The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-05-04
GRAND STAND
OWNERS TRY TO
ENJOIN MAYOR
Refused to Rent Seats for
18th Mems Relatives at
so Cents Each.
ASKED 50 FOR TUESDAY
Seek to Have City Halted
From Building Stands in.
Front of Theirs.

Mayor ltyIan and his committee of
welcome including Rodman wana-
maker, Rear Admiral Usher. Daniel G.
Reid, Daniel F. Ryan and others. were
made defendants in an action brought
Yesterday against them by owners of
private grand stands in Fifth avenue.
between Ninetythird and 104th streets
An injunction is asked to prevent the
city from erecting grand. stands on the
east side Of the avenue in front OF the
I-ivate stands. Justice Eugene A.
Philbin will hear the complaint In the
Supreme Court tomorrow morning.
In the early part Of last week when
II became apparent that there were
not enough seats in the big grand
stand that stretches along the west
side OF Fifth avenue from one end of
Central Park to the other the commit
tee attempted to negotiate for lO,70o
additional seats for the relatives of the
returning boys Of the Seventy seventh
Division TO see them parade on Tues
day.
Is.
which have been built back from the
sidewalk on the east side of the ave-
nue., were called into the committees
orice and we're offered so cents a seat.
81 a Seat Dema nded.
Two dollars seat was demanded. and
SO the committee decided to erect stands
on the sidewalk over these nine blocks
from the curb to the fence, and the
Work will be finished Tomorrow These
stands are supposed to be arranged so
mat the top seat will be below the bot
tom seat Of the private stands, and IN
no way interfere with the view OF the
people who pay spectators prices for
seats
The owners of the private stands,
however. engaged John F. Mccall OF 81
Chambers street TO bring suit against
the committee and papers were yester-
day served on Daniel F. Ryan. the Di-
rector Of Publicity Among those who
ask the injunction are: Capt. Charles
p. Saleck Lieut.. Roland X. Schanck,
William ]. Brohan. Helen Hammond,
Julia Hammond. James Kelly, Daniel S.
shea, John WeDdelken and John Lam
bert The committee will be represented
ny Corporal ton Counsel Burr
Additional stands accommodating
me plaza in front OF the Public Library
On these will be the G. A. r, Confed-
crate Veterans and Spanish War heroes
The committee has also arranged for
m" wounded from hospitals around New
YORK 10 see the parade. There will be
1000 from Greenhut Hospital along
both sides OF Fifth avenue from
seventeenth to Twentieth street. $500
from Grand Central Palace Hospital on
bots sides OF the avenue from Forty
NTH TO Forty-seventh street $50 from
the East View Hospital, at White Plains
from Fifty-eighth to Fifty-ninth street !:
IN the same block on the east side, 500
fr0m Ellis Island Hospital: 500 legless
and armless boys from Railway Hospi-
tai. on the west side OF the avenue be-
tween Fifty-fourth and Fifty-fifth
streets
Eight hundred and fifty-six from the
lnited States Naval Hospital in Brook
lyn, on the east side from Fifty-seventh
10 Fifty-eighth street 700 from Gun
I'M Road Hospital on the east side be-
tween lo4th and 105th streets; 500
from St Msry's Hospital in Hoboken
on the west side between Fifty-seventh
an7 FIfty-eighth streets: AIS from the
vocation education institutions on the
east side between Seventeenth and
Eighteenth streets, $40 from Pelham
Bay Naval Hospital among those on
oota both sides of the avenue in the
DOCK from Ffty-seventh TO Fifty-eighth
street The shell shock cases from
wards Island and Messiah Home. will
De under the camoufiage stand at Six
ueth street, In all 1881 wounded will
ne taken care of by the committee along
inc sidewalk. Four hundred wounded
Officers will be in the big stand.
Wounded TO he Entertained.
wounded men Of the Seventy-sev-
eN'a Division who will be prevented
rom marching In the parade will be
u" guests Of the New York War Camp
community Service on Tuesday and the
,"o days following. The men will be
b~ought in from Camp Upton, met by
motors at the station and carried to one
OF the War Camp units. where they
VIII be quartered for the three days.
special entertainments and theatre par
ueS VIII be given for them: On the day
OF the parade they will be carried in
automobiles by the Red Cross.
The Division Adjutant's office at Camp
Mus announced that all passes to the
c,'y terminate on Sunday night at 9
o'clock in order that the men may be
UdrK In camp In time to prepare for
their Invasion OF New York. On Monday
eNonlng all the men will be entertained
py the Mayors Committee at the Hotel
Astor.
me headquarters OF the 30sth Infan-
Wy association announced that all for
n'er doSth men who desire to parade are
20 report at o'clock Tuesday morning
welfth street. west of Fifth avenue.
Major-Gen Alexander has accepted an
rIIIauon from the city of Buffalo to go
"'ere Tor the reception and parade OF the
s,,pp bunalo boys who belong to the
Se''Nty-seventh. After the demobiliza-