Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-09-05
ARE ASKED TO RIDE
! AT HEAD OF COLUMN
Honor in 6. A. R. Parade for
Retired U. S. Officers Who
Served in Civil War.
GEN. MILES IN THE CITY
PLANNING THE DETAILS
Tentative Arrangements for Forma-
ton of Marching Hosts-Meeting
Tuesday to Complete Program.

Lieut. Gen. Nelson A. Miles. who is to
be grand marshal of the G.. A. r..
parade, Wednesday, September 20, has
returned to Washington to complete
arrangements for the event. Plans
have been tentatively made and will
be officially passed upon at a confer
ence Tuesday between Gen. Miles and
Col. Chauncey B. Baker, representing
the War Department. and Commander
William w. Galbraith, representing the
Navy Department.
All of the retired officers of the army
and of the navy, who served in the war
Of the rebellion. have been invited to
ride with Gen. Miles at the head of the
cavalcade of mounted citizens escort.
There are three lieutenant generals on
the retired list of the army and this
grade will expire with them. These are
Gen. Miles, Gen. John c. Bates and Gen.
S. NJ. b. Young, who is now governor
of the Soldiers Home
Parade Formation.
The route of the parade chosen by the
G. A. r. officers Is, strictly speaking,
from the Peace monument, down Penn
sylvania avenue and past the White
House, where it will be reviewed by
the President.
The tentative plans for the order of
the parade are as follows:
Platoon of police.
Grand marshal
Citizens committee and aids form at
Peace monument.
Army and navy (regular) on Mary
land avenue, left of the monument.
Marine Band.
Sons of Veterans Official escort) will
form on the Capitol grounds. on the
first path north of the Peace monu-
ment.
U. S. Grant Post, Brooklyn, the hon
orary escort, will form on the north
road. Capitol grounds.
Commander-in-chi and national Off
GERS (mounted) and past commanders-in-
chief will form on LIST street. between
Pennsylvania avenue and B street, right
on Pennsylvania avenue.
Chief of staff and aids -de camp will
form on LIST street between B street and
Indiana avenue. right resting on past
chief.
The Veteran Signal Corps, which was
the eyes and ears of the army during the
civil war. has requested a place at the
head of the G. A. R. column and expects
to have ninety men in line.
Observance Of Seniority.
The various departments will march in
the order of seniority. except that the
Department of the Potomac, which would
according to this rule come fourteenth
in line, will march in the rear, being
hosts of the occasion. This rule was
adopted following the reunion in Column
bus. Ohio. when the local department
turned out in such large numbers that
the rest of the paraders were scarcely
noticed. So here in Washington all the
visitors will be seen first and then the
Depar tment of the Potomac will parade
its 700 or 500 veterans.
The order in line is as follows: Illi-
nois, Wisconsin. Pennsylvania, Ohio,
New York. Connecticut. Massachusetts,
New Jersey. Maine, California and Ne
vada, Rhode Island. New Hampshire,
Vermont. Virginia and North Carolina,
Maryland, Nebraska, Michigan, Iowa,
Indiana, Colorado and Wyoming, Kans-
as. Delaware, Minnesota, Missouri, Ore
gon, Kentucky, West Virginia, South
Dakota. Washington and Alaska, Ar
kansas. New Mexico, Utah, Tennessee,
Montana, Texas. Idaho, Arizona, Geor-
gia and South Carolina, Alabama,
North Dakota, Oklahoma, Indian Terri
tory and the Potomac.
For the convenience of the veterans
in finding their place in the line of
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John McElroy. The paraders will be
massed north of Pennsylvania avenue
between 4th street, New Jersey avenue
and F street. The largest number will
be around Judiciary Square
Announcement by Committees.
F. D. Owens, chairman of the COM
mittee on stands, has announced that
plans of the official stand facing the
Presidents reviewing stand in the
court of honor at Lafayette Park will
soon be on exhibition that all those
desiring tickets may have an early op-
portunity to make choice selections
The medical committee, of which DR.
Lewis ]. Battle is chairman, has Sc
lected site for field hospital in the
White Lot, and Chairman Battle has
made a requisition on the executive
committee for large sign to indicate
the location of the hospital tent, as
well as for signs to be placed on the
information booths in Union station
to indicate hospital room at that point,
He has been allotted three rooms in
the southeast corner on the first floor
of the Emery Told census) building,
and these rooms will be in charge Of
physician and Red Cross nurses dur
ing the entire term of the encamp-
ment.
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