randall steamboat line to bring Batteries
A and X of the 4th Artillery from Fort
Washington and Battery N from Fort
Hunt. These troops will number in all
over a thousand men,
Commissioner Henry B. F. Macfarland
chairman of the centennial committee, will
visit the Capitol Monday for the purpose Of
comforting with the President of the Senate
Senators Hale and Perkins and others rela-
tive to the arrangements to be made by
Congress for it's participation in the cele-
bration.
M. M. Parker, chairman of the finance
committee, announced today the following
Alfred s. Gillett, S25; G. w
F. Swartzell, $40; Judge A. B. Hagner, $50;
Hornblower &. Marshall, $40; W. s. Walker,
$40: James NJ Green, $40; Alphonso Hart
$40; A. l.. Parsons, SO; John H. PETIT IS.
c. F. Cook, IS; ]. H. Hill. 50; Edgar Fris-
by, So.