New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-04-20
Hundreds of Thousands
Cheer Marchers on
Fifth Avenue
Flyers Drop Call
To Arms from Sky
Patriotic Gathering in Car
negie Hall Continues
All Day

u America didn't come 20 the end Of
her long nap yesterday and didn't SIT
M all night, thinking hard. and do'sn
r.,c recruiting officers tho rush OF
thcir lives to-day which would be the
best possible evidence OF the awaken
.,- and tho thinking then there viii
remain only ono explanation OF hcr
continued slumbcr-viz., the tSetso ny.
n was tho l42d anniversary Of the
battle Of Lexington and there were
hundreds of thousands Of Paul k'-
vcrcg IN acroplaucs and automobiles
ON foot and horseback, with good lungs
an. 20 spread the 1917 alarm through
tbo nation. Clamoring at farmers
doors on r. +. y. routes, oxhorting IN
villages. parading in cities. they ralsed
meeting Fifth Avenue asphalt the
q ra.rotic hullaballoo from coast 70
coast 20 which only the sufferer from
slccpirg sickness could have been deal.
To New York, with seven millions OF
slccpcrs TO arouse. fell tho biggest Joo'
and New York sent laundering against
bc slconers' car drums the mighty
'hump of 10000 pairs Of marching fect
ctccrs OF the million onlookers who
iammcd tho sidewalks, the blare oil
scores Of bands, the drumming Of
dozen acroplane motors in the clouds
and the rasping voices Of thousands Of
automobile horns.
At a great ail.day meeting in Carne-
cic Hall and IN other Wake Up, Amer
ica," celebrations held IN public build
ings and parks all over the city other
voices chorused more articulate APP
peal 20 New York and the nation to be
up and dong Billy Sundays was one
Of them: Mayor MitcheIs another.
Great Crowd Viewed Parade.
The crowd which watched the parade
the police said, was the biggest that
ever had turned out in their memory
which is fair proof, perhaps. that the
rcr'od Of laugour was passing II
stretched n Fifth Avenue from seven
tv-eichth Street clear down 20 WASH
ington Arch. through Fhty-Seventh
street 10 Broadway. and up Broadway
10 Seycnty-tbird Street.
Do Fftv-scycnth Street, during q
1lrso part Of the parade. the crowd
uas .wc'led hy the thousands VINO
would not Doe held ln Carnegie Hall by
any amount of oratory when the bands
were crashing hy. SO positive was the
preference of the audience that the
meeting was temporarily suspended for
lack Cf listeners.
Although the parade was not SEIZED
uIcd % start until - O'Clock m the
afternoon. and when II did get under
way was frequently held up by trahIc,
the crowd was ON hand q full hour be-
fore the advance guard was due and re-
manned 10 see the tail pass down the
Avenue we'll after dark.
The Union League Club provided 4
balcony as rey.e ewing stand. Ia the alb
scncc of Mayor Mitchell. Governor
Whitman and Former Ambas sador Ger
ard. who had been unable 70 accept IN,
invitation of the Mayors Committee on
National Defence, the stand was occu
pied by Captain John +. Lucey, vice.
chairman Of the committee; Lord Aber'
deem. Lieutenant Commander John
Grady. L. 5. y, IN charge Of naval re-
cruitiny i'm New York; Lieutenant Com
lnandcr TAYLOR l.. s ". Rear Admiral
Bradley A. FiSke, L. $. y, retired;
Alexander j. Hcmphill, chairman Of the
Navor's committee. Walter Nanger
its secretary. and John J. Reardon, lts
advisory agent
Flags Flying Everywhere
Above the balcony an American flag
with stripes sixty feet wide hid the
upper reaches Of the club building Be
low were drapcd the standards Of the
other nations arrayed against Prus-
-iauism England's Union Jack, the
trcolor Of France. Belgiums, Russia 8,
Iapan's and tn, colors Of the Balkan
allies
UPTOWN and down. red. white and
blue was cvcryw here on display. Onder
the big flags whipping at the heads oi
.tafs on Che roofs above them, nag
oy the tens OF thousands flew from
windows OF skyscrapcr Office buildings.
loft buildings. buildings housing smart
shops. hotels. apartment houses and
clubs Most of those in the sidewalk
crowds carried flags. and there was
scarcely contingent IN the parade
whose marchcrs did not wave them IN
salute TO tho reviewing party
The schools Of the city sent out 90
noe % the marchers, girls and boys.
They were TO have had a place IN the
middle Of the line, but 10 was decided
20 send them ahead and get them 20
their homes as early as possible.
FLYERS SCARED over City
A. . O'Clock. just as the first lines Of
school children were passing thc review
my stand. eight acroplancs lifted from
the military flying field at Mincola, l.. l.,
and sailed 10 a flock toward the city.
A half hour later four more planes
mounted from Governors Island. One
Of these followed the course OF the East
River. another that Of the Hudson. The
fourth and nth joined the air squad
ron from Mineola 5000 feet above the
peaks Of the Manhattan skyline. The
departure Of the planes from Gov
errors Island was watched by a crowd
o. 10000 which lined the Battery sea
Wall and acclaimed by scrccching Of
whistles aboard ferry boats and other
harbor craft.
From the machines recruiting cir
cuiars were tossed on the heads Of the
street crowds. falling earthward like
giant snowfakes.
With these coveted souvenirs drop
ping about them the children from the
grammar schools and the boys and
girls Of the nigh schools kept then
formations. They had no music. cX-
ecpt such as they made for themselves
by singing patriotic songs, Du, they
managed 20 keep step and alignment
nevertheless. with their teachers as
captains.