The Washington herald., 1916-11-16
WILSON JUBILEE
PARADE TONIGHT
IS, 900 Marchers Ready for
Torch Pageant.

Washington's real welcome to Presi-
dent Wilson-its jubilee and celebration In
honor OF his undergraduates place tonight.
Forty-five thousand marchers. bearing
red lights and waving banners. will par
sde Pennsylvania avsnue from John
Marshall Place to the White House.
Twenty-Five bands will play, and a chorus
OF 600 voices will sing national airs and
Southern melodies as the parade ends.
President Wilson, surrounded by his
Cabinet, their families, and intimate
friends, will review the parade from the
White House. Chairman Vance McCor-
mick. OF the Democratic National Com
mittee, will arrive In Washington late to-
day to be present at the White House
tonight when the celebration begins. Sec
retary to the President Tumulty will be
IN the line of march beside Charles W.
Darr and other officials of the Wilson
Marshall Democratic Association. under
whose auspices the celebration will be
given.
Avenue Cars to stop.
For the first time since the Dewey cele-
bration. Pennsylvania Avenue cars will
stop running at night. The avenue Will
be roped of after I o'clock tonight, and
vehicles and pedestrians, other than
those in the parade, will be denied ad
mittance. The street car company will
not operate cars on the Avenue from the
Peace Monument to Eighteenth street
street northwest between $50 and 1880
o'clock. Special squads OF police, re-en-
forced by 1000 Boy Scouts. will maintain
order.
The Wilson Marshall Democratic Asso-
citation will head the column. Its men,
hers and band will assemble tonight at
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mory. G street northwest near Ninth
Maurice O'Connor. sergeant-at-arms of
the organization. will have charge of the
marshaling of the club. The Marine
Band will Immediately precede the club
mounted police to constitute the head of
the line. One thousand automobiles will
bring up the end of the line.
Political organizations from Virginia
and Maryland, State associations in the
District, and unattached bodies of private
citizens will follow next. Clerks in the
government departments and attaches Of
embassies and legations who will take
part have n separate section reserved for
them.
To March Twenty Abreast.
Citizens in the line will march about
twenty abreast. II was announced by
the parade committee last night, after
q meeting in the office of Charles w.
Darr. where all plans were perfected
and the order of parade formulated.
Automobiles will be driven eight
abreast. They will carry red, white
and blue lights and will be decorated
with the national coIorsS Guy e.
Whitford. chairman of the automobile
section. announced last night that all
owners of automobiles, regardless of
political preference, would be welcome.
Automobiles are to assemble at the
plaza east Of the Capitol and form for
the parade. They will take their part
in the parade at the Peace Monument,
after the column has been drawn up.
Chairman Walter J. Costello, of the
committee on music. reported last
night that every union band in the
city had been engaged for tonight, as
well as many private bands which
had volunteered.
The western section" of the parade.
comprising voters from California,
who organized at the women's will
son League last night. as well as
other Western residents of the city,
will have a prominent place. They
will be led by Joseph ]. O'Brien, a
member of the California State Asso-
citation, who first suggested the idea of
a Western division in the line.
Late additions to the marching column
were announced last night One OF these
is the Woodrow Wilson West Virginia
Club. which will have John ]. CornweIl,
Eovernor-elect. to lead the members The
Georgia Society is another late addition
10 the line of march. 1t will meet at
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