The sun., 1919-05-16
MILES OF CHEERS
SALUTE 18TH LINE
Crowds in Philadelphia Give
Wild Welcome to Iron
Division.
100000 SEE PARADE
New Jersey Represented by
Thousands Who Acclaimed
Returned Heroes.
Special Despatch to TIE Sun.

PHuLApuLPHfA, May 16.-Pennsylvania
ana Philadelphia to-day paid tribute
TO the Iron Division (the Twenty -eighth)
their own heroes, in the biggest demon
stration that ever thrilled the birthplace
Of liberty.
Notables from all parts Of the COM
monwealth were in attendance, even as
almost every hamlet was represented in
, the army OF marching men. 1t was host
of more than 100000 Pennsylvania and
New Jersey residents who witnessed the
demonstration.
The route OF the parade covered more
than eight miles, and 1t took the men
an hour and three-quarters to pass a
given point. From ten o'clock when
Major General Charles H. Muir gave
the order for the advance. the men were
on the march. The head OF the column
reached Shibe Park at 1880.
Every point of vantage was occupied.
The crowds were as deep as 1t was pos
sible for them to be and permit the
back rows to see something OF the
marchers. Every window that bore on
the street was in the possession OF Just
as many faces as It would hold. Indus
trial establishments permitted their
workers and their families to occupy
window space.
Tribute Paid 20 Dead.
Almost sixteen and, a half miles OF
humanity welcomed the heroes. Thou
sands in the multitudes that lined the
streets and occupied the grandstands on
all parts of the parade route, had a
personal interest. They had sons
brothers, sweethearts. cousins or other
relatives in the line. and many Of them
were there to pay tribute to dear ones
WI had he
Governor Sproul estimated that about
100000 came from upstate to witness
the demonstration. New Jersey sent
thousands, and Philadelphia turned out
fully three quarters of population
which is pushing the 100000 mark.
Up Broad street the solid streams on
each side continued. Many club houses
had grandstands in front of them and
the windows above the stands were &C.
cupied also. The Union Leagues Serv-
ice Club at Broad and Spruce streets
had one of the stands Another was in
front of the City Club in Broad street
below Spruce. The balconies Of the
Broad Street Theatre held interested
spectators. All the windows OF the
Bellevue Stratford, the Walton and the
Ritx-Carlton were filled.
Crowds Surge Into street.
In front OF the Bellevue-Stratford, the
private stand at Broad and Locust
streets. the Manufacturers Club and the
Union League the crowd swelled into the
street. In front of the Union League the
spectators were twenty deep, the rear
rows making up what they lacked IN
length of legs and stretch of neck by &C
curing boxes.
Chestnut street presented an unusual
picture and for real enthusiasm there
was nothing so inspiring as the picture
of two solid walls of spectators reach
ing from curb line almost to the house
line on each side, with the platoon front
of the soldiers stretched from curb TO
curb.
This condition prevailed virtually the
entire length of Chestnut street from
Broad to Third, and was repeated In
Market street. Around the Independence
Hall grandstands there was a surging.
cheering mass. In Market street the
crowd was so deep in places. particularly
at street corners, that it was virtually
impossible to pass Many brushes re-
suited, and at times the jams threatened
injury to those involved in them.
or chief interest along Spring Garden
street was the delegation of high school
girls in front of the Philadelphia High
School for Girls, at Seventeenth street
The fresh young students were attired In
prim white frocks and Red Cross head
dresses.