The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-07-19
Elaborate Preparations Have
All Been Completed.
Distinguished Guests Here at )
p. M. Tomorrow.
IN BIG MILITARY PARADE
Children and High Officials VIII
Honor Visitors.
Auditorium Meeting and Din
ner on the Program.

Kansas will extend a hand of well
come tomorrow to representatives OF
bleeding Belgium" and Belgium at
the same time, thru its commission,
Topeka's guests from 3 until o'clock
in the evening, will make known its
qualification for the thousands of dol
lars in food and provisions given the
country by Kansas. Everything posi-
BILE to make the visit of the Belgium
commission to Kansas a memorable
affair has been done by the Cham
Der of Commerce.
A military parade, a reception by
the most distinguished public men in
Kansas, an ovation by the school chill
dren of Topeka, a big public enter
tainment at the city auditorium. a
dinner and reception by the Chamber
of Commerce in the evening forms the
entertainment for the-~cemnisslon
during the day.
Distinguished men include the per-
sonnet of the Belgian commission
Baron LUDWIG Moncheur is chairman
of the commission. Baron Moncheur
was Belgian minister to the United
States for eight years. General Lee
Clercq, chief of the Belgian military
commission, will be next IN rank 1ol-
lowed by Count Louis DUrsel VINO
enlisted in the war as a private, and
M Jean Martens, secretary of the
mission. Hugh Gibson of the state
department; Capt. T. c. Cook, military
aide to General LeClercq, and James
B. Whitley of the Belgian legation,
will be Americans in the party.
Arrive Here at 3 p. NJ.
The commission will arrive at the
Santa Fe depot at o'cock. There it
will be met by a reception committee
of distinguished men turnout the state
and the Topeka military units, the
governor and mayor and a platoon OF
Mora
marshal of the parade with Henry
McAfee and J. E. Wilson as aides
AS the commission emerges from
the depot, the military units in the
parade assembled at Fifth street will
! march in review past the commission.
reception committee, governor and
| ,nayor and MarshalFs band. The mil
| itary units will march in the following
! order:
Third Regiment band, Reserve bat
terry, Supply company. Hospital corps.
| Company K. Third infantry, Missouri
| National Guards, Battery A, Kansas
National Guards, three troops OF
/ cavalry.
| AS the first division passes, the sec
| one division marshalled by f. L. Over
ton, with ]. E. Austin and H. S. Put
ney as aides, will fall in line, led by
Marshall's band. The governor and
state officials will lead this division,
| followed by the mayor and city Off
| Gals. county officials and the recep-
! ton committee automobiles for which
| will be provided by Harry lines.
| The parade will march west on
Fourth street to Kansas avenue. south
| on Kansas avenue to Eighth street,
west on Eighth street to Harrison
| street, south on Harrison street to
| Tenth street, east on Tenth street to
Kansas avenue, north on Kansas ave-
nue. to Eighth street and then to the
city auditorium
| School children will greet the COM
4 mission on the state house grounds
The children will decorate the city
Fairgrounds with American and Bel
GUM flags in the morning, and after
i dinner they are requested to gather
at the state house grounds by .
/ o'clock.
! Sessions Master of Ceremonies.
Charles H. Sessions, secretary to
| Governor Capper, will act as master OF
ceremonies at the city auditorium
Governor Capper will preside and will
i open the meeting with an address OF
welcome, followed by a similar ad-
dress on behalf of the state by Mayor
Jay E. House. Invocation will be
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