Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1918-10-13
Marches On Foot For Three Miles In Head of Process
 sion in New York.
OVER MILLION IN
 DEMONSTRATION
Wounded Soldiers and Other Boys From Trenches in
 the Celebration.

New York, Oct. 12.-President Will son, commander in chief of the American Army and Navy, marched forces in the Columbus-Liberty Day parade. P Under a c canopy formed by the 1 flags of the p nations arrayed against autocracy and with squadrons of American airplanes lowering over head the president strode with 25,- 900 fighting men from five contin- ents and sislands, in every sea, over the entire three mile line of march along the Avenue of The Allies" Reviews Procession. Then, at the foot of Fifth Avenue, beside the Washington arch, he took his place in an automobile and re- viewed the long column. The spec I tators whose number police estimated at more than a million never ceased | cheering.
 From the minute they caught sight | of the shining silk hat which pro- claimed the approach of the nations chief executive, until they lost sight of it in the distarfce, the men and wo- l men who lined the Avenue and sought I vantage point on every house top | hardly paused for breath. City Goes Mad. It seemed as if the city had gone mad.
 In according MT. Wilson what probably was the greatest ovation president of the United States has ever received, men threw their hats into the air, and yelled themselves hoarse. while babies were hoisted on their fathers shoulders that they might tell, fifty years hence, the day they saw the president march. Women clapped their hands franti- cally and embraced strange men in an exuberance of joy, while small boys broke through the police lines to get better view of the nations lead CT.
 Bemedalled heroes of the French Foreign Legion, picturesque Italian Alpini and Bersaglieri, veteran An zacs, battle scared British Tommies, Poles and CZecho- -Slovaks ready to die for liberty, kilted Greeks and loughty Serbs, gallant Belgian and iswarthy Spanish in uni forms which made a riot of color, marched proudly behind the banners of the nations which are fighting Autocracy.
 The foreign veterans who preceded them had been cheered until it seem ed that the crowd must have reached it's vocal limits, but when Pershing's soldiers and Marines appeared, the cheering increased as if from muskerty fire to artillery bombardment. At the sight of the youthful heroes who had fought and bled at Chateau Thierry and Bellieu wood to help save Paris from the Huns, the crowd went wild with en- thusiasm.
 l Many Empty Sleeves. The empty sleeves and turned-up trouser legs of these gallant young sters brought home to New Workers that war is something more than marching men and martial music. '. There were tears in many eyes as American wounded rode on guns and other engines of destruction captur- ed by the Americans in their ad- i. vance through France.
 E But while the thrOngs which watch ed them suffered for then because of their wounds and paid tribute , to their heroism, on the shining , young faces, aglow with pride. there was no sign of grief over sacrifices made for love ofacountry.
 Sight of the German trophies ad' Ged to the crowds patriotic fervor
 They bore such labels as:
 "This gun spoke German-and now look at the darn thing: "A goot gun gone wrong" and I.ibert, tonds spiked me-" z
 A. Fifty-first street a man brokt 1 .......rlo &Lo ,,O1;oo linoc and at I tempted to shake hands with th' President.
 Secret service men stopped thu man and took him to a police statio' , where he was held for disorueri. conduct. -.
 The police said his intentions wer harmless.
 The President was undisturbed b, the incident.
 If the President was stirred by tn momentous turn in the internationa lsituation. there was no surface indi cation of it so far as could be noted
 Leads In Applause.
 After the band of the Italian Gren adiers had played, MT. Wilson le the applause which led to an encore
 Occasionally he chatted with Mrs Wilson or peered through his oper glasses at the famous Italian Bersag llieri and Alpini seated on the stag in the uniforms in which they tough on the Italian front. When tn Grenadier band had finished playing the President turned to the ltalia ambassador and they engaged in ear Inest conversation for perhaps fiv minutes.
 A Serious Touch.
 The President was seen to gesticu late repeatedly as he talked. This wa the first serious touch to the Presl dents attitude after the news regard ing Germany's note had been convey ed to him.