The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-02-22
10000 Sturdy Young Sol
diers to Parade To-day
OH Fifth Avenue.
DANIELS COMING HERE
Visitors to Be En- tertained at
Great Military Ball d. -
Tonight.


or pass that was worth q blooming cent
last night was an olive .drab uniform.
topped of with a doggy little cap tilted
over tho right eye. This uniform, and
especially this cap. meant one Of New
York's own boys from Camp Upton
and there wasn't anything In town that
a Camp Upton soldier lad couldn't have
had last night just by showing his smile.
And to-day these 10000 guests are
going to repay the city. They're going
to be the givers to-day-sendihg out
new pledges to patriotism and new as
surances that America is tho wonder
nation that she u. They're going to
show the 100000 that it means some
thing big and nne to be q selected SOL
dier-a drafted man.
All day long yesterday they poured
into the city on special troop trains
from the Long Island camp sixty-nve
miles away. And what q ouIly lot they
were! Healthy and bronsed and sturdy.
with the set up that only military train
ing ever gives their short marches to
tho armories-glimpses that were mere
cocktails to the hungry thousands before
the great parade feast OF to-day
showed what magic there Is in open air
and good food and exercise and army
life.
Engineers In the Van.
The trail back homo was led by the
3oed Engineers. who reached tho city
at 10 yesterday morning and marched
direct TO the s!xty-ninth Regiment
Armor,'. at Lexington avenue and
Twenty-nfth street. An hour later the
153d Infantry Brigade. comprising the
306th and 306th regiments, was pill
ing out Of troop trains at the Pennsvi-
vania Station and thrilling the street
crowds NJ It SwunT by under heavy
marching equipment.
Within q few minutes after the ar
mory was reached the different COM
mands were dismissed for the day. And
later in tho afternoon. at the Seventy.
first Regiment Armory. at Thirty-fourth
street and Park avenue, the same pro-
ceedings were enacted with the 307th
| and 30Sth Infantry regiments. BY evc-
| ming all the men except . handful OF
guards were turned loose on the full
! hospitality Of the city.
! And the city welcomed the privilege.
and II ever tho town key was actually
turned over for Sull use 1t was BY Old
Man knckerbocker last night.
To start with. there was a grea. free
entertainment given at the Lexington
IOpera House. where George Draftman
and h!s best girl were shown ''TaTzan OF
the Apes
I But II some lad happened to be fed up
I a bit on theatricals he took a strons
grip on his best girl and hustled her up
to the Grand Central Palace. where he
was handed free skates and told by
Proprietor George ID. Grundy that the
whole show was theirs and that they
could just skate all over the place free
gratis and without any costs
Then besides all this and lot o.
other nice little things done for them.
the Hotel Mems Association fixed it ur
SO that any OF the boys who didn't live
in the metropolitan district could dror
in at say, the Waldorf-Astoria. or the
Vanderbilt, or the Biltmore. or any other
of the big downtown hotels and pick
up menu card in the dining room and
play It straight down from the hors
d'oeuvres to the demitasse. with the as.
surance that II the waiter as much as
Free Meals offered To-day.
And late last night fear that som, o:
the soldiers might have not been sum
ciensly coached to accept the invitation
the association sent word to the news
papers to announce that all out Of towr
Camp Upton soldiers could secure mea
passes for all three meals to-day ant
breakfast and lunch tomorrow by call
Ing at the associations rooms in thu
Cambridge Building. Thirty -secont
street and Fifth avenue. any time to-day
Then welcoming invitations were sen
out from National Service clubs. and thu
new Hostess House conducted by thu
p. Dawson at 12 West Fifty-hrst treet
announcing that they had open hous'
for Camp Upton men and their friends
And to-day the whole city will tu:I
out to show her sons and fighting me,
how she loves them and how proud sh,
is OF them. Fully a million people will
crowd the street and about o'clock thi
afternoon when the head OF the lon,
line turns into Fifth avenue from Fifty.
seventh street. this thorouehfars tina
has been called the most wonderful II
tho world, will experience brand nee
thrill.
Daniels to Ne Present.
Late last night word was given OIL
by the Mayors Committee on Nationa
Defence. which has had full charge o
the arrangements that Secretary OF tn
Navy Josephus Daniels would review
the parade
With the exception Of Battery A o
the 3O5th Field Artillery and the bat
talon Of tho 367th Infantry, negro, al
the 10000 troops that will take part il
the parade arrived in the city last night
These two units will reach the city earl.
this morning.
Tonight probably the biggest militar!
ball the city has ever seen will be hell
at tho Seventh Regiment Armory.
nOYOS APPEAL DRAWN TIP.