The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1907-04-27
C. A. R. DAY.
Preparations Are Going For
ward to Give Visiting Veterans
A Grand Time I'm Topeka Next
Month.
FLY THE FLAGS.
Urges the Committee on Enter
tainment Which Is
Providing Gala Attractions for
Pleasure and Amusement.

Every copy of old Glory in the city
should be displayed on the occasion of
the coming Grand Army encampment,
May 7-9. Thousands of flags are
owned in Topeka. and they should add
to the profuse decoration of the city
on the days of the encampment. The
capital city should show to its thous-
andS of visitors on that occasion that
they appreciate their coming, and that
they are honored guests. Nothing will
add more to the general show of well
come than a liberal display of decora-
items. Nothing enthuseS the old SOL
der more than the sight of the old
flag.
During the encampment the auxil-
larry societies of the Grand Army will
present to the high school a handsome
flag with ceremonies appropriate TO
the occasion. Elaborate preparations
have been made by the ladies to make
his event impressive, and the high
school students will not fall short in
heir show of appreciation of the
nonor.
Captain Fuller is enthusiastic over
the response of the civic societies to
ais requests to them to participate in
he illuminated parade on the evening
of the 9Th, and says it will be pageant
parade no longer expresses the gran
deur of the undertaking. The extern
sion of the line of march to the Rock
Island depot, as the place of formation,
instead of Fourth street as first pro-
posed, was made imperative by the
increase in the number of features over
the original plans. The line of march
will be from First to Tenth avenues
and Kansas avenue will be a flood of
light between those streets. Clusters
of light will decorate the top of every
street railway trolley pole, and added
lights will be hung in front of the
mercantile house along the route. The
crack drill teams of the Modern Wood
men, the WOrkmen, the Odd Fellows
and the Red Men and Maccabees will
be in line. Some of these have won
distinction and national prizes for their
efficiency in drill. Their fancy ma
neuvers and evolutions along the line
of march will be a feature of the pa
rade. The floats heing built by the
various fraternal societies will add a
division of particular interest, and in
some respects will excel the beautiful
floral floats seen in Topeka in past
years: l., - uaaa,ross tor the
big time promised Topeka's visitors on
that occasion, and that nothing VIII
be omitted that has been advertised,
is not only assured by the general com
mittee. but they promise to so crowd
the programme that it will be impos-
sible for any one to look for amuse-
ment and pleasure; it will pursue them
from the time they get off the trains
until they embark for their homes.
Chairman ChaDelle of the general
committee of arrangements has given
the public spirited people new I'M
petus in the matter of preparing for
big crowds. He has worked unceas-
ingly, and has insisted that his APP
pointed committees wok. and where
there seemed any desire to delay mat
ters or lag. he has added members 10
the committee that would work. The
result has been that those who at first
thought that few days would sufhce
to make all plans, have buckled down
to the work to save their places on the
committees. All have labored har-
moniously and will keep up the work
to the end of the encamDment to the
end that the 1907 encampment Will
be remembered as one of the biggest
and best in the history of the state