Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1918-02-23
HALF MILLION SEE NATIONAL
ARMY PARADE IN new YORK
Splendid Showing Made By Men of 18th Division
National Army on Washington's Birthday =
British Tank and Stars and Stripes Bring Up
Rear of Procession

New York. Feb. .2.-Half a million
more in a sweeping snowstorm and a
singing wind today TO see 10000 OF
them. sons and brothers and sweet
hearts marching by-men of the Ma
tional Army.
Typical Of PoIysIot City
The soldiers were New Works own,
ana they were typical of the great
polyglot city. SwarthI Armenia Is
strobe side by side with falr-hairea
S,andinayians; Irish boys rubbed e
,ows with Jews; Italians trudged pc
side Poles. Here and there was q chi
naman and here and there q face that
was typically Yankee. Sons OF sons
ana daughters of the Revolution
marched with boys whose fathers
v.,rr i,nmigrants a generation ago. Eut
nyery one of them was a citizen or '17
Trited states and they were soldiers
al Tho had been fused in the great
melting pot Of war. :,
Five months ago the same h"Ns h'i
,ambIed through the same street \
unndevcrint t1rong Of individuals
c,erk4 ana mechanics. bookkeepers a'I
bIokers. @~rOcers' o y ana ioiissh''.
,-renresonting almost every trace
and profession and almost ever! idIs'
RIO, ,yc,c the raw material from winch
armies are MADE.
Compact Military Units
,rb.y came back today men VI ny
-7th division National ArmN. 'ani
I-,tnr welded together into ch'pd'
military units. B~rieades, ft3lhlei'T'
Iat,.ions. batteries and coihp'h'
s+,nde tnro,gh the wide street II heaNH
.,arcbiuc order with the ~S"lhShS
stride Of veterans. Thef pFonN'i
:, AL. oloued with health ana 'he-'
La. avas shone with pride as tileS
.tenned hriskly through the me- -
c,l1i,,. snow to the stirring music "i
their reGimental bahus' a i,ca
Va a sword nor an inch o. soI" idee
uo n he seen. Brigadier General ho-
,nund Wittenmeyer with a Single gu
..,r -, ,he sleeve Of MS service oVefcoai'
.oroheI at the mead of the line IlKe 'he
1,,o,1as, doughboy Of the lot. iheF were
-a., datar,n;ned. business like. Young
...o;,e and ueutenants vino were cary
~ ont peaceful careers a te" Iiohtns
.gn narked commands when were ope!e1
with machine-like preclsloh-
,eoiment Of engineers was loio"ed
". ia brigades Of infantry 2 palta4.oh
~ co1ored infantry a battery q neid ar
,;,erv With horses slipping ana s1dlng
!, no snow. and an ambulance company.
Tba Negroes were given generous ap-
plause.
bringing up the rear. q significant ieat-
,r or = N~ashington's Birthday parade,
was the British tank Brittania with the
and Stripes flying beside the Union
lack A one-pounder gun in the forward
trrret kept up an intermittent cannon
AIDE as the steel monster rumbled along
behind the marching men. ,
AS the last Of the men swung past the
reviewing stand at the public library, |
Of the Navy Daniels turned
to grasp the hand OF Brig. Gen. Evans
N Johnston. commanding at Camp Up
ton.
II am very much pleased with the
splendid showing Of the men % the Ma
tional Army" said Secretary Daniels, |
'and | was especially proud OF the col
ored men, |
TIL military observance Of Washing. |
tens birthday in this city came 70 an |
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