New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-24
From II A. M. to 3 P. M.
Fifth Avenue Will Echo
Patriots Tramp
Airships Will Drop
Liberty Bombs"
DAYS Demonstration to End
With Great Rally in
Carnegie Hall

New York to-day will suspend pub
lie and private business to attend to
the moro important project Of selling
Liberty Loan bonds.
slave you bought your Liberty Loan
BondT Is the query that will be
aimed at every adult in the city In the
course Of a series Of aerial, written
and verbal COMPARTMENTS.
Ono hundred thousand men and
women-all bondholders or prospec-
tive bondholders-sre expected to par
ticipate In Liberty Loan demonstra-
ton that will form the principal feat
ure OF the Liberty Day activities. They
will march down Fifth Avenue from
the Plaza at Fifty-ninth Street to
Washington Square. from II o'clock
in the morning until some time after
8 o'clock IN the afternoon.
The intensive selling drive will be
carried on with the aid Of every
weapon Of the present war. A capt
ured German submarine, British
tank, Caproni battleplane that has
seen service in Italy and numerous
other war inventions will be used to
drive home the arguments for bond
buying.
Airship VIII Bomb Crowds
TL C.nrori oircraft which on Mon
dav broke a worlds flight record, will
fly over the ground traversed by the
paraders and lombard the crowds
with deadly appearing black bombs.
Nothing more Injurious than an argu-
ment for the Liberty Loan will be
found in the missiles, however When
they explode they will throw forth
slips of paper upon which is printed:
az you want TO avoid being bombed
By German airmen buy Liberty
Bond"
Ohicially the city Is expected to
cease business activities at noon. Cn-
officially, however, the entire day VIII
be given oyer to the campaign OF BOND
selling Chief Magistrate William Nc
Adoo has requested all magistrates to
close courts during the day, the CITY
Hall and Municipal Building, with all
city departments, will be closed at
noon, while the Stock Exchange and all
other exchanges will cease at noon.
In the parade will be more than
thirty floats symbolic OF the war and
the efforts Of the Allies 70 push II to
successful conclusion. There will be
thirty-one bands, several cameis and
the Hippodrome elephants.
a. Ao1
Of the latest type OF destroyer, the sort
that has sent many submarines to the
bottom Of the Atlantic. Another will
carry a new type Of aeroplane now
being used on the Western front.
Major Lorillard Spencer. grand mar
shall Of the parade, issued an appeal, In
which he urged all those who do not
take active part in the procession to
give support to the patriotic demon
stration by their presence along the
line Of march.
Rich and Poor to March
"The parade itself will be the high
est complication of democracy" he
said. ain it bankers will march with
their clerks, the khaki Of the army and
the blue Of the navy will mingle with
the somber garb of the Church and the
more colorful attire of the civilian. 1t
will be a demonstration in which all
classes and creeds will join hands for
the cause to which we are contribut-
ing"
The reviewing stand has been erected
at Madison Square. From this point Of
vantage Mayor Mitchell, city and state
officials and members of the Liberty
Loan Committee will review the march
ers. The Liberty Loan officials will be
compelled to play the double role Of
paraders and reviewers, however, since
they are scheduled TO appear as one OF
the first features in the parade, leaving
this position as soon as they reach the
reviewing stand to occupy seats beside
Mayor Mitchell.
More than $500 women have ex-
pressed their intention Of marching in
the woman's contingent of the parade.
They will fall in line at Fifth Avenue
and Seventy-frst Street at IL o'clock,
headed by two standard bearers, upon
whose emblems will be printed the
words, "Save for a bond and save
life"
Immediately behind the women
marchers will come the float designed
by Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney, called
"The Temple Of Liberty" Liberty will
be impersonated by Florence Fleming
Noyes, supported by United States
soldier and sailor.
German Americans To Be in Line
German newspapers have prepared a
picturesque float to symbolic the 10y
atty of Americans of Teutonic origin.
The names and characters OF promi-
nent Americans of German birth will
be visualized, with pictures showing
the parts they have taken in the his
tory of the nation. The japanese As
ISOLATION has designed another sym
bolic float showing the Weakening Of
Japan.
The entire student body at City Col
lege will be assembled during the
morning in the great hall in the main
building of the college TO hear patri-
otto addresses dealing with the part the
United States is playing in the war.
Abram |. Elkus, Ambassador to TNr-
key and regent Of the State of New
York, will be the principal speaker
Big Carnegie Hall Meeting