Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1921-05-28
PATRIOTIC ORDERS
COMPLETE PLANS
FOR MEMORIAL DAY
Confined from page I


Cemetery with its hundreds Of soldier
dead.
Appomattox Camp No. 2, Sons of
Veterans, have been delegated By the
q. A. r. to perform the services az
I,onbardy, Siiverbrook and New Cathe-
dr1I Cemeteries, taking over the work
formerly looked after by Grant Post
No. I3, which through the death. Of
practically All It's members, has ceased
70 exist.
Department officers under the leader
ship Of Assistant Adfutant General J.
s. Litzenberg have made provision for
the proper decoration Of graves IN the
lower part Of the State where no Posts
~ the q. A. r survive to carry on this
work. the Department officers having
made a Tip 20 the different towns
during the past week.
The Parade
The parade in the afternoon viii
start promptly at 2 o'clock and all or
zantzatSons are requested 10 be in their
respective positions Is minutes before
that time
The route win be as follows: Form
ing at Fourth and French. proceed up
Fourth TO Market, 70 Tenth. To Delaware
avenue. TO Van Buren. TO Gilpin avenue,
To Broome. 10 Thirteenth, to Pennsyl-
vania avenue. 10 Van Buren. 70 Cool
Spring Park for patriotic mass meeting.
The slight change in the route was
made necessary by the fact that Della
ware avenue is being repaved-
Active preparations have been under
way for some time by the organizations
taking part. The Sons OF Veterans, as
has been their custom for many years.
win furnish the necessary firing squads
The conmandery and Camps OF the p.
o. s. OF A. expect 70 have a larger del
egation than ever and the same holds
true of the IT. o. U. A N. Troop A.
under Captain W. w. butcher, viii visit
the various cemeteries in the morning.
firing over the graves OF their departed
comrades. and VIII act as escort 20 the
various councils Of the order.
The Salvation Army, with its usual
progressiveness. has made arrangements
for several musicians to supplement the
local talent and viii have a band Of
twenty pieces TO head their delegation.
Past Department Commander Robert
Liddell of Srnyth Post No. 1, a veteran
of three years service with the First
Delaware Battery, viii be the honorary
chief marshal. the joint committee de-
Gliding that as long as there was q vet
eran of the G.. A. r. able TO march. that
an honorary chief marshal should De
from the G. a. r.. the younger
man TO take the burden OF the prepara-
tory work. but the Honorary Marshal
10 be the real leader OF the parade. this
being their due as the @. A. +. were the
founders Of the Memorial Day celebra-
ton.
Patriotic Meeting.
The mass meeting at Cool Spring
Park viii be an innovation for this city
and was conceived with the idea Of
bringing more fully to the citizens in
general. the true import OF Memorial
Day. An interesting program has been
and viii open with patriotic
singing under direction of a Communi-
~ Service song header with music by
band.
Miss Mary Dorsey will recite The
Poppies of Flanders Field and ad-
dresses win be made by j. S. Idtenberg
OF the G. A. r., w. w. Knowles Of the
z. Q. 5. of A. and Jr. Mechanics, and
Edwin c. 1relan Of baltimore, Md, Past
Senior Vice. omnlander-in-Chief Of the
Sons Of Veterans. Mayor VIM G. TAYLOR
has been requested to preside and Rev.
George G. Williams. chaplain in the
World War, win act as chaplain. Mem
bers OF City Council win be the guests
and occupy seats on the platform.
A tablet, containing the names OF
the men from Delaware who made the
sacrifice in the World War
viii be erected in front Of the speakers
stand and so arranged that those wish
ing 60 pay tribute TO their memory may
10 SO by placing poppies on the tablet
This is under the auspices Of the Ameri- 1
3an- Franco League of Delaware and il
IS hoped there viii be a generous re-
sponse to this method OF honoring the !
memory of the boys from Delaware. /
Poppies viii be on sale during the day
md, as is well known, the proceeds are
'or the destitute women and children /
II northern France.
Ample provision has been made for |
for the Veterans who !
are unable TO walk ia the parade, and /
Mrs. Standard has reported to the COM ,
nittee on automobiles that an members |
lf the Red Cross Motor Corps Of the |
state Chapter will be on duty to drive l
he cars containing the veterans. No
veteran need stay at home this year. /
By calling phone 6724-J before a. M. I
a machine viii be sent TO the /