The sun., 1919-03-25
Unceasing Cheers Mark
Parade of Veterans Es-
corted by Ex-Members.
REVIEW AT UNION LEAGUE
Regiment on Way to Armory
to Await Orders for Big
Event To-day.

Stir the pulses Of generation after gen
Grafton. New York's own beloved Sew
snth Regiment will be an occasional
theme only, its exploits pointing the
narrative but little here and there and
It's drums rolling all but inaudibly in the
epic of the divisions, brigades. regiments
which carried the standard of Liberty
beyond the barrier OF Won Hindenburg.
But for two hours yesterday the Sew
enth was the whole war to New York,
and with Its veterans old and new, its
banners. it's bands, and its traditions of
devotion and service extending through
the records of three remembered wars.
took full possession of Fifth avenue and
was acclaim as a regiment should be
which has kept its honor unsullied and
never lowered its flag
The occasion was the coming OF the
10Th United States Infantry, the fed
eralized Seventh, to New York for
the purpose of the great parade to-
day and the necessity that II should find
It's way somehow from the ferry at
Twenty-third street to the armory at
Sfxty-seventh street and Park avenue,
where 1t was to lie overnight. So II was
arranged that the 10th as representing
the war and the present Seventh New
York Guard Regiment and all the old
and middle aged boys who were the Sew
enth in the days before the present war
was thought OF should parade up Fifth
avenue and let the city see them. Every
part of the Seventh except the 10th or
lighting Seventh took care that the fight
ing personnel should be the main at
traction and all the others only an escort.
indicating its pride In the combat troops
Since the Seventh has a sort of aris-
tocratic past and for these many years
has been representative of that part OF
New York life which has money. leisure.
yachts. horses and so forth and so on,
the Union League Club at Thirty-ninth
street and Fifth avenue was selected as
the point for the reviewing stand. and
Brighten. Charles I. De Bevoise, who
commanded the 10Th in France when
he was a mere Colonel. was the review
ing officer
Welcome Awaits Marchers.
As a point for a reviewing stand for
such an organization as the 10th or the
Seventh the Union League Club has its
points, as our British cousins say.
Among those of its members who in the
cool of the metropolitan evenings are
conspicuous as one walks up or down
blessed old Fifth avenue are more than
a few who Joined up with the old Sew
enth when they were striplings and who
were working members of it until age
end all that implies retired them 10
the sidelines and permanent mutt.
From them yesterday there was evoked
whom time shall not wither nor custom
stale-Prominent Clubman George Will
son. who having abandoned his ornate
and $4,000 an hour office in the Equit-
able Building for the day was right
there. He led the cheering from the
first moment that platoon of mounted
cops afar down the avenue indicated
to his expectant eliminates that the par
ade was coming until the last hospita,
stretcher bearer adjunct to the parade
had gone on his uptown way and the
tsxis and limousines OF Fifth avenue
were closing up the rear.
To understand George properly let 1,
he mentioned that this was the forma
ton OF the parade: First, platoon OF
mounted police, then Major-Gen. Daniel
Appleton quondam Colonel of the Sew
enth Regiment of hallowed New York
tradition with his staff, he being in
olive drab and grand marshal for the
day and occasion; then the present Scy-
enth Regiment New York Guard. then
civil, Spanish and world war veterans
who in or out of the Seventh had up
held its tradition by land or sea; then
more or less OF 1000 mature and elderly
men in dark clothes and derby hats who
at some useful time or other in their
lives have belonged to the Seventh. and
then finally-with a roar preceding itsur
the avenue-the 10Th in full kit. with
wound and service stripes and shrapne
helmets more or less OF 1000 boys who
looked as though each one OF them had
lived 3.764 years of life that had had
little laughter in II.
And SO since they withheld It Club.
man George Wilson, boutonniere at la
pei and silk hat waving. did the laugh
ing for them. He has that quality oi
pervasiveness which rises superior to the
fact that this or that parsonage may bt
distinguished veteran OF the war and
reviewing officer for the day. There wa,
nothing on the cards which planted
George cheek by towl with Gen. De Be
voise He planted himself there. Close
10 him stood Gov. Alfred f. Smith
George ct Al, as George expressed it
ch2 E2es s. Whitman, aR8 BentarpIr B
Odell, both Governors once Gov Cooper
once of South Carolina: Rear Admira
Usher Col. Bill Hayward, Charlie.
Evans Hughes, Major Philip McCook
COL Merritt II. Smith. Major Lorillart
Spencer. Col G. g. WOODWARD OF tn,
British army and Commissioner Dicl
LnrlBnt OF course,
Cheers and Cheers and Cheers.
And every time there was a momen
~ silence throughout the hundreds Of
Thousands of men and women gathered
along the adjacent sidewalks, and ever,
time there was n face either in tn,
derby hated ranks of the old Seventh
or in the war worn ranks of the new
roth George led and carried to a tri
umphant conclusion a loud and resound
ing cheer.
II was significant OF George, how
ever. and also Of the day that when IN.
ranks Of the back from France l07ti
". s. Infantry were streaming by hin
George did little less cheering than h,
had done previously when only the mer
who had not been in this war were pass
ing the stand. The populace cheeret
then without any leader to inspire them
and where there were men and womet
standing looking on who could not con
trive to add their volume TO the full
throated roar 1t was because they wer,
rather past the power OF speech or vo
alteration. being very busy strugglin,
with tears that would well up
They saw 1000 sturdy outstanding lad,
whose presence there expressed the fac
that the great bulk OF them had an
swered the country's first call for ner
months before the selective draft hat
set about its business OF getting or
ganized the host which ultimately hat
gone overseas to make the world SAT,
for decency These lads had the mark,
Of wind and sun and incredible suffering