New-York tribune., 1919-05-07

crowd joshed the policemen and the
policemen joshed in return.
Victory Arch protected

Victory Arch Protected
Remembering the 27th Division parade
the police allowed no persons in the i'm
mediate vicinity of the Victory Arch,
and the sidewalks between Twenty
third and Twenty-ffth Streets were
kept clear. On the west side of these
streets the crowds were kept back a
and Fifth Avenue, and there was only
depth of three or four lines
Nearly five hundred policemen were
distributed about the Arch, under the
command of Inspector Conboy. Twenty
five mounted policemen from Traffic
Squad and from Fort Hamilton
were present also.
The only spectators on Fifth Ave
nue., and on Broadway, near the Arch
were representatives of the various
war work organizations. who occupied
seats in the Altar of Liberty, and there
was only a sprinkling of them. In
Madison Square Park the lines were
held back at a safe distance by the
police.
Seating Arrangements Better
Above Twenty-third Street, and at
other places along the line from the
Arch to Forty-second Street, the police
allowed frequent movement of persons
who wished to come in from the ad-
joining streets, where they had been
lined, to take their places in back of
those on the avenue
The fact that additional city grand
stands were installed kept down to a
minimum the number of unseated
persons. Three additional stands,
seating about 5000 persons were
erected on the east side of Fifth Ave-
nue..
AS late as 10 o'clock many holders
OF tickets for the grandstand on the
edge of Central Park failed to appear
and the police permitted persons with
out tickets to take the vacant seats
before the head Of the parade ap-
stand was filled. Private stands on
the other side of the street, for which
tickets were offered at SIS and more.
were half empty.
Most of the ticket spectators who
held grandstand seats for high prices
were still holding them when the
parade was over. One man at Eighty
second Street was still carrying a
handful of green cards at II o'clock
and offering them to sidewalk spec
tators at any price. He was rudely
passed from one group to another.
Along the curb spectators were two
the sidewalk choked as it was during
the parade of the 9th Division. r
was possible all morning to walk the
full length of Fifth Avenue on the
sidewalk.
Traffic Lines damned
Although the crowd was not as large
as had been expected, there was con-
gestlon on the various transit lines.
The surface cars were little used-the
heaviest loads were carried on the
elevated and subway lines.
There were by far fewer passengers
on the Lexington Avenue subway trains
coming from Brooklyn than on the
Seventh Avenue cars, although the
former line is nearer Fifth Avenue
This popularity was explained by one
railroad official whose opinion was that
the women folks who don't work in
Manhattan desired to go through the
new tube and over the new route"
Brooklyn had the better of the bar
gain, in so far as checking up on the
number of that borougns residents
coming to Manhattan was concerned.
IN the amount of people turned out to
cheer the marchers. So great was the
demand for men to aid in taking care
OF the excess of passengers that in
some parts of the borough across the
bridge train employees who had just
been graduated from the students
class-they had not even had time to
get their uniforms-were assigned to
duty on the back ends of extra cars.
Following the parade there was a
heavier homebound traffic over the
Brooklyn, Manhattan and williamsburg
bridges than any of the policemen sta
toned along those structures recall
having seen at so early an hour.
The Hudson tubes did little extra
business. 1t was plainly a New York
day-New Workers, and New Workers
alone, were out to welcome "New
York's Own"