The sun., 1919-05-05
MEN OF THE nth
REACH CITY TO-DAY
Armories Will House $4,000
Until the Great Parade
Tomorrow.
POLICE TO LIMIT CROWDS
Fifth Avenue to Be Closed to
Traffic at z A. M.-Gen.
Pershing Praises Division.

Oncers and men OF the Seventy-sev-
enth Division will begin to arrive in
New York about noon to-day for the
units parade up Fifth avenue to-mor-
row. The last of the units will have
arrived by o'clock this afternoon. All
will be CHARTERED at the armores
throughout the city.
At o'clock the troop trains will be-
gin to move out of Camp Mills. bring
ing some $4,000 officers and men to the
city. These will be Joined tomorrow by
casuals. wounded and discharged men,
for the parade, which will start promptly
at 10 o'clock from Washington Arch
and march in a column Of battalions,
sixteen men abreast, with only an arm
length intervening between the files.
Some minor changes have been made
IN the plans. 1t seems from the Mayors
Committee arrangements there will be
two memorials for the dead carried by
the column. The division will carry its
own flag with 2,356 gold stars forming
the Statue Of Liberty. its insignia, at
the head of the parade, as originally
intended. The art director of the
Mayors Committee intends to have a
number OF flags bearing gold stars car
ried along by the column. 1t ie thought
the latter plan will be abandoned.
In Light Marching Order.
The men. as heretofore announced,
will march with light packs, carrying
their guns with bayonets fixed. and will
wear their overseas caps, with the tin
hat swung at the left shoulder. All
but ia officers will walk. These, in
10 tAr pAL
commander of the division, following
military custom. will be mounted.
Arrangements for handling the crowds
are about complete. There will be 1000
uniformed policemen along the line of
march and 5000 reserves. About 1880
OF the reserves and 1900 women police
reserves will act as ushers in the grand
stands. There will be uniformed fire.
man in each section
Traffic will be shut Off Fifth avenue
at o'clock in the morning. Practically
every mounted policeman will be on
duty. many of whom will be stationed
In the Madison Square section, where
the crowds were greatest during the
Twenty-seventh Division parade. The
crowds in this section will be held back
TO Fourth avenue on the east and Sixth
avenue on the west after the sidewalks
on the avenue are comfortably filled.
Tho headline" on the east will be
Madison avenue from Twenty seventh to
10th street; on the west. Sixth avenue
to Fifty-ninth street Central Park will
be open. and many are expected to seek
the high places for view OF the pa
rade. The sidewalks will be filled ex-
cept In reserved placed for wounded
men.
Assembly at s O'Clock.
Casuals and former members Of the
division who wish 90 parade are ordered
to report to their respection units in the
Washington Square section for assembly
not later than o'clock. The units and
their assembly are as follows:
So5th Infantry-On University place,
from Washington Square north.
3o6th lnfantry-On West Fourth street,
between Thompson and Wooster streets.
so7th 1nfantry-Eleventh street. west of
Fifth avenue.
sosth Infantry-Twelfth street. west of
3oIth Field Artillery-From the corner
Of Washington Square north and University
place east.
From the corner OF Washington Square
north and University place south.
sosth Field Artillery-East from uni
versity place and Washington Square, east
l5sd Brigade Headquarters - West
Fourth street, east to Macdougaii street.
enth street, east from sixth avenue.
so6th and soSth Machine Gun Battalions
-washington Square north. from Uni
versity place TO Fifth avenue
Division Headquarters and Headquarters
Troop-Washington Square north. west on
Fifth avenue.
northeast. from Macdougall street.
Seventy-seventh Military Police Com
pany. ao2d Field Signal Battalion and Mo-
bile Ordnance Repair shop-Between
Sixth avenue and Mscdougall street. 'front.'
ing on Washington Square north.
The wounded men OF the division will
be the guests of the War Camp Com
munIty Service on the day OF the pa
rade and the two days following. Spe-
cial entertainments and theatre parties
will be provided for them. They Will
be carried In automobiles by the Red
Cross in the parade.
Baker to Review Parade.
Newton D. Baker. Secretary OF War.
who Is due to arrive on the George
Washington to-day, is expected to re-
view the parade from the official stand
at Eighty-second street. Among others
expected are Benedict Crowell. Assis-
tant Secretary OF War; Franklin d,
Roosevelt, Acting Secretary of the
Navy; Gov. Smith, Mayor Hylan, Rear
Admiral James II. Glennon. Major Gen.
David C. Shanks. Major-Gen. Thomas H.
Barry, Major-Gen. John F. Organ,
Brig.-Gen. George II. McManus and Col.
william Donovan.
An inspection of the additional grand
stand erected on the east side OF Fifth
avenue at Ninety-seventh to Ninety
eighth street made yesterday by Grover
Whalen, secretary to the Mayor and the
Mayors Committee, showed to Mr..
Whalen's satisfaction that the view OF
privately owned grand stands in the rear
of the municipal stand will not be OBJ
structed. The writ obtained by the
owners of the private stands against the
Mayors Committee to enjoin 1t from
using the stand, in fact to cause them
to tear II away, is returnable this morn
ing in the Supreme Court. George b.
Nicholson and John Collins. Assistant
Corporation Counsels, will appear for the
committee and present the findings OF
Mr. Whalen's inspection. The stands in
volved are to be used in seating some
of the relatives of the marching men.
Major-Gen, Alexander will pay a for
NAL call upon Mayor Hylan to-day noon
at the City Hall.
The dinner dance for the enlisted men
will be given tonight at Hotel Aston,
and the officers dinner tomorrow night
at the Waldorf-Astoria-
Letter From Gen. Pershing.
A letter OF compliment from Gen. Per-
shing to the Seventy seventh Division
was given out yesterday at the divisional
headquarters in Hotel Blltmore. 1t reads
after the salutatlon to Major Gen. Alex
ander:
at gives me great pleasure TO extend
TO you and the officers and men OF the
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