New-York tribune., 1919-05-05
77tIl Invades
City To-day for
Great Parade
Dinner at Hotel Astor for
$500 Officers and Men
Tonight Opens Festivi-
ties; March Tomorrow

With their packs, tin hats, rifles.
trench tools and other implements of
war used in France, the columns of
battle tried veterans Of the 77th, New
4orks own division, will begin enter
ing the city before noon to-day. The
units Will start entraining at Camp
Mills at 8 o'clock, and by O'Clock this
afternoon all the armories in Man.
haitian will be filled VIII. the sons Of
the five boroughs, who will be reviewed
tomorrow in Fifth Avenue by millions
OF their relatives, friends and fellow
citizens as the heroes of the Argonne.
Military ceremonies will begin at
noon with call by General Alexander
and his staff upon Mayor Hylan at
City Hall. Tonight, beginning at 8
O'Clock, there will be a supper and ball
at the Hotel Astor for $500 officers
and men. Tomorrow night there will
be banquet for the officers of the
division, at which Secretary of War
Baker will be guest if the George
trance
t.me
Fight Over Stands
While the battalions of the 77th.
which were last seen here in February.
1913, are marching to their bilets to
await the parade tomorrow counsel
fer the city will be in the Supreme
Court before Justice Whitaker fight
ing legal battle over seats, the de-
cision regarding which will affect more
than 10000 relatives of the men. The
petition filed Saturday for writ to
enjoin the city from maintaining side
walk grandstands in front of stands
erected on private grounds is to come
up at 10 o'clock.
The writ is sought by the owners Of
several of these stands, who assert
that the city stands on the sidewalks
between Ninety third and 10th streets
will interfere with the sale of tickets.
The Mayors Committee of Welcome
has already issued tickets for the
stands, and if the writ is granted at
will find themselves without seats.
The seats directly involved in the
case are those on the east side of Fifth
Avenue, between Ninety seventh and
Ninety y-eighth Streets. These have
been allotted to the relatives of the
men of the 304th Machine Gun Battal-
ion and the divisional ammunition
supply and sanitary trains, who are on
board the transport President Grant
and will not reach port until to-mor-
row afternoon at 4 o'clock, hours after
their comrades have received the hom-
age Of the city.
General Robert Alexander, command
er Of the division, and his staff com
pleted yesterday all details for to-mor-
rows review. The division will be in
motion by 10 a. m. 1t will march in
column of battalions-that is, four col
umns Of four men each marching four
feet apart. Only General Alexander
and his staff and his brigade command
ers and their staffs-in all ia Of
ficers-wili be mounted. Colonel Doug
las Campbell says the entire division
will pass before the reviewing stand
in about forty-fve minutes.
In Reviewing Stand
Governor Smith viii be in the re-
viewing stand at Eighty-second Street,
with Mayor Hylan. II Secretary Baker
arrives he will be in the reviewing
party.
Daniel Ryan, Of the executive dvi-
sion of the committee Of welcome, an
nounced yesterday that the police reg
ulations for the parade also had been
completed.
Fifth Avenue will be closed to traf-
fc at z a. m. Seven thousand members
Of the Police Department, with 5000
reserves, viii be on duty along the line
Of march. Twelve hundred reserves
will act as ughcrs in the various mu-
nicipal grandstands. Twelve hundred
members Of the Women's Police Re-
serve Corps also will serve as ushcrs.
Fifth Avenue, according to Mr. Ryan,
viii not be permitted TO become so