The bee. (Earlington, Ky.) 1889-19??, 1906-05-31
A WEEK OF FESTIVITIES.
The Programme for Kentucky
Home Coming at Louisville
the
MOST ELABORATE THING OF
THE KIND EVER ATTEMPTED


ing Week. for Kentuckians is to
be given, June 1917, is prepar.
ing to cover itself with glory in
the programme of amusement
and entertainment provided for
its many thousand guests.
The event begins on Wednes-
day, June ID, with big recep
ton and welcoming at the new
Armory, built at cost of nearly
half million dollars, and which
is the second largest building of
the kind in the country. Mr..
Henry Watterson, editor of the
"Courier Journal ~ Hon. j. Q.
w. Beckham, Governor of Ken
lucky, and Hon. Paul O. Barth,
Mayor of Louisville, will deliver
the addresses of welcome, and
they will be responded to by the
Hon. David II. Francis, of St.
Louis. Immediately following
there will be a pretty ceremony,
in which Miss Louise Lee Hardin,
of Denver, Col, the young lady
who suggested Home Coming
Week for Kentuckians," will be
decorated with a handsome
medal.
At 3 O'Clock there will be a
handsome floral parade of eight
divisions, devoted TO automobiles,
open CARRIAGES, traps, tandems,
tallyhos, fourth. hands and floats,
together with an exhibition of
fire fighting apparatus of ante
bellum days and of the present
period. The floral parade will
close with the browning of the
queen.
At night there will be big
Philharmonic concert in the
Armory.
Thursday will be known as
Stephen Collins Foster Day,
opening with the unwilling in
the new Armory of a statute of
Stephen Collins Foster, W h o
wrote "Mv Old Kentucky
Home" erected out of subscrip-
tions from the school children of
Kentucky, and ultimately to be
placed in the new capital, in
course Of construction at Frank
fort. Addresses on this occasion
will be made by the Hon. Sid.
ney z. Redding, of Little Rock,
Ark, and the Hon. r. w. Mil
Ter, of Richmond, Ky. Songs
written by Foster will be sung
by chorus of one thousand
school children. The statute will
be unveiled by Mrs. Marian
Foster Welsh, of Allegheny, Pa,
only daughter of Foster.
Friday will be called Daniel
Boone day. 1t will witness
another statute unveiling-that
eff Daniel Boone. This ceremony
will be in Cherokee Park, where
the statute has been permanent
ly placed. Following the un-
yelling ceremonies, there will be
reproduction of an Indian at
tack on Fort Boonesboro, one of
{ h spectacular features of
"Home Coming Week." The
day will close with old fashioned
dances on a speclally-arranged
dance floor over the tennis
courts of the park.
At night a pageant, somewhat
along the lines of those of the
Yelled Prophet at st. Louis, and
during Mardi Graw at New Or
leans, will present to the visitors
in a series of fourteen floats the
epochs of Kentucky history. The
pageant will end at the Armory,
where Daniel Boone will be
escorted to the ball room floor
and welcomed by a queen and
court, IMPLYING reception of
sold Kaintuck" by the "New
Kentucky This ball will be
the largest function of the kind
ever given in the South.
On Greater Kentucky Day
Saturday, June 16-the pro-
gramme will be divided between
Frankfort, the capital of the
State, and Louisville. At noon,
at Frankfort, the corners stone of
the new capitol will be laid. All
living ex- Governors of Kentucky
will participate with Gov. j. G.
w. Beckham in these cere-
monies. The other exercises will
be held in Louisville.
There will be a reception at
$3.50 O'Clock in Central Park to
all visitors, given in honor of dis
tinguished ex- Kentuckians pres
emit. This Will be followed by
ceremonies in the same park
over the Lincoln Birthplace