Evening star., 1918-10-13
MAD DOVAT|ONG GIVEN
PRESIDENT IN N. Y.
Shouting Million Along Line
of Liberty Day Parade
E, Unique in History.
WAR VETERANS CHEERED

By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, October 12-President
Wilson, commander-in-chi of the
American Army and Navy, marched
today at the head of the American
forces in /. the Columbus-Liberty day
parade. one of the most impressive
and inspiring spectacles New York
has ever seen.
Under a canopy formed by the flags
of the twenty-five nations arrayed
against autocracy and with squadrons
of American airplanes lowering over
head, the President strobe with $4,000
fighting men from five continents and
islands in every sea over the entire
three-mile line of march along the
Avenue of the Allies" Then, at the
foot of 5th avenue, beside the Wash
ington Arch, he took his place in an
automobile and reviewed the long col
umn.
More Than a Million Spectators.
The spectators, whose number the
police estimated at more than a mill
lion. never ceased cheering. From
the moment they caught sight of the
shining silk hat which proclaimed the
tive until they lost sight of it in the
distance the men and women who
lined the avenue and sought vantage
point on every housetop hardly paused
for breath. 1t seemed as If the city
had gone mad.
In according Mr.. Wilson what prob
ably was the greatest ovation Presi-
dent of the United States had ever re-
ceived men threw their hats into the
air and yelled themselves hoarse.
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thers' shoulders. that they might tell
fifty years hence of the day they saw
the President march. Women clapped
their hands frantically and embraced
strange men in an eNuberance of JOY,
while small boys broke through the
police lines to get a better view of
the nations leader.
It was the second time the Presi-
dent had marched in a parade down
5th avenue, but when he opened the
last Red Cross campaign he headed a
great army of mercy. while today he
led grim legion of fighting men,
and behind them, dragged by motor
trucks and tractors, great guns wrest-
ed from the Germans. 1t was stern
procession. typifying force to the ut
most that New York staged on Co
lumbus day in behalf of the nations
fourth and fighting" loan.
Keeps on With Paraders.
When he reached the ALTAR of lib
erty,' at Madison Square, it was eX-
pected that the President would take
his place in the reviewing stand with
Gov. Whitman and Mayor Nylan, but
he kept on. smilingly returning the
salute accorded him by the heads of
the state and city.
AT the head of the line were detach-
ments of fighting men representing
twenty-five nationalities. They came
from countries that are fighting to
retain their freedom and they came
from races that are fighting to be free.
Bemedaled heroes of the French
Forelgn Legion, picturesque Italian
A1pini and bersa aglieri, veteran AnZacs,
battle-scarred British Tommies, Poles
and Czecho- -Slovaks. ready to die for
liberty; Killed Greeks and doughty
Serbs. gallant BelSians and swarthy
Spanish americans, in uniforms which
made riot of color. marched proudly
behind the banners of the nations
which are fighting autocracy
Behind the foreign divisions march
ed woman war wOrkers-Red Cross
nurses. ambulance drivers. munition
makers. policewomen and farmer
etteS.' Next in line were the Ameri-
can military and naval forces, led by
the commanderin-chef of more than
",ooo'o0o bayonets. for. although it
was expected that the President would
take his place at the very head of the
procession. it seemed that he prefer
red to march directly in front of his
own nations fighting men.