Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-05-30
SOLDIERS COMING
IN BOAT AND TRAIN
FOR PARADE HERE
Major-Generals Cronkhite
and Bundy to Review
Doughboys.
MANY WHISTLES AND BELLS
TO SOUND EARLY GREETING
Governor and Mrs. Davis to
Entertain Officers at Execu-
tive Mansion.
MARCH TO START AT I O'CLOCK
Ahout 1900 Men Compose Three
Units of Virginia Troops Elm
Route to Homes.
MANY WHISTLES AND BELLS
TO SOUND EARLY GREETING
MARCH TO START an O'CLOCK
About 1890 Men Compose Three
Units of Virginia Troops Elm
Route to Homes.

From a stirring part in the caus.
to which America dedicated her bes.
young manhood. the lads OF tho Three
Hundred and Eighteenth Infantry, the
One Hundred and Eleventh Field Az
tiilery and the One Hundred and Fourth
Ammunition Train will come on FRI
day morning to the spontaneous well
come which Richmond Will extend her
heroes of world war.
This VIII be the second demonstra-
ton tho city has staged 20 show her
appreciation OF the sturdy patriotism
the boys OF Virginia exhibited when
the call to camp came and the COM
mittee In charge OF arrangements is
confident that the unbounded enthusi-
asm OF last Saturday will have grown
the intervening week.
BY boat and by train the b.ys viii
shSrm be ahe S,y Up 1he lanes Rye
will bring home tho men of the One
Hundred Ire and Eleventh Field Artillery
nmm ihe oHs Tran aessp hna f9u, A% o
! Dominion Wharf about & O'Clock.
Whistles VIII Blow Welcome. KS
Six trains of the Chesapeake and
Ohio Railroad will bear from Newport
and Eighteenth Infantry. the first OF
! the sections pulling into the siding al
Tue ar tTOunuS ABOUT .SO d clock, y
Just as on last Saturday expectant
weicomers of Richmond will be ap.
priseed of the approach OF their heroes
whistles and bells. the initial shrielt
in the eastern part OF the city being
taken up by factories all along the
welcome will be in earnest TO the men
of the mammoth demonstration the
/ thousands of friends will give latersin
the day.
To watch the triumphal ma rch of
Virginia heroes who met the Hun in
France there will be on the reviewing
Davis two famous American leaders OF
the war-Majo ajor-General Omar Bundy.
nommander OF the Second Division of
eral Adeihert Cronkhite. organizer and
leader in battle oe the Eightieth Di-
vision
Luncheon for General oficcr..
AZ noon the general officers, their
a, luncheon by Governor and Mrs.
Westmoreland Davis in the Executive
Mansion. Other distinguished mem
hers Of the party will bring the num-
Der up TO about seventy--hve.
The men Of ihe One Hundred and
Hundred and Fourth Ammunition Tram
viii he taken to the Fair Grounds In
Stree Stree cars, srs.. Before this movemen,
iliaries Of the Howitzers and Blues
Associations working with the Red
Cross canteen service. viii serve ths
troops no, coffee. buttered rolls anu
fruits
Order. of Day issued.
The Three Hundred and Eighteenth
infantry VIII detrain at the Es:ir
tives Of returning soldiers viii be gwen
seats in the grand stand. from which
they may meet their boys As they ar
The general committee was jubiiant
at the enthusiastic reception accorded
the One Hundred and Sixteenth In
make this time of the welcomers. and
that is that they give a more demon
ssratiye welcome to the boys at the
open to the public, and the general.
committee has said that 1t wishes as
many people as possible TO be out.
Colonel George .. Freeman Jr tio{
the Three Hundred and Eighteenth In
fantry. has issued the following orders
OF the day:
First call for presentation OF eolors,
$50 o'clock: assembly. 10 o'clock; mess
call. 1923 o'clock first call for pa
rade. 1905 o'clock, assembly, 12.IS
o'clock.
AdJutnnt-Gcneral to Lend. @
The same program. under the man
ngement Of Clyde W. Saunders and
Mrs Norman Randolph. as was ca
o@i se sarrea for sne
troops are comprised in the units
which will come.
ne pdTaOc VIII start at l o'clock
from the junction of the Boulevard
with Monument Avenue. and Will pro-
coed down the avenue. past the old
Confederate veterans. at the Lee MonQ-
ment: down Franklin Street through
the Court OF Honor and past the re-
viewing stand at Monroe Park; to Fifth
where II will be dismissed
Street then north to Grace down
Grace into the Capitol Square. through
the arch OF triumph: around the
south side of the Washington Monu-
ment and the Capitol Building: througn
the gate to the Governors yard into
Capitol Street: east to Twelfth. north
10 broad Street and west 10 Belvidsre.
May Get Boys Leave.
According to the plan outlined By the
parade committee, the march should
end al Belvtdere Street abou. 3 O'clock
The boys Will have a wait OF several
hours before their trains begin TO leave
for Camp Lee. An attempt Will be
made to have the commanding officers
OF the units. as soon as the column
reaches Beividere. march the men over
TO Grace Street and there dismiss them
until they are wanted to entrain, Thjs
VIII give them good deal OF spare
time with their relatives.
Ihe parade will be led by AdjutaBt-5
General 10 Lane Stern and his stafr,
snd tho Three Hundred and Eishteenth
infantry will be the frst of the rc.
turning units. followed By the Os~
Hundred and Eleventh Fi.ld Artillery