The Washington times., 1918-05-19
$4,000 PARADE
AS RED CROSS
DRIVE IS BEGUN

washington feels all the pride to-
day OF a city thrilled by the greatest
humanitarian parade in the history
/ or the American Capital
Through streets lined with men.
women. and children. the spirit OF
| the Red Cross moved in Washington
yesterday afternoon. ,exemplifed by
( $4,000 uniformed woman marchers.
And when the beautiful procession
had finished and the white uniforms
( OF the Red Cross heroines blended in
/ the streets with the khaki Of the
| countTy's fghting men, there was no
| one TO say the Red Cross had not pre-
sented an unanswerable argument
| for the financial support which Wash
! ington will give II during the war
! fund campaign to begin tomorrow.
{ President Wilson, In New York yes
/ terday, reviewed the greatest Red
/ Cross parade ever held in that city.
Vice President Marshall and other
high officials in the Government re
viewed the procession which thrilled
Washington.
started At Scott Circle.
simultaneously in other cities OF
the country, more than 100000 per-
sons paraded in the interest Of the
same righteous cause.
The parade, which started at Scott
Circle. Sixteenth street and Massa-
chusetts avenue northwest, at 4:45
O'Clock in the afternoon. was the ell
max Of a week Of publicity to sdver-
tise the drive TO be made in the Dis
triet beginning tomorrow.
The parade moved south on Six
teenth TO X street, thence by way OF
Fifteenth street. Vermont avenue,
and Madison place to Pennsylvania
avenue. west on Pennsylvania avenue
to West Executive avenue. and then
south to the Red Cross Building at
lSeventeenth and B streets northwest.
There were 50 many surprising
features in yesterdays parade that
enumeration OF them in the order Of
merit would not be possible. The
spotless white Of the nurses, the
daShlnE gray OF the motor ambu-
lance drivers, the white and red Of
the stretcher bearers combined in n
riot OF color TO inspire the crowds
that lined the streets through which
the patriotic procession passed.
Thousands Of FfaEH.
There were Thousands OF American
flags and as many pretty girls wav-
ing them: scores OF floats with their
emblems and messages; a naval air
craft gun, mounted on a miniature
battleship, with the business end
pointing toward the land OF the foe;
Iambulances with charming and fear
less drivers, and a hundred other fea-
lures, each one OF which filled the
persons who watched with new ad-
miratiou.
Soldiers, sailors and marines. the
CLINT in their eyes as blue as the
steel of the guns they carried, were
scattered through the line Of fair
marchers.
Applause greeted each Of the eight
marching divisions as IL swept by the
sea Of faces on either side OF the line
Of march.
When the parade dish .aded at Red
Cross headquarters. on venteenth
street, those who had .sarched and
the thousands who gathered there to
/, witness the disbanding OF the pro-
: cession heard an inspiring message
from Henry p. Dawson, head Of the
American Red Cross War CcIncil. II
was read from a telegram by Henry
White, former ambassador TO France.
Standing in TOuneaH.
Standing in the tonneau OF an au-
tomobile, Vice President and Mrs.
J.. Marshall reviewed the parade in
front Of the White House. Vice
, President Marshall represented the
, President, who went TO New York
TO speak last night in the opening
gun OF the New York campaign.
The Vice resident started to re-
view the procession with his hat on.
! American flags passing at frequent
, intervals kept him busy doffing II
to the colors. By and Sby the flags
became so numerous he left his hat
! off altogether Smiling % the
! ! plaudits OF the maTchers, he and
/. Mrs. Marshall stood until the entire
parade length passed them. Com
missioner Louis Brownlow was in
the Marshall machine.
Mrs. William G. McAdoo, wife OF
the Secretary Of he Treasury. led
the woman marchers OF the Treas.
: ury Department. There were seventy
companies in the Treasury division.
Originally il had sbsen planned to
send but thirty-tIree companies 10
represent this branch OF the govern
ment. Volunteer marchers from
the Treasury Department women
however, resulted in the sending OF
seventy companies to take part
, SNo Man's Land
NO Mans Land" a float creation
representing n wounded soldier in tht
broken trenches. with a Red Gross
/ nurse by his side. won a storm OF ap
plause as IL moved by the crowds.
The Interior Department scored
with a float which depicted The
Mother OF the World" II showed q
Red Cross nurse. equipped to go or
the held OF battle y minister te th'
. wounded
Mrs. David F. Houston. wife OF th'
Secretary. or Agriculture. marched al
the head OF the Red Cross parader'
from that department. Mrs. Daniels
! wife OF Secretary Daniels, and Mrs
) Franklin ID. Roosevelt led the NAVY
; Department msrchsrs, Mrs Newtor
I'D. Baker. wife CT the Secretary o!