The sun., 1919-05-30
10000 AT MEMORIAL
SERVICE IN STADIUM
DR.. van Dyke Presides at I'm
pressive Spectacle in Honor
of Slain Warriors.
SCHOOLGIRLS IN PAGEANT
Unique Observance Held by
Seven Great War Work
Organizations.

Something like new Institution found
It's birth In New York last night and to
the 10000 or moro persons gathered in
and about the City College stadium Me-
mortal Day and all that the day means
IN historic retroepection took on new
significance.
A spectacle. simple. out solemn in its
very simplicity. linked the past with the
present in an emotion evoking appeal
that Is certain to be repeated on every
succeeding Memorial Day.
A thousand schoolgirls, simply dressed
and with no attempt at uniformity and
unconscious OF the dramatic-schoolgirl
representative of the future womanhood
or Amertca-fled slowly and solemnly
past flag draped. flower covered cais-
son symbolic of the nations dead In the
world war, while a handful Of q. A. r.
veterans looked on and thought of the
days of Sc.
The G. A. r. veterans were not many
In number. Most of those who are left
were resting UP for the ceremonies to-
Gay. But some were there, and there
were hundreds of sons and daughters
and thousands of grandsons and grand
daughters and all of these looked at the
Juvenile boy scouts and girl scouts and
wondered among themselves: "Is this to
be the last?'
As the programme indicated, the cere-
mony last Night was a memorial fes-
tival In memory OF all OF those who
made the supreme sacrifice that America
might live. and the programme an
nouncement indicated the character of
the ceremony perfectly. 1t was arranged
by the seven war work organisations.
the American Red Cross. the Knights of
Columbus. the Salvation Army, the Y.
NJ. c. A, the Jewish Welfare Board,
the Y. w. c. A.. and the American Ii
brary Association. Associated and CO.
operating were the Boy Scouts OF Amer
lea, the League for Catholic Women.
the Motor Corps of America, the Ma
ttonal League for Woman's Service and
the Peoples Liberty Chorus.
Veterans Are Honor Guests.
The honor guests were the Amer
lean Legion and all other members
OF the American Expeditionary Forces,
the families of those members lost In
the service. and veteran associations
Of all previous wars of the United
States.
Three hundred wounded men, fully
two-thirds using crutches, occupied
seats in the centre of the stadium and
20 the left of the speakers stand. Per-
haps there were never three hundred
more cheerful looking wounded men
seen together at one time. They were
applauded enthusiastically when they
filed in from the Convent avenue en-
trance, having been taken from the
base hospitals in motor buses. but their
response and their salutes were mostly
for the sections occupied by the Red
Cross nurses and the nurses from the
various hospitals who occupied seats in
the main stand. There was no osten-
tation and no bravado about these
men for an empty pinned-up trouser
leg was conspicuous in most OF them
Most of them disdained wound stripes
or hadn't had chance to have them
put on their TUNES, but they were all
able to stand somehow when DR.. Henry
van Dyke, presiding. announced that
the ceremonies would open with the
Star. Spangled Banner.
DR.. Samuel Schulman OF Temple Beth
FL made the invocation and after short
address by DR.. van Dyke the memorial
procession began. Led by half Of the
detail of girls from the high schools OF
Manhattan and The Bronx and escorted
by a detachment Of soldiers and sailors
from Governors Island and the navy
yard, the caisson was drawn across the
arena in front OF the main stand. to the
strainssof the Dead March from Saul. ="
Regulation volleys Fired.
In its progress to the stand the caissor
was showered with flowers, hundreds OF
cases of which had been sent by the
New York Florist Club, which has seen
to II that the base hospitals in the city
have been supplied ever since the first
wounded man came of transport. II