Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-04-25

Gathering for
10Th Parade

Boston. April c4-The Yankee Di-
vision will be greeted tomorrow as
it marches through five miles of dec
Grated streets in it's final appearance
as unit, by what promised tonight
to be the largest and most enthusi-
7 astic throng which ever gathered in
Boston
A drizzle of rain tonight did not
diminish tie ;-rdor of the $1,000 men,
| bers of the division who arrived
from Camp DevenS today, or of the
thousands from outside the city who
taxed the city's Accommodations to the
utmost. Seven thousand visitors.
relatives Of members Of the division,
were entertained in private homes.
The fD boys were on leave tonight
and found plenty Of entertainment.
AT the Grand Opera House bouts
were had for the Division boxing
championships, with the added feat
ure OF a ten-round go between pro-
tessionais. Seats were provided at
theatres and great many soldiers
were guests at private parties.
MdJor-Gen. Clarence r. Edwards,
who commanded the division in ac-
ton. and Major-Gen. Harry c. Hale,
present commander, isued state
ments in which they expressed their
gratitude for the service given by the
men in the fighting and for their
conduct since the arlnistice. These
officers will ride at the head Of the
parade.
Majo- Cen. Hale said:
In response TO a request from the
press for / brief expression Of ap-
probation Of the Goth Division upon
the eve af it's decentralization I take
pleasur, in saying that from the mo-
| ment of my assumption of Command
TO the present I have been Loyalty
supported by the commissioned and
enlisted personnel of the division in
my efforts in it's behalf. Beginning
with an impersonal interest due
solely to sense Of duty, I have come
to possess personal regard for the
Yankee Division and a personal de-
sire for its success. 1t is with a
feeling OF abstraction, therefore. that
see the division in its last DAYS
is with no disIoyalty to my own. the
Lincoln Division where my at
lection lies deeply rooted, that + say
goodbye to the 18th Division with
sincere feeling of respect, good
viii and friendship
Gen. Edwards, whose statement
was addressed to the men, said:
L expect every man Of the YD to
show the people tomorrow the steady
road discipline that was theirs in
France; that they will always keep
in step with heads up and eyes on
the sky rather than on the street at
their feet; that you will march at
strict attention with eyes left past
the Governors stand at the State
House. and eyes right a tribute to
the Mayor Of the town that has CIV
EN- us this glorious welcome
Il expect that afterwards your
eyes and faces will express your
pleasure and the tribute to your
people that should be theirs: that
you will keep closed up and in step:
show them that there are no strag-
giers in the 18th Division and a man
falls out only because he drops from
physical exhaustion, and the YD's
don't get exhausted.
You may recognize your friends
and return their greeting, but still
be soldiers as you were in France"
Railroads and electric lines will
give special service in an effort to
bring the crowds into Boston tomor-
row. Two young men arrived to-
night cfter a hike Of $50 miles from
Claremont. N. H. in order to be on
the side-lines when a number Of pals
from their home town swing down
fremont street with the 103rd In
fantry