The sun., 1919-09-11

Meade after the parade in Washington
we shall have only $500 men-barely
regiment"
The Composites, n forest OF bayonets
with tops all on n level. are standing
at attention on either side of the ave-
nue. from 10th to 10th streets. Steel
helmets are slick with fresh brown
paint Alas. neither they nor the bay
onets fash in the morning sunlight, for
there Is no morning sun. However.
though the sky Is gray 1t does not seem
to hold rain II is disposed to be kind to
Pershins and his own and the city and
its own and the strangers within the
gates.
Gen. Pershing- mounts his horse de-
liberately at :42 o'clock. His staff are
with him as one man. The General has
Just caught sight of a chrome portrait
of himself over the door of n moving
picture theatre. labelled "Pershing, the
Man of Destiny" He starts the parade
smiling He smiles most of the way
down the avenue. There was grimness
in most OF the pictures that came back
to us from the war 1t is gone now. The
city Is about to see a very human
Pershing, humanity pleased and often
decently amused by the salutations he is
TO hear.
No command is heard as he moves off
at 8 $50 o'clock, one minute before the
appointed time, but back along the ave-
nue. are heard commands ripping on
ward and setting the motionless lines
to bobbing, and the only band in sight
TO playing "Gypsyland."
The gait is slow at first, affordng
the sections of the parade opportunity
to fall in easily. The number of spec
tators is comparatively few. They
stand two ranks deep along the side
walk and sit on the wall of Central
Park voioing their feelings In hearty
Murray" as the moving spectacle gets
under way.
estuary, pouring Its contribution OF
soldiers into the main stream surglns
down Fifth avenue. On the balconies
OF Mount Sinai Hospital blanketed
patients wave. They receive the Cen
erals first salute. At Ninety-third
street Col. Jacob Rupert stands on
the porch of his home yelling as If
the Yankees. whom he partly owns, were
even with Detroit in the ninth inning,
with the Yanks on bases and two out
A few doors below Felix Warburg is
identified and then Otto II. Kahn,
| fiourishing a handkerchief in a window
on the second floor of his home at
Ninety-frst street.
AcAhO"Acukee ShccEhs
Gen. Pershing is turning his head
this way and that, swinging his right
hand TO visor and back all the time
and inspiring the comment: Looks
| Just like his pitcher in the movies don't
! her His horse is inclined 20 be skit-
fish. dancing back and forth across the
pavement, but Is restrained with firm
hand.
| The great gray and red mansion OF
the late Andrew Carnegie at Ninety
| first street shows men, women ana
children on portico and balcony. waving
and shouting. Standing against the
| black iron Carnegie fence on the side
walk is another lively cluster. Above
their heads from long staffs protruding
i from the house swing the cross of St
George and the French tricolor. with
Old Glory between. The General salutes
| these blazing banners and rides on.
At Eighty-sixth street a girl separates
a bouquet OF purple and yellow asters
into single asters and throws them in
front of the Generals horse. which shies
away and has to he pulled back from
the curb. These are the first Of many
| flowers over which he is ordained to
pass. The band now strikes into "Over
/ There" quickening it's time, which
means that the war machinery for miles
| to the rear is in gear. Looking back
where the avenue rises one can see
| the bayonets and helmets rising and
| falling in perfect rhythm. The General
moves a little faster. The accelerated
| pace and the exuitant thrill Of the
| songs fulfilled promise inspire tls
| crowds. which are constantly getting
larger and noisier. We won't be back
till It's over over there-and here by
| gum. we are That's a great little piece
| you wrote, George Conan.
| A bunch of red roses Is tossed from
the curb near Elghty-fourth street,
barely missing Pershing II falls apart
OIL the asphalt. A street sweeper ducks
In among the horses. gathers the flowers
together and tries to reach the General
| with them, but Is too far behind by
this time From 1861 Fifth avenue