Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1910-06-13
WELCOME To Be
GREATEST EVER
No Private Citizen of u. 8. Hon
ored as Roosevelt Will Be
on Return.
COME FROM MANY CITIES
Demonstration to Be Participated In
by Political. Patriotic and Other
Organizations.

NcW IOIh, june 1os-W ueu 1uS-
odore Roosevelt drives up Fifth ave-
nue. to Fifty-ninth street next Satur-
day the avenue will be lined from
Eighth street to Fifty-ninth street
with $1,000 or 10000 men and wo-
men, members of local and visiting
organizations that have agreed to do
him honor on his return from Africa.
Many of the organizations will
be in uniform and nearly all will
have bands. To each organization
Of more than 100 persons a whole
block has been assigned. They will
carry Roosevelt flags, their society
flags and the national emblem. The
visiting organizations will come
from many states of the union. Some
small towns have been given posi-
tions at the Battery. The Spanish
war veterans will parade in uniform,
with several bands.
Chicago Represented.
The Hamilton club of Chicago, un-
der the leadership of John H. Batten,
will send 100 members, who will go
down the bay on the steamship
Commodore and will later have a
stand on Fifth avenue. The Pitts
burg Business Mems association will
send 500 men, marshaled by Colonel
A. P. Moore. Omaha will send a
delegation and Philadelphia, Cincin-
natl and other cities will also be rep
resented.
The Verrazano League of Italian
societies will turn out between 5000
and 1000 members, and the Order
of the Sons Of Italy of Paterson, n.
J., will send 500 more. To these
will be added Italians of Long Island
City.
The United Hungarian societies
have asked for positions for 1900
men and the United Swedish So
cieties have asked for space for
1000 more.
Army and Navy Union.
The Brooklyn league will turn out
between l 90 and goo and the Fifth.
Assembly Republic club about 100.
The Army and Navy union has asked
for a place for between 200 and 800,
and the Spanish war veterans, who
are to march, will turn out about
-fOpO lCNoAAys ObLSlo hl COulS
from various cities.
The Quindaro tribe of Red Men
will be 200 strong and the Chatta-
hoochie tribe will have 100 men.
The Austrian societies of New
York will be represented by $50 men
and the Roosevelt Neighbors associa-
tion of Oyster Bay, together with a
delegation from the Nassau county
board of supervisors, will have 500
men in line.
The Kings county republican gen.
eral committee of Brooklyn will turn
out about 1900 and the West Side
Republican club between 100 and
200. The North Side Republican
club and the Union Republican club
will also have large delegations in
line.
Governors on Revenue Cutters.
Governors and representatives of
state governors will be given posi-
tions on the stand at the Battery.
They will go down the bay on one
of the revenue cutters to greet the
former president and be the guests
of the committee during the parade
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson
and Secretary of the Navy Meyer
have been assigned positions on the
stand, and will go down the bay and
ride with the committee. Governor
Fort of New Jersey and Governor
Quinby of New Hampshire will be
present Mirabeau l.. Towns and
Civil Service Commissioner yelling
will act as personal escort to Mayor
GaynOr, who will preside at the bat
terry reception.
Commodore Dalzell. who will have
charge of the water parade. ap-
nounced that more than 100 boats
had been entered. Applications are
still coming in. and il will be the
middle of the week before the lists
are closed.