The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-09-03
VETERANS OFFER TO
BUILD GRANDSTANDS
First Division Ready to Line
Fifth Avenue With Seats
for Parade.
ASK ONLY FOR LUMBER
Mayors Committee Limits Its
Stand to 5000 for Itself
and Guests.
ASK ONLY FOR LUMBER

representatives OF the t1rSt DIVISION
believing that the grand stand now being
erected in Fifth avenue to hold 5000
persons is entirely inadequate for the
multitude which will wish to see Gen.
Pershing and the division parade Sep
TENDER 10. have offered the services Of
their crack engineering troops to set up
stands for twenty times 5000 specta-
tors. The engineers--of Companies 3
and c, who now are at Camp Mills
could line the avenue with bleachers
overnight, say officials of the division
pointing with pride to the record these
men made in France and Germany
III New York wishes to see how en-
gineers of the A. Il. f. helped win the
war by double time construction work,
and how they startled Europe in the
process, Major Charles s. Coulter at the
divisions headquarters in the Biltmore
Hotel said. yesterday. all New York need
do is supply the lumber. For these are
the experts who on June last laid a
pontoon bridge across the Rhine at
Honningen, Germany, LAO feet long in
eight minutes and forty-one seconds.
Whether contributions for the material
will Be asked for or whether a move
ment to collect money will be started
was not made known yesterday. The
matter is under advisement by Major
Paul DAILY.
stand for Reviewers Only.
The grand stand now being erected
lie In front of the Metropolitan Museum
of Art, between Eightieth and Eighty
fourth streets. and is in three sections
1t will be reserved for members Of the
Mayors Committee on Welcoming
Homecoming Troops, city officials and
other reviewers. A number of the
Mayors Committee expressed yesterday
the personal opinion that the seating
would be Sufficient, in view of the short
time which remains to provide other
stands and more especially in considera-
ton of tho fact that the First Division
Is chiefly an out of town organization
There will not be the thousands OF
mothers here rushing to see how their
sons appear in the ranks as was the
case in the Twenty-seventh and Seventy
seventh parades, ne said. Anyhow, why
put UP seats for some of the people
when We obviously cannot do SO for all /?
II we were to start building grand
where would we stop?'
1t was learned at the headquarters of
the First Division that the police have
promised, through Commissioner En-
right. to facilitate the parade in every
way possible. Just how many men will
be in the march Is not yet known. Major
Coulter believed yesterday the number
might reach $4,000 or even rs 1000 in
case the composite regiment which Is
accompanying Gen. Pershing is added to
the pageant. This Is the regiment made
up of Americas best fighting men, who
were selected by companies from their
various divisions and placed in a spe-
cial unit after the armistice. It is the
regiment that marched down the Champs
Elysees July T. and which was to have
accompanied Gen. Pershing to England
had not plans bene changed by delay in
signing the peace treaty. Most OF the
$500 men. It is said, have citations.
In the regiment are two companies
and B-from tho First Division.
Other divisions giving two companies
each are the Second TO Sixth inclusive
By the latest plan all wounded men
OF the First Division will be carried
la the parade in automobiles. Major
DAILY, in charge of the work, is gath
ertng data from local hospitals, and has
announced he wishes TO get the name
OF every man CT the unit who has beeh
disabled. Reports should Se made to
the headquarters at the BIltmore Hotel.
1t was said last night that Secretary
of War Baker. Gen. March, chief of
STAFF. and several other officials would
arrive In New York from Washington
next Sunday night though IT is not
known whether they will meet Gen.
Pershing at Quarantine or await his ar
rival at Hoboken. The official welcom-
ing heet will consist of four city steam
ers and probably a convoy of naval yes-
sells, 1t was stated after the meeting Of
representatives from the Mayors com
mittee and tho First Division Yesterday
morning in the Hall of Records.
Mayor to Go Down the Bay.
On the committees fleet that will 20
down the bay will be the Patrol bearing
Mayor Hylan. Rodman wanamaker,
chairman OF the welcoming committee :
grover A. Whalen, Commissioner OF
Plants and Structures; John F. Sinnott.
secretary to the Mayor, and a number
OF military, city and state of1ciaIs.
Other members OF the official welcoming
party will be on the Correction. Rela-
tives and friends of the members of the
DIVISION who are aboard the Leyiathan
may ride out to meet the steamer on the
municipal ferryboats William ]. Gaynor
and Bay Ridge, 1t was said yesterday.
Tickets are available in room COZ, Hall
of Records.
After the Leviatban docks at Pier 4.
Hoboken. Gen. Pershing will be taken
on dhe Patrol to the Battery, where at
Pier a the party will come ashore By
automobile it's members will proceed TO
teh City Hall for a ceremony lasting per-
haps an hour, after which 1t will go TO
the Waldorf-Astoria. which is to be the
Generals headquarters The route will
be from Battery place to Broadway, and
up to Park Row. then up Lafayette
street ia Ninth and up Fifth avenue TO
the Thirty-third street entrance of the
hotel.
\ dinner to Gen. Pershing will be
given by the city in the Waldorf-As-
toria the evening OF September 10. Rod
man Wanamaker will preside. The din
ner, IL was stated definitely yesterday,
will be dry, to conform with military and
national law. Preceding this will be a
concert In Central Park by the New
York Symphony Orchestra.
At the meeting In the Hall of Records
yesterday Major-Gen David II. Shanks
announced he had Just returned from
Washington, where he saw Major-Gen.
James w. McAndrew, formerly chief of
STAFF of the A. T.. f., who Is to have
charge of all detailsh OF the Pershing
reception here and at Washington. He
win arrive here next Tuesday and an
nounce final plans from his headquarters
In the Waldorf Astoria. 1t was an
nounced that all persons wishing ap-
polntments with Gen. Pershing should
consult Gen. McAndrew.
The order of the parade will be: Dlvi-
sion Headquarters, Headquarters troop,
Headquarters detachment ana miscel-
ianeous Quartermsster units; First Ma
chine Gun Battalion, Second Field Sig
nal Battalion, First Engineers and en-
giheer train First Infantry brigade