The sun., 1919-03-26

OF the reviewing stand, to look at and
admire. And the folks In the stands
had the distraction of watching and
feeling sorry for the folks who had to
perch on their own two feet and peer
over other standees heads, and the
standees had the excitement of seeing
an occasional fainting woman carried
over their heads TO the side street.
Then there were the people in front
seats who would stand up regardless
OF the loudly expressed feelings of those
behind. The remonstrances Of the gentle
old darby who acted as usher and guard
for that section had no effect what
ever on those excitabe people They'd
Sit down for a minute, and then some
thing would happen a block down the
| avenue. the crowd bursting through the
police lines or something, and up they
would pop again.
Pests I'm the stands.
why is 1t the folks in front always
want to stand up and the folks behind
always want to sit?" asked somebody.
They gotta sit down or something'll
happen" burst out a man with q white
goatee and a SLOUGH hat and lunch
box and two service stars on his coat.
SIT DoWNi" he roared.
sit down 70 a dozen other backseaters
took up the cry.
Then they'd sit down, and then they'd
get up. and the same comedy would be
/ enacted. When the caisson came the
backseaters didn't see II at first, and
| there arose protests as the frontseaters
| stood up.
| This Is one of the times we've got
| to stand one of the latter told them,
and like mighty human wave the
massed occupants Of the stands stood up.
| 1T isn't the caisson makes me feel
SO sad as 1t is those horses without
their riders" shifted one woman. Some
how there's something about a led horse
without rider that spells tragedy to
| me-"
| Well. and then. as the bugler in the
| reviewing stand sounded taps" and
the strains Of Chopin's Funeral March,"
played by the Pelham Bay Naval Train
ing Station Band, foated down the ave-
nue.. along came the wounded driven by
the Motor Corps girls. The wounded
didn't monopolize the ovation. The girls
in their uniforms came In for some.
| Lots Of the folk who watched knew the
| various girls, or some Of them, by name,
and II they had been inexperienced driv-
| ers or prone to personal pride they might
have been dlsastrously distracted by the
yells that greeted them.
Hey. There's Dorothy! Oh. you Dor
othy. you're all right !" shrieked a stocky
gentleman as Dorothy C. Smyley. COM
mander of the Transportation Corps for
the Atlantic Division of the American
Red Cross went by at the wheel of a car
holding six men, each with q crutch
sticking up. Did Commander Smyley
Justify her surname? She did not No
smiles for the side line from this COM
mander while in charge OF a fleet of Red
Cross cars full OF heroes.
| Other persons recognized other fair
drivers and made similar impetuous at
tempts to upset discipline. with no sue
cess.
"Ho Caroline- Carolinew screeched
\ one fond father as he beheld the pride
; OF his home driving a car like a vet
cram. Say. that girl got up before sun
rise to report with the Montclair unit
at s O'clock" he conhded to a standful
of persons who didn't care a snap for
his Caroline.
Motor Girls Made a Hit.
But they cared for the Motor Corps
girls as a whole. that crowd did. Yes
| many a heart felt a little thrill as they
saw the way those drivers played their
| part in the parade, and remembered that
all through the war Just such women
; and girls had been playing their various
| parts Just as earnestly and well.
1t was. on the whole. quiet in thu
; stands while the wounded went by
quiet compared to the noise that came
after: but the quiet wasn't the fault OF
one young girl who stood on her bench
all through. regardless of the remcn-
| strances of those behind. She felt that
those MANNED men deserved yells, AND
she opened her mouth and yelled. She
was steam siren. that girl-and she
was little. too-but IL this country ever
| goes to war again and wants to guarC
lagalnst enemy airships the Government
should certainly hire that slip OF a girl
She's the black-eyed one in the big ha
who sat near the big tree in the middle
: OF the Eightleth street stand. Very fine
set OF teeth she has. and every one o
. them was on view during the whole o
. the parade.
"Hooray. hooray, hooray.' she 81
: rened uncea singly. Then. "Hooray. Jim
ME - she snrieked.
Her sweethearts passing" conjec
: tured the folks around her.
But Il wasn't two minutes before sh
was yelling at the top OF that remark
, able voice, "Hooray. Mike" Present..
J | she varied 1t to .'Hooray, Charley" anC
u | "Hooray Phil" and so on through tn
list Of masculine nares, and everybod,
c began to wonder how the girl had go
| so many friends and brothers and sweet
!, hearts in the army. Some one asked her
u Sure I don't know any OF EN-" sh
q ga id cheerfully But this crowds to
cold, and figure 1t out the boys like I
: have some one act as II We knew thei
names. So l just yeall names I know