The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1919-09-25
CAPITAL. CHEERS
FIRST DIVISION
Washington Showers All It's
Pent-Up Patriotism on Vet
Grams Of Regular Outfit.
LED BY GENERAL PERSHING
Former Commanders Take Part in
Parade on Pennsylvania Avenue
Chief Of the A. e. F. Given
Ovation in Congress.

Washington. Sept 20-Standng in
the chamber Of the house of repro
Sentutives. with both the senate and
house present and the galleries crowd
ed with admirers. General pershlng
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
or Gillett, and when General Pershng
had been escorted TO the floor before
the speakers desk, facing Il great
American flag draped on the wall, OK.
tended the first greeting
Speaker Gillett followed with trb-
ute to thc general and his army.
The formal resolution Of thanks was
then presented 10 the general by
former Speaker Clark
Washington Sept t9.-Tears and
cheers greeted the returned First diyi-
sion. led by General Pershing, when
70 marched down Pennsylvania ave-
nue. over The American Way Of Victory
laid ont more than 80 years ago.
II was WashinCton's first great pa
rade of the war and the crowds show
cred an their pent-up patriotism on
these sun-bronzed veterans, the first
TO 90 to France. More than half a
million people saw the parade.
II 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 and
equipped with all the guns, gas-throw-
crs and other dcath-dealing devices
of the front line service, the First divi-
sion, fresh home from France moved
along the broad avenue living tide
Of fighting manhood that filled the
street from curb 10 curb.
Above each solid block Of infantry
rose the grim line Of bay0nets, the
hlue steel glinting duly ms It caught
the light. Farther back came long
lines Of field guns, French "75's," TO
which French officers have said France
owes her salvation and, after all the
trains ana wagons had rumbled by,
came a battalion of tanks, streakcd
ANA yellowcd with paint to conceal
them from enemy eyes, but now clank-
ing behind the troops in noisy response
10 the cheers that greeted them,
Up the avenue AZ the head Of the d.
vision rode Mai. Gen. Edward f Nc
Glanch, commanding and with him
rode two former commanders Of the di-
vision the first to 90 and the last Of the
divisions 10 come home. They were
Mai Gen William l.. Sicbert, who took
II to France, and Lieut. Gen. Robert l..
Bullard. who took It into action and
surrendered command only to take a
higher post.
The Sixteenth infantry veterans Of
the bitter fighting at Cantigny, where
France learned IN what fashion Amer.
ica could and would fight and brcathed
again after months Of strain led the
way.
At various points In the divisional
line and before the wallowing tanks
hammered and clnttcred In an uproar-
ing conclusion to the hve-hour spec
tacle, an manner OF additional units.
NOT part Of the division itself. were In
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