The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-08-28
CITY PREP ARES
FOR WELCOME TO
!, GAR. VETERANS
Downtown Streets Are Gay With
Flags. Bunting and Signs
Of Greeting
POLICE WILL PROTECT
VISITORS FROM CROOKS
Hundred and Fifty Patrolmen to
Be Added to Central Staff
for Week

Although the great @. A. r. en-
campment does not get under way un
I'll next Monday, downtown Detroit n
already ablaxe with fiags, bunting. ii
Illuminated signs Of welcome, and G.
A. n. emblems. many store fronts be-.
ing almost buried In the colors Tor
which the veterans offered all. back
In the sixties.
The colorado Of white pillars
stretched along the line OF march OF
Wednesdays big parade, Is being
made o real Great white way" by
thousands Of incandescent lights,
stretched from pillar TO pillar at In.
tervals of six inches.
Police have purchased $4,000 feet
Of Quarter-inch wire cable. for the es.
pectal purpose Of roping on Wood
ward-ave.. from Jeiferson-ave. to
Brady-st., and the cable, cut to block
lengths. 10 being strung, Thursday.
II Is placed at height OF seven
feet. but when wanted for use. will be
lowered at one signal to height OF
four feet. The street Intersections
will be closed to traffic by ropes.
. Eight-inch cedar posts are being sunk
into the pavement as supports.
One hundred and fifty policemen
from outlying stations will be added
to the central precinct force for duty
during the week of the encampment,
and 80 more patrolmen will be placed
In plain clothes and assigned to the
detective bureau. to mingle with the
immense crowds and see to 1t that the
visitors and citizens are protected
from crooks and grafters.
Working In harmony with the COM
mittee in charge, the Detroit United
railway has planned its service SO as
not to interfere with the parade. We'd
nesday morning.
From the time the parade forms at
10 o'clock until II IL disbanded about
! p. M. ut woodward and Jefferson
ayes, there will be no service on
Woodward-ave. south OF the Cross
town lines. but woodward cars will
operate over q combined woodward
and Hamilton route by way of the
Crosstown lines on Forest and War
ren-aves.
A o result OF the suspension Of
the service on Woodward-ave., II will
be necessary for all lines In the GEN.
ter Of the city to turn east and west
OF Woodward-ave. with the exception
Of the Jefferson line, which will not
be interrupted. and the Trumbull line,
which will run out Jenerson-ave. to
the Belle Isle bridge approach.
The other west-side lines will make
the interurban depot loop, with the
exception LOT the Fourteenth line.
which will turn at Safest.
The east-side lines will turn at
their respective "Y's" and curves at
Farmer-st Hudson's, Cadillac-sQ., and
at Bates and Congress-sts.
All the interurban cars to Flint,
Jackson and Toledo will make the
interurban loop as usual. while the
Rapid Railway cars, after 10 q. m,
should be boarded at Randolph-st. and
Gratiot-ave.
More than 200 Detroit women
gathered In the mayors office, We'd
nesday afternoon, In response to Q
call from Arthur K. Gordon, chairman
OF the Information committee, Tor q
meeting to discuss ways and means
OF making the visiting veterans and
their families realize that Detroit Is
exerting every effort to show her
guests q good time"
Many of the women were represen-
tatives OF local patriotic organiza-
tons which are afiliated with the re-
ception committee.
Plans were also made to have the
information booths kept open from Z