The Washington times., 1916-06-12
Republican Nominee Hughes viii
Join Procession II in City
Wednesday.
ALL UNITS ARE ORGANIZED
Two Thousand Women viii Take
Part-St. Patrick's Parish
Order Issued.

With the announcement Of the prob
able participation of Charles Evans
Hughes in the Flag Day parade. con-
frmeo at parade headquarters. the en-
tries for the parade were closed at
noon today with a feeling on the part OF
the committee that the last big entrant
made It unanimous. The statement Ia
made that Judge Hughes will march II
he Is in the city.
The announcement OF the formal or
ganization Of the parade units set every
member OF each unit hustling to get
ready for the big demonstration We'd
nesday. The heads OF each division
also were busy preparing their orders
OF formation.
Melvin c. Hazen, marshal. today is
sued special orders to which the at
tention of unit and organization COM
manders is directed.
Announcement was made today that
g. w. Woodward will head the march
OF Woodward G. Lothrop employees;
that members OF the Arm of S. Kann
Sons & Company will head the line
OF their employees and that ID. j. kauf-
man will lead his employees. Employees
of the r. p. Andrews Paper Company
. will march. Joseph Berberich VIII
head the employees of the Robert Ber-
berich's Sons store.
The working out of the headquarters
order. which was the biggest job OF the
entire parade. has made 1t possible for
each unit chief to announce his plans OF
formation and time OF assembly.
been called to meet me- CHEZ Of Police
Pullman in the red room OF the New
Willard this evening at 1880 and receive
Instructions as t. the work Of the COM
mittee on the day Of the parade.
Other committees governing the vari-
GUS units meet this afternoon and to-
night to make their Anal arrangements.
pouring into Headquarters TODAY and
the indications are that the paredo will
be even larger than the committee in
charge originally estimated.
Two Thousand Women.
There will be 1000 women In line repre-
senting women's organizations. The
total OF the fair sex will probably
greatly exceed this number. as a num-
Der of women will march with units In
which men and children will form q
part.
One Of the large units OF women, out
side the Girl Scout and Preparedness
Camp. attachments. will be that repre-
senting the womens Relief Corps or
Two hundred women are TO march
with this contingent. according to an
nouncements that have already been
received. It is regarded as possible
tHdt tntTt Will De more tnhu tndI De-
fore the entries are closed.
Department President Jennie T.
Thompson will be In charge Of the Re-
lief Corps representatives. She states
that the delegation would be consider
ably larger II 1t were not for the
fact that large number of the men,
bers are women of advanced years who
would be unable to march the distance
required. There will be many members
In automobiles. but quite number
also will walk.
st. Patrick's Parish.
At meeting In Carroll Hall last
night the members OF 81. Patrick's
parish discussed the plans for their
representation in the preparedness pa
rade.
Those taking part will be the children
of st. Joseph's and st. vincent's Infant
Asylums. the boys and girls from st.
Patricks school, and representatives
h hrG% a ine s dsaESs of the Good Shop
The men will assemble at 8 o'clock
in front of the church and the women
and girls in Carroll Hall. The junior
Industrial school will take part in the
delegation which will be led by Mgr.
The marshals or the delegations are
Dennis Conneli. boys division. and
Oliver J. LIE Beau. marshal OF the girls.
tn, The MAJ marshal h Of the entire representa-
M, together with the seventeen other
eounciie OF the State body. will assem-
Eighth and streets northeast. at B:1
o'clock. Officers Of the council Will
form them in line. and they will march
In body to the assembling place, Sec
.ond and B streets northwest. There
they Will be assigned places in line by
the. marshal Of the division.
The order OF parade will, be the
boys. girls, women. and men.
Everybody connected with the parish
will wear green hat or green decora-
tons In honor OF St. Patrick The unit
will ioin the parade at Four-and-a-half
street and Pennsylvania avenue.
Members OF the Woodmen of the
World have been directed to assemble
at the corner OF First and Indiana ave-
nue. northwest mt 10 o'clock. Wednes-
day morning. Each member has been
directed to provide himself with a
small American nag and report to IIeu-
tenant Colonel Wilsher. -,
The Anacostia Council. Junior Order
or United American Mechanics. mas
appointed committee to prepare plans
% BE gmpscn Is IN Oe ensrs. and hi.
associate committeeman are T: NJ.
Hardness. NJ j. Thomas, ]. u. Frye.
and p. A. smithson. The. committee
hopes to secure the attendance of a
council In the parade.
DR.. Lewis j. Battle. chairman OF the
medical aid committee, has announced
that sixteen first,aid stations will be
established along the line OF march to
tators who are overcome. Two physi-
The American Red Cross local brsHch