The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-05-29
for
a Great Event

/ LOUISVILLE. May 29--Louisville
where Home Coming Week" 70
Kentuckians is to be given. Jun
1914 is preparing TO cover itself Wit:
glory in the programme of amusemen
and entertainment provided for It
/ many thousand guests.
The event begins on "Wednesday
June Is. with big reception and wei
coming at the new Armory. built a
a cost of nearly half million 10,
lars. and which is the second largest
building of the kind in the country
Mr.. Henry Watterson. editor OF the
Courier-oJurnal:- Hon J. C. W
Beckham. Governor Of Kentucky. and
Hon Paul C. Barth. Mayor OF Louis
vile. will deliver The addresses OF wei
come. and they viii be responded 10
by The Hon David R. Francis. of St
Louis. Immediately following there
will be a very pretty ceremony. in
which Miss Louise Lee Hardin. Of
Denver. Col. the young lady who sus-
Sested Home Coming Week for Ken.
tuckians.- Will be decorated with a
handsome medal
At !: o'clock there will be hand
some floral parade Of eight divisions.
devoted to automobiles. open car.
riases. traps. tandems. taIlyhos. four
in-hands and floats. together with an
exhibition of fre-fshtinS apparatus Of
ante-beflum days and of the present
period. The floral parade win close
with the crowning Of the queen.
at night there will be a big Phil
harmonic concert in the Armory.
Thursday Will be Known as Stephen
Collins Foster Day. opening with the
unveilinS in the new Armory OF
statue OF Stephen Collins Foster. who
wrote My Old Kentucky Home
erected OUT of subscriptions from the
school children of kentucky. and ulti-
u2ately to be placed in the new capitol.
IN course OF construction at Frankfort
Addresses on this occasion viii be
made by the Hon Sidney P Redjins.
cf Little Rock. Ark and the Hon. R.
w. Miller. of Richmond. Ky. Songs
written by Foster viii be sung by
chorus OF one thousand school chill
dren. The statue will be unveiled by
Mrs. Marian Foster Welsh, of ALE
gheny, Pa. only daughter of Foster.
Friday viii be called Daniel Boone
day. II will witness another statue
unveilinS-that of Daniel Boone This
ceremony Will be in Cherokee Park.
where the statue has been permanent
ly placed Following the unreiling
ceremonies. there will be reproduc-
ton OF an Indian attack on Fort
BooneSboro. one OF the spectacular
features of Home Coming Week
The day viii close with old-fasilioned
dances on a specially-aranSed dance
floor over the tennis courts of the
park
At night pageant. somewhat along
the lines Of those OF the Yelled Pro-
phet at st Louis. and during Mardi
Gras at New Orleans. will present 10
the visitors in a series OF fourteen
floats the epochs of Kentucky history.
where Daniel Boone VIII be escorted
to the ballroom floor and welcomed
by queen and court typifyinS re-
cepton of ..old Kaintuck. by the
New Kentucky" This bail will be
the largest function of the kind ever
Sirtn in the South
On Greater Kentucky Day-SatUr-
day. June 16-the programme will be
divided between Frankfort. the capital
OF the State. and Louisville. AT noon,
at Frankfort. the cornerstone of the
new capitol viii be laid An living ex-
Governors of kentucky viii partict-
pate with cow. c. w Beckaam in j
these ceremonies. The other exer-
cises viii be held in Louisville.
There will be reception at $50
O'Clock in Central Park 10 all visitors.
given in honor of distinguished ex-
present This will be fol-
lowed by ceremonies in the same park !!
over the Lincoln Birthplace Cabin,
which has been kindly loaned TO the !
Home Coming Week. Association by |
its New York owners Addresses win |
be made by the Hon Adlai E Steven
SON. of Illinois. and Mr. Henry Watt
terson The cabin wiz be exhibited
through out the week at Central Park.
It VIII be exhibited along the entire
route from New York thesereninsi
there VIII be a rally Of Kentucky sol