New-York tribune., 1919-10-23
Albert and Elizabeth Are
Expected to See Forty
Seventh Star Sewed on
Flag in Plaza Saturday
Gov. Allen Will Speak
Banner Will Be Taken to
Staten Island Today and
to Brooklyn Tomorrow

King Albert and Queen Elizabeth Of
The Belgians are expected to be present
10 honor the Roosevelt Flag at the
Public Library plaza, Saturday after
noon Then Manhattan Borough will
nav tribute, while the for.y-seventh
star is sewed on the flag by five high
school girls The Roosevelt Memorial
Association made this announcement
last night.
Governor Henry j. Allen of Kansas
will be the principal speaker. Colonel
Henry B. Lindsley. chairman of the
American Legion, will preside. Other
speeches will be made by Captain
Arthur F. Crosby, exRough Rider;
Carl F. Akeley. explorer and big game
hunter with Colonel Roosevelt in South
Africa, and others. Kathryn Lee. who
sang for the Colonel in Paris when q
little girl, will sing, and Jim Europe's
old band from the 18th New York
Negro Infantry will play.
The flag will be escorted to the
library from Fraunces Tavern, where
it will remain overnight Friday, guarded
by Boy Scouts and boys of the Junior
Naval Reserve. The guard of honor
for the flag viii be accompanied by
New York policemen who, served under
Colonel Roosevelt.
Societies To Be Represented
School children OF foreign birth or
descent will be present in the dress
of their native countries. Among the
organizations to be represented off
cially are the Explorers Club. Daugh-
ters of the American Revolution, Sons
OF the American Revolution. Harvard
Class o. 1880 (the Colonel's class).
Society Of Veterans of Foreign Wars.
Grand Army of the Republic, Union
League Club Century Club, Authors
Club Nav League, Pilgrims Society,
Maytlower Society Holland Society,
Roosevelt Rough Riders, City Club and
Republican Club.
To-day the flag will tour Staten
Tompkinsville landing through lane
OF 900 school children carrying flags.
The flag will go first to Borough Hall.
where ceremonies will be held and
Burr Mcintosh will speak. The forty
fifth star Will be sewed on the flag at
the Curtis High Schooi at II a. m. A
program will be wen at which the
Rev. s. Edward Young, chaplain with
the Rough Riders. and Representative
Isaac T. Siegel will speak.
Brooklyn Ceremonies Friday
At nigh. the flag will reach Borough
Hall, Brooklyn, preparatory to cere-
monies there on Friday. An ad-
dress VIII be made this afternoon at
The Harlem \. NJ. c. A. by Lieutenant
Commander Henry Reuterdahl, L. S.
~, marine artist and clos. friend Of
The Colonel.
Thousands Of school children in the
Borough OF Queens greeted the flag
yesterday on its journey from the
grysnt High School to the Flushing
High School and lhence to Kings Park,
Jamaica. At Bryant High School the
me forty fourth star Was sewed on by
Nuin brewer, whose great -great-grand-
iather fought in the Revolution; Lii
Ian Hotetz, great granddaug ghter of
> General Sherman; Veronica Walsh,
whose father fought IN the Spanish
American War; Margaret Morrissey.
who had two brothers in the world
war, one in the Hindenburg line at
tack, and Cozena Slabey. who was born
N Europe. Addresses were made by
Cornelius +. Franklin, district superin-
tendcnt Of schools. and George J. Ryan
Of the Board of Education.
School children from various schools
cneered the flag on its way to Flush
ing, lining the streets and standing at
attention as it passed. Boy Scouts
and Cir, Pioneers, led by q fife and
drum corps, escorted the flag to the
Soldiers and Sailors Monument and
the high school
Jamaica Gathering Impressive
The biggest open air greeting yet
accorded tho flag occurred at Kings
Park. Jamaica, at 8 o'clock, where fully
o,coo school children participated in
he exercises. TIE flag YVES escorted
from the town hall by parade headed
oy the Ottilie Orphan Asylum band
Hnd girls carrying the service flag of
Jamaica High School with 302 service
stars, sixteen OF them gold
The principal event of the ceremony
was the planting by school children OF
Two red cedars in Kings Park. These
'fees, about six feet tall, we're grown
on Sycamore Hill and given to Nur-
seryman ticks by Colonel Roosevelt in
1910, when they were but sprouts.
Professor +. W. Farley, Of the ia
p3aica. High School, in an address de-
ciared that five lessons could be drawn
rom Colonel Roosevelt's life.
toionel Roosevelt would have liked
TO DC remembered first az the founder
Of q family" declared Professor Fair
ley. He feared race suicide. He was
also courageous, possessed great quail
TIES o. leadership, was great enthusi-
ast about outdoor life, and, finally. was
a man Of letters.
Roosevelt a Syndicate
sometimes think there must have
oeen two or three persons who called
themselves Roosevelt, or :. syndicate
called Roosevelt. Colonel Roosevelt
nov only wrote winged words, but used
hi5 og stick 10 batter down wrong and
protect the right"
j, me flag vas left last night in tho
historic King mansion, built in 1850 by