New-York tribune., 1919-03-25
9th to Begin
Victory Parade
At 10 To-day
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TO places Of vantage from which the
convalescent men may watch the rest
Of the parade.
Traffic During Rest Halts
Both sides of the avenue between
Eighteenth and Twentieth Streets also
will be reserved for wounded. Ambu
lances, nurses and doctors will be To-
Gated at Fourteenth, Twenty fourth.
Thirty fourth, Forty second. Fifty-irst,
SiXtieth, Sixtysecond, Tooth and 109th
Streets. During rest halts in the pa
rade east bound traffic will be per-
mitted to cross the avenue at Six
teenth, Twenty second, Twentyx.sixth.
Thirty second. Thirty-sixth, Thirty
ty-eighth Streets. West bound traffic
will be handled through Fifteenth,
Twenty first, Twenty Thirty
third, Thirty fifth. Thirty-ninth, Forty
third, Forty and Fifty-seventh
Streets.
Police lines north of Fifty-ninth
Street are to be maintained until the
last of the spectators has left the
main grandstand. In assigning police
men to duty along the line of march
preference has been given to men hav-
ing sons or relatives in the 9th.
Altogether $3.50 patrolmen and fifty
mounted policemen and detachment
Of 500 detectives, will be usd in han
ding the crowd
Avenue Calamity Decked
Fifth Avenue is decked for the
triumphal return of New Yorks Own
as never before in the history Of a
street that has throbbed to the tread
of countless marchers. The digniied
residences. the apartment hotels and
the gogglng lofts of the lower section
have blossomed with flags like April
apple trees. The shops and stores and
banks and clubs Of the midway are
masses Of artistic decoration The
cold stone houses Of the parkway have
put forth the Stars and Stripes. and
many OF them are flying with an air
Of diEnified pride the d-bordered
banners with blue stars in their white
fields.
At the Court of the Dead, at Forty
second Street, the insignia of the di-
visions that were in the forefront Of
the fighting stood vigil through the
night with the shields which bear
them and the spears which back them.
as if waiting for the vivid. tramping
vision that the day will bring
In front Of the main entrance to the
Library is a copy of Lincoln's famous
letter to hereaved mother, written
Just after the close of the Civil War.
Around this have been grouped the
names of the several battles in France
IN which American troops took part
The Victory Arch at Madison Square
has been shorn of its scaffolding. Cap
tive balloons are attached to it's huge
pyions, and all night searchlight bat
terles brought into sharp relief every
line of its StOried carvino
Arches Hung With Prisms
Between Plaza Square and the Metro
pohtan Museum prism hung arches of
refracting glass were distributed over
mead, steady searchlight sprays strik-
ing from them Kaleidoscope phantasms
OF every color in the rainbow. The
spectacle brought cheers from those in
the street.
At many points, too, notably in front
of the Union League Club, the sound
OF hammers mingled with the inces-
SAINT honk of automobiles. Carpenters
were busy putting the finishing touches
on the latest OF the stands. At the
same time autom obile trucks were de-
livering 1,200 park benches along the
avenue for the men who are to be
given seats adjacent to the hospitals
III which they are convalescing. Of
these, 500 we're placed in front of the
Public Library and 200 more on the
terrace there.
Another feature which especially in
terested the throngs last night was the
camou1aged grandstand between Fifty
ninth and Sixtieth Streets, where the
shell-shocked soldiers are to be ac-
commodated. next TO the camoufiaged
mountain that has been made out of
the machinery plant of the subway