Good natured chaffing was carried on, Charlie Roebuck being asked what was done with that undistributed $300,000,000 his firm had in reserve.
“Oh, we bought Liberty Bonds with that money,” came the immediate and patriotic reply.
Among other pieces played by the bands were, “We’ll Rally Round the Flag, Boys, We’ll Rally Once Again”; “Tramp, Tramp, Tramp, the Boys are Marching”; “Columbia, the Gem of the Ocean”; “America”; “Dixie Land,” and such darky songs as “Darkies, Have You Seen the Massa, with the Moustache on His Face, Walking Down the Road this Morning, Like He’s Gwine to Leeb the Place?”
The Tabernacle was visited during the day by Generals Grant, Sherman, McClellan, Sheridan, Franz Siegel, G. H. Thomas, Robert E. Lee, Stonewall Jackson and many others, including all the Presidents back to George Washington’s time.
Songs were sung, speeches made, music indulged in and a most enjoyable and entertaining program was given.
The Philadelphia and Pittsburgh committees were unremitting in their efforts and the Fourth of July, 1917, passed into history on the planet Mars with pleasant memories and a strong feeling of meeting again and often.
CHAPTER XX.
THE JOURNEY TO JUPITER
THERE was no great preparation among the whilom dwellers on the planet Mars for their exodus to the planet Jupiter, and the long journey was to be taken without any formality.