The sun., 1919-04-29

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republic punctuated the Stars and
Stripes all along the way. Windows
and roofs were jammed with other spec
tators.
The police held the reviewing stand
from F1fty-ninth to 10th street. for
ticket holders until 80 o'clock, and then
opened the seats TO the crowd. There
was a high ratio OF children in this
crowd and their trebles dominated the
cheers. Policemen, fremen, police re-
serves, women's police reserves and
women OF the motor corps kept order
and seated the ticket holders
The crowd was remarkable for It's or
derby behavior. Here and there a man
or woman would try to get through to
grasp the hand OF loved one In the
ranks. but as a rule they were good ma
tured when the police refused. One wom-
an at Washington Square, spotting her
son In the ranks, pleaded with tears in
her eyes to be let through. Though she
was refused the boy saw her as he
passed, slipped quickly out of place, ran
to her with a quick hug and kiss and
was OF again. The woman watched the
rest Of the parade happily.
Flowers offered to Colonel.
At Thirty-third street two men broke
through the lines with a huge Neheaf of
Amer lean Beauties for Col. Donovan. and
a fine wreath Of Roman laurel for Chap
lain Duffy. As the officers could not re-
ceive them they placed them in an SUI
tomobile carrying moving picture men,
Which was just ahead of the Colonel.
Wounded men from Greenhut's Hos
pital lined the avenue at Eighteenth
street, and other wounded men In buses
or In windows were all along the line.
Andrew Carnegie had a big detachment
on the roof OF his home at Ninetieth
street, and many sat in the private stand
among the 500 friends whom Otto II.
Kahn entertained at his home at Ninety
first street. The soldier patients at
Mount Sinai Hospital shared the win
dows with white clad operating teams
nurses and others
In front OF ST Patrick's Cathedral
stood hundred women of the Catholic
societies with huge baskets of flowers
With these they showered the passing
ranks, and when they got 20 the review
ing stand there was hardly a man who
did not have a posy IN his belt, his cap
or swinging in his hand.
A guard OF honor OF soldiers and sail
ors from the War Camp Community
centres stood at attention before the
| trophies in front OF the Public Library
as the regiment passed,
But perhaps the real hurrahs of the
whole day were those from the Irish
societies. who occupied reserve sections
Of the stands at various points between
Eighty-sixth street and the end OF the
route. There was the United Irish Coun-
| ties Associations. the Tipperary Men and
| the Chaplain Duffy Club, the latter with
| q huge banner in the centre OF which
blaxed n picture of the youthful chaT-
| lain which brought a sly smile even to
the stern military corners Of his mouth
as he marched by.
At 10th street Col Donovan and his
| stan dropped out and passed the parade
in review. While they were doing 1t n
pile Of wood burning in vacant lot at
111th street caused an alarm of fire and
stopped the parade for a few minutes
until the police could get the tangle
Strengthened out.
One dead member OF the old regiment
| received a striking tribute to-day. The
band played for the first time the music
written by Victor Herbert for a poem
| by Joyce Kilmer entitled when the
Slxty-ninth Comes Home" kilmer, a
sergeant in the regiment, who gave UP
| a literary career OF rare promise TO en-
list, was killed on the Ourcq. Mrs.
| ton Kilmer, sat in places Of honor in
| the Knights OF Columbus grand stand at
| the Cathedral.
1t was at the Cathedral, too. that
Chaplain Duffy was most honored. After
| Miss Helen mckinley. daughter Of the
| Supreme Secretary OF the Knights of
| Columbus. had darted out and offered
| Col. Donovan a huge sheaf OF American
Beauties, Miss Josephine O'Brien made
| the same tender to Chaplain Duffy. To
those who saw the chaplain with the
men OF the regiment in the armory
| later 1t was easy to understand his pop
ularity. He was surrounded by merry
group of crpples-many OF whom he
had cared for on the battlefield before
| they were sent home. And despite the
| Majors gold leaf on the chRplain's
shoulder It was more often a loving slap
| or hug OF that shoulder that he got
from the doughboys than 1t was a salute
And. let II be whispered, It was a slap
| or a hug and not a salute. that the
chaplain gave back.
After their dinner last night those OF
the men who wished to go home did So
and others slept In the armory. They
will assemble there promptly at $3.50 this
morning-and the man who Is late will
not get his discharge-and return to
| camp for their final performance as a
| regiment, their muster out.