New-York tribune., 1919-03-24

response from the Mayors commit
tee. 1t was announced that seats for
275 had been reserved next the she'll
shock cases.
Twenty-one hundred severely wound
ed men from the Grand Central Palace
Hospital will occupy automobile trucks
parked at each intersection between
Fortyffth and Fifty-frst streets. Those
better able to get about will be ac-
commodated in the covered stand
erected by Henry c. Frck in front of
his residence on Lenox Hill.
Medical officers will be with all con-
tingents of wounded men. Ambulances
will be in readiness to take back to
the hospitals all for whom the strain
proves too exhausting. Buses for the
same purpose have been provided by
Miss Helen Frick.
Buses filled with convalescents from
the Polytechnic Hospital will park on
the west side of Fifth Avenue, at Fifty
fourth Street Two large parties OF
wounded men will be entertained dur
ing the parade by J. NJ. Giddings and
the Julius c. Kurzman Company at
their places of business on Fifth Ave-
nue..
Arrangements for the various pre-
liminary parades in Harlem, Washing
y,
the 107th Infantry in review past COM
rades of the old 7th at the Union
League Club will depend as to time
upon the arrival of the troops.
The first troops will leave the camps
shortly after 5 O'Clock this morning,
according to schedules announced last
night. Troop trains will continue to
move into the city until after l o'clock.
The 107th Infantry will not arrive
from Camp Merritt until 1915. dis
patch from the camp stated last night,
and the programme calling for the re-
view at the Union League Club at 1880
will have to be revised to that extent.
The regiment will be entrained in two
sections, the first of which will arrive
at 12:45 and the second at 1:15. The
1o2d Ammunition Train, which is to
march in Washington Heights, is due
10 o'clock, with the 102d Sanitary
Train. The 10Sth Infantry will reach
the same pier either shortly before or
shortly after, depending upon the time
of leaving Alpine, N. j.
Dinner at Waldorf at 6 O'clock
The dinner to the officers of the
9th at the Waldorf Astoria will begin
at o'clock. The entire Thirty-fourth
Street side of the hotel has been re-
served for the event, including the
Grand Ballroom, the Astor Gallery and
the Myrtle and East rooms. The ban
quet is expected to end about o'clock
20 permit the officers to be taken to
the Century Theatre in time for the
opening Of Lets Beat It," which will
be delayed until 9:15.
Signs on the doors of business
houses all through the city yesterday
served notice that they would be closed
all day Tuesday. Other houses have
announced that business would be con-
Quoted only part of the day to permit
employees to witness the parade.
Officials of the Mayors committee
general suspension of business in order
that the entire city could make the
formal welcoming of the New York
National Guard troops holiday second
in enthusiasm only to that holiday
which attended the advent of peace
Crowds out to see the decorations
for the 9th Division parade became
so dense around the great illuminated
arch at Fifth Avenue and Sixtieth
Street last night that police reserves
were called out to clear a way for
traffic. Fifty uniformed men were
summoned from the East Sixty-sev-
enth Street station.
The arch comprises an arrangement
beams of powerful cluster search
lights installed north and south of it..
1t was reported that pickpockets had
found the dense throng, including
thousands of upstate visitors, an cx-
celent field Of operations, and details
of detectives were sent out with the
uniformed men to watch for them.