Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ben Hill County, Ga.) 1921-1964, 1923-09-27
Jefferson Davis Pageant
Will Be Growing Event
Of Tri-Sta ate F air
Governors of Georgia and South Car
DINA Will Be Present; Motorcade
Will Swell Crowds

the history OF Savannah will take
place on Wednesday, October 81, when
the Tri-State Exposition in the midst
of its season stages a pageant in the
honor of Jefferson Davis the peerless
Confederate leader, to commemorate
the opening of the Jefferson Davis
Highway in Georgia. This will be the
biggest day during the fair week at
Savannah, and the groundwork that
has been laid for the program assures
the directors that there will be moth
ing lacking to meet the expectations of
the fair patrons
The pageant will be only one feature
tractive from the standpoint of display.
This will start with huge parade in
which there will be four hundred peo-
pie, all representatives of the w c A,
Y M c A., Daughters of American
Revolution, Colonial Danes, United
Daughters of The Confedieracy, be-
sides the military forces that will lend
truly historic touch to the whole
program. The idea is to have the day
open with impressive exercises on the
concrete road just outside of the city
at which military officers mounted will
open two imposing gates decorated
for the occasion. This will mark the
entry place into Savannah via the JEFF
ferson Davis Highway.
| The parade will be the longest that
has ever been held in Savannah. Be-
sides the people attired in costume who
will take part in the pageant at the
grounds, there will be the One Hun
! dred and Eighteenth Field Artillery
fregiment, slldiers of the Eighth Infan-
| try from Fort Screven, U. S. marines
from Paris Island, detachment of
sailors from Charleston, and all of
Savannah's civic clubs. The music for
the march will be furnished by Savan-
nahs own regimental band, the re-
nowned Eighth Infantry Band, U. S.
Marine Band, Naval Band from Char
lesion, and the Royal Scotch High
landers Band attired in kits, and two
other carnival bands from the shows
at the fair. The participants will extend
| for more than one mile in formation
and the march will end at the fair
grounds.
| One of the largest factors in making
| this parade success will be the peo-
| pie residing along the Jefferson Davis
| Highway who will come to Savannah
in their automobiles to join the pro-
cession. 1t is the Highway associa-
ton to whom credit is due for suggest
ing the Jefferson Davis program, and
the State officials accompanied by dis
trict officers of the association, who
have organized motorcade of more
than one hundred cars to journey to
Savannah for this day, will be present.
| The pagenat with its beautiful cos
tunes and lovely maidens, as has been
SO carefully planned by Miss Helon G..
Davis, great niece of Jefferson Davis
will be presented to the concourse in
front of the grandstand. 1t will be a
very enchanted period, and history of
the South will be told in brief episodes
accompanied by southern strains. This
will take place in the early afternoon
and will be followed by the Queen
of the Day" presenting to Gov. Cliff
ord Walker large scroll on which is
the map of the Highway. This will be
in the nature of formal acceptance in
behalf of the three states.
1t is happy combination that The
visits of Gov. Walker and G. William
Mcleod of South Carolina, both with
their staffsand Hon. R. Gordon Rhett
of Charleston, Judge w w Sheppard
and Hon. Walter F. George should
be so arranged that they will be in Sa-
vannah for the Jefferson Davis pag-
cant, and will speak to the large inteD-
state gathering at the grandstands.
They will be in Savannah from early
morning to late that evening, will re-
view the parade, and will close the day
by prepared messages to the agricultur
al people of the sister states bordering
the Savannah river.
Wednesday has also been designated
as Kiwanis Day and the local members
will send invitations to other Kiwani-
ans throughout the states to visit Sa-
vannah on this occasion
| From the time the auto travellers en-
ter the city to the moment of their de-
parture their visit will be a continuous
round of entertainments.