The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1926-11-17
CITY WA|TSFOR
QUEENS ARRIVAL
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spirit of royal welcome has been
broadcast, until all Indianapolis Is
| thrilled with the thought OF greet
ing the first Queen to receive
homage here.
| Arriving - from Chicago at the
Arriving at and leaving at 1890
a. m, Her Majesty's hours will be
crowded with welcome from city,
from State and from her own
Roumanian people, who now are
naturalized HOLSTERS.
All Ready
Gold-ribboned members of the re-
ception committee will assemble at
the Union Station at 4:30 p. M, and
everything. will be in readiness to
give the Queen a royal Hoosier well
come.
Following appropriate ceremonies
of greeting, an automobile parade
will be formed and the royal party
will be driven through the down.
town streets to the places Of official
welcoming.
Cars of local manufacture will
make up the pared. The Queen will
ride in Marmon, the Prince in a
Stutz and the Princess in a Duesen-
berg, In the order named. There
will be fifteen Marmons, fifteen
Stutz and three Duesenbergs in the
procession.
! Streets along the route of the pa
rade have been decorated with Amer
lean and Roumanian flags, while
many merchants have show windows
especially decorated and lighted for
the occasion.
Wallace Lee, city committee chair
man; Adjt. Cen William H. Kersh,
ner, State chairman, and Hilton U.
Brown will head the group to well
come the Queen at the station and
see that the parade is properly
formed. Each committee member
has been assigned to certain car
and the procession is expected to be
formed promptly.
Wreath HonOring Dead
The parade will proceed at once
to Monument Circle, where the
Queen will place wreath on the
monument steps to honor Indiana's
soldier and sailor dead. huge
crowd is expected to witness this
event, as well as the official welcomes
which follow. Flood lights will H.
illuminate the scene and the chimes
of Christ Church will be played dur
ing this ceremony.
Again the procession will form and
proceed up N. Meridian st. to the
central library. Here Mayor Duvall
will present the key to the city, this
official welcome being staged on the
library steps, which also will be
bathed in flood lights.
Both the gold key and the golden
model of the World War Memorial
Plaza. which will be presented to
Her Majesty at the formal banquet,
are on display today in the show
window Of the J.. S. Ayres & Co.
store. They were made by c. B
Dyer, Massachusetts, Ave. jeweler.
Mrs. Duvall will present the Queen
with a boquet of orchids at the IL
brary. Another gift will be book
containing the autographs of Indi-
anas literary celebrities. who will be
on hand as a special welcoming com.
mittee. The 500 gold spun hose of
the Real Silk Hosiery Mills here will
be presented to Her Majesty by
Homer Mckee.
The Police and Firemens band
will play preceding the arrival of the
Queen at the library and st. Clair
park will be roped off for spectators.
especially for mothers and children.
A special place has been provided
for the pupils from the school for
the blind and their teachers will ex-
plain the proceedings to them.
After the city celebration, the
Mayor and Mrs. Duvall will enter
the Queens car and ride with Her
Majesty to the Statehouse. The pro-
cession will cross st. Clair ST., to
Pennsylvania and then go south 10
Ohio and west to Capitol Ave. The
royal party will enter the Statehouse
by the east doorway and be received
by Governor Jackson and other State
officials in the executive offices.
The Statehouse interior has been
decorated for the event with many
American and Roumanian flags
hung alternately along the first floor
corridors and draped in the rotunda
| There is some talk that an in
formal dance may be held in the
Capitol building after the Queen
leaves for the Columbia Club.
| Program at Church
| Following this reception, the
Queens party will go to the Rou.
manian Church at Market and Black
ford Sts., where an elaborate pro-
gram has been arranged by the To-
cal Roumanians.
The church has been refurbished
and decorated. Oriental rugs have
been secured and a throne erected.
A huge electric sign will blaze forth