Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1922-10-09

PL AN Big
PAR ADE
Expect Between 600 and 500
Here For Friday
Affair
TRIP TO MT. VERNON
Following Parade Buffet Luncheon to
be Served at Chamber of Commerce
Merchants Asked to Decorate
Buildings.

Elaborate plans have been made by
/ the kiwanis Club for the entertain
ment of between 600 and 800 dele
gates to the District Kiwanis Con-
vent;on viii viii come to Alexandria
| Friday. The convention will be in
session in Washington Friday and
| Saturday and Julian Y. Williams of
this city is chairman Of the con-
J yertion.
The visitors will arrive here in
motor cars at | o'clock Friday after
noon and come by way of Russell
road and the automobile procession
will proceed down King street. On
either side school children waving
American flags will greet the visitors.
The procession will go north on
Columbus street to Wythe street, and
east on Wythe to Washington and
South on Washington to Cameron, the
head Of the column resting on Wash
ington street.
At Cameron and Washington
streets the visiting kiwanians will be
met by Mayor William Albert Smoot,
City Manager w. VI. Rich and the
members Of the city council. They
also will be met by two bands, the
Citizens Band and the Fort Hunt
Band.
All Of the members of the local
Kiwanis Club also will be in the party
The procession will then move south
on Washington to King and east on
King to Fairfax and north on Fair
fax to the chamber Of commerce
where a buffet luncheon will be served
by a committee Of ladies attired in
colonial costumes.
Afterward a trip to Mount Vernon
will be made in automobiles and on
arriving at Mount Vernon they will
be met by II. II. Dodge, superintend-
cnt Prayer at the tomb of Washing
ton will he offered by Rev. DR.. Percy
Foster Hall, rector of st. Paul's Ep-
iscopal Church, this city, and there
will be an address by George Ross,
national president of the Kiwanians.
The Fort Hunt Band will then play
the Star Spangled Banner"
A wreath will be placed on Wash
ington's tomb by the Kiwanians.
The procession will be headed by
a platoon of police, X. w. Ogden will
be marshal. Then will come the Fort
Hunt Band, mayor, members Of city
council, members Of reception COM
mittee of which Urban s. Lambert is
chairman, district ofiifiicers, interna-
tional officers, district trustees and
visiting Kiwanians.
The second division will be headed
by the Citizens Band, reception COM
mittee and visiting Kiwanians.
Irwin Dener is chairman of the
general committee of arrangements
in charge of the entertainment Of the
visitors.
The subcommittee named follow:
Luncheon, A. Shuman and William II.
Thomas; registration, Nelson i. Sny-
der, r., chairman; U. S. Lambert, K.
2. Downham, 3. B. EZrine, J. r. Ca
ton, c. W. Fletcher, X. w. Ogden,
Everett Hellmuth; decorating cham
Der Of commerce room, Capt. George
II. Evans; King street decorations,
F. Clinton knight, chairman; B. Well,
Charles 3. Swan and Alex Kaufman;
accommodations w. A. Smoot, chair
man; George F.. Warficld, +. A. Feldt-
keller, Capt. George II. Evans; au-
tomobiles, Claude w. Fletcher and
Everett Hellmuth; program and en-
tertainment, Kirk f. Wallace, J. Ran
dali Cation, jr., c. p. Nicholson, Capt.
George II. Evans, Kenneth W. Ogden,
T. A. Feldtkeller; reception, w. A.
Smoot, chairman; Carroll Pierce, R.
w. Middleton, S. W. Pitts and Joseph
Schwarzmann; school children, f. A.
Feldtkeller; finance, George Z. War
field.
Merchants on King street are re-
quested TO decorate for the parade.