New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-12
Patriots Alone Will
Start in COuntry'S
Greatest Parade.
$4,000 REFUSED
PLACES IN LINE
Traffic To Be Suspended
During the IS Hour
Demonstration.

CUTTERS were ruled out Of the Citi-
Gems Preparedness parade yesterday
Anybody who starts will have to 60
through TO the finish. rain or shine.
II was only one Of the many tokens
by which the demonstration will be
made to symbolic TO all the big and
/ little rulers in the world that the peo-
PIE Of this country are grimly united
IN their determination TO see that the
United States shall be fully prepared
for any trouble started by anybody
Charles II. Sheriff., grand marshal, is
sued to the division commanders this
order:
"You will please notify your organ
ization that places in line must be re-
fused 20 any marchers who are un-
willing to continue with you to the
point Of dismissal Men who wish 10
fall out after passing the reviewing
stand must not be allowed TO start,
because they are unprepared for Pre-
paredness parade.
"The most successful organization
in the parade will be the one which
reaches its dismissal point with the
{ fullest ranks. Patriots will march the
whole route. Cutters are not pa
triots."
Sixty Thousand Refused Places.
Although il will transcend in num-
bers the greatest parade ever held in
this country. the $4,000 men and
women who will be in line represent
only rs per cent of those who made ap-
pication 10 march. More than 10000
applicants had TO be refused because
of the physical impossibility Of hand
ling 100000 marchers through the
streets OF New York in one day. To
make possible the passing of $4,000
before the reviewing stands in twelve
hours. the original formation Of six
teen files front was changed TO
twenty files front.
Almost equal TO the task OF engi-
ueering q plan for handling the march
ing hosts was that for handling the
watching populsce. The police have
arranged for the practical suspension
Of traffic during the transit of the
Preparedness armies. The job Of get
ting the maximum utility out Of the
reviewing stand was tackled by the
parade committee.
A full announcement of the novel
way in which this has been met was
made yesterday The stand seats
$500. Tickets TO seats have been
placed on sale at forty cents each.
being divided into three classes. Red
tickets entitle the holder to a seat
from 10 a. m. until p. m. White tick
cts are good from D. m. until $3.50
D. m. and the blue hold good from $3.50
p. m. until the parade is over at 1880.
Tickets to Defray Expenses.
The money from the sale Of tickets
will be used to defray the expenses OF
the parade. To the organizations in
lire twenty-five tickets were given for
each five hundred men, TO be sold II
they saw TT TO pay their own expenses.
The money from the sale Of tickets at
the parade headquarters Will 90 to
meet the executive expenses, such as
building the stand. for badges, mar
shals' sashes, printing, and so on. No
general subscription fund was col
lected. each organization having charge
Of its own finances.
No political banners will be admitted.
nor any showing of critical comments
or advertisements. The official pro-
gramme Of siXty-four pages was issued
yesterday. 1t will be sold for 10 cents.
No advertising was allowed in its
pages, the only matter not pertaining
to the parade itself being four display
notices one for the United States
army recruiting service, one for the
navy, one for the national guard, and
a full page outside cover for the Platts-
burg camp.
fake programme Of few pages,
containing some facts CLEANED fro.
newspaper reports of the parade preps-
rations, was placed on sale yesterday
on the street at five cents. Il bore an
American flag. the publication of which
for commercial purposes is q violation
of the flag law A complaint has been
made against the fake by representa-
tive Of the Citizens Preparedness
parade
Assembling Places