Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-09-12
RICHMOND BIDS FAREWELL
TO WEST VIRGINIA SOLDIERS
Training Detachment Completes Two
Months Course at State
Fair Grounds.
REVIEWED BY GOVERNOR DAVIS
Eight Hundred Young Men Impress
Spectators by Interesting Parade
Through Principal Streets OF City.
Great Crowds Applaud Them.

Governor Westmoreland Davis. of
Virginia.. Mayor Ainslie. OF Richmond;
Senator Sutherland. OF West Virginia:
Adjutant General Stern, and other Of
ficers of the Virginia state National
Guard: Colonel John p. Leary. and sew
eral members of Governor Davis's stan.
draped booth on the old Ford lot yes
terday afternoon at $50 o'clock, in the
midst of great thronG massed along
tho City Hall and other convenient
troops of the Second United States
Army Training Detachment. Richmond
Schools. which will leave the Fair
Grounds to-day for active service with
other units Of the army. having com
pletcd the two months course. TO make
room for the third detachment. which
will come to this city Immediately.
The parade left the Richmond Fair
Grounds at 4:t5 o'clock, and reached
the Ford lot about $40. The four
companies under the command of Cap
down Broad Street by City Hall. whore
the flags of the allies foated over the
street; and while the band played over
There and other martial airs. the
Governor, circled the lot and returned
to the. Fai: Grounds. where Senator
sutherland briefly addressed the young
West Nirginians.
AS MEN RIDE THROUGH STREET
Besides the four companies there was
A long line Of motor trucks and good
many floats to indicate the nature of
been stationed at the Fair Grounds.
There was the blacksmith striking the
iron while il was hot: the radio stu
dents, with their batteries swapping
along the street: the carpenters. and
the big paddle wheel that makes the
ship and airplane move: and every float
was decorated with the flags Of the
allies and such inscriptions as ITO Ber-
lin In 1919" = On one float. riding high.
was Don't" the monkey -masco. OF
the school.
parade. senator Sutherland. OF West
Virginia. praised the boys of his ma
tive state for their sturdy young man.
hood and patriotism, and then eNhorted
confident they would. uphold the dig
nifty of the daughter State of the Old
Dominion. on whose soil they had been
for two preceding months schooling
themselves for battle with the dis
honorable Hun. He spoke 10 them OF
their homes and told them that. while
those back there were expecting
this conflict. they in the camps were
expecting that those at home should
never be disappointed in them when
IL came TO defending their inalienable
rights against a ruthless foe.
Senator Sutherland addressed the
boys from the same position that Gov
cupied when he spoke to the members
of the first detachment before they
went TO join other units of the service.
LINE OF MARCH THROUGH
PNIN CIPAL STREETS OF CITY
AS scheduled, the parade, under the
command OF Captain Elwell and the
adjutant. Lieutenant Charles C. Hop
kins, left the Fair Grounds at 4;i5
o'clock and marched out the Hermit
age Road TO Meadow street; along
Meadow Street to Franklin. There the
formation transformed from a column
OF squads to column Of pIatoons. The
line of march followed Franklin 10
Belvedere. where IL swung into Broad.
From that point the marching column