The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1917-08-30

AZ the NAVY club sailors Of all allied
nations were modified. They crown
ed the windows. cheering the New
York fighters
Uniform is Movie Pass.
NEW York, Aug. 3o.-Uncle Sam
Khaki uniform became ticket OF al
mission to any movie theatre IN New
York Immediately after the twenty,
seventh divisions parade today. All
the men in their war clothes mad 20
do was to walk IN ana get the peet
seats in the house
A Real War Thrill.
NEW YORK, Aug. 30.-New York
had a real war thrill today.
To the martial music of scores OF
military bands, nearly 10000 khaki
clad n-Twenty-seventh division OF
the American army, made up of New
| York's national guard-marched down
Fifth avenue in a great send-on
parade.
The line of march from 10th
| street to Washington square was
! lined with countless thousands Po-
| lice estimates were that more than
| two million persons viewed the pa
| rade. which lasted more than five
hours.
1T was a virtual holiday in the
worlds greatest city. All principal
stores were closed. The stock mar
| ket closed at noon and the entire
| town did honor to the boys who will
soon be battling for democracy IN
/ France.
Cheers and tears mingled as the
sturdy civilian soldiers swung by in
| the last review they will be seen in
| by the home folks, until they return
from the war.
! AS the parade was in full swing,
the kaiser might have read part of
| the answers to autocracy and AFRO
gance in the five solid miles of bayo-
nets, FURNISHED field guns and dash
| ing cavalry. Looking northward from
| the reviewing stand at Forty-second.
| street, the impression was OF view
| ing a flowing river of steel. With
every man marching with fixed bayo-
| net, the lines extending from curb to
curb and the steady undulation Of
men in motion, the picture presented
one of the most inspiring martial
views ever witnessed in New York.
! Members of the guardsmen's fami-
! lies were given special badges and
as they appeared to watch father,
| son, brother or sweetheart march by
| they were cheered as heartily as were
| the men in uniform
Fifth avenue gay with, the flags Of
all allied nations, but with Old Glory
predominating, was damned with
| humanity. All side streets were pack
ed for block on either side of the
historic thoroughfare. Extra police,
| thousands Of Boy Scouts and mem
| bers of the home defense league,
| faced a tremendous task in controll-
| ing the throngs.
Every window of the great build
ings fronting the avenue was
damned. At one place where exca-
waiting work was in progress. score
of persons climbed into the bucket,
| the derrick hoisted them high in the
air and from there they viewed the
parade.
Colonel Cornelius Vanderbilt rode
at the head of the Twenty-second en-
gineers who will depart tonight for
their camp at Spartansburg, s. G.
AS he passed the reviewing stand
woman tossed flowers at him. This
was but one of hundreds of similar
incidents when women and children
showered the marching men with
flowers, or broke through the lines
to throw their arms about sweet
hearts or relatives.
AS the colors Of each regiment
passed men in the crowd imm ediately
uncovered. A detachment of recruits,
some without uniforms, was given
rousing cheer.
1t was day Of solemnity as well
as of celebration in cheering the
men who are soon to take their
places on the firing line.
While the parade was the greatest
demonstration New York ever saw
exceeding even the Dewey welcome or
other stirring scenes of Spanish war
days-it was evident that the crowd
was giving its cheers with full appre-
citation of what the appearance Of
these thousands of men in war array
meant.
1t was not holiday spirit that
prevailed. The cheers for the troops
were full-hearted and trimming with
enthusiasm. But they carried a note
Of patriotic devotion and tear dimmed
eyes and trem bling lips of men and
women alike at the sight of some
loved one in the ranks, brought home
that this was Americas greatest
war demonstration to date-not a
parade of peace.
For the first time since Spanish
war days, men were marching amidst
the peaceful scenes of the world
metropolis fully equipped for war
The rumble and groan Of artillery
caissons was heard as real war
sound. The scuff, scuff, scuff, of the
marchers was that Of men ready to
offer up their lives in the cause of