The sun., 1919-02-18
HAYWARDLEADS'
HER0IC369THIN
TRIUMPH MARCH.
Immense Throngs Welcome
Negro Veterans in Parade
Up Fifth Avenue.
ALL HARLEM GOES WILD
Sergt. Henry Johnson. Prodigy
of Valor, Is Feature Of
Day Of Glory.
There's a mennenwerfer comm
Look out! Bang! -

There's a mennenwerfer comm
Look out! Bang! -
The jazz band OF the old Fifteenth
New York Infantry, now the 369th U. ).
Infantry, Col. Bill Haywards "hghtin'
black demons" ripped into perfectly
good trench fox trot, and not soul
heard IT, New York was all lined UP on
Fifth avenue. and there wasn't negro
north of Yonkers or east OF Canarste yes
terday Two solid walls of booming.
roaring welcomers to the first home
coming war tried troops the city has
seen lined the way for the grim, helmet
topped black men.
But what Fifth avenue did was a mere
whisper In the wilderness to the noise
that zoomed along Lenox avenue when
the regiment got into the habitat OF It's
own folks. Dusky men and women and
children hung from the cornices, leaned
out OF windows, straddled lampposts and
walked on policemen and generally con-
Quoted themselves as became the hap
piest people OF the happiest race in the
world.
100 Piece Band Hardly Heard.
Bombed last night, bombed the night
uein' to get bombed to- night like we never
did before.
The faint footing OF Lieut.. Jim Ell.
ropes wind Instruments the one hundred
piece band that has made Paris lone
some since It went away. leaked through,
the sound wall once In while. A
woman. dressed in the best dress she
could get together In a month OF hard
Manning. damned through between two
nolicenen hurled her arms around a
duskv soldier with a medal on his chest
"a ,o,Ld on,v bo dIssuaded after she
IA ,ros.od n bunch ~ roses into his
h.ra
nn ,ho cr-h a, old man with spec.
u 90 his lie as shs
, 'e r,,i,,;ro ,sars out Of he,
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n.,n r.., R.rc,ts U.xouct..
But under 1t all was the rhythmI'
tread OF heavy hobnailed boots. tn
swing OF mon in the perfection or MARTA
discipline. Their faces were set in tn
mask OF the trained warrior, gra!
helmets tipped rakishly over their eyes
guns all swung at the even easy Sian
OF troops who have marched much am
their bayonets gEttered In way tina
made one, realize why the German
called them demons u didn't nee
much imagination to make one realiz
what terrifying force they would b.
in dash over the top in gray dawn.
Proud OF them, ! should say l was.
up NV Avenue was tl.lllNIrIs "oW prou'
I.ebouc, who trained us and made u
the good fighting machine we are. coul,
see the reception We received"
and. say" said Lieut.. Jim Europe
"I saw the allied parade in Paris an
thought that was about the bigges
thing that ever happened, but this ha
il stopped"
And Col. Bill and Lieut. Jim ar
tust about the biggest things ir III
regiment. except Sergeant Henry John
son. Croix de Guerre, D. s. C., and
bad man in n hattie Sergeant IJenr
.ame lust behind Lieut. Col. I,orillar
spencer. VINO was in command Of tn
wounded men in the automobiles.
with bunch of lilies In one han
md his cap in tho other Sergeant Henri
.tood up in his automobile all the wa
'-cm start 10 finish. His chauffeur wa
only little less proud than Henry fo
We leaned over In the crowd and sal
IN the nice confidential roar that
3jee HUMPHREYS assumes in the intrt
Iuctorv bouts: Sergeant Henry Johr
,on' Sergeant Henry johnson :" An
then Henry Just bowed and bowe,
md waved his cap and threw AWAY m
trench helmet and didn't care wis
h rrened he was so happy.
uc,rx. .,,u. lam. mr. ~,
""' N.Y.
And he deserved it, said Col. Bill
He lut this regiment on the map" PC
I'll Sergeant Henry did was 10 kill fol
iermans and wound about twenty-eigl
moro BY official count. so that the
wouldn't capture his wounded pal whe
nc! came over In trench raid. Hcnr
started the regiment honor gathering
and then they kept it up so well ths
they 1lucked as goodly an assortmeI
n medals and wound stripes as almo
any American regiment in the war ca
show
These Wounded men Of the regimen
~sS2 * T. = .IhulGT ces-assI xpen~sses ar
were the Jolliest lot OF them all. p1es
vas no obligation of discinlire rno
waving their caps and hands and tbrnu