Mount Vernon signal. (Mt. Vernon, Ky.) 18??-current, 1906-06-08
The event begins on Wednesd !.

welcoming at the new Arnory,
built al cost OF nearly half a mil
lion dollars which is the second
largest building of the kind in tie
country. Mr.. Henry Wat,erSon,
editor of the "Courier-JOurnal;'
Hon. J. c. w. Beckham. Governor
of Kentucky, land Hon. Paul {.
Barth, Mayor Of Louisville, will de-
liver the addresses of welcome, aud
they will be responded to by he
Hon. David r. Francis, of St.
Louis. immediately following
there will be very pretty cermony
il which Miss Louise Hardin of
Denver, Colo the young lady
who suggested "Home Coming
Week for Kentuckians," will be
decorated with handsome medal.
AT 5 o'clock there will be hand
some floral parade of eight divisions
devoted to automobiles, open carri-
ages, traps, tandems, tallyhos,
four-in- hands and floats, together
with an exhibition of fire lighting
apparatus of ante bellum days and
OF the present period The floral
parade will close with the crown
ing of the queen.
At night there will be big Phil
harmonic concert in The Armory.
Thursday will be known as
Stephen Collins Foster Dav, open
ing with the unwilling in the new
Armory of statue of Stephen Col
Inns Foster, who wrote MY Old
Kentucky Home" erected out or
subscriptions from the school chill
dren of Kentucky, aud ultimately
to be placed in the new capitol, in
course of construction at Frankfort.
Addresses on this occasion will be
made by the Hon. Sidney P. Red
ding. of Little Rock Arkansas,
and the Hon. R. w. Miller, of
Richmond, KY. Songs written by
Foster will be sung by a chorus Of
one thousand school children. The
statne will be unveiled by Mrs.
Marian Foster Welsh, of Alleghe-
ny, Pa only daughter OF Foster.
Friday will be called Daniel
Boone Day. 1t will witness an
other statue unveiling-that of
Daniel Boone. This ceremony
will he in Cherokee Park, where
the statue has been permanently
placed. Following the unwilling
ceremonies there will be a repro
duction of an Indian attack on Fort
Boones boro, one of the spectacular
features of Home Coming Week. ="
The day will close with old fashion
ed dances on a specially arranged
dance floor over the tennis courts
of the park. At night pageant,
somewhat along the lines of those
of the Yelled Prophet at St Louis,
and during the Mardi Gras at New
Orleans. will present to the visitors
in a series of fourteen floats the ep
ochs of Kentucky history The
pageant will end at the Armory
where Daniel Boore will be escort
ed to the ballroom floor and well
coined by queen and court typify-
ing reception of "Old Kaintuck"
by New Kentucky" This ball
will be the largest function of the
kind ever given in the South.
On Greater Kentucky Day -
Saturday June I6--the program
will be divided between Frankfort.
the capital of the State, and Louis
vile. At noon, at Frank fort, the
corner stone of the new capitol
will be laid All living ex G ,ver-
nors of Kentucky will participate
with Gov. 7. c. w. Beckham in
these ceremonies. The other exer-
cises will be held in Louisville.
There will be a reception at $3.50
o. clock in Central Park to all vIsi-
tors given in honor of distinguished
ex- KentuckianS. This will be fol-
lowed by ceremonies in the same
park over the Lincoln Birthplace
Cabin. which has been kindly loan
edto the Home Coming Week"
bv its New York own
erS. Addresses will be made by /
The Hon. Adlai E. Stevenson, of
Illinois, and Mr.. Henry Watterson.
The cabin will be exhibited through
out the week at Central Park. 1t
will be exhibited along the entire
route from New York. In the
evening there will be a rally of
societies of other States
n the new Armory.
The closing day will be known as
Till We Meet Again. F" All of the