New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1918-09-02
New York T onors Its Heroes
Who Fell Fighting in F rance

New York assembled by hundreds
and thousands yesterday in the
churches and in the open places of the
city to observe the day set aside in
honor of the American dead in France.
All the larger parks were thronged
with people, who listened to the trib-
ute paid by speakers and added their
mites to the mounds of flowers that
grew as the day advanced.
Airplanes scared overhead and from
them descended flowers in memory of
those who went first The climax of
the day was a meeting held in the
evening in the Hippodrome under the
auspices of the Mayors Committee of
Women on National Defence, which
was arranged especially for the women
whose sons had died in battle For
them an entire section of seats in the
centre of the house was reserved.
Sixth Avenue, and the side streets
were thronged long before the doors
were opened. Many in the crowd, both
men and women, were in uniform. They
waited silently and patiently until they
were admitted. The police found it no
task at all to keep order.
Allies Represented
Official representatives of Italy,
France, Belgium, Great Britain, Cuba,
Japan, Argentina, Serbia and Spain
occupied boxes, the ratings of which
were draped with their respective ma
tional colors combined with the Ameri-
can flag. Mayor Hylan and his guests
had a box on the right of the stage
and there was applause when they
entered
An instant later, however, a storm
of applause that shook the house broke
forth and group of wounded soldiers,
aisle walled with cheering, stamping,
frantic humanity.
The tumult ceased only when the
band from the Pelham Bay naval
training camp struck up "The Stars
and Stripes Forever" Then John Nc
Cormack started it again by singing
the first and last verses of "The Star
Spangled Banner" Behind the naval
band sat 1000 seamen in white uni
forms, fanked on either side by
American veterans from France.
Burr Mcintosh auctioned off gifts
handed up by the audience for fund
to buy motor buses for convalescent
soldiers. Ethel Barrymore recited IAN
Ode to the Allies" Other speakers
were Thomas w. Churchill, the Rev.
Father Joseph Mulry, the Rev. Samuel
Schulman and Mayor Hylan. Mayor
Hylan pinned medals on seventy-hve
women who had lost sons in action and
spoke of the pride which the city and
the nation felt in their sacrifice.
Creel Addresses Postal Employees
George Creel, chairman of the Com
mittee on Public Information, ad-
dressed members of Local 10 of the
National Fraternity of Postoffice EN-
ployes in the Maxine Elliott Theatre,
the querulous Interrogation "When
will the war end? The war wasn't
going to end" said Mr.. Creel, it was
going to be won. and the winners
would be the United States and its
allies.
"This war cannot be lost in France"
he said. at can only be lost in the
United States-if we fail our soldiers
and sailors in any degree. Ultimate
victory IS as certain as the coming of
the dawn, but in the very Joy of our
present successes there is a danger
that is as menacing as German arms.
Instead of slackening our efforts,
recent triumphs should be bugle calls
commanding us to more strenuous en-
deavor. Anything resembling defeat
ism should be severely combated, and
these are the things to be remembered
when Germany. despairing of military
success, renews the peace drives with
which she has sought to poison the
opinion of the world.
I'VE are a nation of optimists. This
has been our strength, but we must
take care that it is not our weakness.