The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-10-25
Yesterdays Big Liberty Parade Was a Great
 Patriotic Triumph
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dtl LULU l1ulutHll (Continued from Page Five) had possibly the largest aggregation of members in the parade of any organ ization. About 300 men paraded under their banner, all wearing the Civic as- sociation hat band. This organization Is always strong In all parades. and public demonstrations, but yesterday they did themselves proud. Their num- bers included men from every walk in life. Tn the front ranks of the parade was a demonstration of the Spirit of 76." two Bop Scouts being used to play the fife and drum. while member ,f
 the association acted as the revolution ary soldier. This feature brought
 forth much applause.
 Following the parade, a band con- cert was given by the boys of the
 United States army bands from Camp Mcclellan, all of the bands playing in concert in front of the Tutwiler bal cony overlooking Twentieth street, while thousands of people applauded O'NEAL AT CAPITOL PARK Gov Emmet O'Neal spoke to the crowd at Capitol park following the parade, and in most eloquent man nare portrayed the need of the aid the government is asking and pledged the loyal support of all loyal Americans. The spirit os America Is aflame with enthusiasm" he said We stand loy- ally by our great chieftain for the
 maintenance of American rights. ready to discard the garments of peace for the robe of war, war which will tax ,, our patriotism and resources"
 Preceding the parade a luncheon was given the visiting bands from the United States army, five of them, at
 the Southern club. Following the ex- ercises of the evening a dinner was given the bands at the Southern club also. with the exception of the One Hundred and Eleventh regiment band
 Virginia artillery. members of which were the guests of the Hillman hotel at dinner party.
 The day was one of general holiday following the noon hour. All stores and business houses closed and re mained closed with the exception of those places of business that were of necessity compelled to remain open. Never in the history of Birmingham was there more successful parade. was there more patriotism shown or
 more congenial cooperation than in that of yesterday, in honor of liberty loan number two. a6
 SPEAKS FOR BOYS OF BAND " c WdAI lO CAPIGcS TUT OuT OOyS and for the members of all of the
 bands here from Camp Mcclellan that
 we are glad that we are in Birming- ham, and that we have never had as good time, been treated as kindly and received so many courtesies, in- cluding dining and entertaining, as we have received. You have been good to us and we appreciate 1t more than we can tell you" said Sergeant Blow i,, fa1l at at bo last night when George N. Driver as- sistant manager of the Hillman hotel,
 was the host to the One Hundred and Eleventh regiment band. The band Is composed of Sergt. s. Montague, Lon o. Hall. Frank S. Tull P. H. Maul Fred Gergham, B. w. Huntington, Frank J.
 Pannella, John H. Batchley, George
 Wandsleben. Rudolph Daily, Salvatore
 D. Benedetti. Salvatore To Presti. Ar thur J. Thomas, Corp. M Benyumes, Sergt. o. Salandra. Sergt. S. B. Cook.
 First Sergt. William T. Blow. Sergt
 Bugler W. B. Bean. Scrgt. I. R.
 Bouchee, George Damn. Wilfred A.
 Lawrence, w. w. Casper, Corp. John
 R. Parker and Thomas o. Calandra.
 It was evident from every quarter
 that the visiting soldier musicians
 were delighted with their trip to Bir-
 mingham and that they will return at
 moments notice to fill any engage
 ment. provided they asc given permits
 sion by the commanding officer at
 Camp Mcclellan.
 Lieut.. Raymond Daiguy, French
 army officer and instructor in machine
 gun practice at Camp Mcclellan. was
 a distinguished figure in the parade
 as were the United States army off.
 cers, maj. J. A. Olin, division adjutant
 Maj. R. H. Kelley, division inspector;
 Lieut.. J. G. Earnest, First squadron,
 Virginia cavalry.
 GROWTH OF SUBSCRIPTIONS
 The liberty loan supscription list fof
 the day was greatly augmented by A.
 H. Woodward. for the Woodward Iron company. when he placed subscrip- tion for $6O0,000 worth of bonds. Other large subscriptions announced were as B. Leedy, $1oOo; John s. Leedy, $1O0O; Alabama Power company, s50.- 900; Louisville and Nashville rail- road, through Birmingham Trust and Savings bank. $130.000 Mrs. Alberta w. Bush, $10,000; Warrier Black Creek Coal company $2000; K. A. Conville
 $500: Mrs. Jennie Levy, $2000; Bir- mingham Rail and Locomotive com pany 5000 additional, and employees, $50O additional; Haskin Williams $500; Thomas Martin of the Alabama Power company. $500: l.. M. Jackson, $250.
 Chairman Adams is the busiest man in Birmingham, as he expects to make the total liberty loan subscription $7,500,o00 before the books close Sat urday night
 Tt is case of having hold of some thing that Is too hot to turn loose he said last night. ''In view of the fact that we were too busy today to check up our lists with those of the banks, which were closed all day, we were unable to make an estimate of our totals-but you can say that we are knocking along towards the $6,000.- GOO mark. and we expect to pass it be. fore Thursday ends"