The sun., 1919-03-18
new REPUBLICS
FLAGSINPARADE
FOR ST. PATRICK
Irish Men and Women Turn
Procession Into Demon
stration for Freedom.
CHEERS FOR G9TH'S MEN
Gov. Smith Reviews $4,000
Marchers-Gay Scenes All
Along the Route.

The great green banner with golden
harp upon 1.-THE flag all New York
associates with st. Patrick's Day and
all things Irish--was as scarce as suakes
IN Ireland yesterday among the thou
sands of marchers in uniform and out.
who celebrated the day IN the traditional
parade on Fifth avenue The emerald
banner was totally eclipsed by ,he green,
white and orange flag of the Irish re-
public
To be strictly accurate, Just two of
the old green flags we're TO be seen from
The reviewing stand on the southern
steps of st. Patricks Cathedral in the
five mile parade. and one Of these was
small fiag-one OF the thousands car
ried by the individual marchers In the
faces OF the marchers, and in those OF
the tens of thousands OF watchers o!
Irish birth or parentage, there wai
something besides the customary saints
day geniality-a sober realization that
before another st. Patricks Day will
have come, the fate of Ireland to be a
free nation or stay a part OF the British
Empire will have been decided.
Whatever the sentiments of Irishmen
clsewher regarding home rule or inde-
pendence may be, the marchers yester-
day seemed united in favor of a republic,
II their choice of flags means anything
The green, white and orange emblem
green for Catholic Ireland. white for
purity and union and orange for Profess
tant 1reland-was first fown In this
country during the Dublin revolt In 1916,
but its origin was in 1898, when Irish
rebels under Wolfe Tone. a Protestant
Irish patriot, fought against the British.
Freedoms Pleas on Placards.
Another indication marked the parade
Yesterday as something more than a
pleasant prelude to the festivities of the
evening. For the first time in the men,
ory- OF weatherworn policemen who lined
the avenue, the paraders carried besides
the usual green banners OF their organi-
cations, placards demanding freedom for
Ireland. asking the support of Ameri-
cans and urging the release OF Jeremiah
OLeary, the anti-British agitator. and
other political offenders. Even the Of
fetal programme. of mos. patriotic
green, carried line OF propaganda at
the Top: Here's to Ireland. may she
soon sever her letters and take her place
among tine free republics OF the earth
Thomas Jefferson"
Despite the prediction of rain by the
official weather prophets. whose political
views are not known but are sravely
suspected, the luck of the Irish made
itself felt in time, and muggy. over
cast winter day resolved itself soon
after noon into a balny. sunshiny spring
day with just bi; of wind to make II
comfortable for the marchers. Then.
100. luck surely entered into the fact
that those huge reviewing stands
stretching along Fifth avenue from
Fifty-ninth to 10th street in readi-
ness for the Twenty-seventh Division
were just the thing for watching the
St Patrick's day boys go by and more
credit TO the city for putting them up
n time
Keep them OFF," repeated a red
headed cop who was asked if il had
been intended to keep the crowds of
the stands lest they be damaged ahead
Of time. How could we keep them on ?
sure. they're Irish. too, and every bit
az good fighters as we"
Even the shamrocks Cost More.
Consequently every seat IN tho long
line of stands was occupied; that is.
somebody was standing on II, and even
the trees above and back OF them were
thick with shrill voiced youngsters who
were entirely Irish at least for the day, |
though their names wero Goldstein or
Marinelli or Schmidt. And here it
should be stated that even on Patrick's |
day the gloomy spectre OF the high cost |
Of living will not vanish, for the siiken |
shanlrocks worn by the youngsters and |
many of their elders cost two cents this |
year. raise of precisely one hundred |
per cent.
Crowded as were the stands along
Central Park. the official reviewing
stand eroaned under even a heavier load !
The fact that last year 200-pound |
stone toppled from the steeple of the |
Cathedral as the parade was passing |
deferred none from climbing aboard the |
Point of vantage. On the stand was
Gov. Smith, who gladdened the hearts |
Of the Irish on st. Patricks Eve by send |
ing message to a Brooklyn meeting ex- |
pressing hope that Ireland would gain |
the liberty and independence which her
sons and daughters have for countless
years struggled TO gain for her
Also there were Mrs. Smith and the
Governors staff, Archbishop Patrick J.
Hayes. Mayor John +. Hylan. William
Randolph Hearst, Grover Whalen, Capt |
James G. Finn OF the old Sixty-ninth,
who was wounded in the foot at Cha
teau Thierry and still walks on crutches
Lieut. Thomas J. Mccarthy OF the same
regiment, former Justice Edward E.
Mccall. Roderick J. Kennedy. Justice
Rs9 el F Cohalan. Maurice Cornolly |
President OF Queens: Police Commits
sioner Richard Enright and many Irish
men and women prominent in the clergy
and in political, business and social
life.
Cheers for the New Goth Guard.
To the Hitting music OF Killarney the I
police escort cantered by the cathedral
soon after o'clock and roar of cheers
and clapping which had been keeping
pace with the marchers up Fifth ave-
nue. came sweeping by For the first
organization in line was the Sixty-ninth
New York Guard-not the old Sixty
ninth. for that famous regimen. IS s.!!l |
in France. as IL was on last st. Patr!ck's
day-but the new Sixty-ninth boys who |
stepped out as briskly and carried their /,
rifles as lightly as had that peerless ..
outfit OF the older days. Col John J. !
Phelan. their commander. led the way
as they marched past the cathedral
where they had In the morning attended |
high mass. for the new regiment. too.
~ Irish.
Just behind them-and here the roar !
from sidewalk. stand and rooftop |
swelled to a clirnax--came iimpins un- |
AiAadiiv e0nnAfifnaa xrifhnttf