The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-03-26
THREE MILLION WEEP AND CHEER
 AS "NEW YORK'S OWN'' 277H
 MARCHES M REVIEW YESTERDAY Y
Huge Parade Led by Black Draped Caisson Symbolic ing 1912 Men Killed in the Task of Defeating Ger many
By Assosiatsd prsss

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 veterans, berecx of Ftasders' field. s.4 on which Pru.sian pride was brok-
 cn, 26,OOO men of the Twenty
 seventh division cams back tc
 Fifth avenue today for their tri-
 umphal review. To the thousands
 who offered all they had to give on
 Iiberty's altar the millions who
 stayed behind poured out the ''fuIi
 measure of their devotion..
 The frenzied multitude alternately laughed and wept. cheered or stood si- lent as the procession passed.
 Never before had a full division or Yankee veterans, fresh from European service passed in review in an AlncTi- can city. Fighting Jack 70 Ryan, who led the line, was the only maJor general in the national guard who them back. still their commander. Never before on this continent, at least had so many thousands cheered a military spectacle
 Even New York. famed for it's crowds, never had mobilized so rna..x men. women and children along a sin gle street.
 The police estimated that nearly B. 00ecoo people were packed into fivo miles of Fifth avenue. The sidewalks on both sides were choked with hu manity and at every intersecting street the crowd bulged out east and west for distance of block. Men and women hung a pcrilous angles over window ledses. Men ,clung like flies to copings and other precariou3 perches,
 TWO-MILE GRANDSTAND Stretching alcrg the east side of Central park from one end to the otn- sr, was a grandstand 21s miles long. In it were some So,0o0 relatives of the members of the Twenty seventh The other 15.0oO seats were filled with wounded soldiers from the army hos pitals federal officials governors of this and other states. members of the ] legislatures. mayors and official dele gations from upstate cities.
 MIGHTY ROAR OF CHEERS r Here and there in the great stands sobbing women sat, sisters in sorrow They had left the homes of cloistered grief with the gold-starred service flags in the windows to cheer for the living as they vept for the dead
 At 10 o'clock those far down the ave nue heard faint notes of bugle. '.New Works own was on the march again for the last time together. Through the marble arch the city raised in recoe- nition of the deeds of Washington, drawn by eight black horses. came a black draped ,caisson covered with the Stars and Stripes, upon which rested a simple wreath. The catafaique symbofized 1N. men killed in action or "died of wounds Behind 1t marched a squad of 24 honor men bearing huge banner upon which blazed a star of gold for every man who had fallen.
 Az fhe crane sWa thed r,ru c~ rr,a o,c moved slowly past, men uncovered and women sobbed, unashamed
 F But the funeral hush was quickly broken. sutdued at first as though the throngs were reluctant to break the church-like stiffness came the sound of cheers. Hisher and higher rose the shouts until they blended ina mighty roar.
 .The wounded were coming. The thou sand motor cars in which they rode made up a heart-wrenching cavalcade which seemed to have no end. Empty sleeves and turned-uo trouser legs, crutches and bandased heads. told of men who had looked into the land of shadows from which the comrades they left ..ove. there will not return. But on the young faces. some drawn and haggard from suffering there was no sign of grief. They laughed and cheered and stuck in their hats the flowers that women tossed to them. seS,
 Beneath the arch rode Ryan and his staff Behind them swept the doughboy. of the F-ifty-fourth brigade. On their backs were oversees packs and gas masks were slung at their hips Topping the rifles bristled forest of fixed bay onets. giving notice to the world tha, this was no peaee-time parade. Just below the arch of Victory, which
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