The sun., 1918-07-05

canopy that adjoin the seats occvpied
by Mayor Hylan and his officiai family.
Inc crowd observes the handshaking
and smiling and wonders what 10 being
talked about. Presently the gentlemen
rom Congress receive q signal of some
sort ana arise en- bloc, headed by Sem
stor Bankhead Of Alabama, They file
SADLY In front Of the Mayor, and Mr..
hearst towering over the lot. presents
mem one by one to his Honor. This
seems to be a pretty warm formality.
Tor most everybody mops his face as he
looks pleasant.
Mrs. Hearst meanwhile is the centre
OF group OF men and women who
seem to be felicitating and congratulate
Ing. Then both stands. official and plain,
settle down, for the head Of the parade
Is in plain sight
sidewsiks damned for 3 1-2 Miles.
The young man with the megaphone
conhdes, between messages revealing the
progress to the square of the Secretary
OF the Navy and other marvels. that the
sidewalks are TANNED solidly for three
miles and half along the most wonder
iul street in the world: that there are
10 be dirigibles as well as airplanes over
mead and that special message has
been sent to the President. Enough Is
going on or about to eventuate to I'LL
Two Fourths with some excitement run
ming over.
But already the point Of the long
column, column that contains upward
OF 100000 marching men, according to
report, Is tread!ng the tracks in Twenty
third street past the Flatiron Building
and Is striking rapidly up the avenue
toward the stand. First comes the
Police Band. which, as everybody knows,
Is the greatest band in America ex-
cept the Firemen's. and every bluecoat
Is putting his heart into 1.-THE Star
SpanSled Banner"
The thousands 20 to their feet with a
surge, and as the band flows past and
the colors come on II Is good to see the
hats come or and the snap with which
the once thoughtless onlooker crosses
arm and hand across his left breast in
fervent salute to the Flag And then
come Brig Gen. George II. Dyer, walk
ing with George w. Loft, chairman Of
the Mayors Committee on National De-
fence. each saluting precisely as he
| comes abreast his Honor and the guests
Of the occasion.
Then soldiers, outstanding American
boys from Fort Hamilton, machine gun
| experts. $50 of them, 80 file front. brown
and muscular. every man carrying his
heavy pack and all the accoutrements
OF full marching order. These lads are
| especially worth seeing. They are a
sample, in case any one has forgotten.
Of the boys over there.
Governors Island. Soldiers.
More soldiers. this time a detachment
| from the Twenty-second Infantry at
Governors Island. their pack trains
hauled by sturdy, little mules that are
distinctly, one has no doubt, from the
State OF Missouri. Stretcher bearers
and a hospital OUTFIT come along vigor-
| ously. interpoeing the first painful sug-
gestion yet brought by the parade.
A heavy truck lurching and grooming
| like a tank shows at the south of the
stand and this time everybody Is up
because 1t carries an American biplane,
Liberty motor and all one of those air
| fighting machines that the L. S. A. will
| put in their thousands above the western
front whatever may have been the mis-
| takes of the past. Its propellers are
| spinning like mad and its smiling pilot
| scatters right and left copies Of song
| which has come to have a different
! meaning In the year Of grace 1918 than
1t had. perhaps, in the easygoing. take
everything for granted years before the
| Germans pushed out into Attila's old
| road.
! This song is entitled THE Star
, Spangled Banner" Before a minute
passes thousands are singing it-badly.
but with a world Of enthusiasm.
| Across the way, in the official stand
| the Senators and Representatives are
staring as intenetly as kids just intro
duced to Barnum & Bailey's. They seem
| like men afraid to overlook one single
detail OF the passing show.
loud Cheers for the Marines.
| The noisest cheer yet turned loose?
That statement is withdrawn instantly
when the United States Marines swing
past the stands in their white caps and
blue uniforms. They don't look like
the boys In green that have been throw
ing back the boche at Cantigny and In
that wood now called "Bois des Amer
icains," but they are the same breed
and they give tremendous pull al
emotion.
Quickly after them file a detachment
of the Hospital Corps and after that a
float picturing the sinking of an un
armed ship by U-boat and the Smelling
of the ships boats by the submarine
Tension let's down bit, shifts tc
pleasant emotion as a motor car goes
by slowly. 1t contains one passenger
an elderly woman. She is distinguished
perhaps among all American women
Her name Is Mrs. c. L. Moorehous'
and she Is the widow OF the last son o.
the Revolution. For the rest of her life
she may have a splendid memory of thu
salute given to her by the half million
that watched the passing OF the pagean
parade.
The column is running past like a film
too rapidly projected. One hopes tina
the invisible operator will slow UP hi!
machine bit. There Is danger OF over
looking worthwhile things---of MISSING
big ideas. There are floats exhibiting
an anti-aircraft gun In action. Ther'
Is one glimpse of the fine lads that ar
training at Pelham Bay for service II
the navy (the mothers and fathers o
many Of them are sitting in the STANDS
between tears and prideful laughter.
There are the Indians. the oldest o
Americans, marching behind Chief Shee
Lightning of the Ogallalah Sioux ant
reyerting, for the historical force o
the thing, to their paint and feathers
And presently. equally happy 1t seem
| I'm their modern Americanism, come IN
Philippine Scouts, little brown nghtinl
men under a tall Captain. MCGEE OF tn
Scouts.
White Wings Followed by Nurses
White Wings ("And May They Neve
Grow Weary" sings out a youth In IN
public stand) followed the brown men
the implements of their decent trade u
their hands, and after them walk tn
nurses ready for foreign service. tn
trim and competent looking girls on
sees frequently in the streets. dispiayin
their tasteful uniforms OF blue serg
with a touch of white at wrist an
throat and the neat insignia OF tnel
1 hal