The sun., 1919-05-07
at Library Victory Decorations Placed

Gabriel at Their head, may come down
from above the stars and parade along
Fifth avenue. II another parade or two
has eventuated in the city shortly before
that the New York public will applaud
decorously and say that really the
Heavenly host marched very well.
And above all, the men OF the Sew
enty-seventh marched yesterday under
the disadvantage that the banners. sown
with gold stars and bespeakinS those of
them who lie in the earth OF France, pre-
coded the main body OF the division by
nearly half an hour The strategy of
this was supposed TO be that the flags OF
the dead, with the guard OF honor car
rytng them might have too sombre an
effect Upon those who had come out to
see and that their passing with the liv-
ing marchers might mitigate some OF the
pleasure which the city would otherwise
take in the regiments so representative
Of II.
And so the memorial to the dead was
sent along in advance and separately,
with no touch OF black or mourning
about the CorteGe. Only a bright gilt
statue OF Liberty on float, and with
the clear white banners ribbed with
gold borders and spangled with the
bright stars They came and paysed be-
fore those who saw them at thousand
VpllltS dIpHR lne line quite TcdlZel the
tragedy and heartbreak which they ex-
,mplifed No one missed the signifca nee
" the gold stars when Organs division
walked Had the dead and the living
marched together yesterday the cloth Of
the shining stars might have gone home
10 those looking on with just a little bet
ter certainty of effect than it did
Secretary Baker Reviews Troops.
Secretary of War Baker with Gov
Smith upon his right hand and Mayor
Hylan on his left was the reviewing Of
hcer of the day at Eighty-third street.
opposite the Museum OF Art. The stand
bulged with officials of every Federal.
State and municipal description and OPP
posite 1t there was another stand filled
to overlooking with gentlemen whose
iames and the city pay roll are inter
cnangeable and synonymous terms From
some source motor cars had been pro-
Vided TO take them to the place where
they were to see the division go by All
wore high hats of the Hylan type and
the solemn faces OF men who realizes
that city has to be governed well and
every day. But the principal topic OF
discussion among them. as though this
mattered. was whether this pageant
would come up to the expectations which
some one or other had laid down for t.
and pass the point OF the reviewing stand
IN exactly forty-five minutes-no more
no less. This seemed the big thing.
The forefront OF the division, with
Major-Gen. Robert Alexander leading.
got away from Washington Square at
10 o'clock precisely and to the dot At
IL, the guard OF honor with the stars
of the dead having already passed that
way, Ma jor-Gen. Alexander rode by the
OFFICIAL reviewing stand astride a big
gray Belding with its neck and quarters
all lather and upon the pommel of his
saddle wreath Of roses. His divisional
stan pressed close behind him. Then the
3O2d Engineers with Col. Frank A.
Giesting commanding. two and a half
battalions OF grave men with few wound
chevrons upon their sleeves they who
had done the delving and digging and
ditching which gains so few OF the bright
decorations of war. Then the 302d Field
Signal Battalion, another unit which
was mentioned but briefly In dispatches.
Ammunition Men Not In Line.
The programme called for the various
train troops next, the men who bring
up the ammunition and supplies and
look to the sanitation, without which
no division or army Is a division or an
army. But they did not walk yester-
day, At the moment the parade passed
by Secretary Baker and Gov. Smith and
Mayor Hylan, these men were down the
bay In the general neighborhood Of
quarantine aboard the belated Presi-
dent Grant.
Then came the artillery units and the
machine gun battalions. the 3O4th, 3O5th
and 306th OF the small guns and the
1921 Field Artillery Brigade, made up
OF the 304th, 306th and 306th OF the
great guns. Thereafter came the $3.50 and
l54th Infantry Brigades. comprising the
305th, 306th, 307th and 3OSth regiments
dr-mfantry, the names of which will EN-
dure as long as the city is "a city.
II is always the infantry which
touches the popular Imagination Gen.
Alexandeg said this of his doushboys