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nesday afternoon.
Crowds Must Stay Back.
people have got to realize thai
they must not congregate at tht
railway station" Chairman Jacot
Wachob of the parade committee
said Yesterday. These troops are
coming in and going out on schedule
time and the parade, if it is to be
held at all, must go like clockwork.
The parade route:
Tenth street, Mason to Farnam
Farnam street, Tenth to Twen-
tieth.
Twentieth street Farnam tc
Dodge.
On the return to the station the
same course will be held. The po-
lice have instructions to keep the
entire parade route cleared OF traf-
hc. On Tenth street during the
hours Of the parade, from 9 o'clock
to y o'clock, no traffic at all will be
permitted.
Siren to Announce Start.
A siren will blow at the parade
start.
The moment the special trains
pull into the station at Council
Bluffs, whistles of the entire metro
polls will announce their coming,
and pretty Red Cross girls will dec
crate the men with flowers and
badges.
At Union station welcoming SOM
mittees will meet the returned
heroes and escort them to their 20
sitions in line of march along the
Tenth street viaduct. Their officers
will be in charge.
From here they will come up
Farnam street, meeting the main
portion OF the crowds at Tenth
street.
Music Stationed at Intervals.
Along the line of march, singing
choruses. drum and fife corps will be
stationed at intervals. Firing
squads" recruited from riflemen Of
the Omaha Gun club will fire shot
gun" salutes. A hydrogene gun from
Fort Omaha will be in the line of
march to spit forth green gas and
loud explosions every five minutes
At Seventeenth and Farnam
streets the column will meet the
first Of the reviewing stand on
which Mayor Smiths civic commit
tee. Governor McKelvie and his
staff, Grand Army of the Republic
veterans, members of the Woman's
Relief corps and wounded soldiers
of the present war will greet them.
To Meet Relatives.
At Twentieth and Farnam streets
the column will turn north march,
ing up the hill direct into the south
east corner of the Central High
school campus. Here the grounds
will have been roped off and rela
tives and friends held captives await
ing a first fond clasp and kiss de-
layed these two years.
The troops will be stationed in
various parts of the campus identi-
fed by large placards carried by
committee worker of the parade
committee. After a first greeting
with relatives they will file into the
high school cafeteria and be served
hot "home cooked feed" by the
Red Cross canteen girls.
The parade route on the return to
the railway station will be the same
as coming to the high school
grounds.
The high school cadets and sold
iers from Fort Omaha, under di-
rection OF Colonel Wuest, will as
sist Chief Of Police Eberstein in
policing the parade route and the
high school grounds. The boy
scouts will assist the Chamber of
Commerce in handling the small
balloons" that are to be sent up by
the thousands from the tops of
buildings downtown and also in FIR
ing motors from the tops of build
lngs.
All railway freight offices, barber
shops, city and county Offices and
the public schools will close. Most
of the business men along the line
of march and in other parts of the
city will also celebrate the day.
A few of the organizations help
ing the program are: Patriotic
league, Young Women's Christian
association, Young Mems Christian
association, Catholic and Jewish
Welfare clubs, Campfire girls,
Creighton and Omaha university
students, Bellevue college, Central
Commercial and South High school
students, the Ak-Sar-Ben chorus and
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