The sun., 1919-09-18
CHEERS
WILDLY ASFIRST
DIVISION PASSES
Gen. Pershing Rides for the
Last Time at Head of
Glorious Unit.
NOW BECOMES MEMORY
All But About 1900 Men Will
Return at Once to Civil
Vacations.
NOW BECOMES MEMORY
so.sn, psspateA TO Tun sux.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 17.-Under
,,.rdless sky, to the cheers of civil
srd military Washington and tho
N,sh of the steel with which 1t met
and stopped the Germans, the First
niv,sion paraded this afternoon up
aower-strewn Pennsylvania avenue
into history.
Gan. Pershing was at the head with
b,s composite regiment, leading for
ths last time the last Of the twenty
n,na combat units that went overseas
10 help save democracy.
AZ the sun set tonight the First.
ss a division, was but a memory.
when the units In its reached the end
NJ the waving, cheering wall that ac-
claimed them the length Of the avenue
tbsv went to put themselves before de-
mobilizing officers.
n had been ffty-tour years since
waabington had seen a military spec
,.c,s 10 equal the First's divisions final
oarade. Since the victorious Union
armies paraded for two days at the
cloce of the civil war-muddy and un-
,hayen as they had come from Apo
rattox-the Capital--surfeited for years
With parades-had not seen such an ex-
hibItion of the power Of American arms.
From the time Gen. Pershing. mounted
on "Jeff." snapped to the hand salute at
the White House reviewing stand until
the last of tho pugnosed tanks had rum
Med by washington confessed vocifer-
ously that 1t was q wondrous and mar.
vellous parade.
Streets Are Jammed.
washington was well prepared for tho
Erst's finale. Warned by the fate OF
previous parades where the capital had
been left cold, citizens committees and
newspapers primed the public enthusi-
asm until It was entirely ready to ex-
plode when the time came.
The police force, too, was so primed
for the occasion that Chief Moran OF
the United States Secret Service had a
narrow escape from arrest when he
went out into the court Of honor before
the White House to see IL everything
was ready for the Vice-President.
washington's streets were Jammed
from dawn to dark. AS Gen. Pershing
and his stan swung into Pennsylvania
avenue from the Peace Monument at
the Capitol the thousands who packed
Pennsylvania avenue and adjoining
streets took up the cheer.
Gen. Pershing's composite regiment OF
SIX footers followed him. and watchers
along the one mile stretch from the
Capitol to the Treasury saw a river OF
olive drab breaking at It's crest into a
flaming fash Of steel pouring upon them
Bands stationed along the avenue biared
forth--all the bands around town and
some from other towns. When voices
tired there were tin horns and ratchets
70 take up the burden of redeemtns
Washington's long lost reputation as a
parading city.
When Gen. Pershing reached the re
viewing stand and snapped into salut'
to vlce-President Marshall. Secretary O.
War Baker. Acting Secretary Of tn
Navy Roosevelt and officers from al
over the world-from the British stat
''red caps" to the Japanese-the crowt
reached the peak of its enthusiasm. Tn
cheering lasted without a break unit
Gen. Pershing had passed far UP tn
street and the strains of the Marin
Bands Hail to the Chief had die,
away.
Even the Blinded Parade.
Then came the wounded-the men o
the First who did not have the fun ant
the mud and the hunger Of the full tw
yoAr chase dItcR JerryS Dut HHo phi'
at Cantigny or NSolssons their share o
the cost Of the worlds salvation in term
OF arms and legs. They too wer
cheered. until the blind passed by--mer
with SCARED faces and with new whit
bandages or black eyeglasses-unseeinl
but smiling and unafraid Of the year
to come
Shocked into momentary silence, tn
cheers broke out again louder than eve
Tor fear the blind would know why the,
paused.
The Sixteenth Infantry and the Eigh
teenth, the Twenty-sixth and Twenty
eighth passed. all to cheers--and no
body found 1t very hard to cheer the Sc
of red young faces, with their roof O
shiny tin hats and shining steel bay
onets, their four gold service stripes an
The click. click. click, click Of their hob
nailed feet
Very few understood that the gree
fourrageres the men of the Eighteent
and Twenty-eighth wore draped ove
their left shoulders was a sign ths