New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-23
Throngs Here
Honor atoms
First Leader
Washington Birthday Memo
rial Services Held i'm Many
Parts of New York
Tributes to Soldier Dead
Delegates From Historic So
3. cieties Attend Ceremonies
in St. Paul's CHURCH

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g INDEPENDENT Americas first capital
ths city in and around which he fought
some of his fercest battles and spent
same of his darkest hours. laid aside
A.siness yesterday to devote itself to
ignoring the memory Of George Wash
Anoton. the daring soldier and patient
efarseeing statesman.
) New York made of his 18TH anniver-
xa~v an occasion of thanksgiving for
victory and of tender memorials for
those who died in the latest test of
democracy. There was solemnity
about the observance yesterday which
Differentiated this February % from
those of the past.
downtown was deserted practically
save for throngs at Trinity and at St.
paul's, Washington's old church, where
the new ne held after the Revolution,
when he had taken the helm OF the
new United States, was occupied, as
his representative, by William Lanier
Washington. The names were the same,
hut the Mr.. Washington of to-day is
not even collateral descendant of the
first President. He sat as the delegate
OF the Society of the Cincinnati, of
when the General also was a men,
Der, at the commemoration service held
by the congregation of st. Paul's.
Sulgrave Manor Delegates
With him were John A. Stewart and
Henry B. Humphrey, officers of the
Sulgrave Institution. the organization
which has charge of the maintenance
Of Sulgrave Manor, the ancestral home
of the Washingtons in England, given
to this country by Great Britain in
1907.
There was no formal municipal OBJ
ssrvance, and while there were scores
of private and more or less restricted
celebrations, the only public event up
town during the day was the exercises
Of the Washington Headquarters Assoc
citation on Washington Heights. Vari-
GUS organizations held memorial SER
vices for those who will not return
from France, and some of the soldiers
who had the luck to get back were
entertained in many ways.
THE exercises continued into the
night one of the principal events be-
ing the last review OF the Washington
Greys. organized 147 years ago. This
was held in the Sth Coast Artillery
Kingsbridge Road, where the command
was reviewed, and the announcement
made that it soon would be incor-
porsted in the reorganized National
Guard.
Ceremonies at ST. Paurs
The ceremonies at St. Pau's began
with professional to the altar and.
around the Washington pew, with
colored guard bearing the present
American flag, and its ancestor, the
banner of the original thirteen states.
The regular service of the Episcopal
Church followed, during which the Rev.
William Montague Geer, vicar emeri-
Ms, read from the Farewell Address Of
Washington.
The Americansm of Theodore Roose-
selt was invoked through the reading
By the vicar, the Rev. Joseph Patton
AcComas, of the message the Colonel
wrote to the American Defence Society
few hours before his death, in which
he said:
There must be no sagging back in
the fight Tor Americanism merely be-
cause the war is over. There are
plenty OF persons who have already
made the assertion that they intend to
revive all the foreign associations
which most directly interfere with the
complete Americanization of our peo-
pie There can be no divided
allegiance here. ANY man who says
he is an American but something else
also isn't an American at all. We have
room for but one hag-the American
nag. And this excludes the red flag,
which symbolizes all wars against lib
erty and civilization"
Tribute Also to Lincoln
Preaching at commemorative ser
ylees held in Temple Israel, Harlem,
Ut. u. H. Harris recalled that the two
men who led in creating the creates
iiaary-Liacoln on the 18th and Wash
iAgton on the 22d.
Other exercises of the day included
memorial masses for the soldier dead
az ST. Peters Church, Barclay and
1huFch streets, and at st. Stephens,
iwenty-eichth Street, near Lexington
avenue. The latter was for the dead
OF the "old 69th."
fifteen thousand negro troops were
eheer'alneo at exercises at Camp Upton
ahqer the auspices Of the Y. NJ. c. A.,
ana LOO newsboys of Manhattan and
bFooklyn were the guests at a Wash
!aagton Birthday dinner given yester-
esy afternoon at the Brace Memorial
nome by Mrs. Eliza Guggenheimer in
memory OF Randolph Guggenheimer.
Last night members of the 18th, the
famous negro fighting regiment which
received an enthusiastic welcome sew
ssal days ago, were guests at a Wash
mglon Day dance at the 18th Regi-
aent Armory, Columbus Avenue and
sIty-hrst Street.
me JUNIOR Order of United Ameri-
s S Mechanics also held Washington
Birthday celebration last night at ks
net Temple, Brooklyn. Representative
Ia Guardla. who as major OF the Amer