The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-06-08
STUNTS FOR wOODMEN
BIG VAUDEVILLE SHOW ARRANGED
TO AMUSE ARMY OF VISITORS.
Turns Will he Put on I'm Mammoth
Tent at Camp Grounds Twice
Dafly-PrOgress Made.

finishing touches to the work The amuse-
ment committee has finished its work and
is now ready for the vast crowds of visit
ors that will begin coming to the city next
Friday. The vaudeville show to be given
in a big tent at the camp grounds Of the
Foresters has completed its list of features
and the following turns will be put on
twice daily, at 2 and o'clock. during IN,
week of the encampment:
The Whites, premier song illustrators
Professor Whitney, master of magic.
Miss Lottie Woods, soubrette, song and
dance artist.
Miss vern Hyason, balladist.
Woods and Church, sketch artists.
The Courtneys, comedy sketch team.
Miss Courtney, champion female pugilist
and bag puncher of the world.
The show will be given in a tent. 60x90
feet. with a seating capacity of 1000 people
The tent will be lighted by electricity and
comfortable chairs will be provided. An
admission of 10 and 20 cents will be
charged.
For the all-night smoker and vaudeville
at the Empire Theater on Tuesday night,
June 16 a programme of star attractions
has been provided. The list includes song
and dance artists, buck and wing dancers,
song illustrators, monologuists. knock
gramme including four, six and ten-round
bouts and a battle royal between five
husky negro pugilisits. The programme
will run until about ! 80 and will be about
in Indianapolis. The smoker is for Wood
men only and the password will be taken
at the door.
HOTEL ACCOMMODATIONS.
DR.. c. E. Worth, chairman of the hotel
committee. is receiving applications for
hotel accommodat lions that will tax the
capacity of the citys hostelries. The hotels
that have signified their willingness to
make rates for the Woodmen have been
filled almost to their limits and hundreds
of applicants for quarters will from now on
be placed In private homes and boarding
houses. DIR. Worth requests that all per-
sons having rooms which they can let to
visitors for the week will register with
him at his office, 433 Stevenson building
A meeting of the finance committee will
be held this evening at the Commercial
Club and at this meeting the final steps for
raising the small sum yet to be secured
will be taken. Mayor Bookwalter, chair
man of this committee, states that the
larger part OF the committees $500 has
been secured and is now in hands in hard
cash. The remainder, the mayor, says,
will be raised within the next forty-eight
hours.
DIR. r. j. Bosworth. chairman of the For
esters' encampment committee, reports the
work of that committee In satisfactory
shape. Work is being rapidly pushed on
the grounds for the camp and by next FRI
day, when the first camp OF Foresters will
arrive in the city. all preparations for their
reception will be complete. Drains have
been laid In the State field, East Washing
ton street where the encampment will be
held, and the Randolph-street sewer has
been tapped; water mains are being laid
into the camp grounds, electric lights are
being placed in position and the tents will
be erected the latter part of the present
week. Col c. A. McCallum, surgeon gen.
eral of the Foresters, made a flying trip
to Indianapolis Saturday for the purpose of
inspecting the sanitary arrangements at
the camp grounds and left Saturday night,
expressing himself as highly satisfied with
the arrangements.
GENERAL MITCHELLS STATEMENT.
Maj. Gen. John H. Mitchell, command
er-in-chief of the Foresters, is now in In
dianapolis and has taken personal charge
of the work at the camp ground.
There will be at least six thousand uni
formed men in camp, besides bands, on the
evening Of June Is" said General Mitchell
1--WE will have then but a small percentage
of the organized Forestric, or military arm
of Modern Woodcraft gathered together.
All told, we have nearly one hundred thou
sand Woodmen Foresters attached to the
H. 800 local Woodman lodges, and only the
picked teams. or companies. from this great
army will be in camp at Indianapolis
The prize to be awarded the best drilled
team in the senior class amounts to 81 425;
in the junior class $945, and in the pony
class s425. In addition 5000 in prize money
will be hung up for bands accompanying
teams to the encampment. Some of the
best drilled teams, or companies. in the
United States, bar none, will go into camp
at Indianapolis. The Woodmen Foresters
have a drill manual prepared by men of
national reputation drill experts. ALI
the drill contests will be under the direct
supervision Of five regular army officers
detached for this service by the Washington
The leading competitors for the first prize
in the senior class will be the teams, or
companies. captained as follows: Pontiac
Ull.) Camp, A. j. Reno. This company won
the national prize two years ago. scoring
80 lao out of a possible 100 Rock Island
Qll) camp. s. r. Davis. This company got
a mark of 9S 1-2O in the contest two years
ago. Rockford, ILL.,, Capt p. T. Anderson.
which won second prize at st. Paul in 1901
with a mark of 9S 9-10. Kansas City, Mo-.
NJ. w. Saxon. Des Moines Qa.) Camp, j.
D. Lggett. Dubuque Qa.) Camp F. B. Mil
Ter. Lincoln (Neb) Camp. F. 1. Ringer
Duluth Cdinn) Camp. E. r. Desche De-
Military Band, of Lincoln, Neb., which won
the first prizes two and four years ago, will
lead the Foresters of Nebraska into the
Major General Mitchell has announced the
names Of his staff. They are:
Brig. Gen. M. w. Saxon, Topeka, Kan
Brig. Gen. ]. u. Liggett. Des Moines, Ia
| commanding First Brigade.
Brig. Gen. L. F; strawn. Pontiac. ILL.,.
| commanding Second Brigade.
Col. P. 7. Anderson, Rockford, ILL.,, quar-.
| termaster general.
| Col. F. 1. Ringer. Lincoln, Neb.. inspector
general
Col. C. A. McCollom. Minneapolis. Mimi.
| surgeon general.
Col. c. s. Schurmann, st. Paul, Mimi
commissary general.
Col. E. Z. Georgia, Muncie. Ind, chief OF
| staff.
PARADE IN AFTERNOON.
An effort has been made to have the
time of the monster parade of Woodmer
and Foresters changed from Thursday aft.
| ernoon, June Is, to the morning of the
same day, but, owing to the fact that the
parade originally set for the after
noon and has been SO advertised for the
past six months 1t was deemed inadvisable
to make the change. The parade is to be
| followed in the evening by the grand mil.
| itary ball at Tomlinson Hall.
| All told, the work of preparing for the
Head Camp is now in better shape than il
| has been at the same time for any head
camp ever held by the society and the
/ thousands of visitors to the city during the
week of June 1870 will have no cause &c
| complain of any lack of forethought or
the part of the committees that have had
the work in charge.
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