The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-10-19

along the line The grand marshal of
the parade was John c. Hazen, his chief
OF staff Major II. b. Fisher. The chief
of the STAFF OF the division including the
service men and women, the Red Cross,
the Y. NJ. C. A, the Knights OF Column
bus, the Boy Scouts and the band was
Major d. A fEsperance, Jr.
The leader of this division was Col.
William p. Baker he was attended by
Lieutenant Commander Frederick II. AL
len and Lieut.. James B. Walker. Others
in uniform were the volunteer police OF
Pelham Manor. including at least two
artists, and commanded by Lieut. II. NJ.
Myrick.
children wave Flags.
School children, grand marshalled by
their teachers. constantly waved flags
and cried their greetings at either side
of the flag covered stand. Looking down
from the stand upon the procession was
n reviewing party including Col. q. w.
McIver, commander at Fort Slocum. and
several other officers Mr.. Fairchild and
William T. Grant. chairman of the SUI
pervising committee.
When visitors from some OF New
York's other suburbs reached the site of
the Memorial High School they must
have envied the. Pelhams. There Is
seven and a half acres of site, with room
not only <or the school but for all the
games that all the American boys in
the neighborhood will ever want to play.
The Pclhams are spending $4,000 on
the school and grounds. The school Is
to be built Of native granite. and its
beginnings were viewed with pride yes
terday by the architects, Tooker &
Marsh, and the builder. George T. Kelly,
who had brought his little daughter
along to share her daddy's pleasure.
Theodore Roosevelt was spoken of by
e E Arnold, superintendent of schools
who read the resolution of the Board OF
Education dedicating the athletic field
as "a great American who loved all
children, who himself had shown how a
weak youth by self-development had
grown to be n strong and useful man,
and who to the end was the true friend
of all lboys and girls"
Then, after six boys of Pelham High
School had raised the flag and twenty
one bombs had burst in the air some OF
them turning into American flags float
ing from parachutes or queer flying fish
and other ethereal oddities, the national
anthem was sung. and there followed the
symbolic tribute Of the forty eight States
of the Union in the form of flowers laid
on the eleven gold stars at the foot OF
the flag staff.
THAT we here highly resolve that
these dead shall not have died In vain
these and other sentences OF the
Gettysburg speech, read by the Rev.
Lewis CASTOR Grant (the Rev. ]. Nc
vickar Haight had said the invocation)
surely harmonized with the spirit OF the
Pelhams' memorial day.
Gen. Bailey, introduced by Mr.. Fair
act
directors have no monopoly in hatred OF
war, Of its misery. its horror and dew
astation. We all hate 1t, no one more
than the men who have been involved in
its immediate activities"
The young men who had been in
volved In its immediate activities" were
| grouped in front of the General. he
! told the audience how In France and
elsewhere the adaptability of the Amer
lean individual had proved to be also
the trait of the nation.
Many of you were drafted men," he
said to the soldiers and sailors. Per-
haps some of you didn't want to go. for
reasons which will appeal to anyone
But know well from my experience In
! this war that every drafted man almost
without exception wanted to be good
| soldier and gave his best endeavors To
| become one One of the stories he told
was Of negro soldier who when asked
by a comrade what he was going to dc
when demobilized replied: ''Fust thing
Ah'm gwine do Is smash nah second
| lieutenant in the nose" mo you isn't,
said the other ''youse gwine to wal
yo turn in line"
The General said that in his opinion
there could be no better memorial
selected than a beautiful school building
in which coming generations would b'
told the story of sacrifice and have i'm
pressed on their youthful minds the
| great lesson of devotion to country.
Address by c. G.. +. Wahle.
Mr.. James presided over the corner
stone laying, the ceremonies generally
being directed by the Mems Club of thu
Pelhams. Charles G. F. Wahle, for
merly a City Magistrate in New York
made the address. stressing the necessity
| of the men who fought in the war con
tinuing the fight in the form Of dis
enlargement of Bolshevism, land the
Huns and slackers in our midst to-day.
The Rev H. H. Brown pronounced the
benediction.
A great feast was served to the ser
vice men at the Pelham Country Clul
by the women of the three towns
band and. say! no speeches--not I
speech! The evening festivities, afte
the fireworks show. centred In th'
Esplanade. There Teddy Weidhau
danced the dance of victory, Anna Hol
lister the dance of peace. children tn
dance of the allied nations. and every
tody and his wife or sweetheart from tn,
ages of 81 to Z. when the formal pro
gramme was polished off. the dance o
the three Pelhams which set out to tel
the world how a regular township be
HAYES on such an occasion and had mad,
good.
They called It. this party Of the thre,
towns that are one town, keeping aliv,
the spirit OF America" The Pelham
have plenty of rocks. few rills anc
tempted hills in abundance. They ais
have. as was suggested by yesterday
celebration, men and women who can ge
together in a real community effort anS
do a fine thing in fine way. 1t mad,
a lot OF observers wish not only tina
they had gone to war, but that they haC
gone to war from the Pelhams.