The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1915-09-26
'125,OOO WATCH
N,Y.GUARDSMEN
R0UT INVADERS
Cavalry and Machine Gun
Forces Wiped Out i'm Van
Cortlandt Park.
WAR IN MANY ASPECTS
SHOWN SPECTATORS
DAYS Work Tmpresses the
Public With Need of
Preparedness.
MANY VOLUNTEER TO
JOIN MILITIA RANKS
Governor Praises Remark
able Mobilization Under
sudden Notice.

t. .upposititious enemy that lolled In
New York un Friday night. plugging the
ses, seats ~ the movie houses and
o,Ao, o,s. treating the %burghere with ex-
,-emgs, cruelty. is win us no more.
Maior-,icu. John +. organ. at the head
a, 5000 of the CitS's m~ilitiaucn. dis
psrscd and cx~tcrminated him yesterday
IN Wan Curtlandt Park 10 the high de-
lcli x Gov. Whitman of New York,
GOV. Walsh Of Massachusetts, Major
Ger Leonard Wood. Second Lieut.. the
Ho John Purroy Mitchell, the Burgo-
master numerous other notables and al
leas, I.5.0OU persons, who elbowed one
another in the densest crush New York
mas .e,U since Dewey vac honored or the
time Of III. Hudson-Fulton celebration.
o. '1. day that the nations most emil
nsr' co.ou.l landed. half laughing. half
crying. from his African trip,
Whatever impelled so many, many
thousands to throng upon the vast
VhI t'lf Ll'NlltAl VI ~ VI q "a ~
yesterday from 10 A. NJ until nearly
S T. NJ. whether 1t vas the eX-
citing Inspiration Of the great war or the
growing sentiment for real preparedness
or the New Workers. fondness for a bril-
iar, fIee spectacle. or a combination
o, all If these, it is certain that there
have been very few times In the city's
history when there was anything APP
prod hing Yesterdays turnout, either In
merc numbers or in sympathetic APP
probation Of the show they were Of
fered. or Of the big. vital. serious things
that doomed behind the CLEAN and glitter
Of o., spectacle. II was Impossible for
arl rIy. even the most C~oUserVatively
w.lirt trained observers, really to ap-
TroN.futtc the size of the crowd that
witnessed the most prrtentious field ma
nrUSrcs and concrete lesson in m
Preparedness that was yer held by III.
c'y's guardsTen. Chief Inspector Man
: S.hmit;bcrEer offered the guess o'
!?j,u"U, which vas as good as any prob
ADJ although many others figured tn,
SIG 81 the crowd at not less thar
100000.
Many lows deep they lined the greaI
rea', gular parade ground at the south,
W. w lA't VI WI VI Z ~
stry;rGtaE FOR eight blocks on the cas-
SD .i Broadway from the subway sta
tor o.; 2i2d street to above 2i0th street
clustering th!ckly upon the !ow hills 4
the ryr'h and east of the parade grOunt
ard banking heavily at tho southern
Boundary near the old Van Cortland
mansion. These We're within neal
vision. hut thousands more looked or
rom Hfar while the city's militiameI
prs.'.S'd the art of war upon six i'm
nrr,. squares Chalhed upon the greer
eyptn~- just east OF Broadway. Thu
roof Of every tall apartment house fol
q ME around showed n new skyline o
backly silhouetted groups. or automo
hes from hivver size to tremendous
eight cylinder cars there were at leas
twice as many as you may remember
having seen parked at the ~internationa
polo games or at worlds series baseball
game at the Polo Grounds,
So that from every possible stand
point the crowd vas m even 10
New York and the military show tina