New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-09-05

Roosevelt Cheers Troops
In the reviewing stand boxes were
practically the same we'll known figures
A. were there during the Guard send,
OF. Colonel Roosevelt was on hand
again, smiling his response at the
cheers which we're for him and bcaminS
his qualification al the soldierly bear
ing of the marchers.
At his side WAS Mrs. Roosevelt. ana
further along The line were Alton b.
Parker and Mrs. Parker, Charles Evans
Hughes, himself Conscripted Tor ser
vice ss chairman OF the district draft
board; Rrigsdier General Hoyte, new
commander of the Eastern Department;
Charles l.. Sheriff., the new Adjutant
General, present rs Governor Whit
mans representative; Louis W, Stotes..
bury. his predecessor; Major General
Dan Appleton, the grand old man OF
the eth Regiment; Rear Admiral Ma
thaniel f. Usher. commsndant at the
Brooklyn Navy Yard. and George T.
Wilson, Of the Mayors Committee on
National Defence.
The Mayor himself was a late arrl-
vsl-not because Of sny tsrdiness on
his part. but because he had oeen one
of the marchers. As Il was, he had TO
quit the line at Forty-second Street and
double back q. q dog trot 10 he IN hls
box in time TO review and take stock
or the parade he had headed.
Men Soon in Alignment
Down in the vicinity Of Washington
Arch. where the marchers formed.
Mayor Mitchell had seen only mob OF
men milling in the side streets opening
OF the square. TO be distinguished from
the street crowds further north by
roth;rC more than the olive drab bras
sard that each wore on his left arm.
The lob on the hands Of the reserve
officers. whose practical experience was
there beginning in the necessity OF
bringing a scrblc-cc OF military order
out OF the civilian chaos. had seemed
RrXt 70 homeless.
But As the Mayor took his place IN
the reviewing stand here was ordcr
ALREADY achieved and the result moving
BY on display. -.
Their coming had been presaged ny
advance guard strains Of Over lhere'
bIasted cut with all tn. l60-lunG power
Of the police band before those IN tne
rrsndstsnd had seen them a. more than
q blur far south in the avenue. Grad
uslIv the blur had resolved itself mo
6 line Of mounted policemen. behlnd
whom flags could be seen noddinE snd
countless lines Z, human Shapes
swinging
First the mounted men, then the
band. approaching. passing. gone; then
Mayor Mitchell. with Captain Boyce, the
training camp pioneer, IN khaM at MS
heels; In secondary file lheooore
Rousseau. the Mayors secretary; Will
lam J. McCook. chairman Of the Mayors
Er1lcua1 Mar
gan, chairman o. the subcommittee
which arranged the parade.
The throng in the grandStsrd saw
them pass, cheered them, saw them
s.ridinr away northwsrd as II there
would be no stopping until the Y.ry
rarsde dissolved. grew interested for
moment i'm freShcr things, then 2
rubbed its eyes in wonderment to sec
the group before them.
II had been something OF new
wrinkle for the Mayor TO lead parade
in person. But the thing really new
was the parade itself New York had
never seen its like. Here, incarnatc,
was what the newspapers had been fuli !
OF for . while and at last had begun
10 treat in seeming pcrfunctory fash
jon-what I'm some degree had touched
the life Of every man and woman and
child in the city. Here was the draft -
tfat mysterious matter referred 20 in
local way as a quota, and dealt with
in the news in the light, Illuminating
style Of timetable.
Forty young policemen and twenty
young flremen held place Of honor in
the line When Mayor Mitchell and his
party cult the line they were left Al
the head Of the parade. They had been
taken at random from post and fJe
houses near Washington Square, draft
ed men all. as samples Of tho types Of
civic guardians for whom the Mayor
and their commissioners have been
striving so strenuously 70 win eXemp-
ton But they had sn air about them
Of not having been party "a any eTemp-
ton pleas.
The uniforms OF the policemen and
fremen told, oHhsnd. the story OF
what they ere leaving for the war.
Trailing these detachments, an in
terlude before the ranks OF the drafted
men began TO pour past, were couple
Of skeleton companies OF Spanish War
Veterans--the volunteers of Yesterday
az the National Army men are the vol
untcers Of to-day. or could II have
been only yesterday that New York sent
them forth, Overnight, then, they had
grown gray.
A platoon Of flags, carried by Boy
Scouts, followed these old young men