The sun., 1919-03-17
FINAL PLANS MADE
FOR Big 9TH FEED
All the Upstate Boys to Eat
With City Buddies, and
No Checks.
HOTELS FLOCK TO FORE
Everything Cleared for Sol
diers and Big Day Is Prom
ised; No Booze.

Batavia, Ellisville. McGuinnesss Cor
ners. Canarsie, Jones's Last Jump and
intermediate points are going to get a
big feed and no checks on the afternoon
Of the day they parade as part Of the
great and glorious Twenty-seventh Divl-
sion.
August Silz has fixed It all up with the
hotels, even to the menu. and while about
5000 will be dined by Reisenweber's in the
Eighth Regiment Armory. the rest Of
the $4,000 will tread the velvet carpets
Of tho Waldorf. Astor, Claridge. Commo-
dorc. Pennsylvania and a dozen other
places that besieged Mr.. Silz for an op-
portunity to fll the maws Of gallant
warriors.
Mr.. sta was almost overcome by the
flood OF offers from leading hostelries to
do the honors for the city'e guests. He
sent out tentative. and entirely modest
requests for $4,000 plates at which the
marching veterans could be refreshed
after the parade. He got instead gratis
tenderF Of 10000 plates. Some hotels
wanted twenty-five soldiers. others 500.
and from then on II was Just a matter
OF how many thousands can you send
us" This being done. Mr. Silz pointed
out, despite the crowded condition Of
every hotel. filled by the rush Of rela-
tives and friends OF the heroes to the
city Tor the parade.
In many cases special dinners have
been refused by hotel arrangements In
order to make the soldier feed the
have walked from six to eight miles by
the time they get through parading. and
will be so hungry they probably would
bury prejudice and eat carrots II they
were on tho bill.
No Carrots or Beans.
There are no carrots, be II said for
Mr.. Silz. The only item that even be-
gins with C on the menu is cigarettes
and the cream In the ice cream. Mr..
Silz has learned with others Of the May
or's committee that the long. spindly
shaped root with the near brown color
and ultra brown taste which was at one
time an exclusive luxury in the front
line trenches Is no thing to feed a man
on in peace time The menu, therefore,
consists of the following viands. fixed In
order to prevent the patriotism Of the
hotel chefs getting beyond practical
bounds:
Olives Mixed Sweet Pickles
Grape Fruit
Fresh Vegetable Soup e., os.)
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Ssopoli,sn s' Ice 'A Cream Coffee 'eh hars S:
with Milk and Sugar &.
Bread and Butter
Apple Pie
Cigarettes white Rock
Mr.. siiz things this is quite a dinner.
being definitely a repast, and Just shaw
ing banquet proportions by the absence
Of the wine list and the long wrapped
cigars. Somebody may provide the
cigars, but wines never. The matter
has not even been considered. The pub
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eminent over prohibition that to attempt
anything more cordial than cheers seems
to be risking the very last word in ju-
diclal punishment
In all the hotels where the fighters
will be entertained the dining rooms will
be reserved from 2 until p. NJ. Officers
will sit by themselves but will feed. prob
ably for the first time In their army ca
reer, with exactly the same dishes set
before privates. All offers of profess
sional entertainment during the dinner
have been refused. Mr.. Silz contending
that the dinner is the chief thing and
that II will be so satisfactory in itself
that anything else would be more or
less de trop. The matter OF time was
also a factor IN this decision.
The present schedule calls for a Re!s-
enweber dinner (for once without fish)
served in tho Eighth Regiment Armory.
walters, cooks and food all being Of the
indispensable Reisenwebers The Nc
Alpin, Waldorf-Astoria and Claridge will
serve in their unsurpa ssable way $500
more, the Astor 1000. the Commodore
1900, the Metropolitan Life restaurant
1900 and the Hotel Pennsylvania 1000.
Clubs, restaurants and other hotels will
take care OF the remaining men.
Serving with Mr.. Silz on tho Mayors
welcome dinner committee are Sheriff
David II. Knott. vice-chairman Charles
z. Gehring, secretary. and Howard T..
Taylor.
Mayor to Ask Holiday.
Mayor Hylan will ask the Board of
Aldermen by letter to-day to designate
March 25 as a civic holiday in order to
give full opportunity for the public 10
witness the Twenty Division pa
rade. The Mayor will visit Camp Mills
on Wednesday and Camp Merritt later
in the week to pay his compliments to
the troops.
The movement OF the division into the
city has been arranged SO that the
Brooklyn and Bronx units will reach
their homo armories before noon on Mon
day, March "a. parading through their
home districts. Monday afternoon the
men will be released TO attend special
theatrical performances.
Special precautions are being taken by
the knights OF Columbus to prevent
tickets to their grand stand IN front OF
St. Patrick's Cathedral from falling into
the hands OF SPECTATORS. Letters of
Identification Have Been issued to aii
members OF the forty-two councils In
Manhattan and The Bronx. which are to
be shown TO obtain tickets.
Only two tickets will be issued to each
member. Five hundred clergymen. in
GLIDING many dignitaries OF the Cath
Ollie Church, will view the parade from
the stand. The remaining 1900 seats
will be occupied by members of the Or