Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-09-11
ARMY PARADE REVIEW
ONE OF THE FEATURES
Over 1000 Regular Soldiers Gathered
for Army Tournament to Parade Be.
fore Their Command or. in Chief
Arrangements Made So All Car

ieeu. When the president leaves his
rain at the Des Moines Union station
It 1880 a. m. he will be met by a local
'eeeption committee, composed of the
directory boards OF the city's CONNER
:ial organizations, by the state ohicers
II the League Of Republican Clubs,
Iy Governor Carroll and staff, Sena-
ors Dolliver and Cummins, Congress-
nan Hull and other members of the
Iowa delegation in congress and by
General Morton, commanding the De-
partment of the Missouri, U. s. A.,
With his staff, troop of cavalry and q
cavalry band. With this formidable
escort, the line of march will be taken
Up and the parade will pass through
streets upon which over $4,000 will
have been expended on decorations
The first march will be nearly two
niles long. Tie parade will go north
from the depot on Sixth avenue to
Walnut. west on Walnut to Twelfth,
aorth on Twelfth to Grand and west
IN Grand to Terrace Drive, the resi-.
ienee of Senator Cummins. where the
president will breakfast.
After the breakfast the parade will
reform and will move east on Grand
lvenue to Sixteenth street, south on
sixteenth to Locust and east on Lo-
.ust to the state capitol, passing en-
.irely across the business district and
over line of march four miles long.
At the base of the soldiers monu-
nent and facing the south approach
70 the capitol, great reviewing stand
with seats for 600 persons has been
erected. From this stand the presi-
tent will review the parade of $500
troops that will participate in the ma
!ional tournament OF the United
States army at the fair grounds in
Des Moines, Sept. 20 to % inclusive.
This parade will be the largest of a
military character ever seen In Iowa
Ind the largest peace time parade Of
he United States army.
The column will pass In review
equipped as an army would be for
participation in war campaign. The
cavalry will have the lead and over
i.400 mounted troopers will partief
pate. flying regimental colors, troop
guidons, ETC., and with two mounted
cavalry bands playing. Next will come
! detachment Of the infantry, with
!wo infantry bands. Twelve batteries
sf field artillery, several platoons Of
rapid fire guns and mountain battery
will form the next section. Then will
rome the signal corps. with field and
wireless telegraph outfits and q
mounted detachment Of TIA men. The
hospital corps. with full paraphenalia
Tor emergency and field hospitals and
with wagon trains, ambulances, etc.
Ills next. A detachment from the bal
loon corps will follow in order. Then
will come the engineers, with bridge
trains for building both pontoons and
spar bridges. The wagon train of the
commissary, with all Of the camp and
field paraphenalia, will be next in line,
and with this will be an escort of cav.
airy, with detachment of infantry
following. In all there will be seven
UdlQS III luc INC vi I1dI I'll.
The location Of the reviewing stand
Ii an ideal one. 1t 10 two blocks re.
moved from street cars and faces the
capitol lawn, which rises in the shape
Of natural amphitheater from the re-
viewing stand to the south entrance
Of the capitol, and which Is of sufi-
cient area 20 accommodate crowd Of
10000 people.
AS soon as the parade has passed,
the picket line in front of the review.
ing stand will fall back so that the
hssemblage may come UP closer, oc.
cupying the street in part, and Presi-
dent Taft will then deliver an address
| of half hours duration. At the con.
clusion of his address the president
will go to the fair grounds, where he
will inaugurate the tournament pro.
gram. From the fair grounds he will
be escorted west on Grand avenue to
East Sixth, south to Walnut, west to
West Fifth and south to his train.
| The line of march of the military
parade will be from the capitol square
west on Grand to Sixth, south on
Sixth to Locust, west on Locust to
West Ninth, south ON Ninth to Wal
nut, east on Walnut to beyond the re.
viewing stand.
The committee on arrangements in
routing the president and the parade
has endeavored to cover scope OF
territory that viii permit the thou
sands who will be In Des Moines to
have every opportunity to see the ma
TONS chief executive and to view the
great military parade without crowd
ing. The reviewing stand will seat COT
people and in assigning seats upor
this platform the committee hal
deemed It best to give to the working
newspaper men of Iowa the prefer
ence. inasmuch as the gathering is Il
be largely nonpartisan and of q mill
tary character. Over 200 newspaper
publishers from over the state hav,
been invited to act as vice president.
and nearly all hawe accepted. 70
these seatD will be reserved on th.
platform. Other seats will be reservst
Tor the men Of Iowa who are IN omcia
We, Tor. distinguished citizens. etc.
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