Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1918-05-18
MOTHERS SHOW
WHERE HEARTS
ARE in PAGEANT
Thousands of HarriSburg'S
Best Womanhood in Line;
Wonderful Demonstration
APPEAL FOR CITY'S BOYS
Men Who Marched to War
Will Benefit by Loyalty
of Home Folks

There was no Stacking to-day when
Harrisburg's womanhood is showing
how it stands in the. war. Close to
1000 women were assembling at $50
o'clock to take part in a monster
Red Cross demonstration.
The hearts of thousands who have
husbands, sons, brothers and sweet
hearts went into the pageant design
cd not only to open the great Red
Cross drive here for $150,000, the
citys quota of the S100,000,000 ma
tional fund, but to show the men who
have gone to the front in France that
they will not be fighting their ma
tion'S battles alone.
Business is to come at a standstill
between 4 and > o'clock this after
noon while the pageant is moving
Shops and stores are to close. The
Harrisburg Telegraph went to press
with but one edition and scores of
industries let down for an hour in
double honor to the tramp, tramp,
tramp of women's marching feet and
the members of the keystone divi-
sion now in camp in France.
Streets Congcsted
The downtown streets this after
noon were congested as they have not
been for long time, particularly
those thoroughfares on which the
various divisions of to-day's monster
Red Cross parade are mobilizing. The
street cars shortly after o'clock
began to bring hundreds of white
garbed women to the central city.
Front street was a living mass of
white, while State, North, Liberty
and other streets, facing Front had
their hundreds of prospective march
ers.
With good weather assured early
to-day hundreds of women who had
been rather timid about participa-
ton in the parade suddenly made up
their minds to march or die-and the
telephone companies report peak
loads of unusual weight at unusual
times.
To Move at O'Clock
The parade is to move promptly
at o'clock. Promptness was assured
when the executive committee, Mrs.
Lyman ID. Gilbert, Mrs. NJ +. Ohm
sted and Miss Anne Mccormick. di-
rected that all marchers be in their
stations at o'clock. Allowing for
the traditional and legendary dila-
toriness of womankind, as the circus
announcer III puL II, every one Oh
the 1000 women and the Junior Red
Cross members was on hand before
$50, so that when Captain Harry
Slime, the chief director, waves his
hand at o'clock, the procession will
get under way.
Captain Stine is being assisted by
Captain Hoy and Captain Lauben-
stein. and the mounted aids expert
enced very little difficulty in getting
the heavy divisions in proper line.
y Mass of Color
The reviewing stand in Front
street, at State. is a mass of color
The parade win pass this stand on
the return journey, after covering the
following route:
From Front into Market to Fourth.
to Walnut to Third, to Reilly. to
Second, to North, to Front, and
thence past the reviewing stand to
Market and disband.
In order to avoid confusion at the
intersection of Market and Front
streets, it is urged that the various
units, following the parade, retain
their form and march away, continu-
ing in order until after leaving the
Square.
The great majority of downtown
business places were very prettilv
decorated today, the flags of the al
lies and the Red Cross flags being
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