The Goldfield news and weekly tribune. [volume] (Goldfield, Nev.) 1911-1947, 1919-09-20
SEES
LAST REVIEW
OF ARMIES
FAMOUS FIRST DIVISION
THROUGH CITY

vision along ennSylVan avenue 10
receive the nations homage today
in the last grand review of the war
time armies. Hundreds of thous-
ands viewed the parade and there
was tremendous cheering. Vice
President Marshall, representing
Presiden Wilson, received the gen.
erals salute as the commander
passed through the victory arch to-
ward the reviewing stand.
Over historic Pennsylvania avenue,
the American Way Of Victory
marked out more than SO years ago
by the returning blue-clad legions
of the Army of the Potomac, the
First division, American expedi-
t%ionary force, marched today. 1t
was Washington's first great parade
of the war and it was conceived and
carried put 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 defeat of
German dreams of world conquest.
Marching in mass formation and
equipped with all the guns, gas
throwers and countless other death
dealing devices Of front line serv-
lice, the First division, fresh home
from France, moved lalong the
broad avenue, a living tide of sun
burned fighting manhood that filled
the streets from curb to curb. In
their khaki and olive drab uniforms,
the men swung by as resistlessly as
the spring floods of the Mississippi.
Above each solid block of infantry,
rose the grim line of bayonets, the
blued steel glinting duly as it
caught the light. Farther back
came the long lines of field guns,
French "75s" to which French Off
GERS have said France owes her sal
walton and, after all the trains and
wagons had rumbled by, came a
battalion of tanks, streaked and
yCllOW GU Will paint ~ COuCCdA thOLI
from enemy eyes, but o growing
and ~clinking their way behind the
troops in noisy response to the
cheers that greeted them.
There was nothing lacking to
make the parade an epitOme of the
whole vast army American skill and
indomitable will had created to
meet and beat the enemy at his W
game. There were guns of all the
types used in France that could be
moved through the streets. Machine
guns, big and little, bristled among
the riflemen; squat mortars to
hurl bombs from the trenches; high
mounted rifles which peered sky
ward as though still in search of
enemy flyers. Some of the guns
were horse-drawn, some trundled
behind painting motor trucks or
tractors. The show was as com
plete as the ingenuity of the war
department could make 1t, a
section of the American expedition
airy forces.
But it was to the lines of khaki
clad, brown faced men themselves
that first interest of the throng-
ing crowds all along the wide ave-
nue. turned. The home coming of
this first unit of American man
power to cross the submarine-in-
tested seas was in marked contrast
to it's silent, mysterious, unreported
departure, and the men and women
along the way seemed to feel the
recalled the days when the nation
waited in wordless anxiety to hear
that these same smiling, free-strid-
ing boys had come safely to a
French harbor, those other days
when the first word filtered back
that the boys had begun to prove
their courage in action and the slow
coming lists that carried the names
of the men who sleep forever in
France.
To one regiment of long, trim
"75's" an unusual honor was ac-
corded, The Sixth Field Artillery
was placed between the two in
fantry brigades instead of marching
with the rest of the artillery brigade
behind the infantry, for it was C
battery of the Sixth which fired the
first shot at the Germans on Octo-
Der %, 1917. A standard told the
onlookers that at last they saw the
very guns whose thunder. had car
intoa the enemy ranks.
Throughout the long line markers
were frequent teiiing what the
strange implements of war over