The sun., 1919-09-02

for few days will be on exhibition on
the Public Library terrace at Forty
second street. The colors of the Eight
zenith Field Artillery, the first American
colors at the front, will be carried in
the parade The authenticity of the
Eighteenth's claim Is vouched ior ia TIC
affidavit to that effect signed Sy Col
Maillard of the Seventy-seventh French
Infantry.
And while Major Coulter was explain
ing the Eighteenth's good luck, an in
distinct wireless was read over the
phone in the headquarters announcing
that the "colors and commanding officer
(Col. c. A. Hunt) of the Eighteenth In
fantry have been decorated by the
French Government with the Fourregere
de Gere." The decoration is said to
have taken place Off Brest, but the name
of the ship was not mentioned. Brig
Gen. Bracquet and Col Laureau. Chief
of Staff OF the French mission. officiated
in IAN impressive ceremony attended by
officers and men and the ships crew."
II is believed that the whole regiment
was decorated with the cord
There are others who will march In
the Firsts parade although they are
not, strictly speaking, enlisted men for
some of them are women. These are
the welfare workers whom the personnel
of the division consider just as much a
part of 1t as the Generals themselves.
All OF them have been invited or will be
invited as soon as they can be reached
70 march with the men who they served
SO faithfully.
Heroine Has Many Decorations.
Miss Cora e. Van Norden of the Sal
vatiOn Army is one of them. She was
NJ 70 IN n tnht Inf nd
established the first canteen with ii at
the front, August 20, 1918. She is the
most decorated woman of the war, II is
said. She wears the Croix de Guerre,
the Saloniki Cross, a Serbian and a
Greek decoration and Victory Ribbon
studded with four bronze stars and two
silver ones. the silver for citations and
the bronze for bravery in major opera
lions. Miss Van Norden lives at 22S
East Thirty-eighth street.
Miss Gertrude ELY, Y. NJ. c. A., of
Bryn Mawr, also Eighteenth Infantry,
served In the most advanced post in the
Saizeraisi sector at Nancy. She won
the Croix de Guerre and also was cited
Miss Ethel b. Torrance, another Y. NJ.
c. A worker. of Tarrytown, stuck with
the Eighteenth Infantry on its march
from Verdun to Coblenz, a distance of
800 kilometers, ana served the men as
nest Sne COul0. Sne nad Deen with them
all during the war Miss Frances b.
tiulick. another Y. NJ. c. A. worker. as
signed to the First Engineers, gained the
reputation as the best little Putter Out"
In the army, which. translated. means
the most generous distributor OF choco-
late and other sweets that the soldiers
crave.
And Dennis Nolan! Major Coulter
said the division wouldn't march without
him. He is retired policeman. one of
the finest, and was assigned t. the Six
tenth Infantry. In his spare time, when
he wasn't jollying the men and doing
other services for them, he was using
his Knights of Columbus fiivver as an
ambulance. Under fire meant nothing to
him. for he had chaperoned the gangs in
Hell's Kitchen when Hel's Kitchen was
Helrs Kitchen, he said. He always car
ried a loaded revolver in his hip pocket,
but. of course, never used 1t. He said he
didn't feel dressed without 1t any more
than he did without his suspenders He
was known by the division as "All
Man."
Thomas Fitzpatrick of the White Rats,