The sun., 1919-01-17
PLANS RUSHED TO
GREET N. Y. TROOPS
Word Received That 9th and
"Black Watch" Will Be
Here Soon.
STREETS TO BE AGLOW
Hylan Worries Over Orderly
Conduct Of Meeting at
Garden Tonight.

Word that Col "Bill'' Hayward once
Il Public Service Commissioner. is ready
to set sail for Harlem and San Juan
Hill from France with his famous
Black Watch regiment of New Yorl;
2egro infantrymcn. and that Major-Ger
John +. organ is likely to be on the
way home in ten DAYS or SO with thc
battle Scared Twenty-seventh DiNi-
sion OF New York scrappers-the men
who knocked the Hlndenburg line into a
thousand kinks-set the Mayors Com
mittee of Welcome to Homecoming
Troops into action yesterday as never
before.
II the plans of the Mayors committee
materialize as giowingly as the commit
tees press agent published them last
night 1t is n safe guess that not many
Of the men from overseas will know that
he is trooping up Fifth avenue. for that
famous thoroughfare will be buried in a
blaze of light. art. camoufage and cheer
ing. welcoming relatives and patriots TO
such an extent that the marching veter-
ans will have to use their best military
training to penetrate the Illusion.
order 10 Enrigbt.
In the meantime, the Mayor. becorn-
ing solicitous over the success OF tho
big welcome demonstration set for to-
night in Madison Square Garden by tho
committee which was formed by those
who objected to Mr.. Hylan's because It
had William r. Hearst us its chairman.
took his stenogra pher in hand and sent
instructions to Police Commissioner En-
right to have as many policemen at the
Garden as are necessary TO "see that
order Is preserved and to prevent any
interference with the transaction OF
business of this or any other lawful
assemblage."
The patriotic meeting which the Mayor
wants protected will be presided over
by DR.. John Gricr Hibben, president OF
Princeton University, and the Rev. Or.
William r Naming. rector of Trinity
Church; James NJ Beck, the Rev. q
Parkes Cadman, Father Bernard Clif-
ford and the Rev. DIR. Nehemiah Royn-
ton. formerly an army chaplain. will he
among the speakers. Thousands OF seats
have been reserved for soldiers and sai,-
ors at the in dependent committees
meeting. but the Mayor said the meet
ing was really for the purpose OF launch
ing IAN attack IN the Mayors Commit
tee of Welcome to Homecoming Troops
and Nr Hearst
Just when the negro regiment and the
Twenty -seventh Division men will reach
New York is not known, but unoff !cial
word has come to the Mayors commit
tee that they may start at any lime
Consequently the arrangements Tor the
welcome are being hurried torwrad. The
commanding and other high off icers will
be received fret at city Hall where tho
Mayor will be OIL hand, rain or shine, to
meet them.
City TO Greet Heroes.
The next big SPOT Will be Washington
Square. where Washington Arch Will hs
deliberately extended and decorated
Other columns and smaller arches will
be built there. Every house will be COW
cred with decorations.
AT Twentythird street great stretches
OF camoufiage netting will be set W. The
Victory Arch, nearing completion al
ready, will be the centre from which
the other decorations will spread Tho
Altar OF Liberty will lie off to the east.
and in between will lie a brilliancy o:
color1ns which the committees spoles-
man says never has been euualled !. a
decorative way in this country Before
the Altar OF Liberty representatives. OF
thu allied nations Will review the
parade.
Fifth avenue itself will have no re-
viewing stands. Instead tho sc.tjon
about the Public Library where to
stands heretofore have been built VIII
be transformed into Court of Nictor-
Gus Dead.
For the rest OF the way -T to Fifty
ninth street, the avenue will he a SOL
idly decorated highway. The supreme
decorative effort will be made ut Ftsty-
ninth street and the park plaza