Evening star., 1919-09-04
SINGING TO MARK
REVIEW OF FIRST"
Percy S. Foster Asked to
Form Chorus-Bands to
Aid Welcome to Regulars.
VICTORY ARCH IS BEGUN

Choral music will be a fea ature OF the
grand review of the 1st Division
Regulars in Washington week after
next, Percy s. Foster having been
asked today by Robert N. Harper.
of welcome. to organize singers to be
grouped at one or more places along
the line of march.
Though only two weeks remain in
which to select the singers and train
them, Mr.. Foster expressed the be-
lief that the patriotic feeling in
Washington would enable commend
able choir to be organized before
September Is. the tentative date of
the review. In addition there will be
several local bands at convenient
street intersections. so that there will
be an abundance of music as the vet
Grams march past
Noise and Color Sought.
In addition members of the COM
mittee repeated their belief that the
feeling in Washington should be in
dicated by the noise and color with
which the paraders were welcomed.
Orders already are being placed for
thousands of flags and hundreds of
yards of bunting, which will line both
sides of the Avenue.
Work on the Victory arch that will
mark the east entrance of the court
of honor. at 18th street and Penn
sylvania avenue, began today, and
tie official grandstand in front of the
White House is going up rapidly.
Signs Will Give Data.
The thousands who line the streets
to see the veterans march past will
have no difficulty in recognizing the
various units of the division, or know
ing in what actions each took part.
Numerous signs are to be carried on
the trucks and wagons. while smaller
placards will be born by the marchers.
One of the signs tentatively adopted
by the War Department reads:
"1917-First Division Regular
Fought at
SommerviIle, Toul, Montdidier.
Cantigny. scissors. Saizerais. ST.
Mihiel. Meuse-et-Argonne and Cob
Ienx bridgehead.'
Other signs will be 18th United
States Infantry; fought at Sommer-
vile, Toul, Montdidier. Cantigny, Sois-
sons, st. Mihiel and Meuse- e-et-Argonne.
."lst Field Artillery brigade. COM
posed Of men from forty-five states
ard Hawaii"
IA large sale Of seats in the court
Of honor grandstAnd is looked for next
Monday, when the sale opens at the
ot0re Of T. Arthur Smith, 1906 G
street northwest. Hundreds Of ap-
placations for seats are being made to
the War Department, but all these are
referred to the citizens committee,
which has the only seats for purchase.
Efforts to get in touch with Gen.
P@rshing by wireless have proved un-
successful So far. and in Washington,
az well as in New York, plans are
somewhat tentative until his wishes
are consulted. The seats in the official
reviewing stand cannot be apportion-
ed until it Is learned how many the
general wants for members of his
party. ~
Confined to First Division.
No organizations other than the
units of the LIST Division and the
composite" regiment of picked troops
that marched with Gen. Pershing in
Paris, London and Brussels will be
allowed to parade. Efforts have been
mfde by various military or semi
military organizations to get permis-
1t4n to march as a guard Of honor,
but the War Department has taken
the position that the fully equipped
division will be spectacle enough.
pnits of the division are arriving
daily at the docks in Hoboken and
betng sent to camps near New. York
city to get in shape for the reviews in
thht city and Washington. At the
S4me time, horses wagons, trucks,
guns and other equipment are being
diftributed among the various COM
minds to take the place of that left in