The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1909-06-04
ELABORATE WILL
Be CELEBRATION
Dayton, O., Putting Best Foot
Forward to Honor the
Wright Brothers.
PARADE WILL BE FEATURE
IT WILL EXCEL ANYTHING OF
IT'S KIND EVER HELD IN THIS
PART OF THE couNTRY-ThE
FIREWORKS DISPLAY.

FIREWORKS DISPLAY.
Dayton. Ohio. June 4-The Wright
Brothers Home Celebration to be held
in Dayton, Ohio, on June 18th and 18th
promises to be the biggest event Of its
kind ever held in this section Of the
United States. Railroads are maxi
ing special rates, and it is anticipated
that the crowds will be Of enormous
size. The principal event OF the cell
ebration is the presentation of the ma
tional. State and city medals. which
have been awarded to these distin-
guished aviators The government
medals will no doubt be presented by
President Taft. The state medals will
and the city medals by Mayor Edward
Burkhardt- The ceremonies attend
ing upon this part of the celebration
will be the most impressive and patri-
otto. Bishop Wright, the aged father
Of Wilbur and Orville Wright. will de-
liver tho invocation. Two thousand
five hundred school children costumed
to represent an American flag will
sing patriotic hymns, and band OF
sixty men specially organized for the
occasion will furnish the music.
Parade Feature.
The grand parade on the afternoon
Of June 18th, will excel anything OF
like character ever held in this section
Of the United States. The Third
Regiment O. N. G., will head the pa
rade, and a regiment of the regular
army stationed at Fort Thomas, KY.
will also take part. The second divis-
ion of the parade will consist of fifteen
thousand uniformed men Of the fra
ternal and civic societies. The third
division of the parade will consist of
historical and allegorical floats. The
first fifteen floats are symbolical OF
the development Of locomotion in this
country, and tell in pictures OF the de-
velopment of the various forms OF To-
comotion, beginning with the Indian
going through the forest in his birch
canoe, to the aeroplane as now per-
fected by the Wright brothers. In ad-
dition to this, there will be many floats
representative of the industrial and
business interests of the City OF Day
ton, Ohio.
Fireworks Display.
On Thursday night, June 18th. there
is to be magnificent display Of fire
worgs Of greater magnitude than any
display ever seen in this section OF the
country This display Of fireworks
will be held at the junction of the MI
ami and Mad rivers. east OF the Main
street bridge, and the natural ampi-
theater which surrounds this location
will give opportunity for one hundred
thousand persons to see the display.
On the second night there 10 to be a
large illuminated automobile parade,
in which will appear three hundred
gorgeously illuminated and decorated
automobiles.
On Elaborate Scale.
| The Examinations and decorations at
the celebration are being built upon
most elaborate scale. All the princi-
pal business houses are to b elabo-
rately decorated. and all Of the down
town streets are to be decorated nc
cording to a plan suggested by Mr..
Henry Kabierake, tho world renowned
artist and designer Of Philadelphia In
addition to this. a grand court Of hon.
or is to be constructed on Main street,
from Third street to tho monument,
more than three squares long. This
court of honor will BE- decorated with
twenty-five Thousand lights. and
when illuminated will outrival fairy
land. The pilons 1t the street inter
sections will carry . heroic statue rep
resenting Progress" This statue Is
sixteen feet high, and there will be
twelve of them constructed In the
court of honor alone. Cooper Park,
| in the central portion Of the city, is to
be decorated with thousands OF beau
tiful japanese lanterns.
This event promises to surpass any
thing OF the like nature ever attempt
ed in this section Of the country.
Preparations are being made to enter
tain several hunderd thousand OF PEG.
pie on these two days. Ample accom-
modations are being made at the no
tells lodging houses. and in private
| homes, to take care OF the enormous
crowd which will be present