The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1910-07-08
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IN DETROIT
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First Installment of Visitors
Have Begun to
Arrive.

Detroit, Mich, July 8.-The first
of the great herd of Elks who will
be here for the annual convention
and reunion to be held in this city
next week arrived today. Included
among the early arrivals were the
grand lodge officers, who were met
at the Union station by military
band and a prize drill corps Of Is
men and escorted to the Hotel Pont-
chartrain, where the convention
headquarters were formally opened.
The main army of visitors will
pour into the city toomrrow and Sun
day. In special and regular trains.
in trolley cars and boats, they will
arrive from every direction through
out the United States and Canada.
Big delegations are reported on their
way from New England and the east
ern states The South will be we'll
represented, according to reports re-
coived by tie local committee, and
the Car West IS seiding thousands of
1.-The best people on earth" All del
egat:rns VII = met at the ticio
and escorted to Il cir hotels by de-
tachments of the Detroit lodge prize
drill corps. The ladies will be TAX
en- to their hotels in automobiles,
several thousands of which have
been placed at the disposal of the
reception committee. AS rapidly as
they arrive the delegates will lie
escorted to Elks' temple, where they
will be registered and assigned to
quarters.
The work of dressing the city be-
gan several weeks ago and is now
practically completed The decora-
tive and electrical display will sur
pass any other ever shown here, and
is expected to be one of the greatest
ever seen in the country. The center
of the electrical display will be at
the city hall. Stretching in all four
directions the streets are a sea Of
purple and white flags, streamers
and pennants. The grand court Of
honor is an affair of unusual magni-
ficence and is supplemented by well
come arches spanning the principal
thoroughfares in the vicinity of the
railroad stations. All of the lead
ing clubs, hotels, department stores
and other business houses in the
downtown section have provided
electrical displays on large scale,
and throughout the residential part
of the city there is a general display
of flags and bunting.
The entertainment of the visiting
Elks will be on a scale never before
attempted in this city. Beginning
with next Sunday and continuing
through the week until Saturday
there is not a break in the social
programme Something has been
arranged for every hour of the day
and evening.
The salient features of the weeks
programme have been arranged as
follows:
Sunday.
4 p. m-All visiting ladies will
be driven in automobiles to points of
interest in and about the city, in
Guiding Belle Isle, the Grand boule-
ward and Crosse Pointe
$3.50 p. m.-Thomas A. Edison
will turn on the switch to illuminate
the city and it's decorations.
Monday.
| p. m-Water trip to the eve
nice of America" the historic floats
at the south of the st. Clair river.
$50 p. m.-Formal civic and fra
ternal welcome to the grand lodge
at the Lyceum theatre.
Tuesday.
10 a. m.-First session of grand
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and band concerts.
p. m.-Grand electrical allegor-
ical parade, depicting the founding
and development of the city.
1859 p. m.-Eleven o'clock toast
Wednesday.
10 a. m.-Session of grand lodge
at Lyceum theatre. Competitive
drill contests on Belle Island COM
mons.
2 D. m.-Summer festival for wo-
men on Belle Isle. Land and water
battle by naval militia and Michigan
National Guard
8 p. m.-Canoe parade at Belle
Isle Park and grand lodge ball.
Thursday.
10 a. m.-Grand parade of Elks
under Grand Esquire A. ]. Davis.
p. m.-Moonlight ride on Lake
st. Clair
Friday.
10 a. m.-FlOral automobile pa
rade, representing 100000 worth
of machines.
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