The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-05-01
$4,000 SEEK SEATS
FOR 77TH'S PARADE
Unprecedented Demand From
Fighters Relatives for
Spectacle Tuesday.
GRANDSTAND ENLARGED
Major-Gen. Alexander Issues
Order Of March--5,00O
Wounded to Ride.

Indications are that the Seventy sew
enth Division parade will attract even
greater crowds than did the parade OF
the Twenty-seventh. which set rhe record
FOR New York city with an ostimated
crowd of 100000 packed INFO Fifth
, avenue. Although It is six days before
the Seventy-seventh will swing up the
avenue, more applications for tickets TO
the grand stands already have been re-
ceived than can possibly be accommo-
dated, Grover Whalen, secretary to the
Mayor and TO the Mayors Committee,
| said yesterday.
To add to the enthusiasm. IL Is prob
able that every unit will arrive in time
for the division to parade as a whole
Word was received yesterday that the
President Grant, formerly announced as
delayed with its contingent until the
day Of the parade. May 8. is now due in
| on the "a, giving plenty Of time for the
men to go to camp for sanitation pur-
poses and to return to parade. The
Nieuw Amsterdam also Is due the I'd
with another contingent.
5000 Wounded in Motor Cars.
Besides the complete division with
overstrength, including altogether ap-
proximately $1,000 officers and men.
there are 5000 convalescent and dis
charged men whom Major-Gen. Robert
Alexander. divisional commander. has
invited TO parade. Many OF them have
accepted. The wounded still on the rolls,
numbering 5000. will be carried in auto
mobiles in the rear Of their respective
commands Thus II Is estimated that
about 10000 men will be in the review.
i have never seen anything like IT,"
Mr.. Whalen said yesterday. There are
already $4,000 applications for grand
stand seats with only 10000 seats avail
able However. the relatives of the SOL
diers must be taken care of. so we started
to-day building additional grand stands
on the east side of the avenue above
Ninety-seventh street, continuing to
10th, which will give Us an additional
10000. We have requisitioned 1000
seats in privately owned grand stands fer
these relatives. And there are delega-
tons from other cities. principally UP
State. that must be taken care Of The
applications continue to pour in and
will probably increase as the parade
date nears. We are sorry, but the gem
eral public cannot be accommodated
OF giving seats the relatives are entitled
to, and. of course. the public will not
want them at that price"
More wounded soldiers and sailors will
review the parade of the Seventy seventh
than saw the Twcnty-seventh. Roll
wing" conva!escents will be in roll
chairs and on park benches and every
thing will be done TO make them conf
Portable, Their places will be az near
the hospitals as possible. This assign
ment for some 10000 OF them has al
ready been made:
Debarkation Hospital No. 3. Seven
teenth to Nineteenth street, 1000 men ;
Debarkatlon Hospital No. .. Forty-hfth
TO Forty-seyenth street, $500 men; Gun
Hill Road Hospital. l04th street. 600
men; Marine Hospital, Fifty to
Fifty eighth street. Sa5 men: S.
MaE's Hospital. Hoboken, Fifty seventh
TO Fifty-eIghth street. 500 men; Ellis
Island Hospital. Fifty-eghth to Fifty
ninth street. she'll shock men; camou-
fiage stand. Fifty-ninth street, 200. and
East View Hospital FIfty-seventh to
Flfty-elghth street. $50 men. Several OF
the smaller hospitals will reserve space
on the sidewalks below Fifty-fifth street
Nurses and physicians will be with the
wounded.
The order OF march was announced
by Major-Gen. Alexander yesterday as
follows:
Police esvor;.
Service nag, 1855 sta.s
Division Commander.
Msjor-Gen. Robert Nlevande-
stan and allied officers.
Headquarters Detachment
Headquarters Troop.
Wounded in Automobiles.
Immediately following their respective
units.
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