The Aberdeen weekly., 1919-04-04
WOUNDED LEAD IN
NEW YORK PARADE
THREE MILLION CHEER MEN OF
THE TWENTYSEvENTH
DIVISION.
eth AVE. PACKED FOR MILES
Victorious Veterans, Heroes of Elan.
ders Field Return to Fifth Avenue
for Their Triumphai Review.
Every Man a Volunteer

| ENCFJ wan tOiQnIGGF.
New York.-Victorious veterans, he
roes of Flanders fields on which Prus
sian pride was broken, 26,0OO men OF
the 27th division came back to Fifth
Avenue for their triumphal review. To
the thousands who offered all they
had so give on libertys altar. the mil
lions who stayed behind poured out
the full measure of their devotion -
The frenzied multitude alternately
laughed and wept, cheered or stood
silent as the procession passed.
Never before had full division of
| Yankee veterans fresh from European
service, passed in review in an Ameri-
can city. Every man of the 26000 was
a volunteer. Fighting Jack" Organ,
who led the line, was the only major
general of the national guard who took
his men to France and brought them
back, still their commander. Never
before on this continent, at least, had
/ so many thousands cheered a military
| spectacle.
| Even New York, famed for its
crowds, never had modified so many
men, women and children along a sim
gle street
The police estimated more than g.
| 100000 persons were packed into five
miles Of Fifth Avenue. The sidewalks
on both sides were choked with hui
manity, and at every intersecting
street the crowd bulged out east and
west for a distance OF a block Men
h,,p
over window lodges. Men clung like
flies to copings and other precarious
perches.
Stretching along the east side of
Central Park from one end to the other
was a grandstand two and a half
miles long. In it were some 10000
relatives of the 9th. The other 5000
seats were filled with wounded SOL
diers from the army hospitals federal
officials, governors of this and other
states, members of the Legislature,
upstate cities.
Here and there in the great stands |
Sobbing women sat, sisters in sorrow |
They had left the homes of clustered |
grief with the goldstarred service |
flags in the windows to cheer for the |
living as they wept for the dead.
New Yorks Own was on the
march for the last time together.
Through the marble arch the city
raised in recognition of the deeds OF
Washington, drawn by eight black
forses. came a blackdraped caisson
covered with the Stars and Stripes,
upon which rested a simple wreath
The catafalque symbolized 1927 men
killed in action or died of wounds"
Honor Men Bear Huge Banner.
Behind it marched squad of "a honor
men, bearing a huge banner upon
which blazed a star of gold for every
man who had fallen.
AS the crepe-swathed gun carriage
moved slowly past men uncovered and
sobbed, unashamed.
But the funeral hush was quickly
broken Subdued at first, as though
the throngs were reluctant to break
the church-like stiffness, came the
sound of cheers. Higher and higher
rose the shouts until they blended in
mighty roar.
The wounded were coming The
motor cars in which they
ode made up heart wrenching caval-
'aGe which seemed to have no end
Empty sleeves and turned up trouser
egs, crutches and bandaged heads,
cid of shadows from which the COM
ades they left ''over there" will not {
eturn. But on the young faces. some
Irawn and haggard from suffering
here was no sign of grief They I
aughed and cheered and stuck in their t
.ats the flowers that women tossed :
o them.
Beneath the arch rode Organ and
lis staff. Behind them swept the
OF the 54th Brigade. On
heir backs were overseas packs and >
as masks were slung at their hips
'opping the rifles bristled a forest of I
ixed bayonets, giving notice to the q
7orld that this was no peace time pa
ade.
Just below tho Arch of Victory
lhich spans the avenue at Madison
quare, the procession was halted by
nc spectators who plunged into the G
treet 1t was with difficulty that the o
o.ice forced way for the troops to 4
ass. in column Of squads. a