The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-07-15
SIDEWALKS PACKED
 WHEN RAINBOW MEN MARCH IN PARADE CLOSING REUNION
Pass in Review, Then Stand at Attention While Ten Bands Play National
 Anthem in Memory
 of Dead Comrades

Through solid lines of cheer ing people who packed every inch of the way from the First avenue entrance of the via duct to Capitol park, veterans of t h R in b o w division marched yesterday, officially closing their first annual con vention and reunion. | Crowds on the street began to congre- gate in the most advantageous places to witness the pageant as early as il o'colck; land just before the parade the principal streets were practically blocked. | Boy scouts had roped off the sidewalks and were on duty at every block along I the line of march to keep the people from getting into the streets.
 l All during the morning sergeants at arms consisting of one member of each ldelegation, and the entire Alabama dele gation made the rounds of the streets, getting all veterans to the Jefferson theatre where the line formed. Follow ling the close of the business session. the Iveterans formed according to states and marched to the point of assembly on Twenty-first street and Avenues and G.
 Wounded soldiers and gold star mothers gathered at Capitol park at Il o'clock and were taken in automobiles to Avenue + and Twenty-first street. where they were tmet with cars containing the division sponsors girls from Birmingham ana | Montgomery.
 At 12.9O o'clock the parade started, un- lder the direction of Mai. Lucien Brown, lactins as marshal, in the absence of Col. IT O. Smith, who was unavoidably caller Tout of the city.
 The parade was led by the band -.ot the American Steel and Wire Company
 made up of it's employees. Immediately
 following the band were the cars cor taining the division sponsors, the goia star mothers and the wounded men or the division.
 1 AUTO SECTION
 The automobile section was followed ps. ithe first division, consisting of the deis-
 cations from New York, Ohio, lilinois, Indiana, Minnesota, Pennsyvania ana Wisconsin, The second division consisted of the veterans from Maryland, South Carolina North Carolina, Missouri. Kan sas Texas, District of Columbia, Oregon, Colorado New Jersey. Oklahoma, Ten lnessee, Michigan. Virginia and Louisiana. ] The parade was closed by nearly io"'
 members of the "Old Fourth, lea py the l167th band Throughout the parade, sep
 
 bands.
 Resides enlivening the march by thnir music one of the features was the play , ling of Memories of Flanders by the band of the "Old Fourth This seiec- ttion was written by two Birmingham boys and dedicated to the Forty-secono
 division.
 1 The parade passed over the viaduct and bv the reviewing stand placed at the First avenue entrance to the viaduct. AS !they passed the reviewing stand the | newly elected officers of the division anu lthe chairman of each delegation fell out [ and took their places in the stand. me division sponsors did likewise. } | Others in the stand were Lieut. GOV. Nathan l.. Miller members of the City Commission the board of revenue. both Confederate and Federal veterans in uni form, veterans of the Spanish-American
 war. officials of the American Legion, 1.-the Yancey Chapter of the Daughters of Ithe Confederacy the local branch of the
 Daughters af the American Revolution, Dr. J. H. Phillips. city superintendent of 5 schools: Dr. N R. Baker, county super : intendent; representatives of all CIVIC , clubs and the Country Club.
 The parade turned west on First ave- nue and marched to Twentieth street. Al the American Trust building 5OO-voice : chorus had been placed under the drec-
  : ] the community sing, which sang songs l of the war period and cheered the sol ldiers as they passed.
 CROWD CHEERS
 Cheers greeted the soldiers all up Twen- , l. tieth street and especially the appear lance of sign borne by the New York ldeltgatjon saving We take off our f That's to Birmingham for southern hospl- tality" The plaudits increased in vol jume, however, when the 167th, under Mai Dallas Smith. in the absence ol il Colonel Screws, passed.
 Fl When the head of the parade reached Sixth avenue and Twentieth street th5 IJnoise ceased. A signal cannon placed on l the lawn of the Church of the Advent | Twas detonated and each of the ten bands | played seThe Star-Spangled Banner" Witt | bowed heads, the crowds waited in silent reverence for the soldier dead until the song was finished and the parade once more moved up the street. l At Capitol park the parade divided, some going east and some west to the rear oi | l the mark. where a watermelon cuttna had been arranged and picnic luncf prepared The boys seated themselves in the shade as the cold watermelon ano sandwiches were passed around | Shortly after o'clock the delegates once core returned to town, and many be gan preparations for returning home Several large groups left on each trais | Hast night and the majority will leave l today.