New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-11-11
Armistice Day in City 10
Be Observed by Great
Outburst of Patriotism
and Honor to Veterans
Victory Fetes Are Staged
Parades, Dances andDinners
Scheduled, With a Song
Service in the Morning

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more than four years had marked the
alternating progress and retrogres-
sion of civilizations struggle to sur
vive. To-day, at the same hour
throughout America, the British En-
pire and the other nations that stemmed
the Hun invasion, the anniversary of
the triumph will be celebrated with
cannon booming in salute, with songs
of victory and all manner of jubilation.
Armistice Day in New York will be
observed with every particle Of enthu-
slasm the metropolis of the Western
Hemisphere can inject into the oeca-
sion. There will be patriotic meetings.
dinners, dances, parades and special
services in many churches. Governor
Smith has called upon the people of the
state to observe the day. In nine
states it has been declared a legal
holiday.
Organizations in New Yor' and else
where have taken up the .dea Of the
National Council of Women, whose rep
rcsentatives will open their convention
in st. Louis at II a. N. with an hour
devoted to singing the national anthem
and other patriotic songs. From II
until noon, it is calculated that at
least 5000 900 voices will be raised in
KIcdt Observation-Disclosures CUOIQSs
Veterans Celebrating
The men who made the celebration
of Armistice day possible will be &C.
corded manifold opportunities to cele-
brate by the various agencies that have
greater New York.
Three big dances tonight are ex
pected to be attended by about $500
veterans of the world war. One is to
be held at the Waldorf-Astoria under
the auspices of the Missouri Committee
of the Hall of States. A "khaki and
blue" dance will be given in the list
scion and the War Camp Community
Service have arranged for another in
the 23d Regiment Armory, Brooklyn.
The Brooklyn Victory Celebration
Committee has planned a number of
events in honor of negro troops from
the borough who recently returned from
overseas. The day in Brooklyn will
eliminate in q mass meeting in the
Central Y. Nj. C. A. Building, at which
Major General George B. Duncan, who
led Camp Gordon troops in the Argonne
offensive, and Borough President Ed
ward Riegelmann will be the speakers.
At Columbia University the students
will be addressed in the gymnasium at
p. m. by The Rev. Duncan H. Brown,
rector of Christ Church, New Brighton,
S. I. The Rev. Mr.. Brown Us an almn is
Of the class of 1905. and was a star
football player in his undergraduate
during the war, winning the Distin-
guished Service Cross for heroism in
the Argonne and the appellation of the
Fighting Darscn." At q p. m. Presi-
dent Nicholas Murray Butler will tai:
to the School vi journalism pupils. a
reception to follow his address.
Harlem Post To Hold Rally
Harlem Pest of the American Legion
will eonduc@ rally this evening in the
Great Hail of the College of the City
Of New York United States Senator'S
Wadsworth. of New York. and Cham
berlain. of Oregon, will be the speak
ers: There will lalso be a band concert
and an organ recital by Professor Bald
win, of City College The doors will be
opened 10 the public at 8:15.
In Hotel Commodore tonight 1000
American aviators who flew and fought
IN France will be the guests of the
American Flying ub at dinner.
Major F.. II. La Guardia, President
elect of the Board OF Aldermen, and
Major Maurice Connolly, the only two
air service, will be present. Senator
Harry S. New, OF Indiana, may come
from Washington by airplane to attend
the dinner, and several of the invited
airmen from distant points are expect
ed to journey to New York by the same
means.
James w. Gerard, former Ambassa-
dor to Germany, will be the chief
speaker at luncheon in Bryn Mawr
Club, 1877 East Fortieth Street, at 1
p. m.
An informal dinner will be held in
Hotel Pennsylvania tonight by the
first relief battalion OF the Chemical
Warfare Service to be organized at
Camp HUMPHREYS. Va.
Burch, Episcopal Bishop of New York
and the Right Rev. Frederick Burgess
Bishop of Long Island, will address
the Church Club of the Episcopal
Church at it's annual dinner this
evening in the Hotel Bossert, Brook
lyn. The other speakers will be r. l
Manning, Ex-Governor of South Caro-
lima; the Rev. Robert Rogers. William
NJ. Baldwin and William J. Tylly.
Service at st. Johns
A special service will be conducted
in the Cathedral of ST. John the Divine
2 at 8:15. Alton B. Parker, James w
:, Gerard and George W. Wickersham viii
address the congregation.
Washington Heights Methods
Church will likewise observe the an
niversary with an evening service, a.
which Health Commissioner Royal s
Copeland will be the speaker A tab
let in honor of the men from thu
church who served in the army snt
navy will be unveiled.
In the Roman Catholic Church of st
Paul the Apostle, Sixtieth Street ant
Columbus Avenue, a memorial mas
FOR soldiers of the 10th Infantry wn,
were killed in the war will be cele
brated at 10 a. m. In the evening tn
10th In antry Veterans Association
will hold its second annual reunion /,
The Seventh Regiment Armory.
Flag to Be Presented
Greenwich Village Post No. 10, Amer
lean Legion, will march from Washing
ton Square, through the lower Yves
Side, to Public School Al. SO Green
wich Avenue, where flag presentation
and dance will take place. Majo
Henry II. Curran, president-elect o
the Borough of Manhattan, will speak
=, s. Rankin Drew Post will celebrate a
= Keen's Chop House, LOT West Forty
" fourth Street. The glee club and ban,
from the U. S. S. Recruit, Raymon,
Hitchcock and Rennold Wolf will en-
terrain. Hy Mayer will draw cartoons
District No. 2 of the Zionist Organi
zation of America. which takes in tn
lower East Side, will observe the da,
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