Bisbee daily review., 1919-03-26
100000 VIEW MARCH OF RETURNED HEROES, SETTING NEW RECORD
Victorious Veterans From Flanders Parade in New
 York's Greatest Event
Rr Review Leasea Wirel

OOO men Of the 27th division, came back to Fifth avenue today for their triumohaI review. To the thousands who offered all they have to give on liberty's altar the millions who stayed behind poured out the full measure of their pride. The national guardsmen of yesterday and the civilians Of tomor- row symbOlized today the martial ideals of a red-blOOded race.
 The multitude which alternately laughed and wept, cheered or stood as the procession passed knew that a grateful people enever paid tribute to braver men or to crusaders more chiv- alrous than these citizen-soldiers who looked death in the face and smiled as they went .'over the top" with a sons on their lips to smash the linden burg line-that barrier against which Europe's sturdiest troops had swept in vain.
 2ooO Left Behind
 There was no shadow on the hearts of the stalwart marching men save the memory of the .2OOO comrades they left sleeping where peoples bloom"
 The clank of hob-nailed shoes upon the pavement spelled an epic in Amer ican history. Never before had full division of Yankee veterans fresh rom European service passed in re- view n an American city. Every man of the 26.O0O was q volunteer. Fight ing Jack O'Ryan, who led the line, was the only major general of the na- tionaI guard who took his men to France and then back, still their com mander. Never before on this conti- nent. at least, had so many thousanus cheered a military spectacle.
 Even New York, famed for it's crowds. never had mobilized so many men. women and children along a sin gle street. To the city ,dwellers were added hundreds of thousands who had poured in from every corner of the state. Tens of thousands more had come from other states.
 a.oOO,ooo Line Avenue
 The police estimated more than 5000, 900 persons were. packed into five miles of Fifth avenue in the sun shine of a perfect day. The sidewalks on both sides were choked with hu- manity and at every intersectinS street the crowd bulged out east and west for. a distance of a block. Every open space was packed with an i'm movable mass of humanity
 Stretching along the east side ot Central Park from one end to the oth- CT was a grandstand two and half miles long. In it were some 6O,0OO rel atives of the 27th. The other 15,OOO seats were filled with wounded sol diers from the army hospitals, federal officials. governors of this and other states. members of the legislature, mayors and official delegations from upstate cities.
 Just below the Arch of Victory which spans the avenue at Madison square. the procession was halted by spectators who plunged into the street. It was with difficulty that the police forced a way for the troops to pass, in column of squads.
 Move Under Arch.
 As the head of the division went past the pylons of Roman forum, leading up to the arch. Reader Waaler fthe 1O5th machine gun battalion decorated with the congressional med al of honor the distinguished service cross, severed with a trench knife the
 s11-... oo-l ,,-l,;ot, borrad tho 1n-o1- oud the vanguard of the division passed through.
 Unde rthe arch the division moved on through a narrow lane between the milling crowds to the court of the Victorious Dead at the public library. The roll of honor and the records of their heroic deeds were in the cen ter of a cluster of trees ,surmOunted by crossed spears and golden eagles, from which hung golden shields em- blazoned with the divisional insignia.
 Before tho caisson meniorializing the dead was halted eight men, all wearing the distinguished service crcss, who had been leading the horses, lifted the wreath of the 27th off the catafalque and laid it rever ently at the foot of the honor roll. By nightfall a wreath from every state in the union had been placed beside that of New York.
 On up the avenue moved the divi sion to the court of jewels which spanned the street. Once through the arch, which glittered like a brilliant bauble as the sunlight flashed from the swaying prisms, the marchers came abreast of the great stand on which sat their relatives.
 The great volleys of cheers became a continuous roar as the head of the ! line came into sight of the stands Back of the doughboys came the di visional machine gun corps. They were the men whose orders were in the face of an impending drive: "Ii the gun teams cannot remain here