The Detroit times., 1912-07-24
AQUATIC SPORTS
FEATURE FETE OF TO-DAY


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Chalmers Motor Car company. War
rem company John j Bagley a Co.
John Breitmeyers Sons, Baker Elec
trio company, San Telmo Cigar com
pany and others
one firm Is reported TO have spen
$4,000 In building a float 10 represen
its business. Another float will b'
drawn bv 90 horses. and horses and
| float will be a clock and a half IN
length. Another float Ia so feet n
length. Nearly every industry I'm De
troit Will be represented in the parade
and the participants predict that II
will even surpass in interest and
novelty the historical pageant. Not q
few OF the floats. in addition TO dis
playing the products OF The manufac
turers in an interesting way, wiz
show how those products were manu-
featured. A. L. Melvin. OF the Mel
vim Advertising Co. will be marshal
OF the parade
The weather for Wednesday will be
unsettled according 10 the weather
bureaus report There viii be show
ers and sunshine, but there Is no way
OF telling just when 20 expect either
The bureau predicts cooler and cleai
er weather for tonight and clear
weather for Thursday
Cadillac Ahead Of Time.
Cadillac is not at all behind the
times. II one may jdge from his
showing upon his arrival in Detroit,
Tuesday afternoon; IN fact he Is
quite able 10 keep up with the pro-
.cesslon and In some spots set con-
siderably ahead of IL. He was almost
an hour ahead of his escort when he
arrived with his two priests at the
foot OF Third-st., Tuesday, and after
coming up on land 10 look around.
had to so back TO his boat again
and wait for the reception party 10
arrive.
The official program OF the feStivi-
ties called fer the arrival OF Cadillac
at 1880 m. but the Narmada with
the gallant chevalier and his retinue
on board reached the dock almost an
hcour before that time. The counts
OF Cadillaqua, At $3.50 per count, and
the official party were kept waiting
in their automobiles for half an hour,
while the various military organiZa-
tion3 swung into line. Promptly at
1870 the automobile containing Cad
lilac moved through the lane of sol
dlery and some people along the
route started TO applaud The other
hundreds that were lined up To see
the event kept on waiting for some
thing TO happen until il was all over.
The arrival OF Cadillac ahead OF
schedule proved disappointing to
thousands who lined the river banks
ms
tiently awaiting the arrival OF the
chevalier. who had reached the point
OF disembarking a long time before.
Finally word was passed along that
Cadillac had reached port" before
they took up their vigil, and the
crowd was mad clear through. IL
was just another instance OF the
schedule being badly muddled.
Another disappointment TO the
crowd was the failure of Gov Osborn
to participate in the ceremonies. Right
up 70 the last minte the publicity de-
partment OF Cadillaqua was insisting
that the governor would surely be 'on
the job" although il must have
known that he was in the northern
part of the state.
A number OF the $3.50 counts of
Cadillaqua did not get down TO Third
ST. at all, waiting for the procession
TO come up to the corner OF Larn%d-
St. on Woodward-ave. and joining in
with 1t al that point.
Crowds Get Away From Police.
Although the police department has
in good style. the people got beyond
control on the downtown streets be-
fore the automobile parade was fin
ished, Tuesday afternoon, and there
was only a narrow lane on Woodward
ave. through which the machines pass
ed. the people massinE far out into
the street. The curb line was main
tanned until after the arrival OF Cad
lilac at the grandstand in Grand Cir
Gus park. but after that was over the
crowd broke loose and II was impos-
sible to get them back into line for
the automobile parade. The crowd
broke once when fire apparatus an
swering a call CAME dashing around
Grand Circus park. from the east side
and down Woodward-ave. The people
ran like sheep for the curb. and II
is a wonder that some were not seri-
ously trampled in the panicky rush.
The automobile parade was interrupt
ed several minutes.
Interruptions of one sort and an
other played havoc with the align
ment OF the automobile parade, and
by the time ii reached the reviewing
stand II was hard to distinguish the
division lines. Many people were dis
appointed in the parade because
there were so few decorated cars, and
people were freqently heard TO COM
pare II wits parades In othr citis
where no machine is allowed to en-.
ter unless 1t is decorated.
Historical Pageant Makes Hit.
Detroiters and their visitors re-
sponded enthusiastically to the APP
peal ~ their sense of pride in their
city when they Witnessed the histor-
icay pageant. the most pretentious
affair 81 the weeks celebration, Tues
day night. Woodward-ave. from the
d. A. G. grounds south to Jefferson
ave. was crowded from curb to
buildings on either side of the street.
and Jnfferson-ave. was crowded In
the same manner from Woodward-ave.
10 Russell-st. Every inch of curb
space was taken by people, steated
on the curbs. holding children.
Along the entire route of the parade
uanraI from pVprv aVQilQ hi