New-York tribune., 1919-08-09
Flowers Trampled Under
Foot as $4,000 Reg.
ulars and Marines, Faces
Lined by Toll, March
Megaphone Finds
Hero for Mother
T a Gus Organization
Ends Career After OFF,
cial Review i'm 5th Ave.

There were lines in the lean faces
Of the $4,000 men who marched up Fifth
Avenue yesterday afternoon. Those lines
were etched when these American SOL
ders stood at Chateau Thierry, when
they forced their way into SCISSORS,
Strengthened their share of the line at
st. Mihiet, when they fought in Cham
pagne and finally when they shot and
stabbed their way through the Argonne
The I'd Division was only parading
and the canvas packs on the backs of
the doughboys were empty Of many
of the implements they carried over
there. But in their faces, in the right
angled slant of their mirror-lke bayo-
nets and in the scutfle of their iron
studded feet was revealed the grim
dauntlessness that held them to their
, duty until the enemy cried aKamerad."
Yesterday hob-nailed shoes that had
strodc through the litter and choke of
lnany batteltields trampled on red roses
and white and purple asters that were
s.rewn in their path by GREATNESS
girls whose charm frequently won
contest with military discipline and
ured from alignment eyes that had
been ordered "front'
Fifth Avenue Thronged
From the arch at Washington Square
to the point of disbandment at 10th
Street, the Fifth Avenue walks were
hlled with men, women and children
who cheered the passage of each unit.
Major General John A. Lejeune. di-
vision commander, and his staff, head
ing the parade, started from the Wash
ngton Arch at $40 p. m., and it was
$50 p. NJ. when they reached 10th
Street. The division marched past the
reviewing stand at the Public Library
IN just triAe less than forty-tive
minutes, faster than either the 9th
or the nth divisions passed given
point.
II the spectators favored marines or
regulars they did not show it in their
shouts and applause. Devil dogs and
doughboys divided honors in Fifth Ave
nue Just as they did at Chateau Thier-
ry, though censor's ruling kept the
score Of praise lopsided for weeks after
grass had begun to sprout over the
battlefield graves Of thousands of men
OF both branches Of the service.
When Ma jor General Lejeunc passed
the reviewing stand he WAS salutcd by
a host of notabes that included Frank
lin D: Roosevelt, Acting Secretary of
the, Navy; Admirals Benson, Glennon
and Gleaves; the commander of the
Marine Corps, Major General George
Barnett, and Major Generals Barry,
Shanks (who arranged yesterdays
Parade), Alexander (who commanded
New York's 77th in the Argonne fight
ing) and Nicholson.
The SILK hat OF. Mayor Hylan was
held IIOit foo md NJ
state officials shouted and cheered
Flowers for Veterans
just then young woman dressed in
Columbus canteen worker dashed tow
ard the division commander with an
armful Of American Beauty roses
This was too much for the generals
mount. who crouched and then bolted.
The girl was persistent and chased af-
ter him as fast as her French heels
would permit. Again she extended the
roses, and again the generals horse
dashed out of reach. If the mount
toned to the roar of cannon but
strange to the fiutter of skirts it
might not seem so odd, but this horse
was General, pride of the New York
Police Department.
The roses finally were showed into
the hands of a staff officer, who tucked
them under his arm, heads down.
Few Doughboys Take Bouquets
With the doughboys the flower girls
had little more success, and only occa-
sionally found one who would permit
them to shove white and purple blooms
into hand that was calloused from
gun butts and spade handles.
| There were Jumps in many throats
during the passage of the 9Th Marines
at Forty third Street, where a slender,
,lack-clad little woman had pushed her
'ay to the curb and strained her eyes
for her son, "William Schmidt. of
Pittsburgh" A man with megaphone
kept repeating his name while the men
of the 9Th tramped by. Then, in one
of the last companies, tall soldier
With the Distinguished Service Cross
fastened to his breast, waved his hand.
1t was William, all right, and he saw
his mother, but she couldn't see her boy
for tears, and neither could many Of
The others who stood near by.
AS the last marchers swung up the
avenue it marked the end Of the I'd
Division, for the Marines entrained
soon afterward for Quantico, Va.
once more under the command of the
Secretary Of the Navy, and the regular
army units started for Camp Kearny,
California, there to be sreorganized on
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