The sun., 1919-09-06

OF the city OF New York to display
from their homes and places Of business
on the days OF Gen. Pershing's sojourn
with us the Stars and Stripes, the nag
which now stands prominently among
tho peoples of the world as the symbol
of Justice. freedom and protection FOR
tho weak and oppressed Of all lands"
Major-Gen. McAndrew told the Of
ficers, present and former. of the First
Division meeting in dinner at Camp
Merritt yesterday how proud he was to
have been at one time In command OF
the Eighteenth Infantry. 1t had been
more than generous, ne said, in Its con-
tribution of casualties on the battleheld
and, as had the whole Of the division,
had gone far past the point in fighting
he had ever expected Of 1t. Major
Gen. David c. Shanks presided.
Famous Gun ON Exhibition.
Further details of the parade as given
out at the divisions headquarters In the
Biltmore yesterday provide that the
wounded members viii ride in automo-
biles Immediately behind the mounted
Gold, a Y. M. c. A worker, who was
regularly attached to the division by
Major-Gen. McGlachlin while at the
Coblenz bridgehead, will be the only
civilian given a place in the parade.
The seventy-five millimeter gun which
fired the first shot I'm the war for Amer
lea has arrived from Washington and
will be set up In front of the Public
Library in Fifth avenue at 10 o'clock
this morning. 1t will be guarded by the
Sixth Field Artillery. There will be q
divisional nag display at the same time,
The color sergeants named by Major
-
erty and Patrick Walsh Sergeant
Walsh. for thirty years in the Regular
Army, has participated in every engage
ment, It was said yesterday. since the
Indian wars. He was decorated witt
the Congressional medal d. s. c. and
the Croix de Guerre. Sergeant Dough-
erty has the d. 8. c. also and the CroiS
de Guerre with two palms. ~.
The Mayor of Eel Paso and twenty-five
business men of that city are expected
to arrive to-day to extend the saluta'
tons Of tho place where Gen. Pershine
was stationed several years ago. A del
egation also is on its way here from
Cheyenne, the home Of the late Mrs
Pershing. Another delegation of Mis-
souri, school churns of the General II
expected to reach New York Sunday.
The War Camp Community Service
has announced that 1000 window seat
are needed to fill requests which have
come from military hospitals. Persona
who can give Fifth avenue seats for thu
parade in business houses, offices, club.
or residences are requested to communi
cate with the convalescent department
of the service, Is East Fortieth street
Many of the men who can leave the hos
pitfalls for the day. 1t was said. are no
in physical condition to ride In the au
tomobiles or to sit in the open air sui
ficiently long to see the parade.
Under the auspices of the Georg
Washington Memorial Association. q re
ception to Gen. Pershing will be given Ii
Carnegie Hall Tuesday evening. Prom
inent members of the army and navy
statesmen, business men and society foil
will attend, 1t was announced last night
| The reception has been authorized b!
the Mayors committee and by the Gen
erals father-in-law, Senator Warren
| through whom Gen. Pershing has &C
copied the invitation to attend.