New-York tribune., 1916-05-11
Mayor Lauds Organiza-
ton as Most Efficient
lie Has Ever Seen.
2.123 PATROLMEN TO
WATCH MARCH LINE
Saturdays Demonstration for
Preparedness to Guido Even
Sound Money" Display.

| Ht NiilEtHs IitphieuHcSH dlhut
which will take place on Saturday, is
organized more efficiently than an
other that has come to his notice, &C
cording to a message Mayor Mitche
sent by his secretary, Theodore Rous
sesu. to the executive committee OF tn,
march at its last meeting yesterday al
the Yale Club.
Interest in the parade is not limited
TO New York. A committee recently
formed in Boston announced last night
that it would hold q similar demonstra.
tion there on May 81. And a member
OF the committee who has just returned
from 4 trip through the South, stated
that the greatest interest had been
shown in Nashville, Wheeling and other
cities.
Surprising, as it will. the last great
civilian parade in New York the
Sound money" demonstration, in which
% 900 men were in line-the march has
tcen mapped out with such minuteness
that each man and woman in the 49,
900 marchors knows just exactly where
he or she is supposed to be at any
minute OF the day.
Several Meeting Places.
There are several main points OF as
semblage. First, the lower Wall Street
section, gathering in and about Wall,
Pine, Cedar and Broad streets; next
Washington Square; then Ninth and
the adjacent side streets, and Twenti-
eth and Twenty-second streets.
To such a nicely has the time re-
quired by the marching columns beer
calculated that as soon as one division
has passed given point another
comes out from a side street and fol
lows upon its heels. The result will
be that from $3.50 in the morning until
about II o'clock at night a continuous
stream of marchers will pass the re-
viewing stand on Fifth Avenue, al
Madison Square.
First will come band, and banner
bearing the inscription: Citizens Pre-
paredness Parade" Next will follow
two carriages, in which Mayor Mitchell,
Rear Admiral y. X. Usher and Major
General Leonard Wood, who will re-
view the parade, will be seated. Sur
rounding them will walk the Mayors
escort, comprised Of the executive COM
mittee. To such an extent has the ne
cessity for preparedness permeated the
minds Of these men that one OF the
grand marshaPs aides said yesterday
his companions were going to have
their horses shod with rubber anti-skid
shoes, against wet pavementA
Rain Can't Interfere.
incidentally, no frowning skies or
slippery asphalt will prevent the men
and women from marching Colonel
Charles II. Sheriff., grand marshal of
the parade, said yesterday that rain on
Saturday would be welcome test of
the patriotism OF the preparedness en-
thusssts.
Following the Mayors escort, which
disbands at the stand after the review
ing officers have been seated, come the
trade divisions. Each will be headed
by band. Many OF these are sepa-
rate armies in themselves. Largest OF
al is the Bankers and Brokers, headed
by General ". II. Bridgeman. Starting
with an original request TO have 5000
representatives march, the numbers
day by day increased until on Setur-
uay tneIe VIII come unueT tnls nedu
more than $4,000 men.
George T. Wilson, vice president and
director Of the Equitabls Life Assurance
Society, has brought together more
than 1000 men in the insurance divl-
sion. Engineers number about 5000,
and 1000 lawyers, headed by twenty
Justices Of the Supreme Court, under
command of Justice Hotchkiss and
marshslled by Alton B. Parker, will
pass the stand.
In a general way, the line Of march
may be said to extend from Washing
ton Square 10 Fifty-ninth Street. II.
however, all marchers were stretched
along one street in an unbroken line
they would form a column twenty miles
long. To facilitate the disbsnding of
the parade, orders have been issued
10 split the columns, when the end of
the march has been reached, senGing
one half on one sidewalk and the other
half on the other.
2,I23 Patrolnan on Watch.
Applications from fifteen societies
for permission TO speak to the men
as they formed in files of twenty pre-
paratory to marching have been. re-
fused. Boy Scouts, also, have not been
allowed to line Fifth Avenue.
Orders issued last night by Police
Commissioner Woods call for 2,l23
patrolmen, exclusive OF captains and
sergeants, TO report at various dis
trirts between s:30 and 9:30, for pa