Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-05-03
PLENTY OF ACTION
FOR ENCAMPMENT
National Preparedness
Rally" Will Draw Great
Throng Here.
MAKE PREPARATIONS
Many Veterans Will Wear
Uniforms and Come
Here in Specials.

from reports that are pouring in
from every quarter of Oklahoma the
greatest throng that ever gathered in
Il city in this state on a gala occasion.
VIII be here for the sixth annual al
leu department encampment of the
Gfand Army of the Republic and the
United Spanish War Veterans. which
mas heen turned into national pre-
paredness rally" May l6, II and Is.
FRANK Northup of Oklahoma CITY
VINO was here Saturday, said that at
least two hundred veterans and their
wives from that city will attend.
bartlesville is coming with special
traln crowd headed by tho Smlcter-
town band. bent on landing the next
ehcahpment. In the Bartlcsville
party will be fifty veterans of the
Spanish American war in uniform.
Ninita, Muskosee. Enid, Chandler.
Sapuipa. Okmulgee and several other
towns will send large delegations.
Great Band Coming.
Accompanying the Fifth field ar
'ii'ery band from Fort Sill will be the
camps of United Spanish War Veter-
ans of Fort Sill and Iawton which
are among the most active in the ok
lahoma department.
Kansas City. which in the fall will
entertain the national encampment OF
me Grand Army, will send an official
ueiegallon to Tulsa to promote the
IA 1aIi event and to aid in making the |
: uisa hleetihg huge success. In the |
Kansas city party will be Major Will |
nam Warner. former United States |
senator from Missouri, and past COM
inander-in n-chief of the Grand Army
OF the Republic and one of the best
speakers in the United States. Major |
warner has been "a familiar figure at |
Grand Army encampments since the
!irst national encampment met in
Louisville, Ky. when fewer than four
hundred men paraded the streets of
that city.
The executive committee of the on
'ahpment is meeting frequently and
reports that all arrangements are
tentatively agreed upon and that the
'roSrahl VIII be a continuous process
Dt thrllls.' There will be parades.
amp Iire. military ball. merrymak-
ng at Sand Springs park, an automo-
oile ride over the city and other
orms of entertainment for the thou
'ahds or veterans and their ladies'.
May ~ has been designated as
preparedness Day" and the program
VIII be in charge of United spanish
war Veterans. Governor Williams
WI be the chief speaker. Upon his
lrrlVal IN the city the governor will
'e met at the train by a military es-
or ana taken to the Brady hotel.
'hich Is TO be encampment head
uarterS.
The Snaix Parade. i
Inc Snaix parade will take place at |
O'Clock that night. The old serpent il
as been captured and dragged from Il
$ lair where it has been hibernatinr II
'r months and in all its ferocity and II
rotesqueness will be carried nv n II
llipino band of savages in native at-
re through the streets of Tulsa Tho II
ne or march will be illuminated by II
reworks. ~
The military ball in Convention hall
,ens at $3.50 and will be a brilliant II
1alr. Ladies of the auxiliary of the II
hited Spanish War Veterans will be II
e nostesses of this occasion. assisted
the ladies' of the Grand Army of II
e Republic and Women's Relief
TIPS. The Fifth United States field
tiiIery band Will provide the music
lie band will bring some new dance II
usic that will make the feet of tbe II
iest veteran tingle with the nimbIe- II
SIS or youth of sixteen
cWlnS 20 the vast crowd exnectod III
VIII be necessary to make arranpe II
,nts Tor several hundred rooms in
residence part of the city. A bu-
lu on rooms will be opened in a II
" days.