Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-09-17
Fighting Division Makes
Imposing Sight on Penn
sylvania Avenue.
ALL EQUIPMENT
OF. WAR IN SIGHT
Dsssh Dealing Devises Conspicuous as
Sum Drowned Veterans March-Par.
ade an Epitome Of Vast Army AM
erica created-ArtilIery Men Given
Place Of Honor-oivision Stood
Ninety three Days in Fighting Lines.

Correspondence of Associated Press.
Washington, Sept. 16-Over historic
Pennsylvania Avenue, the American
Way of Victory marked out more than
fifty years ago by the returning blue
clad legions of the Army of the Poto-
mac, the First division, American ex-
peditionary force, marched today. 1t
was Washngton's first great parade
of the war and it was conceived and
carried out as the Nations tribute not
alone to the veteran fighting men who
marched, but to the whole great army
the Nation created to make certain the
utter defeat Of German dreams OF
world conquest.
Marching in mass formation and
equipped with all the guns, gas throw
ers and countless other death dealing
devices of front line service, the First
division, fresh home from France
moved along the broad avenue, n liv-
ing tide OF sunburned fighting man
hood that filled the street from curb
to curb. In their khaki and olive
drab uniforms, the men swung by as
resistlessly rs the spring floods of the
Mississippi Above each solid block
of infantry, rose the grim line Of bay
onets, the blued steel glinting duly as
it caught the light. Farther back came
ths long line OF field guns, French
$"75's" to which French officers have
said France owes her salvation and
} after aif the trains and wagons had
rumbled by, came a battalion Of tanks
streaked and yellowed with paint to
conceal them from enemy eyes. but
behind the troops in noisy response to
the cheers that greeted them.
There was nothing lacking to make
the parade an epitome of the whole
vast army American skill and indom-
table will had created to meet and
beat the enemy at his own game. There
were guns Of all the types used in
France that could be moved thru the
streets. Machine guns, big and little
bristled among the riflemen: squat
mortars to hurl bombs from the
trenches: high mounted rifles which
peered skyward as tho still in search
of enemy flyers. Some Of the guns
were horse drawn. some trundled be-
hind painting motor trucks or tractors
The show was as complete as the in
genuity Of the War Department could
make It. a cross section of the Amer
lean Expeditionary Forces.
But 1t was in the lines of khaki
clad. brown faced men themselves that
first interest Of the thronging crowds
all along the wide avenue turned. The
home coming Of this first unit OF
American man power to cross the sub
marine-infested seas was in marked
contrast to its silent, mysterious, un-
reported departure, and the men and
women along the way seemed to feel
the significance Of the spectacle. They
recalled the days when the nation
waited In wordless anxiety to hear that
these same smiling. free-striding bows
had come safely to French harbor
those other days when the first word
filtered back that the boys had begun
to prove their courage in action and
the slow coming lists that carried the
names Of the men who sleep forever
In France.
Artillery Men Honored.
TO one regiment Of long, trim,
"75s" an unusual honor was accorded
The Sixth field ARTILLERY was placed
between the two infantry brieades IN :
stead Of marching with the rest Of the
artillery brigade behind the, Infantry
for It was G battery Of the Sixth which
fired the first shot at the Germans on
Oct. %, 1917. A standard told the on :
lockers that at last they saw the very
guns whose thunder had carried that
first message Of defeat into the enemy
ranks. IN,
Thruout the long line markers were
frequent telling what the strange i'm
plements OF war over which they float
ed were used for Among the watchers
were thousands upon thousands OF
government clerks who have dealt for
months with endless streams Of papers
taking c< bombs ana guns and mot
ars flame projectors and all the other
complicated war equipment Of the
troops. Never before have these work.
ers at home seen all these tools Of war
fare in their own warlike setting, how
ever. and the parade was an educa-
tion for them.
Up the avenue at the head OF the al
vision rode Maj. Gen. Edward F. Nc
Glachlin, commanding, and with him
rode two former commanders OF the
division the first to go and the last OF
the division to come home. They
were Mai. Gen. William L. sibert, who
took Il TO France and Lieut.. Gen. Rob
,ert u Billiard, who took 1t into action
and surrendered command only to take
higher post. Marching ahead Of the
formations. also, came host Of Off
GERS ana men WiiO ss..:s
No With the First Division In France,