Douglas daily dispatch., 1927-09-20
DOUGLAS DAILY DISPATCH TUESDAY MORNING SEPTEMBER 90 1927

very thought that so many men and
women would come such great dis
tance to parade and to make pill
grimage to the fields on which so far
from their own kith and kin, they had
battled with the enemy, seemed to
the ordinary French specator-to whom
a trip Of 100 miles is a thing to plan
for months and talk about for years
a most unprecedented and undreamed
of occurrence.
At the head of the parade rode a
mounted platoon of the republican
guards. Behind them came their band,
one Of the most famous military bands
in the world and three companies of
French soldiers in horizon blue, their
bayonets rising high above their bob
bing heads. Then came a car carrying
General Pershing, Marshal Foch and
Commander Savage to the reviewing
stand, where group of women and
girls from Alsace Lorraine, dressed in
their native costumes, with great black
bows two feet wide tied in their un-
bobbed hair, greeted them and pre-
sented a flag to Pershing and flowers
to Commander Savage.
The first delegation to pass in re-
view was that from Florida, led by
band from Palm Beach, strikingly at
tractive in their uniforms and helmets
of organge, with the "out-struttingest
drum major of them ALL" They play
ed "Madelon" as they passed the stand
and so did half of the other bands
which followed.
Many times the strains of "Over
There" were heard and at times the
very atmosphere seemed to beat
against the ear drums with the lift OF
"The Stars and Stripes Forever" "
"Madelon,' however, was the popular
piece of the day and all along the
route French spectators sang the words
as the American musicians played the
air
The band from Jacksonville, Fla,
came along in uniforms Of blue and
helmets as silvery as the wings OF
Lindberghs plane which many recalled
today as once again the city of Paris
was overwhelmed with pro-American
emotion.
Miami's musicians we're next in
white suits, trimmed with black and
orange. Then came doughboys from
Delaware and men from Arizona IN
the wide brimmed hats of the great
open spaces. band from Greenville,
Ohio, in grey blue military uniforms
came next. Indiana followed, women
forming a prominent part of this dele
CATION, all of them dressed in white
skirts, shoes and stockings, with blue
tunics lined with orange.
Illinois was next and big delega-
ton it was The Kankakee band IN
uniforms of black neatly striped Win
white formed one of the brightest
spots in the parade. Next came
Louisiana and the French crowd 1T,
did not forget that Louisiana was once
French territory and still cherlsheS IN
its civilization much of its inherit
ance from that country.
Texas was the next in line, but 1t
was not the legendary Texas. There
were no six-shooters and only few
broad brimmed hats. Tennessee fol-
lowed and after the southerners the
Yanks from Connecticut. Behind these
paraded the big boys from Montana,
some in cowboy garb with COW girl
or so along with them.
west Virginia, Georgia and the
Carolinas followed next to the music
of a drum and bugle corps from
Charlottesville, N. c., all dressed in red,
white and blue.
Idaho, represented by small but
noisy group, was next. Oklahoma,
with a squad of real Indians-squaWS
as well as warriors all in their paint,
/ feathers and cloaks of nnny colors,
followed whirte warriors from Tulsa
kept up the Indian idea with feathers
in their hats. After them marched the
legionnaires from New jersey with
great show of flags-hundredS of them,
little and big.
Then came California, stepping to
the music of band from Los Angeles
| in orange jackets and white flanneled
trousers and with a bass drummer who
| not only twirled the drum sticks but
the drumb as well in great display
of acrobatics.
Oregon followed California and