Omaha daily bee., 1919-05-27
PLANS TO.
WELCOME.
SOLDIERS.
F RA N { D.
Citizens of Omaha Getting
Ready to Greet Fighting
Farmers" When They Ar
rive Home From France.

Mai. Gen. Leonard Wood, who
passed through Omaha last night
on his way to Chicago after deliv-
ering the address to the Univer-
sity of Nebraska graduates at
Lincoln yesterday, announced that
he would return to this city to
take part in the reception to the
Nebraska troops Friday.
He inspected the canteen at the
Union station and expressed him
self as greatly impressed with it.
The Fighting Farmers" Nebras-
ka contingents OF the 89th DIVISION
he 355th infantry and 34lst machine
gun battalion, will find Omaha, on
their arrival in the city Friday, pre-
pared to greet them with as much
vigor as they attacked the Germans
at St. Mihiel and the Argonne
though it will not be that kind of a
greeting.
Executive members Of Mayor
Smiths welcoming Committee OF
One Hundred" met last night at the
Chamber Of Commerce and paved
the way for Omaha's greatest day
The principal features of the pro-
gram will be: Official welcome at
railway station, the parade, grand
review by the governor and his
staff, informal reception and feed by
Red Cross and relatives, balloon and
airplane fights.
Eight subcommittee as follows
were appointed by the mayor to
take care of detail arrangements:
Parade-Wachob, chairman; Tue
key and Brogan; information: Bro
gan, chairman; Black, Wachob; can
teen: Fodrea, chairman; Brown
Tagg; reviewing stand: Smith
chairman; Black: decorations
Brown. chairman; Black, Tagg; mu-
sic: Lowell, chairman; Caldwell
Slabaugh; publicity: Manley, chair
man; Brown; finance: Folda.
Noise and Big Feed.
'Lots of noise, a good feed and a
rousing welcome, with the grand
review by Governor McKelvie were
among the points emphasized. The
mayor particularly requested that
the city make plenty of noise" and
that "Old Glory" be seen and saluted
frequently.
Don't worry about that, mayor"
Randall X. Brown, chairman of the
war service committee said. Omaha
generally knows how to greet her
boys"
A telegram was sent last night to
Governor McKelvie at the Hotel
McAllister, New York, by Chair
man Brogan of the information COM
mittee, asking positive identity of
the various organizations of the
homecoming units that their places
in the line of march may be as
signed in advance. Companies of
the incoming troops will be assigned
to block each below Seventeenth
street. on Howard and Jackson, for
an informal reception and feed by
the Red Cross and relatives.
At least one member of the infor-
nation committee will go to Chi
cago, arriving there Wednesday
night, to meet and confer with COM
manders of the troops en- route, to
ascertain this informa ton and relay
it on ahead of the troops. The
blocks assigned to each company
will be marked with placards and the
places published in the papers as
soon as assigned. 1t is probable that
a large delegation of Omaha's self
appointed will accompany the ad-
vance guard.
Route of Parade.
The parade route as indicated last
evening will be from Mason to Far
nam on Tenth street, north from
Tenth to Nineteenth street, south on
Nineteenth street from Farnam to
Harney, east on Harvey to Seven
teenth and south on Seventeenth
street to Jackson. Here companies
will be marched to their allotted po-
sitions below Seventeenth street on
Howard and Jackson.
The mayors committee is coop
Grating with the Chamber of Com
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