The Idaho Springs siftings-news., 1919-03-21

ROUSING WELCOME GIVEN
RETURNING SOLDIER BOYS

Resplendent in uniforms and
evening dress, gay with handsome
figures and radiant faces, were
the recipients of the Welcome
Home dinner and dance given by
the Red Cross for our soldiers and
sailors. their fathers. mothers and
wives or sweethearts, last Monday
night.
In this, as in every other UNDER
taking of the Red Cross, nothing
was left undone to prove to our
boys that their risk. their work,
their patriotism shall not go un-
appreciated by those who are to
enjoy the fruits of their heroism.
The dining room and immense
enclosed porch of the Hot Springs
hotel were never more elaborately
nor more artistically decorated
than for this affair. The walls,
lighting scheme and the long
tables were a huge display of the
flags and colors of the allies,
beautifully combined andarranged.
Flowers, too, had their part in the
decorating. The speakers table
was especially bedecked with a
pillow of carnations, ferns and
tiny flags. Pictures of our glori-
GUS American men were to be seen
here and there. and the whole eft.
feet was a blazing tribute to the
loyalty of the defenders of right
and democracy.
The long line of honored guests
filed from the lobby into the
great porch. and the sight was a
pretty one.
The dinner itself was as generous
as it was choice, and as beautifully
served for about $50 guests as if
but a few had been there. From
oyster cocktail and turkey and
salads, through ice cream, cake
and coffee, with the celery, olives,
excellent furnishings and sauces,
the banquet was in splendid taste,
and fit for our de]iverers. The ma
tional color scheme prevailed thru
out, in red, white and blue stick
candy attached to the napkins with
dainty ribbons of the same colors,
and in the frosting of the fancy
little cakes, and in table decora-
tions.
During the banquet, music was
furnished by an orchestra COM
posed of Miss Ruth Granville of
Denver, who played the saxophone
F. NJ. Leach, F. H. Leach and
Fred Stroehle, with Jack Roth at
the piano. A saxophone duet by
F. H. Leach and Miss Ruth Gran
vile was very much enjoyed.
Following the banquet, Mayor
Moscript made an address wei
coming the boys formally and
promising another affair such as
this one, after the boys all reach
home, and the resounding cheers
which met this announcement
told of the joy in the hearts
of those about the tables. Mr..
MoscriptTs talk was short and
to the point and met with approx.
al.
Led by Roy Plummer, Of the
airplane service, three resounding
cheers were givin by the boys for
the Red Cross and the committees
who had prepared the entertain
ment.
Under the direction of Harry
Curran, the service men present
were arranged into military form
alton and marched along the
brightly lighted streets for the
dance. There we're about seventy.
FIVE of them. This is the first
real warlike performance given
here. except little occasional
drilling by the citizens. But these
were real Yanks and sure enough
Middies, and the exhibition thrill
ed one with a realization that
Idaho Springs was looking upon
a spectacle which comes but once
in life. time.
Then came the dance in the
Opera House hall, which had been
lavishly decorated with the nations
colors, and there was music by the
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