New-York tribune., 1908-08-29

GREET ATHLETES TO-DAY
OlYmmc Tictors To Be H0Rored an
Parade and at City Hail.

Amarica through its gateway and metropolis
New York-v~ill extend formal welcome this MORN
ing to the band of athletes who triumphed over
the chosen swift and strong men of the world 'n
the London Stadium las. month. winning toeai
of III 1-3 points In the athletic section OF the oym
pic games. The line OF march of the great paraae
that will precede the review at the Stty Atal ae
noon by Acting Mayor McGowan has already been
elaborately decorated, and at the City Han tpe
old yellow sides of the classic building have been
completely hidden by the mass Of American nass'
Fourteen more athletes returned from abroad yes
terday including the great Irish-Amerlcan runner
Melvin w. Sheppard. who both the 500 and the
go metre races i'm London. Others who came IN
the Mauretania and the Baltic were T. D.
Bacon. Harvey Cohn. Dan Kelly, H. F. Porter d.
P. Sullivan. J. B. Taylor. Lawson Robertson George
Bonhag Joseph Brownlow, jr, and Lee j. Iapol'
The reception committee announced yesterday
that 1t had all the money needed George hessie''
who is visiting Richard Croker in Ireland. sent
blank check yesterday. and after consultation Win
his representative It was filed out for Soo-
The parade will begin at Broadway ana 4oiAi
street where General George w. Wtngate, tfle
grand marshal of the psrade. with his STAN VIII
give the order to march at lo ociocK- iheiiee'
headed by detachment of troops of the regular
army and of the United States marines, 1t VIII
proceed down Broadway to S5th street, to f71th
avenue. to z3d street, to Broadway again, to Uni
versty Place, to 18th street, TO broadway ior lie
third time and the City Hail
There Mr. MCGOWAN will review the parade ana
present the special
to be given to every on the team. TO Mike
Murphy, who trained the athletes, and TO the oin-
ciaIs Of the Amateur Athletic Union and the Amer
lean Olympic Committee. who shared In tho AInefi-
triumph.
There will be ten divisions in the parade In
the first will be the regulars and marines, and the
military effect will increased by the second ol-
vision, which will consist of eleven battaHons OF
the national guard OF the state Then Will come
the Irish Volunteers and the fourth division VIII
n -7,ar,ic roQr
the city officials who will ride in automobiles Be
hind them will march delegations from all the
athletic clubs about New York. headed oy the
Irish-Arnerican Athletic Club and the New YORK
Athletic Club.
The sixth division will consist of delegations
from the Young Mems Christian Association ana
the seventh of members of the Catholic Athletic
League. The eighth will be given up to various
organizations. athletic and social. while cyclists
will compose the ninth. Bringing up the rear
will be the schooIboys OF the Public Schools Ath-
etic League.
On Monday morning at IL O'Clock the athletes
in response to the invitation of President Roose-
Welt. will 20 to Oyster Bay on the steamer Saga
more, lent for the trip by the Long Island Rail
road. They will land the dock of w. Emlen
Roosevelt. and will proceed TO Sycamore HiiL
where the President viii ehake the hand OF each
man. in accordance with his heartily expressed de-
sire.