Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-04-18
NEWS Of THE DAY
At NEW CASTLE
Elaborate Preparation for the Lib
erty Loan Parade to Take Place
There This Evening.
tan Correspondence or Every Evening

~taF Corrrsp spondenc. or Every Evening
Ncw Castle. Aprll Is Preparations
for the big Liberty Loan parade. tonight,
arr progressing rapidly and It IS un-
i9ubtrdlv going IA be i big event for
NeW Castle II j. reported that many
orators of note have been enlisted for the
short campaign though the names OF but
few have yet been made public.
At a meeting 81 the parade committee
Tuesday evening several decided changes
were made in the ilne-up 0t the parade
and IN the route The new formation.
Nayor CaHender stated last night Niil
be Marshal, band. &, a. r.. New Castle
hundred Liberty Loan committee, City
Council, school board, Trustees Of 4 'om-
mons Boy Scouts. Camp Fire Girls,
public school, parochial school, American
Manganese Steel Go, Red Cross, surgical
dressing, Daughters oi Liberty, Deemer
Steel Co. Bethlehem Steel Co. and Penn
Scaboard Steel Go.
The new route viii be From Second
and Chestnut streets. where the parade
will form, down Second to Harmony.
from Harmony to Strand to Delaware and
past the reviewing stand in front Of the
old Court House, 10 Fifth 20 South, to
Ninth, to Clayton, 70 Eighth, to South,
70 Sixth, 10 Delaware. and from there to
the speakers stand, where there Will be
music by the band, several speeches and
motion pictures.
The entire fleet OF motor trucks be-
longing to the Bethlehem Steel Co are
being converted INTO floats for the parade
and it is reported that the FIRE company
VIII also turn out in force.
There w,Ls a special session Of City
Council on tuesday night, at which
practically tho only business done was
the two readings given an ordinance 70
buy 4 new fire engine There viii be q
special session on next Tuesday evening,
At which this ordinance viii be gwen
tnal reading and action viii be taken on It
ku ordinance giving city officials authority
10 borrow $4,000 for street improve
ments viii also be given its third reading
and action viii be taken upon il at the
Tuesday night meeting.
The Cephas Dramatic aud Literary
society scored q distinct success in the
presentation of a farce comedy, Never
Agau IN the basement Of St Peters
Church on tuesday and Wednesday
evenings There was large attendance
both evenings The play was directed by
J. IT, Connor and the east included such
local iaVorltes as }. B. Hance, Mary L.
Landcrs, Rose McCaughan, Mary l..
Wright, James White. Joseph Carhn,
William J McGrory, Catharine Me
Caughan Bessie Reynolds, James Me
Dewitt. Hugh Ryan, Thomas McGrory
The BEACON Business College baseball
team aud the New Castle Reserves started
the season yesterday afternoon with a
game here, at which the b. b. c. team
VAS defeated to the tune Of to by
the Reserves
John Naylor, one Of the best Of New
Castles excellent stock OF ball players,
and fayorte Of many Wilmington fans,
has been ordered To Cape MAY Monday,
to enter the service OF the Naval Coast
Defence Reserve
The Junior Glass of the New Castle
/ High School viii hold box social at Bear
| Hall. Bear Station, on Saturday evening
| at O'Clock lee cream and cake will
/ he served. \ large crowd from this
! city Is expected to attend
The Camp Fire Girls of Nazareth NJ L.
| Church are requested to meet this evening