The sun., 1919-04-29
GOTH PARADES AMID
CHEERS OF IRISH
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officers OF the regiment. Among them
was Mrs. Donovan, wife OF the Colonel,
I hardly daring to cheer lest the other
emotions she must have felt overcome
| her Beside her sat Mrs. William M.
Haskell. wife of the Colonel who took
the regiment to the Mexican border
II was In this stand that Gen. Alexan-
der was sitting modestly when, upon the
arrival of the official reviewing party.
Major-Gen. Shanks spotted him. Gen.
Sharks promptly crossed the street with
his aid, saluted briskly in front of the
, Seventy-sevenths commander and In
sisted that he join the official party. As
the two MaJor-Generals recrossed the
space Of open pavement they were
greeted' with az rousing a cheer as any
4 OF the day. presaging the welcome that
| awaits the Seventy seventh when It's turn
comes TO march up the. triumphant way.
4 Nor was the welcome home confined to
Fifth avenue yesterday. At 116th street
the column turned east and boarded spe-
cial trains on the Third avenue elevated.
| Down Third avenue every pair Of lace
curtains was pushed back on the second
! story. almost every window flew the
green nag. and every mother and child
and pretty girl and old man home from
work leaned out and cheered.
| They went down to their old armory.
which hasn't heard the measured tread
OF this regiment in almost two years.
where another crowd cheered them
through the Armenian settlement on
Lexington avenue between Twenty-flfth
and Twenty streets. and into the
| old drill shed. where they stacked rifles,
piled packs and tin hats and again
marched forth TO attend the big dinner
at the Hotel Commodore last night.
No Escort for Regiment.
The regiment had no escort. The
present National Guard Sixty-ninth was
drawn up as a guard Of honor In front
OF the reviewing stand. But In the line
l Of march were only the men who have
been overseas. Those who have just
come back were followed by another
regiment" or almost one, 1.1s6 men
who served with the 165th abroad and
were sent home early on account Of
wounds or sickness or transfer. They
marched with military precision no
| less than that OF their comrades. though
several swung empty sleeves, though
many showed In their pale cheeks the
long weeks and months of hospital which
has interviewed between yesterday and
the days Of the fields of France and
though many wore the red discharge
chevron on their sleeves.
The meeting between these men and
the 165th in the armory was one Of the
affecting things OF the day. There old
comrades clasped hands. sure for the
| first time that the one who had fallen
in the busy charge or been carried back
| bleeding on stretcher had come
| through after all. There the full stories
of incidents clouded In the haze of bat
| tie were cleared UP. There old scores
were settled as well as words can settle
the scores of sentiment between soldiers.
That went something like this:
| We'll. Mike, you old thief, so they
| didn't get you after all
mo. Jerry. you and the boys got me
back in time, guess. How's It goin'T'
| Jaw, rotten, say, you, you were
| too WOODY to talk to last time l saw
you. Now. whathehell did you do with
! them blankets Of mine l left you with
up by Septsarges. They was coolies In
| EN- for two weeks after you had EN-"
The regiment got all cleaned up at
| Camp Mills last night. Every man had
| to have a trim haircut and every bit
OF equipment was carefully inspected
| They left there in four special trains
before 10 this morning and about noon
two harbor boats put them ashore at
the Mallory Line pier at the foot OF
through West street and Charles street
to Washington Square.
| Behind the regimental stan marched
the battalions in command OF Major
| Dynamite Mike" Kelly. Major Martin
Meany, Major Van s. Merle-Smith and
| Major Henry A. Bootz. In their midst
| few the tattered battle nag of the
Sixty-ninth. its shell torn remnants
| carefully stitched together that the Man.
haitian breezes might damage It no more
and beside 1t the blue silk regimental
| ensign.
That tattered flag told the story OF the
Sixty-ninth, as well as did the third
standard. the red and white silk service
flag with it's 500 gold stars, each repre-
senting a man who fell. The national
ensign, supposed to fly before regimental
headquarters, safe from Are. had led the
men over the top, and. as Its guard said.
many a shell fragment went through II
at regimental headquarters too. for the
regimental commanders of the Sixty
ninth all had a habit OF pushing their
headquarters as far toward the front as
| they could go.
| There was one familiar figure missing
from the parade. That was the famous
dog OF Father Duffy. Dis Done. hero of a
Lalf dozen chances himself. Father Duffy
was against making Dis Done march the
long, hard asphalt route. and It was only
when the cathedral was reached that the
regiment discovered he had not been left
out of the programme entirely. Far
from 1t, he occupied a place Of honor in
the Archbishop's grand stand.
| Through Charles street the regiment
got an enthusiastic welcome from the
| arla or CT "a
the men OF Hook and Ladder No. 2, who
had rolled their truck into the street and
manned the siren and the gongs as the
band bared by with Killarney"
| Fifth avenue was closed to traffic
AT o'clock. and from that hour on the
sidewalks rapidly filled all the way from
, Washington Square to Fifty-nlnth
street The flag Of Erin and the green.
white and yellow ensign OF the Irish