With thousands of Iowa visitors who remained over after the celebration of Iowa Day and other thousands of Modern Woodmen from all parts of the country, this was a banner day in point of attendance at the Exposition, there being about 53000 people on the grounds. Modern Woodmen Day had been planned many weeks before. Preceding the formal exercises at the Auditorium a parade of un-uniformed Camps was participated in by a large number of the order. The parade formed at the Electricity Building at 10:30 A.M. and was headed by the 4th Regiment Band of Sioux City. It passed entirely around the Main court and during the march the various companies executed a number of movements which elicited vociferous applause. The parade ended at the Auditorium, where the following program was given; with a house crowded almost to the point of suffocation.

The head officers of the order were on the platform, when the Omaha Concert Band played a selection, which was succeeded by the following exercises:

Address . . . Hon. A.R. Talbot, of Lincoln,
Chairman of the Board of Directors of The Modern Woodmen.
Address . . . President Wattles.
Music . . . Omaha Concert Band.
Address . . . Gov. W.A. Northcott, Lieut.-Gov. of Illinois and Head Counsel of the Order.
Music . . . Omaha Concert Band.
Address . . . Mrs. E.D. Watts, of Omaha, Supreme Oracle of the Royal Neighbors of America. [SR]

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30M arrive by train...mostly from Iowa...10M enter gates in one hour...Street cars very taxed all day...30M Iowa Day button badges prepared. [WH]