The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-06-06
Capitol Park and Adjacent Streets Packed as "Old
 Glory" Is Flung to Freezes
NOT AN ACCIDENT
 l ALONG WHOLE LINE 1 OF THE LONG MARCH
Between 10000 and 3O,000 Were in Line and No Less Than 75,000 Along the
 Streets to See Parade
By JEFF BAILEY


 Birmingham, after her parade and her flag raising of yesterday, is immensely happy.
 Birmingham turned out, and Birmingham saw patri- otisn1, heard patriotism, ac- tually felt patriotism, as she entertained Gen. Leonard Wood, heard him speak, saw him assist in raising "Old Glory to lofty heights, and witnessed such a sight as has never before been seen on Birmingham streets.
 Birmingham doffs her hat to Joe Saks, chairman of the parade com mittee; o. H. Martinsen, chairman of the flag raising committee, the Ital- ian societies, the various fraternal orders, civic bodies, Red Cross socie- ties, suffrage and women's sections, Col. Tom o. Smith, grand marshal of the day, and his aides. The parade was decided success.
 CROWDS WERE ENORMOUS
 Birmingham dismantled the containers of her energetic patriotism Tuesday ait ernoon at o'clock between 2o,ooo ana 30 900 men, women and children paraded in review before General Wood, Bir- mingham's guest for the day, and It is estimated that 75,oo0 people walked np' and down Birmingham streets giving vent | to their patriotic fervor before the day ended Over 10000 attempted to hear General Woods address at the raising of the enormous flag at Capitol park. but so far removed were many from the speaker that they drifted downtown 1 General Wood was distinctly pleased with his day in Birmingham, the splen- did showinb made by the registrars. and the splendid body of men that marched | before him, aIter they n"u iSs'S " " white and colored.
 l Birmingham women captivated tne great general when they marcneo eight abreast and waved flags in greet line as they pa ssed before him. The gen. crals smiles and salutes were quite tre- c,ent and he turned to Mayor Ward ana said. Isn't that great? fine; I like that The Red Cross section of the parade made a direct appeal to General Wood. 1 He looked at these women with knowl- edge of what they mean to the army | to the wounded men, and undoubtedly ns measure was real, when they came by 1 in a great long line. showing their will ingness to go to the front
 1 VARIOUS ESTIMATES MADE l The crowd was estimated at various figures. but the general opinion prevails that the parade line marchers numbered between 10000 and 5000 people. People were packed in the park just as lar pacK las one could stand and see the speaker stand. and at one time the crowd was iammed in twentieth street down as far 1 as Sixth avenue. and back each way on Park avenue as far as could be seen from the stand. A decided feature of the parade and one that brought forth tremendous ap- plause. was the representation of Joan lof Arc.'' by Miss Judy Jones. and of l columbia" by Miss Ina shepard Miss Shepard made a striking Columpia, land as she marched on foot she was greeted by frequent outbursts from the lpatriotic bystanders on every side
 SHOWS NATION UNITED
 "The hoisting of this flag represents the blue and the gray, united for Amer lfca.r said General Wood, as he. assisted by Confederate veteran. Capt John G Smith, and a Union veteran, Capt E. F. Quinn, raised the mammoth United States lf.ag to position on top of the lSo-foot flag pole at Capitol park while the band played ..Star-Spangled Banner.
 Ut shows that we are hoisting 1t to- gether. and that we will all stand behind it. We are going to very likely have 10 send a million, or two million men across the sea, and. perhaps leave many thou- sand of them there, so theprincipal thing for us to do here in America Is to make munitions of war. raise big crops and ltrain our men well" said General Wood. "We are preparing for war after war has been declared, and suffering fronn 'l 'lpromises that were made us of a perrna-
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