Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 105, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1919 — WILL WELCOME THEM HOME [ARTICLE]

WILL WELCOME THEM HOME

RAINBOW DIVISION TO BE GIVEN A ROUSING RECEPTION. Indianapolis, May 5. —Arrangements are all set for the Welcome Home Day parade in the capital city, May 7, at noon. The committee in charge of the celebration anticipate that 250,000 visitors including soldiers, sailors, marines, nurses and welfare workers, will have place in the parade. Ample provision has been made for housing and feeding the largest crowd Indianapolis has ever Entertained. Twenty-one bands will be in the procession and stationed at places along the line of march. There will be 25 water barrels on various street intersection, 50 information bureaus, 20 rest rooms and first aid stations and the grand stands will seat 13,000 people excusive of private facilities for viewing the pageant. The official reviewing stand will be at the old Public Library, Ohio and Meridian streets. • Boy Scouts and high school cadets will aid in the maintenance of information booths and in policing the 48 city blocks which will be traversed.

The elaborate program arranged to emphasize the state’swelcome to its fighting men is packed with spectacular features. The Victory Arch, j at Meridian and the south approach • to the Circle, is practically complet- . ed. The monumet will be converted into a Court of Honor, and on north Meridian street will be the Court of the Allies, being a reproduction of the New York Victory Way. Fourteen beautiful Indiana girls will be stationed on pedestals to strew with flowers the path of the soldiers. Every factory, office and store will be urged to close for the day. A request is made by Governor J. P. Goodrich in his official proclamation in designating May 7 as Welcome Home Day, that -all business in the state cease on that day. The 150th Field Artillery will leave Camp Merritt, N. J. Monday afternoon in 50 tourist sleepers, and will be routed over the West Shore Railroad to Buffalo, the New York Central to Sandusky, O.; the L. E. & W. to Indianapolis, where the troops will be detrained for the parade, the Pennsylvania to Louisville and the Southern Railway to Camp Taylor. The schedule of the railroad administration fixes the arrival of the troop train in Indianapolis at 10 a. m. Military Park near which the men will detrain, and where they will remain until the. parade will be guarded by police and admission will be available only to relatives of the members of the 150th who hold tickets entitling them to enter. These tickets may be obtained now upon application at the temparary branch headquarters of the Rainbow Regiment Cheer Association at 102 N. Pennsylvania St. The same regulation applies to the families of members of Base Hospital 32, which will accompany the artillery unit. iMlajor General Edwin F. Glenp commander of Fort Benjamin Harrison during the first officer’s training camp will come from Camp Sherman for the celebration. General G. T. Mencher, who commanded the Rainbow division in its fiercest fighting in France, has been invited. The chief marshal’s headquarters will be at Senate avenue and Washington street. The first division will be infantry, with head of the column at Missouri street facing east on the south side of Washington street, and r the right resting on Missouri street, extending west on Washington street. The second division will be composed of artillery units, and will be headed by the 150th Field Artillery. Engineers, signal corps and machine gun troops will form the third division, the head of which column will rest’ at Washington street and South West/street. Fifth Division Participants. Sailors, marines and avjators will compose the fifth division with the column headat Washington street and extending south on the east side of Missouri street, the right resting on Washington street. Ordinance, quartermaster, motor transport, tank corps, military police, transportation, trains, chemical warfare, and service of security will form the sixth section. The head of the seventh division will be*at Ohio street and Senate avenue, with the right resting on Wash- ! ington street. The column will extend west to West street and thence north on the east side of West street. This division will be made up of medical corps, nurses and automobiles with wounded soldiers and nurses. It is probable that base hospital No. 32 will lead this division of the parade. The eighth and last, division will be ,made up of vocational training units and the head of this column will be at Washington street and Senate avenue, the right resting on Washington street and extending south on Senate avenue. At night there will ba a carnival and dance on Monument Circle.