New-York tribune., 1918-04-21
New Guard Under Old FLAGS
Stirs ? arade Spectators
Marchers, All New Faces Under Famous and Familiar
Standards, Cause Heart Throbs and Make Eloquent Ap
peal for Liberty Bonds to Help Men 'Over There

Cavalry without horses and artillery
without guns, non-coms without rifles
and privates without uniforms-a
parade of "withouts," it was that un-
folded before the great crowd of poten-
tial Liberty bond buyers which filled
the sidewalks and doorways and win
dows of Fifth Avenue yesterday after
noon as the new State Guard swung
north past the Library on it's first
massed review.
So much the parade was to the eye.
To the heart of every man and every
woman possessed of an idle dollar who
saw it it was an appeal without words,
an appeal eloquent beyond words.
AS military spectacle it was fair
enough. For the little time the men of
the guard, that is, the 5000 who
marched. have been training, they made
a remarkably fine showing. But the
interest they reused was not in their
own quick development. 1t was mani
fest that at sight of them the thoughts
of the hundreds of thousands who
watched were carried to the guard that
Standards Old, Faces New
The standards they bore were as old
and familiar and venerated as the faces
strange and new. Here was the flag of
the gallant Goth, now far away in the
thick of the fight the whole nation is
marching toward--the Fighting Irish
69th-to-da blooded and arrived at
the dignity and distress of long cas-
ualty list. Again it was the flag of the
old 7th that was passing, the flag OF
the old list, the flag of the old 18th,
the flag of the old 9th Coast Defence
command.
So it didn't require far jump of
the imagination to take the mind to
the men who are standing between
Hindenburg and the sea, or to the men
who are waiting impatiently at Spar
tanburg for Pershing's call, or to the
men who are sleeping with the big
guns at Fort Hancock. And these are
most excellent places for PERSONS
mind to be when you try to demon
stepped up and applied for enlistment
is liable to classification as Stacker
money these days, if it isn't doing
heavy and worthy duty outside the
Liberty Loan chest. Likely the loan
workers will find it so when they re-
sumo their campaign.
General Dyer Leads Parade
With half-eauipped infantry, theo-
retical artillery, pedestrian cavalry.
signal corps, hospital corps and en-
gineer corps, the troops whom Gov
ernor Whitman reviewed from a stand
in front of the library comprised the
First Brigade of the Ne,7 York Guard
the New York City Brigade, of which
ho nGs -
General George R. Dyer.
General Dyer, himself a veteran
Guard officer, headed the parade as the
first of the half-dozen bands started off
from Washington Square at o'clock
The general was booted and spurred.
but he walked. The staff officers and
field officers and cavalry officers and
artillery officers were likewise booted
and spurred. And they walked, too
There wasn't a horse in the parade, as
a matter of fact. The new guard, de-
veloped out of void, is learning in it's
infancy to do without things.
So busy was the crowd with thoughts
of other things and other men that
there was little cheering for those who
there was applause it was for a soldier
IN mufti sandwiched into the uniformed
ranks, or for the mufti squads and
mufti platoons that cropped up toward
the last.
Were Lacking in Equipment
A guidon here and there, borne by a
dismounted lance. identified the new
Squadron A, under Lieutenant Colonel
c. j. Ahearn, as the unit directly be-
hind the general. But, except for the
hat cords and the brand new 3O-3o
Springfelds that had just been issued
the lightest arm. incidentally ever
put into the hands of cavalry-the
squadron was not to be distinguished ed
from the new list, the new 7th, the
new 9th Coast Artillery, the new 22d
Engineers. the new Goth, the new 18th
the new 9th Coast Artillery, the new
1st Signal Corps. the new 1st Field Ar
tillery or the new 1st Field Hospita
Corps, which in order followed:
That the new Guard did not presen,
altogether the trim and soldierly ap
pearance of the old was not entirel,
because of their newness to arms anc
to marching. Only the 9th Coast Ar
tillery. which had organized as an in.
dependent unit and had uniformed it,
self. had anything approaching com.
plete equipment. Whole regiments
were without cartridge belts. Bayonets
cleaned on the rifles, but there were