The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-09

PERSHING TO RIDE
AT HEAD OF LINE
Every Effort Being Made to
Get War Charger Here in
Time for March.
PARADE TO BE AN EVENT
Rush for Tickets Becomes
Greater, Each Hour While
Supply Dwindles.
PARADE TO BE AN EVENT

cording to an announcement made yes
terday by Major-Gen. James w. Nc
Andrew. The pageant will start at
1880 instead Of at 10 o'clock as has
been announced With this crystalliza-
tion OF arrangements, made after the
arrival of Gen. Pershing. everything now
IL in readiness for the celebration down
Fifth avenue. which is expected to go
down in history as one of New York's
biggest events.
Work on grand stand seats is going
forward by day and until 8 o'clock at
night The carpenters worked the entire
gixteen hours Sunday. They are In two
shifts of fifty men each, and will be
able. It Is thought. to erect at least -
STABLE part Of the $4,000 seats prom
ised by the Mayors Committee. The
rush for tickets becomes greater with
each hour that the committee has its
doors In the Hall Of Records open. Army
officers, insisting they have spoken days
In advance for the privileges, buck pri-
Yates just announcing that they belong
TO the division and are registered regi-
dents of New York, mothers, siste s,
every one In the city, 1t seems to the
committee, are clamoring for tickets.
Yet the supply is exceedingly limited,
Daniel F. Ryan, secretary of the COM
mittee. said yesterday. From now on
they will be given out as seats actually
are set up, to the end that two or three
persons do not claim the same one seat.
Woman Cries for Ticket.
A woman applied for a pass to the
oieachers yesterday at the Office of the
committee She was told she was out
or luck. The woman insisted she must
have a ticket and refused to leave with
out one, finally becoming so historical
that attendants found 1t necessary to
carry her outside, II was said.
Gen Pershings horse Kidron, on which
he headed parades In Paris and London
recently. now is In quarantine at New
port News. Va. In order to get the ami
NAL released much red tape is neces-
sary, among the red tape being approval,
signed and forwarded through military
channels. of the Secretary of Agricul-
ture. This IL what now is being done.
The General has indicated he does not
want to embarrass his friends with too
much work and that he would be ops
posed to having Kidron shown any pref.
erence In the demobilizing-but the ef-
forts in Kidron's favor are being made
just the same, to the end that the pa
rade be as complete as possible. 1t Is
said that the police horse Captain is a
noble steed and will make an admirable
substitute in case the red tape cutting
fails.
The General and his staff will ride in
automobiles to 10th street TO join ehe
parade. Upon arriving at Washington
Square the high officials will turn their
mounts over to orderiies and reenter
their automobiles Gen. Pershins Will
not make an effort to review the parade
as had previously been thought. because
as has been pointed out it would be viz
hrrk ftrraa Ani4hea
part in 1t. 1t Is understood, however
that he probably will see all that remains
of It from his windows in the Waldorl'
where he will go from the square.
Accompanying Gen. Pershing viii Do
his stan, former staff officers and the
composite regiment that formed his
bodyguard. Then will follow the whole
OF the First Division. All officers on this
day will wear their Sam Browne belts
Tomorrow has been declared q hoii-
day in the city's commercial as well as
administrative branches. according to
David Robinson. president Of the Down
town League Mr. Robinson said yester@
day. after a conference at the Mer-
chants Association, that the 500 menu
bers of the league generally had agreed
to the holiday. John r. Christie, general
manager of the New York city depart
ment of the American Railway Express.
has declared the day holiday. II was
announced last night.
Latest plans say that Gen. Pershing
and staff will remain guests OF the city
until Friday morning. BY this arrange
ment New York will have one more day
in which to entertain the war chief
Speaking of the decorations OF the city
yesterday, Major-Gen. McAndrew said :
81 never saw New York wake UP more
than this, and know the General Is
delighted with It ALL"
Major ]. c. Hughes was busy all day
yesterday receiving congratulatory let
ters and kilograms for Gen. Pershtng.
It was said that among the mass OF
correspondence also were requests for
business appointments and the like
Rotary clubs of every city in the coun-
try almost are represented in the tele.
grams, also private individuals of i'm
portance, and those who were friends
Of the General at one time or another.
Tho chief feature of to-day's pro-
eramme will be a reception to the Gen
eral in sheep meadow, Central Park.
at which time $4,000 school children will
pledge allegiance to the American flag.
At 2 80 o'clock the mobilization of chill
dren will sing THE Star Spangled Ban.
ner." simultaneously all other school
children In the greater city will sing
the same anthem. After the song also
the million children in New York's 500
schools will pledge allegiance to the flag.
Tribute BY Children.
Tie children to meet in the park will
be from schools in the vicinity and from
all the high schools of the 1--WE Dor
oughs They will meet at 2 o'clock. II
win be while Gen. PershinH is arriving
on the scene that the song will be sung
In unison at the park and all over the
city. The General will be escorted from
the Seventy second street and Fifth ave-
nue. entrance of the park to the sheer
meadow by 1000 Boy Scouts.
An official programme for the parade
has been issued by the Come Back, the
weekly newspaper OF the Walter Reed
Hospital, Washington, and will be sold
along the line OF march tomorrow by
more than $500 young girls. The girls
have volunteered their services through
ten welfare societies of New York, Il
was said yesterday. at the request OF
the War Department. The organizations
include the Young Women's Catholic
Patriotic Club, Girls Friendly Society
Young Women's Hebrew Association
Catholic Big Sisters, New York LeaEu,
~ Women Workers. Young Womsnr
Christian Association, League of Catho
Nc Women. Yorkville Neighborhood As
ISOLATION. Christ Church Memoria
Community Service. ..,,.
Mrs. A. H. Anne head OF the Girls
Division OF the Community Service, Il
chairman OF the executive committee OF
arrangements. The programme will b,
arfiatfc aO,YUcuir ~ thA ma rada anf