New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-10-21

side Of l25th Street and saluted the
UC-5 with "The Star-Suangled Ban
ner" and over There
Floats, to whose advile concerning
the purchase of Liberty bonds the
numbering U-boat cape new emphasis,
fell IN behind itfi and the 5000 partici-
pants in the Harlem parade did like
wise. Business houses along 125th
STREET were closed for an hour or moro
while the cortege was passing.
Traffic gave the encountered parade
a wide berth. The mingling airs of the
numerous bands were punctuated by
the intermittent cracking of manhole
covers which crumbled under the 10
ton load.
Ambulance Sticks II Out
The line of march led down Seventh
Avenue TO 10th Street, west to Cen
tral Park West, and south to Sixty
sixth STREET and the Sheep Meadow. The
Harlem paraders maintained their DO
sltion as far as 116th Street, where they
abandoned to the U-boat to it's own de-
vices. An ambulance, with a section
OF the nurses organized by Gertrude
Anterior to combat tuberculosis in
France, followed all the way to the
park, however.
The vehicle itself was utilized by
Harry Bailey, marshal of the parade.
as a dispatch car, and carried word
back and forth along the column OF
delays, serving to maintain a compact
progress. The nurses circulated
among the crowds which lined the
strets distributing Liberty Loan
pamphlets.
On approaching 1O3d STREET, where
the Lehox Avenue subway branches OF
beneath Central Park, notice of the ar
rival OF the ponderous traveller was
served on the Interborough, and for
hve minutes subway traffic was held
up so that if the U-boat took the no
ton to submerge it would not ram a
train
Founders in Street
1t was not until the UC-5 got below
lOlst Street, however, that it APP
peared TO be in any danger of founder
ing. The increased pressure result
ing from the admission of Catskll
water had burst many mains along
Central Park West. and repair work
compelled the U-boat to take TO the
trolley tracks on the east side of the
thoroughfare Between 10lst and
lO2d streets one of the two-ton wheels
hit a stretch of pavement which had
been completely undermined.
IL crunched through TO the hub.
anchoring the UC-5 and its thirty-six
horses with the utmost ease and ex-
petition. For an hour traffic on both
tracks was held while wrecking crews
wrestled with the extraordinary OBJ
struction.
Arriving at last at Sixty-sixth
Street, the UC-5 turned into the park.
Four-inch planks had been laid as a
runway for il, and the progress of the
vehicle along this improvised roadway
was attended by u steady succession
OF detonations as the stout planks
split and splintered under the wheels.
IL was 3:40 before the first section
OF the UC-5 finally came 20 rest in the
sheep pasture.
Other Submarines Expected
The UC-5 had scarcely settled down
among the sheep when an alert but
evidently foot-weary individual stepped
forward. He was the Smith & Kauf-
mann manager who had provided the
flag, and he was there to see that he
got il back again. II was the first
American flag that ever few from
U-boat. he declared. and there wasn't
money enough on both sides Of the
Atlantic TO buy il.
Lake and Holland submarines,
sturdy descendants of the earlier con-
trivances of Revolutionary and Civil
War days. but puny beside the UC-5,
will also be on view in the sheep
meadow. In the course of time there
may be other trophies added to the
collection, won by American sailors
and soldiers,