Free trader-journal. (Ottawa, Ill.) 1916-1920, 1919-05-27
CO. c WILL ARRIVE.
IN CHICAGO MONDAY.
SAYS LATE REPORT.
ARE TODAY THAT
129TH WILL ARRIVE IN CHI.
CAGO-DOWNSTATERS, AT CHI
CAGoS SUGGESTION, MISS THE
CHANCE FOR MEMORIAL DAY
PARADE.

PARADE.
That Company &, the 129th Infantry
and the rest Of the second section OF
the Prairie Division viii leave Camps
Mills ana Merritt next Saturday and
arrive in Chicago Monday is indicated
today in press dispatches from New
York City While subject to war de.
partment "fckleness" arrangements
are being made for the Homecoming
reception in Chicago on that day.
Original plans provided that the
doWnstate regiment should entrain no
later than Wednesday, so they could
arrive in Illinois for a parade ON Ne
mortal day, but eyergrasping Chicago
threw wrench in the gears to block
better to have the boys march on some
day other than a holiday" A holiday
it is well known, would not be any
boon to State street cash receipts
should the farmers and Workingmen
who would like TO let loose with their
adulationS for a crowd of incoming
heroes of their own stripe be per-
mitted there on a day when the mar
ket places are all closed up. Then
there is another feature not to the
Chicago liking. Loop buildings would
be closed on holidays. and the cliff
dwelling Office renters would be com
PEELED to take their chances ON the
streets just like any other common,
ordinary individual who came in from
the country to see his or their boys.
The reserved seats afforded by Office
windows along the line df march
would be barred to the majority of
the tenants, and downtown Chicago
doesn't like to mingle with the rabble
on the streets. Being of Gods chosen
and the select, they want places OF
vantage offered none of the "rubcs'
whose sons were such a potent factor
in winning the war while the city
slickers were drawing down the
laurels.
Blame for holding up the rest of the
23d reposes entirely upon Chicago.
Downstate patriots are going to make
some Inquiries into just why Chicago
had any voice in the matter at all.
The action holds off the discharge of
Ottawa's own just that much longer.
If the 129th and other regiments are
being held back solely to satisfy
Chicago Whm therell be a howl go up
that will reach from Springfield to
Washington and back to Chicago
again. Resides that, Memorial day Of
fers many a man a chance TO see the
review who could in no other way
take the time from his work to make
the trip into Chicago, Up there they
seem to have forgotten that Chicago
is not honored by the Prairie Division
because it is Chicago, It happens to
be a good herding place to congregate
all the incoming troops on their way
to Camp Grant. Twenty-Five thousand
dollars in state money is being spent
for entertaining the soldiers, and Chi
cago only pays its pro rated share of
that amount in taxes Cairo, Squee-
dunk and Bohunk pay as much in PRO
portion, and are entitled TO as much
voice in the matter of heroes as any
metropolitan center in the state.
But fearing the time is too late to
get in the works" Ottawa is going
ahead with its plans for seeing her
boys in Chicago Monday, That don't
prevent any of them from being
dinged mad at Chicago's usurpation
of authority to an extent almost a
week will be added onto the 129th S
servitude before discharges can be Sc
cured-and all so needlessly.
The New York Dispatch.
New ork. May 27.-Two hundred
and thirteeen officers and 5,62S enlist
ed men, comprising the second sec
tion of the Prairie heroes of the 33d
Division, are to leave Camps Mills
and Merritt next Saturday, with the
expectation of arriving in Chicago
Monday. according to an announce
ment made at the army railroad trans
portation Office last evening.
1t was originally planned to have
these troops leave their eastern de
| barkation camps Wednesday so that
/ thev would be in Chicago to parade
Memorial day, but the authorities de
cided it was wiser to hold them until
the holiday crowds had left the city
The third section of the 33d is al
made up. but no date has been SET
for its departure from the east. i
/ comprises 1G7 officers and 6,209 en-
| listed men
In the second section the largest de