The sun., 1919-03-10
BAKER AND DANIELS
INVITED TO REVIEW
Hotels Offer Spreads to 10000
Men as Date for 27th's
Parade Is Changed.
SPECIAL MATINEES ALSO
Families Of Soldiers Who Made
the Great Sacrifice to Receive
Grand Stand Seats.
SPECIAL MATINEES ALSO

AiilOHS HotdDleS expected 10 WITNESS
the parade and review Of the Twenty
| seventh Division UP Fifth avenue Tues
day, March %. are Newton n. Baker,
Secretary of War, and Josephus Daniels,
Secretary OF the Navy, to whom invita-
tons were telegraphed yesterday. The
Invitations were sent by the Mayors
committee of welcome 70 homecoming
troops and were signed by Mayor Hylan
and Rodman Wanamaker. who is chair
man OF the welcoming organization.
They would have been sent earlier but
for the delay in setting an exact date for
the parade
Renewed energy marked the prepara-
tons yesterday for the reception and en-
tertainment OF the $4,000 men who are
| to participate in the divisional review.
with the parade date switched to Tues
day scores Of messages were received at
divisional headquarters yesterday from
! hotel and restaurant proprietors an
nouncing accommodations for as many
as 10000 men If need be.
The same five course dinner will be
served to the Organ heroes in more
than a hundred leading hotels and res
taurants. The menu is under the direo-
ton of group of the city's most emf
August Silz and David II. Knott, chair
men Of the dinner committee Of the
Mayors organization While the spread
10 the enlisted men Is to be held on the
+ sht of the parade Mayor IIylan and
his committee will act as hosts to Gen.
Organ and his collection of 700 COM
missioned officers on the previous night
at a banquet, the scene Of which has
not yet been decided upon.
Troops to Arrive Monday.
The division will be brought into the
city in the early afternoon OF the day
prior to the parade Special programmes
Of entertainment are to be provided in
practically all the theatres, according to
announcement last night by the Mayors
committee, and the soldiers are to be
fed in the various armories to which
they have been assigned for sleeping
quarters on the eve OF the review. I'm
med!ately upon shedding their impedi-
menta. for they will appear In the pa
-sde in full marching order, the men
will be led by their officers to the the
aires assigned the units. At night most
OF the men will be given passes to visit
their homes while those who cannot get
away or whose homes. are outside OF
The city will be CHARTERED in the ar
mories
II was saiu DE secretary W nalen tnat
representatives OF the Mayors Commit
tee would continue TO meet each of the
incoming units, and that there will be a
lotilla of boats bearing welcomers in be-
half of the Mayoralty to go down the
bay next Thursday to greet the America
with 1900 inoomers. including the
Brooklyn and Bronx representations Of
the Twenty-ssventh Division. and the
steamships Mount Vernon and Hoilandier
with upstate units from the same Or
ganiIatior.
Statetically speaking. Il was said at
the committees office yesterday tina. to
date the Mayors delegation has met a
total of 100000 men of the returning
Expeditionary Forces High water mark
was reached in January. when 5000
arrivals were greeted on board fifty-two
vessels. The number so far this month
is $4,000 soldiers on twenty-six steam
ships