Evening journal., 1914-10-03
FRATERNAL PARADE
Will Be brilliant
Shriners To March With
Other Organizations in Old
Home Celebration
u. S. REGULARS IN
MILITARY LINE

That the fratornal parade, to be
held on Wednesday night of the "Old
Home Week celebration. viii be one
of the biggest features of the week
now seems assured, as announcement
is made that Wilmington. on that oc-
casion. will he honored by a visit
by Lu Lu Temple, OF Philadelphia
The membership of Lu Lu Temple
being large enough to make a big
turnout without the assistance OF
other societies or clubs. It has always
been their custom to hold parades of
their own, and this will be the first
time in the history of the Shrine that
they will march with other organiza-
tions. The addition of this organi-
zation will make the fraternal parade
one of the biggest ever held in Will
mingtOn.
There will be more than 1000
Shriners in line. OF this number
200 will be from Philadelphia, and
at least 400 local Shriners will be in
line. They will wear tuxedo coats
and the famous fez. The Philadel-
phia contingent will bring with them
their famous band of IS pieces. This
alone will be well worth going a long
distance to hear. In addition they
will have their famed mounted guards
of so men and their patrol, all Of
whom will be in uniform.
w. Freeland Kendrick. potentate
OF Lu Lu Temple, has written to
Councilman Stover. chairman of the
executive committee OF arrangements
and has promised him cne of the
greatest turnouts Wilmington has
seen for many years. In addition to
the Shriners there will be more than
5000 men in the parade from local
organizations. so that the fraternal
parade Wednesday night is going to
be a great feature of the Home Week
celebration.
parade in size will be the military
parade, which will be held on Thurs
/ day afternoon. In the line of this
I big parade in addition to the entire
! Organized Militia Of Delaware, in
! cluding all down State companies,
there will be four companies Of coast
artillerymen from Fort DUPONT, &C
cOmpanied by the Fort DUPONT band,
one complete battalion from the Sixth
Regiment. Pennsylvania National
Guards, the entire battalion Of cadets
from Delaware College and at least
a company and possibly the entire
battalion Of cadets from the Pennsyl-
vania Military College at Chester. The
Sons of Veterans and the Grand Army
have also signifed their intention OF
participating in the parade
On account Of the expense Of trans.
portation and food, no effort ha:
, been made to get sailors OF marines
from League Island, but should an,
, of the battleships be lying of thi
city during the week, an effort ma,
be made to bring the sailors ashor,
' to take part in the parade. TIL,
Wanamaker Cadets. of Philadelphia
will be unable to take part.
, The Industrial parade which Il
scheduled for Wednesday afternoon
will be at least 25 blocks long anC
possibly twice that long. There will
be a vast number OF floats in thi,
particular parade and in addition
wagons and automobile trucks. Som,
Of the floats will be magnificent ere
ations which will have cost hundreds
Of dollars and some will be priz,
winners in similar affairs in neigh
boring cities recently.
This parade is not going to be con
fined to vehicles alone. There will
be several thousand men in line. The,
I will represent the various manufac
turing plants about the city. Tn
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
shops will have about 1000 marcher
and other plants will be representa-
by equally large bodies of workmer
Officials of the Pennsylvania Railroa
shops yesterday started to learn n
sentiment among tn employees Of n
n shops about participating in the indu
trial parade. To men who would tm
ont in overalls and caps. the compar
offered TO furnish overalls at barga
n prices and give them caps. To tho
II who would turn out in dark clothes, Il
n company offered to give blue caps.