Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-05-16
THOUSANDS OF MEN
AND WOMEN MARCH
IN DEFENSE PARADE
Nearly $4,000 Persons in New
York Take Part in One of
Greatest Professions Ever
Assembled in World

NEW YORK. May Is.-The greatest
civic parade in the history OF this cOun-
try was witnessed here today wnen l5l,-
100 men and women marched through
dag bsdecked streets as a demonstration
OF their belief in national preparedness.
The line OF marchers was estimated AZ
twenty miles in length and the pageant
was watched by a million or more peo-
Ole.
1t seemed as il all New York was in
the streets and there was hardly per-
son VINO did not wear or wave the stars
and Stripes. Broadway was veritable
canyon OF American flags. The para
ders. headed by Mayor Mitchell and
the officials Of the demonstration and
General Wood and Rear Admiral Ush-
er. were greeted with roars OF applause
The weather was perfect. Vita an
aeropIane circling over the lower part
of the city where the parade started, the
first division swung into line promptly
at $50 o'clock The procession was not
10 end until nearly midnight
Surrounding the mayors carriage was
a deep Gordon OF mounted police acting
as a screen against possible attempts to
harm him
At 1880 o'clock the head of the col
1.mn reached the reviewing stand at
Madison square park at Twenty-third
street and there the mayor, General
Wood and Admiral Usher took places of
Eouor in an assemblage of prominent
citizens and delegations OF senator's and
congressman TO review the remainder of
rhe parade.
The marchers from that point pro-
cseded up Fifth avenue which was even
mere gafIy decorated than Broadway.
Great flags bearing preparedness mot
toes brfdged the street and the build
ings were so profusely draped with tho
national coIors that the thoroughfare
appeared fairly TO have been painted in
red. white and blue.
The parade moved with precision and
III to mid-afternoon there were no I'M
toward incidents.
Twenty thousand women were in the
pageant. Workers in two hundred Occu-
pations. lawyers and other professional
men. city officials and city employees and
10000 members of the national guard In
uniform and thousands of veterans of
the Spanish war composed the long
column The lawyers were led by
twenty justices of the supreme court.
The marchers were divided into sixty
four divisions.
Demands for a place in the parade
so greatly exceeded the time and space
that the promoters were compelled 20
reject $4,000 applications. Beginning
at the Battery at the southern tip of
Manhattan island the divisions fell in
line at intervals all the way up Iwer
Broadway. Center and Lafayette streets
and Fifth avenue. nearly 20 the review
ing stand erected in Madison Square.
The main body of the marching thou
sands was composed OF employees in
shops and stores. In addition divisions
were composed Of representatives OF
theaters and allied arts. engineers, ar
chitects. cIergymen, business men. bank
ers and brokers. physicians and sur
geons and public schools.
= Anf1-preparedness bodies such as the
woman's Peace party and the Socialists
endeavored 10 Offset the preparedness
spirit BY distributing circulars among
the spectators. Across Fifth avenue,
from the reviewing stand. the woman's
yarty hung out a banner with inscrip-
tIon: There are only 100000 OF you.
You are not the only patriots. Two
million families, 100000 mine workers
and organized labor of America are
opposed to what you and Wall street
are marching for. Are you sure you are
rightT'