Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-09-29
BATTLE CRIES OF WAR
SHOUTED BY MARCHERS
Old Songs Sung in Cracking Voices
as Crowds Keep Up Con-
slant Cheering.
PARKDERs SHOW EXHAUSTION
Band Plays Orally Round the Flag,
Boys" and Mr.. Wilson and Others,
Standing, Join in Sing
Chorus.

Scenes of patriotic enthusiasm
marked the passage of the veter-
ans at President Wilson's stand
today. Frequently the President
waved his hat to the old soldiers.
The cheering in the reviewing
stand in front of the White House
was almost constant.
AS a fife and drum corps OF
veterans passed playing Rally
Round the Flag, Boys" many. in
the Presidents stand joined in
singing the chorus.
Tired by the march from the Capitol
to the White House, a little more than
mile, veterans seemed exhausted
when they reached the President S
stand. Many leaned upon younger and
more robust comrades.
Applause Greets Veterans.
AS the men of the Grand Army of the
parade. came into view Of those in the
court of honor. headed by the United
States Marine Band, blazing in their
that started away down the line surged
along, and to this spontaneous and
heartfelt greeting many of the march
ers responded by lifting their slouch
hats or waving the small flags that
many of them bore.
To the martial strains of the Presi-
dents own band the thin blue line"
marched past the stand where the
chief executive stood. 1t was noticea-
BILE that the band did not play in the
quick time that had marked the music
Of the 5th Cavalry Band and the other
bands that furnished the music for
the military organizations that head
ed the parade. Although the air was
a stirringN march, 1t was played in
slower tempo. more suited to the falter-
ing steps Of the veterans who marched
behind in what, in all human proba-
bility.. was their last parade and re-
the crowds noted this, and commented
upon it: it seemed to bring more vivid
ly into the minds of the watchers the
fact that the men who fought for and
preserved the Union in 1S61-65 are old,
old men today.
1t was a picture to see the veterans
as they passed the stand occupied by
the President. Bent backs Strengthened
and feeble steps grew spryer, as every
eye turned toward the chief executive
at the words Eyes left"
veterans Give Battle Cry.
Several of the marching bodies of
veterans, as they passed the Presi-
dents stand, gave the battle cries they
used to shout, or sang in cracking
voices the old songs that used to cheer
them on in the fight or help to pass
the weary hours on the march or in
bivouac. Others forgot all about dis
cipline and cheered at the top of their
lungs. as they saw the familiar face
and figure of the President who bowed
his acknowledgment of these mani
festations of mingled respect and en-
one Of the sections sang Marching
Through Georgia" as the members
tramped past the White House. They
had sung 1t On the same trip fifty years
ago.
More applause greeted the moldering.
tattered battle flags as they were borne
along, bound securely to their staffs. Not
even the gentle breezes of today might
be suffered to caress those crumbling
folds of time-rotted silk. But the men
who bore them stepped maybe a little
more proudly than their comrades; theirs
was priceless burden. and they felt it