New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-06-15
Sons of Revolution OBJ
serve the Day on Steps
of Sub-Treasury.
STOTESBURY URGES
MANHOOD SERVICE
Adiutant General Is Principal
Speaker at Exercises Con-
Quoted by Elks.

From tenemcuts Of the East Side
and from homes IN Fifth Avenue, from
Office buildings, banks and churches,
old Glory waved yesterday in COM
r,emoration Of its l39th birthday.
New York celebrated Flag Day as it
never has before. Flags waved from
every building in many blocks on
broadway, Fifth Avenue and the prin-
,iral crosstown streets. Between the
twin spires Of St. Patrick's Cathedral,
$50 feet above the pavement, a huge
banner was flung 20 the breeze. The
whole Wall Street district was turned
red. white and blue. Small flags were
carried on thousands Of automobiles.
md everywhere pedestrians wore the
eolors on the larcls Of their coats.
Special exercises were held in the
public schools, and almost 100000
school children took part in open air
exercises in the parks.
Sons OF Revolution Celebrate.
The Sons Of the Revolution held
commemorative exercises at the Sub
Treasury Building before a crowd
which filed Wall and Broad streets
Three hundred members Of the society
marched behind the list Regiment
Rand from Fraunces's Tavern up Broad
Street 90 the Sub-Treasury. A stand,
almost hidden with flags, had been built
across the front Of the building. The
speakers stood just below the Ward
statue Of Washington.
Robert Olyphant, president Of the
society. introduced the Rev. DR.. George
J. Nelson. canon of the Cathedral of
s.. John the Divine, who asked the in
vocation. and John Garfield Tomlinson,
who spoke on the duty Of allegiance 70
he ideals and principles for which the
fac stands. Mayor Mitchell was a
guest
Impressive exercises we're held at
New York Lodge. No. l. Benevolent and
Protective order OF Elks, los West
Forty-third Street, yesterday after
noon. A feature was the building Of
red. white and blue liberty bell OF
flowers on the altar of the lodge by
its officers. Roses. symbolic of cour-
age. LOYALTY and devotion; lilies, rep
resenting charity, purity and truth;
and yio,ets. 10 show justice. brotherly
love and fidelity. were the flowers used
for the national colors, and the bell
was topped by a bar Of thirteen stars.
Stotesbury Asks Manhood Service.
Louis ". Stotesbury, adjutant gen
eral Of the state. was the principa!
speaker He asked for recognition OF
the duty Of universal service to the
country.
1--WE must enforce the recognition e
the obligation Of service he said.
with the right Of manhood suffrage
IS coupled the obligation Of manhood
service The only safe and sound pol
lev for any nation that is free and IN
tends 10 remain so is 10 adopt a mill
tarv system based upon compulslon,
by which every man, whether he wants
10 or not, is required TO perform
PATRIOTS duty"
Al the exercises were representa-
tives Of the Memorial Committee,
Grand Army OF the Republic; the Mill
tary Order of the Loyal Legion OF the
United States; the memorial and eNscu-
tive committees, United Spanish war
veterans 0OuleQeidtt ftNtA"t4 "''f
Of New York; Society of Colonial
Wars; New York Society Of the order
Of Founders and Patriots Of America.
Empire State Society of the Sons OF
the American Revolution, Society Of
Mayfower Descendants. the American
Flag Association, the Society Of the
Cincinnati, the Veteran Corps of Ar
tllery Of New York and the Society
Of American Wars.
Typical Of the patriotic spirit Of the
day was a children's demonstration IN
front Of the home of Mrs. Everett NJ.
Raynor. president general of the
Daughters Of the Revolution. AGA East
18Th Street A flag fifty feet long and
thirty feet wide. hung across the front
Of the house all day. Early last even
ing three hundred children who had
gathered to look at it. began to sing
patriotic songs. and in their enthusi-
asm many wrapped themselves in the
folds Of the flag and Rugged and kissed
IT,
Boy scouts stationed at the Grand
Central Terminal and the Pennsylvania
Station throughout the day gave to ar
rivals I'm the city small flags provided
by the National Security League.