Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1918-10-14
WILSON MARCHES
At HEAD OF BIC
GOTHAM PARADE
Commander in Chief Of Amer
lean Army and Navy Leads
Procession Through Streets
of Metropolis.
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| Wilson. commander In chief of the
American army and navy, marched
| Saturday at the head of the Ameri-
can forces in the Liberty
Day parade, one of the most impress
i've and inspiring spectacles New York
has ever seen.
| Under canopy Termed by the
flags of the - nations arraved
| against autocracy and with squad
! rons of American appliances hover
| ing overhead. the president strobe
with $4,000 fighting men from five
| continents and islands in every sea
over the entirn three mile line of
march along the avenue OF tho al
lies Then, Mt the foot of Fifth ave-
nue., beside the Washington arch. he
| took his place in an automobile and
reviewed the long column.
! The spectators, whose number the
| police estimated at more than a mil
lion. never ceased cheering. From the
I minute they caneht sight of the shin
ing silk hat which proclaimed the
| approach Of the nations chief exc
| cutiVe until they lost sight Of il in
| the distance. the men and women
who lined the avenue md sought
"''h' cn every housetop
hardly paused for breath. II seemed
= c'V nah gon" mao.
"lison Draws applause.
| ~ "uc.IuinR Mr. wilson what pro-
| ill., was IN" greatest ovation
piss,uest OF he United states ever
scelFed' h'en threr the'" bats into
si,e ar ano yelied themselves horse,
wn.ie uonleS we're boosted on their
az ,a,'iers sno"lders th9t t1ev MIGHT
aeli, =, years hence, of the dar thev
saw me president march, Women
eiapped the'r hands franticallv and
embraced strahPa men " IN nH',bnr-
ahce or loV, while small bows broke
.nrouRn the naifcH lines 70 ret bet
| =. Nv me fa.lons leader.
/ va IN" second tlme the rresi-
80! mao marched in a parade down
n'fth avenue. hut when ho onepn1
| me laSt lfec cross oamDaign he
| neaded great army Of mercv, while
.ooaY ne led grim legion OF fight
! ing foea and behind them. drap@ed nv
| MOTOR ,rncKs and tractors. great guns
! "rr'te' from the G"r11ans. It was n
s,ern PROCESSION, typ'fying force to
'he utmost
y the heao OF the line were de-
utchtnehts ot RENTING men represent
! lls * hationailtles. They came FROM
countries mat are fighting to retain
| thef freedom and thew came from
rares that ore fighting to he free.
Re-medalled heroes of the French
foreign LEGION. picturesque Italian
Alpini and Bersagleri. veteran An
Zacs. battle Scared British Tonnmies
Poles and Czecho-Slovaks readv ~
die for Liberty. Killed Greeks and
doughty carhs .,oiio,,t p.,e. az
swarthv Snanisb- An, or;nans =, ~
forms which n,ada rinttof - a III
| marched nrou5Iv habil,d ~ ~
ners Of +ba nat;on ,,I,iaI, '.i gu
inc outocroo,r - il7i''-
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| pohi,,S ~ var Wohcrs:
enina the Foreign divisions
CO. ca 'isu women war workers Red
s snoss nurses aihbuiance drivers. mu-
.tseiol llahers' ponce women and
la[ihere'tes,
NeNt IN line were the American
| mlltarV and naval forces, led by the
commander IN chief OF more than g.
! 100000 bayonets for although it was
expected that the president would
take his place ut the veryi head of
the column, 1t seemed that Ne prefer
red to march directly in front of his
own nations fighting mon
! And a rugged force II was-reei-
ment after regiment of infantry ar
tillery and engineers with datach-
ments from all the Other branches
which go to make m an army fol-
lowed hv thousands of bIueiackets
from Americas fleets. With the
arnv and navy deyieinns morc1,ad
5000 stevedores and thousands ~
others engaged in the army transport
service.
The foreign veterans who IRE.
coded them had been cheeredsuntiI II
seemed that the crowd must have
reached its vocal limit but when
Pershing's veterans - soldiers and
marines-appeared the cheering in
creased as if from musketrv fire 10
artillery bombardment.
At the sight of the Youthful heroes
who had fought and bled at Chateau
Thierry and Belleau wood to helm save
Paris from the Huns the crowd went
wild with enthusiasm. The empty
sleeves and turned nm trouser legs of
these gallant Youngsters brought
home to New Workers that war is
something more than marching men
and martial music There were tears
in many ewes MS American wounded
rode on guns and other engines of
destruction captured nv the Americans
in their advance through France Rut
while the throngs who watched them
suffered for them because Of their
wounds and maid tribute 10 their ne
rosim, on the shining vornr faces
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