The sun., 1919-03-24
CITY Is ALL READY
FOR .27TH'S PARADE


peltcls WHO were putblns tHe uHlS1lnS
touches on the court OF honor.
The captive balloons which are to
float among the columns, IMPLYING each
branch OF the service. from the sub
marines TO the airplanes, were filed and
tested yesterday afternoon, and foated
proudly In their places last night
The rest of the avenue Is rapidly
blooming into form. Most OF the big
business houses have arranged their dec
orations, or will do 30 to-day, and nearly
all of the public and private stands were
completed before nightfall. Most OF the
great houses in upper Fifth avenue will
entertain tomorrow. and their guests
will sit on wooden bleachers outside
drawing room windows In this con-
nection the Mayors committee announced
last night that no offers for places for
wounded soldiers would be accepted un-
less more than ten men could be cared
for at each place.
Many offers OF places for one. two or
three men had been received. but the
transportation committee showed that It
would be impossible 10 deliver all these
men in such small units in time for the
parade and only large groups will be
handled. The committee made It plain
that it was not ungrateful for the sma.!er
offers, but that 1t was mechanically i'm
possible to accept them.
Park Benches Distributed,
Automobile trucks throughout the day
distributed the park benches on which
will be seated the 5000 wounded men
from nearly hospitals at Eighteenth
street, at the Public Library. from For
a.. af,I !.
covered grand stand which Henry c.
Frick built in front OF his home on
Lenox Hill. The men brought from the
Grand Central Palace will be held in
the vehicles which bring them and doc
tors will promptly send back to the hos
pital any men who show strain or IA
tigue. In addition a special motor bus
canteen service for these men will be
maintained by Miss Helen Frick.
As soon as the men have arrived at
the armories where they will be bill
leted to-day they will drop their packs
and proceed to the sixteen or more the
aires which are giving special matinees
for them this afternoon. This is one Of
the features of the programme that is
in something OF mixup. or would be
were it not for military discipline.
1t has been found that the men as a
rule do not care much for Inatinees
Yesterday afternoon, despite the attrac-
tions of q really all star vaudeville bill
at the Park Theatre. a mere handful
OF the men attended the performance.
Manager Anhalt of the theatre was bit
ter in his denunciation OF the Mayors
committee for this failure. He said that
the committee had assumed the distribu-
ton OF the tickets and that they should
have told him about il II they could not
give them out.
Capt. James Wadsworth of the Twen-
ty-seventh Divisions staff. to whom this
task was assigned. explained last night
that all OF the men to whom he had
given tickets at Camp Merritt had been
kept on post by a change OF orders. He
said he had tried to gather in the tickets
again for distribution elsewhere. Those
that he did succeed in recovering--but
a small part OF the total-he says he
faithfully distributed among such men as
he could reach last night. He says that
he warned the management OF the the
atre that there might be no audience.
To avoid any further breakdown OF
the entertainment programme 1t was an
nounced by the Mayors Committee last
night that the men assigned to the vari-
Gus theatres would march thither from
their armories under the command OF
Junior officers. The performances they
will thus be taken To see include Up in
Mabers Room Friendly Enemies"
The Woman in Room 49," The For
tune Teller" Redemption" "Cappy
Kicks" please Get Married. East is
West" Forever After" Tea for Three"
THE Crowded Hour Three Wise
Fools" "Lightnin." "Oh My Dear"
Three Faces East" and "a Sleepless
Night" A special performance each has
also been arranged in the Brooklyn
Acader'y of Music and the Music Hall in
the same building for the soldiers quar-
tered in Brooklyn armorics.
Gen. Organ and his staff will attend
the special matinee OF "Lightnin'."
The shows that the officers say will
draw the big soldier houses however.
will take place in the evening when the
two monster boxing carnivals are pulled
off one in Madison Square Garden and
the other in Eighth Coast Artillery Ar
mory at Jerome avenue and Kings
bridge road. A uniform will be all that
Is necessary to gain admission at either
of these entertainments.
The Defendant Association, veterans
of the old Twenty second Engineers, now
the 102nd Engineers Is preparing a big
welcome all its own when the regiment
gets in to-day. When the regiment de-
trains at Washington Heights II will be
greeted by huge pageant Of school
children. Civic organizations and the
Spanish War Veterans of the district
will form a guard of honor for the 102nd
and escort II to the Armory. past a re-
viewing stand in Mitchell Square.
Brig. Gen. Cornelius Vanderbilt will
review his old outfit with Col. Treadwell,
in command OF the present Twenty sec
ond Engineers. and other veteran off,
cers The WashinRton Heights Rna I'd NJ
Trade, the Ladies Cooperative Society
of the regiment and the Motion Picture
Board Of Trade will join in the great re-
ception and entertainment which will be
given for the boys when they reach the
old ATmory. In addition, every block in
Washington Heights will be specially
decorated.
The programme for the welcome OF the
old Seventh Regiment, now the 10th,
calls for the assembly OF the escort of
veterans in the side streets east OF Fifth
avenue from Thirtieth to Thirty-third
streets under Gen. Daniel Appleton rs
gx I'd marshal. They will march thence
to meet the incoming regiment and
escort it to the armory. The staff, MEM
bers in uniform, ex-members of the ma
chine gun headquarters and supply COM
panies, sanitary detachment and other
auxiliary units will gather in Fast Thir-
ty-thrd street. EX-members of A, b, C
and ID companies will assemble In Thir-
ty-second street, those OF Z, F. G and II
companies in Thirty-hrst street. and
those OF I, X. l. and NJ companies in
Thirtieth street.
Bronx Veterans.
Veteran members of The Bronx organ
tinns will acCOn1naDy THAR