New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1911-05-31
$1,000 IN PARADE HERE
Veterans Reviewed by General
SiCkIes in Riverside Drive.
MANY CHILDREN IN LINE
Woman Attempts to Paint Scene
but Gives Up When the
Zouaves Appear.

r,,rl, Commissioner Slower to sit there
=, little knoll. which gave her point
Of vantage 10 see over the heads OF 'he
crowd. Down at 18th street. where there
* . turn IN Riverside Drive. the green OF
-. ,rses was particularly thick. and the
overhanging boughs made an src""''
through which for over two hours came
Marching many gaudy colored hos's'
some fifteen thousand IN all
The woman dipped her brushes IN her
brightest hued paints and tried 10 pu'
rer vision Of those brilliant hosts on her
canvas as they came marching through
49, erecn arch In memory of their coun-
,ry's dead No camera for her-sie
wanted 10 idealize the picture-the
,nsrchine lines Of young and old
There were blues and grsys 10 put INTO
The picture with the white ana green
BACKGROUND. and she worked with some
success as far as coloring goes. untli
+bere came through the arChWay plaze
of color that made her hesitate; theh hei
brushes few faster. and red ana ne"
shades Of green were spread hastily on
the canvas. tin she laid down her brushes
ard gave w her attempt TO depict the
randy spectacle Of the Zouaves she
Was Mrs. Elizabeth Elmore. Of NO. III"
West 93d street. and said she would
have to complete the picture later
The Zouaves were loudly cheered 10y
me crowds on the reviewing stand. too
fhe Veteran Zouave Association OF Ne"
York. under command Of Colonel FREQ
: Schaefer: the ID Duryea ZouaVes'
,.,do, command Of Captain Mathias
,obneon and the Anderson ZouaVes'
Captain Charles i. Morse. lhey We're
dressed as they had fought in the wal
An the strange baggy trousers ana or"'-
4snt colors that made them famous then'
After them came Lafayette Post, Com
,nander Elias r. Bragaw. with thelr
,,bite trousers and blue coats ana
snriehtlv tread They were men VINO
,,,rst have all been nearing the seventy
wear mark, but they all walked IKE
Youngsters past the reviewing stahu
after their march of mile IN the not
sun But sprightiness was not peculiar
.. tho veterans of Lafayette Post alone
:. o.ae common remark how hale ana
hearty the veterans were. II the ranks
are being thinned by time. those that are
left are stanch. and many Of them
might almost take another enlistment
,,ov. There were 200 OF them N line.
and though they had the privilege of
taking carriages If they wanted TO- few
of them did
Marches Along on Clutches.
They all wanted TO march and only
those whom wounds in war or extreme
I'D age made infirm took TO the car
Wages I'm the marching lines, In the
.robn 4 DIX Post. there was one with
shot away who had to use crutches.
lie swung along with his comrades al
,ooqt as easily as those with their bodies
whole.
Among them all there was no one more
durable" than Major General Daniel f.
Sickles. who reviewed the column al the
Soldiers and Sailors Monument He ar
rived in a carriage with two women. and
The word went around that General
Sickles had countess with him.
NO" he laughed. when comrade
asked him who the countess was, she
g not a countess-you are thinking Of
the princess had with me last year"
The women were Mrs Nelson DAILY
and Mrs Erlanger Wilmerding. Others
= the reviewing party with General
Sickles were Henry Clews Justice James
A Blanchard. Justice Vernon NJ. Davis
Colonel Asa Bird Gardiner. Cornelius y.
Bliss General f. J. Atkinson and Cen
eral George y. Loud
General Sickles ia eighty-six years
old. and IT was said that he had attended
keventeen dinners and other gatherings
this month. yet he got out Of the car
,iage and up into the stand with very
pittle assistance, despite the damage he
received from q little incident at Gettys-
burg" as he expressed IT, He stood I'M
assisted throughout the two-hour re-
view After ne had mounted the stand
e floral piece was presented TO him. com
trg from the women of Lafayette Circle
q. A r. with Gettysburg" worked in
flowers. IN commemoration Of the battle
where The general lost his right leg
Julius Milton Chase presented a baton
10 General Sickes after the parade. The
baton was given on behalf OF the press
a the nation
The special escort 20 the reviewing
party was the Old Guard. under the
command Of Major s. Ellis Briggs. and
the Veteran Corps Of Artillery. Military
Society Of the War OF 1912. Major
Charles Eliot Warren. was drawn ND
before the reviewing stand as special
guard Of hone.
Colonel Matthew Jennings. as grand
marshal. was in charge Of the parade
end Colonel Joseph W Ellis was adju-
tant general and chief Of staff, with Cap
vain II NJ Graf as chief aid The line
n march was along Riverside Drive.
beginning at list street. and the colupln
disbanded at 9lst street The column
was led oy platoon Of mounted police
followed by three companies Of SAILORS
ard marines from the Brooklyn navy
yard
Children m Line hpplsuded,
The FIRST section Of the line was com
posed Of the national guard led by
Squadron A. with its mounted band
. After them came two artillery corps
medical corps. FIVE regiments of
infantry and battalion of naval militia
The section was in command Of Major
General Roe