The sun., 1919-01-07
JOAN OF ARC PARK
NAMED WITH HONOR
Maid, in Cleaning Armor,
Leads Procession at I'M
pressive Ceremony.
MANY JOIN IN TRIBUTES
Warships Play Searchlights
on Pageant as Bands Sound
Patriotic Airs.

What would Joan OF Arc have thought
one wonders. could she have stood las,
night at Riverside Drive and Ninety.
third street, in this great New World
that was not yet discovered when shs
lived, and seen the celebration Of The
507th anniversary Of her birth Won.
derful were the visions that the Mad
OF Orleans saw. but it is SAFE IN say
that even her power did not enable he-
10 perceive country not yet born hur
oring her at the end OF war create
than any she had known or drsar.$
of, because OF what she and tie lat
she belonged to and loved mean TO Us
The naming of the Joan Of Arc Fa-a
and the procession to, her statue lay
night had their funny aspects contrib
uted by the hordes of small children
dogs and other inhabitants of teuemer,
regions to the east, and the proce ssion OF
dignitaries, CANNES, boys. girls, women
with babies, honking automobiles. ol.
men, Boy Scouts, policemen, Fren,l e5r
ors. Italian sailors, American douEab..,
and marines, &c, &c, &c. that poured
pellmell from the statue along Ninety.
third street to the Joan OF Arc School at
Amsterdam avenue for the speeches
able to have outdoors. But The ':a.n
note Of the celebration was on. x -.
pressiveness.
There were the great battle uips u
the North River to play upon 1t wiz
their searchlights there were HeapeJ
up wreaths OF lovely flowers from Pars,
Cuba, New Orleans. to make the has.
Of the statue beautiful; and best q Ill
there was living, breathing Joan o.
Arc, In the person Of Miss Lillian Bar
rington, mounted on her white horse
Limestone Queen II, in a glorious aruos
which surely would have caused the eve,
OF the real Joan OF Arc, unworldly =.
she was, TO bulge with admiration.
Parade to Statue.
The procession gathered az the s,nos
in the first place, and moved west 10 III,
statue at n little past O'Clock. Ths
mounted police went frst-Serge1ut
Kelly and three men from Traffic Squad
c and after them Limestone Queen II
stepped dantily, bearing the Maid
Wonderful beyond words was the Ma d.
In a corselet composed OF glitterng rhine.
stones. and a helmet all white tHt
caught the light and gave IL back -dt' ,
and a shield and all the othec fX!nts
After Joan came the representa- lives
of various eocieties-Charles A. DoNna-
| Of the Alliance Franchise de New YorA.
Edward Hagaman Hall and Reginald
| Pelham Bolton of the America Scec.r
and Historic Reservation SocietyA >
Henry Message of the BOY SCoT,~ <
America, Mrs \ Barton Hepburn -
the City History Cluh, samuel F3ir,hilh
of the Entente Franco-Am-rI'a. 7. CIV
inc owen OF the FrnUce-Aru.rica So
o!ety. Cap. VI. boyer of 'hc !. enc
cruiser Marseillaisc. with some of h.
men Sons % the American Revolution
Sons OF the Revolution anG uthers
headed by eight beautiful banners
Every one of these men wore the tri-
color OF France.
The Boy Scouts and the Pelham FaJ
Rand formed an escort for Miss M
rinEton.' and so she rode 10 the + %,
of the statue, whth looks out Owe a.,
river. Straight up the little hill Line
stone Queen II. stepped graceful -l
side by side with the stone Joan oi t~'
| the flesh and blood struck tho mt
! pose and held Il while Lieut.. De-'. -
! the battleship Pennsylvania
( three green rockets the sigra' ~ 80
1 Pennsylvania and Utah to relets tre.-
srarchlights for tho il'mins'.- ~ n.
| scene