Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1917-09-05
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About Zb,OOU men, WOMEN anu oiL
dren passed a reviewing stand before
the White House. where the President
and his guests watched the parade.
More than half the long line was IN
uniform There were regulars from
infantry. cavalry and artillery regi-
ments stationed nearby. marines. men
from the officers training camp at
Fort Myers and hundreds of army and
navy officers attached to the depart
ments here.
The Stars and Stripes waved from
the reviewing stand. from the build
ings along the broad avenue. from the
head of every unit and in the hands
of most of the civilian marchers. From
the corner of Fifteenth street. where
Pennsylvania avenue turns around the
treasury. the long mile to the foot OF
Capitol hill was one stream of flags
in the breeze and sparkling under
cloudlcss September sky.
The President and those in the
stand with him were kept at salute
continually.
President at the Head
President Wilson himself. eyes 70 the
front stepred out like a freshly train
Cd recruit al the head Of the long
line until he reached the White House
where he mounted the reviewing stand.
Behind him in the line came most OF
the members of the Senate and House,
in such tribute as they probably
never have given on any occasion IN
the long wears since this country be-
came nation.
At the head OF the Senate CAM Sem
ators Nelson and Warren of the Union
army. and Martin and Bankhead, who
fouent On the side of the gray III the
Civil War and with them marched
Senators Chamberlain. chairman of
the military committee and Lodge,
rarkinc Republican OF. the naval :om-
,,ittec. There were 20 Senators in
line. The House turned out hundreds
cf it's membership. headed by Speaker
Clark and Uncle Joe" Cannon.
For more than an hour the food that
poured ny the stand was in the brown
Of tie khaki-clad army. with the @x-
ception Of the drafted men who in
spite Of their civilian clothes march :
ed proudly and with more than a
semhlarce of military formation.
Regulars on foot. on horseback on ca
machine guns national guardsmen OF
the district. and marines from near
h,- camr. turned the avenue into A
solden focd of marching men with
hayonets and sahres with sun tanned
faces that looked business like and
rradv for war.
The Government Departments
Eehind the troops were the govern :
ment depa rtments. Secretary R;N1 !
marched at the head ot the var Dc
,,artment with Maj. Gen. Scott. chief
Of staff and the ranking army on duty
here. in khaki ahead Of the clerks ~
civilian clothes.
Secretary Daniels led the navy with
Admiral Benson, chief Of operations,
his aides and scores Of others in the
summer white Of the navy.
There were several hundred VET
Grams Of the Civil and Spanish wars in
the procession. An old man in faded
blue and another in gray marched at
the head o. the Americans who fought
each other in the sixties. Above them
hoated proudly a banner bearing this
device. The United States On an
words, Ready for Duty"
Children Were There
One of the features that brought the
crowds up cheering was found in the
hundreds of children representing the
Washington Fairgrounds. TIL y
marched solemnly by the reviewing
stands, flags over their shoulders in
true military fashion. most of them
saluting but many forgetting this
honor to the President in their eager
ness to see what he looked like. :
The food administration attracted
much attention. Herbert Hoover
marched at the head and behind him
came 80 women in blue uniforms and
white caps carrying monster nag.
The police arrangements for the day
| were without hitch. Probably more
than 100000 people lined the avenue,
but there hardly was an incident to
mar its whole hearted enthusiasm.