Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1919-09-26
CAPITAL CHEERS
FIRST DIVISION
washington Showers All Its
Pent-Up Patriotism on Vet
eranS of Regular Outfit.
Led BY GENERAL FERSKING
Former Commanders Take Part in
Parade on Pennsylvania Avenue
Chief of the A. E. F. Given
Ovation in Conqress.

Washington, Sept. Outstanding in
the chamber Of the house of repre-
sentatives, with both the senate and
house present and the galleries crowd
ed with admirers, general Pershing
received the formal thanks of congress
for the services he and the officers and
men he commanded in France rem
dered during the great war. There was
an air of solemnity about the scene
more eloquent than words to tell its
full meaning.
Senator Cummins, as president pro
tempore Of the senate, sat with Speak
er Gillett, and when General Pershing
had been escorted to the floor before
the speakers desk, facing great
American flag draped on the wall, ex-
tended the first greeting.
Speaker Gillett followed with a trib-
ute to the general and his army.
The formal resolution of thanks was
then presented to the general by
former Speaker Clark.
Washington, Sept. 19.-Tears and
cheers greeted the returned First divi-
sion, led by General Pershing, when
it marched down Pennsylvania ave-
nue. over the American Way of Victory
laid out more than so years ago.
1t was Washington's first great pa
rade of the war and the crowds show
cred all their pent-up patriotism on
these sun-bronzed veterans, the first
to go to France. More than half a
million people saw the parade.
It was conceived and carried out as
the nations tribute not alone to the
veteran fighting men who marched, but
to the whole great army the nation
created to make certain the utter de-
feat of Germany.
Marching in mass formation anc
equipped with all the guns, gas-throw
ers and other death-dealing device;
of the front line service, the First divi
sion, fresh home from France, moved
along the broad avenue, a living tide
of fighting manhood that filled the
street from curb to curb.
Above each solid block of infantry
rose the. grim line of bayonets, thu
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the light. Farther back came Ions
lines of field guns. French "75's," t.
which French officers have said France
I owes her salvation and, after all th'
trains and wagons had rumbled by
.came a battalion of tanks, StreakeC
and yellowed with paint to concea
them from enemy eyes. but now clank
ing behind the troops in noisy respons
to the cheers that greeted them.
Up the avenue at the head of the di
vision rode Mai. Gen. Edward F. Nc
Glanch, commanding, and with hin
rode two former commanders of the di
vision the first to go and the last of tn
divisions to come home. They wer
Maj. Gen, William L. Siebert, who tool
it to France, and Lieut.. Gen. Robert 1
Bullard, who took it into action an,
surrendered command only to take
higher post.
The Sixteenth infantry, veterans o
the bitter fighting at Cantigny, wher
France learned in what fashion Amer
lea could and would fight and breathe
again after months of strain, led tn
way.
At various points in the divisiona
line and before the wallowing tank
hammered and clattered in an uproa1
ing conclusion to the five-hour spec
tacle, all manner of additional units
not part of the division itself, were in
serted.