New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-05-31
THRONCS CHEER DWlNDLEO
RANKS Of WAR VETERANS
Less than Thousand March This
Year in Memorial Day
Parade Along Drive.
$500. ALL TOLD, IN LINE
Young Soldiers and Sailors and
Girls and Boys Join the Process
sion-Colonel Goulden
Makes Address.


of the Republic turned out again yes
terday for the annual Memorial Day
march from I'D street to the Soldiers
and Sailors Monument i'm Riverside
Drive. So far as numbers went. the
Grand Army mustered only tenth or
the total in the parade, but the thou
sands of younger soldiers and sailors
regulars and volunteers who preceded
them and the thousands of still younger
Snanish War veterans boy soldiers and
semi-military organization members VINO
came after them furnished nothing
more than the setting for the men OF
the Civil War. Seven thousand five hun
bred marchers in the parade, but only
seven hundred and fifty veterans of the
Grand Army, tells the tale OF the vanish
ing army Of the COS.
II was To see the veterans. though,
that some two hundred thousand people
lined the route of the parade. FOR their
applause. which had been mild hand
clapping for the regulars and the guards
men. broke into cheers with the advent
Of the Grand Army men.
Most of them walked. hut a few posts
have been SO reduced in numbers that
they felt they could not make a showing
that would be satisfactory to themselves
II they went on foot, So they reluctantly
took carriages.
The two slight mishaps which inter
-urted the parade. At least that division
of il given over 20 the old veterans, mad
70 effect on the good spirit 81 the
rnarchers. although they did have the Fl
feet Of bringing spectators L. the COM
ment that it might he better for the
veterans to use carriages in their future
Memorial bay parades
Aids Horse Gets Fract'ous,
The first Of these incidents occurred
lust after the column II veterans began
10 move at 72d street and the Drive.
colonel Harvey DennisOn, chief of aids
70 Colonel s. u. Mildenberg, tho veteran
Grand marshal. was riding Young
horse which began to prance IN an IN
manageable manner when III" bands
struck up.
Colonel uennison at first tried to con-
trol the horse but finally Colonel Mil
denberg said; You'd better get off,
,omrade. have use for YOU later.
oh III win out all right" repls j
colonel Dennison. as he stuck to the
horse. and il looked as if he would if he
had more time to subdJe the animal
4 command YOU. sir, 10 dismount'
,alled Colonel Mildenberg then, and
Colonel Dennison salUted, even rs he
dismounted, and continued in the parade
without his horse.
Henry Lowenthal junior commander
of William g. Mitchell Post No 90
g. A. r.. was the victim of the otltar
mishap. re is sevcnty-four Years old,
and the heat and eXertion oyercamc him
after he had marched as far as S5Ih
street He was helped in to the home If
William r. Stewart No. l21 Riverside
Drive. where stimulants restored him
oven before the arrival of an ambulance
Nh Lowenthal was soreiy disappointed
i'm himself however, because. lie eX-
pidAheu' Il9 uduSHtti anu S"H'iH-id"
we're in the reviewing stand at S9tA
street and he had wanted very much to
finish this years march for their sake
That part Of the parade officially desig-
mated as escort TO the Grand Army OF
the Republic" was made up Of three gen
eral divisiOns-the regulars. under com
mand Of Major Joseph Wheeler, jr.; the
United States sailors and marines. under
Lieutenant Commander w. G. Roper.
and the national guardsmen, under
Major General John f. Organ. They
started away promptly on the scheduled
hour Of . o'clock from the rendezvous
at I'D street and the Drive. and swung
up the line Of march at a brisk step.