New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1919-02-22
City Plans Many
Events inHOnOr
OF W ashington
Soldiers, Sailors and Ma
rines Have Chief Place
in Birthday Programme
Treat Also for Newsbovs
Welfare Organization to En-
terrain All Fighting Men,
Including the Wounded

The 18th anniversary Of the birth
OF George Washington will be cele-
brated in New York day BY soldiers,
sailors and civilians. Men now in the
service of their country or her allies
will be prominent in the celebration,
but the part played in the great war
BY the civilian population will not be
forgotten.
In The Bronx, at Morris and Third
avenues and 19sth Street, ground will
be broken at 8 p. m. by Borough Pres
ident Bruckner for the monument to
be erected in memory of the men from
Local Draft Board No. 2 who lost their
lives in the war. The ceremonies will
be preceded by parade of the 9Th
Coast Artillery and the End Field Ar
tillery, New York Guard.
The Sons of the Revolution will hold
Washington's Birthday dinner at
Delmonico's at 8 p. m. Captain Yates
Sterling, jr., U. S. NJ, will tell Of the
work Of the navy in the war, and the
Rev. Horace Percy Silver, rector Of
the Church of the Incarnation, will
respond to the toast "George Washing
ton" Rufus Steele, of the Committee
on Public Information, will talk on
aFighting the War With Films"
D. A. r. to Celebrate
The Washington Headquarters AS
ISOLATION, founded by the Daughters of
the American Revolution, will hold
celebration at Washington's head
quarters, at which Colonel Henry c.
Davis, United States Marine Corps,
will deliver an address.
The National Security League will
hold celebrations at the West Side y
NJ. C. A.. the Educational Alliance, the
Twentv-third Street Y. NJ. G. A, the
Eastern District Y. NJ. C. A, the Pei
ham Bay Naval Training Station, St.
Johns Methodist Episcopal Church.
Brooklyn and the First Methodist
Church, Peekskill. Among the speakers
will be DR.. Cyrus Townsend Brady,
DR.. Calvin Campbell and DR.. John
Stinson.
Special preparations have been made
Nv the w ar AdlUD AOHluQAlCy DCiNlNC
70 aid men of the army, navy and ma
rine corps to celebrate the day. A
large force of women workers left yes
terday TO prepare a special programme
for the $1,000 colored troops now at
Camp Upton. The men of the 369th
Infantry. New York's old 18th, two
thousand strong, will attend a ball at
the 10Th Regiment Armory, Sixty-first
Street and Columbus Avenue, in the
vening. Colonel William Hayward,
commander Of the regiment, expects to
be present.
There will be "Hot Dog, Coney ISL
and Style, Smoker" at the Temple
Beth-El, organized by the War Camp
Community Service, at which men in
Uniform Will be welcomed. There will
be dances and entertainments in most
of the Y. NJ. c. A. huts. The new
Street will be opened by reception at
7;30 p. m. to men at the debarkation
hospital in the Greenhut Building, who
will ENJOY moving pictures and vaude-
vile. Vaudeville performances also
will be staged at the Greenhut hospital
and at the debarkation hospital at Ellis
Island.
Feast for Newsboys
Twelve hundred newsboys will have
Washingtons Birthday celebration
and dinner at the Brace Memorial
Newsboys' Home, 244 William Street,
at o'clock. Governor Smith, William
Church Osborn, Major +. II. La
Guard.a, Bird s. Golfer, Commissioner
Of Charities, and Controller Charles J..
Craig are to speak. The entertainment
vas arranged by Mrs. Eliza Guggen-
heimer in memory OF Randolph Gug-
genheimer.
The Ulster County Society will cell
citrate az a dinner at the Hotel Bilt-
more, az which Poultney Bigelow will
Be the principal speaker. The Alumni
Association OF New York University
Law School will dine at the Hotel
Pennsylvania and listen to Major Da-
Nd Espcrancc, Of the 369th Infantry;
ex-Judge Morgan J. O'Brien, Assem-
Oywoman Mary N. Lilly and others.
In Brooklyn Major La Guardia will
address the Junior Order of United
American Mechanics at Kismet Temple
IN the evening; the Crescent Athletic
v!ub will hold dinner dance; the
University Club will have an informal
entertainment, and the Long Island
automobile Club will honor its SOL
oler and sailor members.
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