Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-05-15
State Capital Extends Great
Welcome to 16Sth
Regiment.
BOYS GIVEN FREEDOM
OF CITY FOR TIME
Have First Opportunity 20 Visit With
Relatives and Friends - Special
Places Of Honor Reserved For In
validsd Members of Regiment Dur
ing Parade-6oys Loud in Praise Of
Receptions During Trip Across State

Des Moines. May 15.-Back from
twenty-one months service over
there Iowa veterans Of the Rainbow
division. the lssth infantry, were feted
here today hy thousands OF enthusi-
astic admirers.
rreSn from its triumphal journey
across the state yesterday, when seven
cities reviewed the former national
guardsmen en- route to Des Moines,
the regiment gained new tributes to-
day In the capital of the home state.
After night spent On the three
Special trains that brought them from
Camp Upton, the men were released
at O'Clock for three hours-their first
rea opportunity to visit their rela-
1iNes,-and various club rooms of the
city were turned over to them.
Dinner was set for 1l:30, served by
the Red Cross and associated war
workers organizations at the coliseum.
and at 1:40 p. m the regiment formed
for parade thru the business dis
trict to start at 2:30 p. m
After the de the regiment, in
GLIDING invalided members who re-
Joined it today, will be drawn up in
front of the capitol grounds for the
taking of the official photograph OF
the regiment
TTonight at 6 o'clock u box supper
and dance at the coliseum will start,
the dancing continuing until II p. m..
when the soldiers will entrain for
(samn n0dpa <n~
Muster Out Friday.
It is expected the las. man will be
discharged by Friday night
Tremendous welcomes we're accorded
the weary but jubilant veterans on
their journey across the state yester-
day. The first train routed thru Da-
venport' and Cedar Rapids. arrived in
Des Moines at 10 p. m, the one from
Dubuque and Waterloo shortly after
midnight, and the third from Keokuk
and Ottumwa at 3 a. m.
Thousands greeted the trains and in
the throngs we're hundreds from out
of town eager to welcome the fight
ing men whose fame had gained new
name for Iowa. While the crowds
cheered, signal lights of slow burning.
rainbow-hued powder famed atop one
of the city's tallest buildings, a beacon
Of welcome to the Homecoming heroes.
Breakfast was served at 6 o'clock.
The men reported to their trains at
and were marched to the coliseum,
where their equipment was checked.
The men were still talking about the
welcome accorded them at Davenport,
Dubuue. Keokuk, Oskaloosa, Waterloo,
Cedar Rapids and Marsnalltown. and
many other cities and towns where no
formal stops were made.
"You don't know how good it is to
get home until you are there" said one
enthusiast. They sure gave us some
welcome. Believe me, you can't beat
this old state" and other appropriations
were heard.
Streets Packed During Parade.
One thousand eight hundred steel
eyed veterans of the world war
marched down streets a flutter with
hues of the rainbow and the national
colors here today acclaimed by
frenzied thousands banking the
thoroughfares and crowding every win
dow.
1t was Iowa's statewide welcome to
the 16Sth infantry. her own unit of the
Rainbow division, just returned home
with a mighty record Of first line
achievement gained in nearly twenty
months service over there.
With Colonel Mathew Tinley' and
staff all mounted. leading the khaki
clad columns, the former national
guardsmen recruited from all parts Of
the state swung blissfully along to the
martial airs of its-crack regimental
band.
They were boys when they went
boys when they returned today. but re-
iecting the part they had played in
eradicating Kaiserism; the sterner Jaw,
q facial line not previously there in
all the intangible something that has
characterized all survivors OF the
gigantic conflict.
And as they passed, an occasional
hush would settle over the throng,
perhaps seeing in the battered trench
helmet, gas masks swung over shoul-
ders, chin straps in place, rife on shoul-
der and the almost grimly set cqun-
tenances the grim story OF the war.
Cheers For Invalids.
The 1,Soe veterans whc reached here
last night from Camp Upton were
Joined by former members. previously
invalided home, numbering about 300.
These men shared In tho cheers that
greeted the msrchers.
From the point Of organization of
the parade on East Walnut street.. the
regiment marched west to Fifteenth
street. then over to Locust street and
on that thoroughfare to the state capt.
toll, passing thru the triumphal arch
q part Of the reviewing stand.
y Col. Tinley dropped out when the
stand was reached and joined Gov
ernor Harding, Adjutnnt, General
Lasher and the official staffs OF Camp
Dodge and Fort Des Moines in re-
viewing the men. s tss
In the grand stand adjoining were