Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-22
GREAT PARADE PLANNED
AS UNWILLING FEATURE
Line of March to Be An
nounced in Few Days.
Ceremony at Memorial.

The line Of march for the pageant
which will constitute a prominent feature
Of the ceremonies attending the unveil-
ing Of the Columbus memorial on the
Union station plaza, Saturday. June s.
will be announced by Brig. Gen. r. K.
Evans, u. s. A, grand marshal. within
q few days. That the parade will be even
greater than anticipated, in point Of num-
bers of participants. and in the splendor
Of uniforms and in display OF floats. Is
indicated by the applications for places
that have been received.
Seven jurisdictions Of the Knights OF
Columbus have given notice that they
will have floats. New York state will be
represented by big float. The state con-
vention recently held appropriated $1,000
for this feature. The Washington knights
will have a float depicting the discovery
Of America.
All the big cities of the country will
be specially well represented in the line
OF march. There will be fifty men on
Thomas p. Flynn of Chicago. who will
be marshal Of the fourth degree section OF
the knights. was in Washington yester-
day, and paid for $50 seats for the public
dinner to be given the night of June 8.
He left reservation for seventy-ive
more seats.
Others Secure Seats.
Up to date 200 Philadelph!ans have
bought seats at the banquet, 300 from
New York city. including Brooklyn; 1875
from Boston, and others scattered from
Maine to California, and from the Domin-
ion of Canada.
The program for the unwilling proper
as completed to date. states that the pre-
siding officer will be Secretary Of State
Knox. The invocation will be by. Rt
Rev. Mgr. Thomas Shahan, rector of the
Catholic University Of America. The in
itial address will be delivered by Chief
Justice Victor ]. Bowling OF the supreme
court of New York state. Marquis Gu
the United States. will unveil the statue.
Simultaneously with the unveiling an ar
tillery salute of probably twenty-one guns
will be fired.
semblage, as will also Representative
James I. McCleary. who was chairman
of the House committee on the library
when the Columbus memorial bill passed
Congress. The United States Marine
Band will intersperse the program with
musical selections.
There is one more official yet to be Sc
lected-a distinguished clergyman to give
the benediction. He will doubtless be a
bishop resident in Washington.
Nearly 1OO,OO in Line.
The exercises at the monument are ex-
pected to last about an hour and half,
following which a monster pageant will
pass in review before the Presidents and
the citizens stand. It Is thought that
| there will be about 10000 or $1,000 men
in line.
The marshal will ride at the head of
about 1900 troops, including bluejackets
and marines. The middies from the Ma
val Academy at Annapolis will be in the
line of march.
The next section Of the parade will be
made up of the Knights of Columbus. with
their supreme knight, James A. F1aherty
of Philadelphia, riding at their head. 1t
is estimated that there will be more than
10000 members of the order in the pa
rade. They are coming to Washington
from all over the United States. The
Italian societies of the country will also
be well represented.