Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1923-02-10
Column to March More
Than Two
Miles
TO START AT 2:3O
Expect $4,000 Here-City
to be LaviShly Decor
ated-Big Times Are
Planned.

Seven thousand persons are ex-
pected to take part in the parade
which will be held here the after
noon Of February %. There Will
be at least eleven bands Of music
in line and the parade will GO
over a route OF about two miles
which Will take in twenty-five city
blocks. The hour set for the par
ade is 2:3O o'clock.
The hours for the parade and
the route were decided upon last
night at q meeting Of the execU-
tive committee of the Washing
ton Birthday Association held in
the rooms OF the chamber OF
commerce which was largely at
tended. Under no circumstances
whatever will the executive COM
mittee in charge deviate from the
route as announced.
The route selected follows:
Form on Duke street with right
resting AZ Fairfax. on Fairfax
north to Prince. on Prince ives,
TO Payne, Payne north TO King,
King east to Fairfax, Fairfax
north to Cameron. Cameron west
to Washington, Washington north
to Wythe and diSband
The chief marshal viii be Gen.
John A. Leieune and the chicr
of staff will be Col Kenneth w.
Ogden. Promptly at 2;S0 o'clock
the big parade viii start regard
less of weather conditions or any
thing to the contrary, as it will
be strictly on time with a mill
tary man at the head.
Announcement was made at the
= meeting last night that the mill
tary committee had secured three
additional troops of cavalry, tTo
battallionS of artillery and three
troops of infantry from Fort
Myer. The city will be lavishly
decorated for the affair, This
committee on decorating of which
Thomas Chauncey is foreman. has
arranged for decorating King 81
from Fairfax to Payne, . dis.
tance Of ten squares, and decor
ating Washington street iron
Prince TO Wythe, a distance OF
six blocks. The committee alsC
will decorate the fire engine hous
eS and the reviewing stand. Al
of the merchants on King street
have agreed to decorate theil
places Of business that day ant
the committee requests that al
private homes along the line oI
march also decorate.
The reviewing stand for tn,
distinguished guests and officials
to review the parade will be erect
ed on the cast side of Washing
ton between Queen and Princes
streets. This. stand will be en-
closed i'm glass and will be heat
ed. Already requests are pouring
into the committee for invitation
to be present as guests of tn
association on that day.
One Of the big questions viii b
the handling of traffic that day
The entire arrangements for thi
was left By the committee in tn
hands of City Manager W. N
Rich and he will be guided by tn
recommendations of the chief MAJ
shall and the chief of staff. Thou
sands of automobiles are expecte
here from Washington and ever
: part of the state.
Interest in the parade. accord
tins to the members of the CON
mittee. is steadily increasing an
! the members say that all govern
ment officials whom they haV
interviewed have given the
hearty approval TO the propos
tion and have promised to len
every assistance possible 70 hel
make the parade 4 big success.
Indications are that there WI
bc a general outpouring of res
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