New-York tribune., 1918-04-27
Fighting Men and
Workers in Line
Veteran. of 1918 Are
There; Tenements
and the Suburbs
Represented

New York City turned out yesterday
to say it was determined to win the
war. 1t said it in the tramp of sixty
thousand feet in parade that filled
Fifth Avenue for more than four hours.
led by the soldiers and sailors who are
to strike the actual blows and backed
up by the men and women who are
working behind the lines with hand and
heart and pocketbook.
One wondered where the vast crowds
came from. The ironworkers were
there, and the miners and shipbuilders
who are making the guns and the boats
for cur armies in France. Wall Street
was there, from its captains Of industry
to its stenographers and messenger
boys, every one wearing Liberty but
ton, which told of money to buy food
and uniforms and ammunition for
those armies. Finally, the women were
there-the mothers. wives, sweethearts
and little sisters, the women whose SER
vice flags, carried proudly over their
shoulders, told Of the homes from
which the boys have come who are to
make the army and navy that will win
the war.
Women the Great Attraction
1t was to have been a women's pa
rade entirely, according to the original
plans of the Liberty Loan Committee,
and it was for the women that the
crowds waited, while the sun, which
had glittered in the crimson and steel
Of the first ranks, hid behind the loft
Buildings and made a dark-shadowed
pathway for them.
When they came, however, ten thou
sand strong, the women were the
parade, to all intents and purposes.
New York has seen women in parades
before, even since the war began. The
Red Cross nurses aroused the avenue
with their plucky parade last fall, and
in the suffrage parade, the first show
ing of service stars was made. Farm
efettes and girl scouts, motor drivers
and canteen workers have been on
parade before, and the avenue has
given them all a gallant salute.
Yesterdays parade was different.
The paraders came from little sdver-
tised sections of the city. Wherever
man had answered the call to the
colors, there woman wore service
flag over her heart. From the tene-
ments and suburbs the women came
out to take the places of those boys
on the line Of march.
Led by Mrs. Bacon
They were led by Mrs. Robert Bacon
carrying four-starred service flag for
her husband and three sons in France
Behind her in automobiles came two
much honored women who have given
six sons each to win the war.
They were Mrs. William Quinn, OF
treat Neck, Long Island, and Mrs.
louis Rosenberg, Of North Bergen, \
. the plaudiss usls' Il sD the crowds. s'ss ars
Quinn. however, was all in black, and
she rode through the lines Of cheering
sit'zens, unsmiiing. The fact that one
oi her service stars had already been
moved from the white centre to the
reg border Of her flag told the story.
1t was 2:l0 when the head Of the
parade passed the reviewing stand in
n isont Of the Public Library, where
~ ~ Sfs@ti SH0 Z0A$VI A4yi6t
we're standing side by side with kea,
Admiral Usher and General Mann
read read Of the Department OF the East
une Mayors Of all cities in the Second
FEDERAL Reserve District were Mayo,
nuyian's guests,and led the parade from
Darlington Square rs far az the Iii.
orarx, where they dropped out to take
positions on the reviewing stand.
Women. Disregard Orders
The head Of the w6men's zection o1
ne parade did not reach the stant
Until 1850. There were, however. littls
groups OF women who believed thei,
Rssees were wherever their men were
Trey marched right along regardless,
q the plans Of the Liberty Loan Com
Iaitsee. There was, for example,
yflgad. OF women eide BY side with tb,
nAyai Reserve regiments from Pelham
gay almost at the head Of the parade
lhey W&lked st ths left their boys
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