South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-04-22
10000 PATRIOTS
IN LINE Of MARCH
Demonstration Breaks All
Records for Size and En-
thuSiaSm.

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"manned" by a bevy of periodically
dressed women.
one company i'm the factory di-
visions was Ed Smiths baseball
team carrying bats with flags at
tached as bayonets. Another COM
pany OF boys raised a ripple of
laughter by their attempt TO charac-
terize Uncle Sam as waddling alons
with the help of his boys"
Nations Forces Modified.
The nations forces modified was
pictured on a float closely behind
those OF the Army and Navy union.
it showed soldiers, sailors, marines,
farmers. laborers and milkmaids
e1d housewives dressed in regular
attire and engaged in-well. doing
little else than presenting a favor
able appearance while the parade
lasted.
one banner in the line of march
warned:
Remember the Lusitania mes
sage
IS end
"Out
Soldiers"
Closing the parade and. incident
ally on the last lap of their cam
paign. the Red Cross society mem
bers in automobiles left the sched-
uled lire of march at the Oliver no.
tel a passed up washington av.
instean along Main St The pa
rade emu at AIS.
irst Division.
Amid the applause CT the onlook-
ing crowd ! )uth Bends raw recruits
i'm the nat nal guard of the United
States mad their appearance in the
first divisi, - the parade The first
division "; lead by platoon Of 16
police und or the direction of Capt
J Schock. Col George w. Freyer-
muth. chief marshal followed. assist
ed ny Mai Charles 3. Calvert. chief
OF staff Lieut.. p. (. Traver. Lieut.
Edgar Myers ana Lieut. w q.
Fassnacht. William Perley and Al
bert +. 'oon, acted as aides de
camp.
ElbeTs band followed Col. Frey
ermuth and his staff Led by Capt.
a. 81. Powers he headquarters COM
pany and the machine gun company
from Warsaw. Ind. fell i'm line. The
machine gun company with their
equipment drove from Warsaw Ind
10 South Bend i'm order that they
might take part an the parade. Fol-
loWine the headquarters and ma
chine gun company was 60 with
SO recruits. The South Bend light
guards and Spanish war veterans
followed the state militia.
second Division.
Led by 275 Culver cadets and the
splendid academy band of 40 pieces.
the second division. composed Of the
fraternal orders of the city. show
"a one Of the largest turnouts of the
afternoon The uniform ranks OF the
organization made the division one
Of che ueatest appearing of the en-
tire parade
CuRrer's delegation was without
doubt the peer OF any military rep
resentation Constant daily drilling
made the companies move as one
mamand each step sounded as II one
man had made the step The Big
Fa1Ather Boy Scouts Of the Elks'
made "a favorable impression with
snappy drills and marching forma-
ton. There were about 125 boys i'm
the group.
One or the largest civilian dele.
cations was that OF the Knights OF
Columbus with over zoo members
marching Masonic lodges in fun
dress uniforms. were well represent
ed Avalon Grotto and knights
Templars composed the delegation
Two mammoth flags. carried 70,
members Of the Elks' lodge attract
al considerable notice. The Rec
Mems hand was also i'm the division
and headed a delegation OF about
100 members Of that order. includ
ing az members Of the auxiliary.
knights of Pyrhias. odd Fellows
Moose. Ben Hur. Maccabees. Lad,
Naccahees. Circle Of Mercy. Wood
men Or the World Modern Wood
men OF America. the Owls and th'
Colored Knights OF Pythias were wei
represented. Prop0rtionately the col
ored Pythian order turned out Owe
half OF its members. there heiai
only about % members OF the uni
form rank.
Third Division.
Led hv 10 companies OF strone
1.-the youths such as might form IN
hone and sinew OF any army. tn
third division OF the parade made a