The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1918-11-08
CITY GOES WILD
OYER PEACE NEWS


students training corps Of New York
University, nearly 5000 young men
studying for the army was dismissed
for the day. There was almost a riot at
Columbia when. after ESQ men OF the
naval unit stationed there had snake
danced around the statue of Alma Mater,
officers told them the war was still on
and herded them back to the classroom.
Tons and tons OF paper were wasted
IL any old curmudgeon elects to call IL
waste--in II snowstorm, blizzard OF
white scraps which. tossed from high
windows all, over Manhattan, filled the
air with shining fiecks that, descending,
filed the streets ankle deep and gave the
street Cleaning Department II job for to-
day comparable only with the clean M
| after n two million dollar visitation OF
, snow.
In the lower Manhattan business dis
| t-ict countless epirals Of ticker tape
| flung from windows and roofs and sway
! ing back and forth In the breeze, also
/ were In tho picture. Newspapers and tele.
phone books we're torn TO bits and added
\ to the downpour when supplies of regu-
| lar Office paper gave out.
| a sad wag suggested that most OF the
! bits OF paper that whitened the streets
were daft questionnaires which theii
| recipients thought--but wrongly-theS
| were through with forever. In the mids
Of the paper storm In City Hall Park
the winds having scattered the flutterint
particles widely, even over the Hudson
and East rivers---one OF Mr.. McStay''
| White Wings was observed solemnly go
ing about his duty'of spearing park litte1
on the end OF an. iron rod and tucking i
into bag. For every piece of paper HI
speared a million fell at his feet. Thu
faithful mark clpa nor uaq aapninplN thI
only man in New York city who Ind no
quit work for the day.
| All afternoon the main streets wG,
nearly impossible. Parades formed will
the best OF Intentions were broken to bit
by collision with tides flowing In the on
poste direction or lost in human whiIl
pools.
Crowd Fills Fifth Avenue.
The northward march on Fifth ave
nue.. where the closing OF stores and o
factories on the lower part Of the Allies
own street produced bigger crowd tina
Witnessed Liberty Loan parades, for tn
street, as well as the sidewalk. wa
packed. II became thing of such solid
ity that the police stopped all vchicula
. traffic and gave the whole avenue owe
TO the pedestrian host.
, on the balconies of stald clubs stat
Ola gentlemen danced Inc CuteSt OF 10
steps. and from the clubs. as we'll n
| from the hotels and business blocks. tn
rain OF tattered paper never ceased. No
did the roar OF Peace! and THE wa
, is ove-," cease here or elsewhere in tn
rejoicing city
/ The city blossomed into n vast gar
den of flags TWENTY-FIVE thousand c
them--little flags that we're to be dis
trlbuted In the War Work Fund can
: paign-were snatched by the crowd
:. from "A truck In Fifth avenue. The fac
that lot Of police were there bat Coul
!. not prevent the ravishlng OF the truck
4 as good sign as any Of what kind {
"A day 1t was.
y More or less pretty girls grabbing an
n kissing soldiers and sailors was a con
mon sight. Bands beyond countin
= sprung up from nowhere, in and out
T uniform. were the nuclei OF parades. or
I Of them blazed n path for a delegate
= from Mulberry street whose wildly wa
= ing placard read In letters large at u
Il top and dwlndling progressively towai
= the bottom: