New-York tribune., 1919-09-02
Demand for Seats
MayCauseR Big Jan,
Committee Hopes to Haze
Ample Room, for Thou
sands to See PersI,ing

Efforts to solve the seating problem
OF the 1st Division parade and Per-
shing reception will be made at a hur-
riedly called conference in the Hall of
Records this morning.
Representatives of the 1st Division
advance party and of the First Divi-
sion officers committee, of which
Colonel Roosevelt is the head will
meet with the Mayors Committee of
Welcome TO Homecoming Soldiers.
The Mayors committee yesterday as
sured representatives of the division
that ample seating arrangements
would be made
1t was said last night, however, that
there was little hope that anything ap-
preaching satisfactory arrangements
for the seating OF the hundreds of
thousands of men and women interest
he'd in the reception could be made in
the eight days remaining before the
Fifth Avenue spectacle.
1t is pointed out that the long grand
stands erected on upper Fifth Avenue
for the 9th Division parade con-
sumed weeks of time in the planning
and erection. Their capacity was
slightly more than 10000 seats Ex-
perts who have viewed the letters ask
ing for scat reservations, as we'll as
/
officials Of every part of the country
who desire to participate in the vel
! come to General Pershing, said that
twice that number OF seats would
hardly accommodate tho .mcn and
women who might reasonably expect
such reservations.
Pershing to Head Parade
1t was definitely decided that Gen
cral Pershing and General Pcyton C.
March, chief of staff, will head the pa
rade. Among the other commanders
who viii march vii be Lieutenant
General X. t. Bulla'rd, commander Of
the Second Army, A. T.. f.; Major Cen
cral William l.. Seibert, chief Of the
gas service; Major General Mason NJ.
/ Patrick, chief of the air service; Ma
jor General Charles p. Summcrall,
corps commander; Major General John
/. Hines, corps commander, and Major
General Omar l.. Bundy, corps COM
mander
Reports from Washington indicated
that the War Department may suspend
the rule barring the Sam Brown belt
on this side of the Atlantic and. going
TO the other extreme, order all cil'icers
marching with the 1st Divis on to wear
their belts during the parade.
War Decorations Galore
1t is likely that there will be
greater number of war decorations
worn in the parade of the 1st Division
than at any military event ever staged
in New York. The most decorated
woman IN the world. Miss Cora +. Van
Norden, of the Salvation Army, has
been prevailed upon to march with the
division with which she served through
out the period Of Americas participa-
tion in the war.
Miss Van Norden opened canteen
in France in August, 1917, the first to
be opened by an American. Later she
moved it forward to the front line
trenches when the eNDeditionary forces
under General Pcrshing advanced. She
remained there and advanced with the
men as they fought their way through
the German lines.
Because of her bravery she was cited
/ by the French comma nder first and
decorated with a r>oiX de Guerre.
Later she was given a British Salonica
decoration, a Serbian decoration,
Greek decoration and the Victory rib
bon, bearing four bronze and two silver
stars. The bronze stars each repre-
sent participation in a major opera
ton and the silver stars citations.
Heroines To Be in Line
-.
A. worker, who wears a Croix de
Guerre, also will march with the well
fare workers in the parade on Sep
tember 10. Miss Ethel B. Terrence,
welfare worker who marched with the
2Sth Infantry from Bordeaux to Cob
lenz, thereby attaining undying fame
with that body, viii be another par
ticipant in the celebration.
Miss Francis B. Gulick, whose picture
appears in the publication of the 1st
Division as the "best putter-out" in
the world, also has agreed to march.
A "putter- in the language of the
army, is one who gives away goodies
to soldiers.
Dennis Nolan, a Knights Of Colum-
bus worker who is known here as a
veteran policeman, will march with
the 10th Infantry. Members of that
regiment have insisted that he march
with them because of the vigorous
complaints he made when he was re-
fused pack and rifle to advance on the
Germans when that regiment ripped
It's way through the Hindenburg line.
Thomas Roach and Samuel Fitzpatrick,
both knights of Columbus workers.
have agreed to participate in the pa
radc also.