Norwich bulletin., 1919-03-26

o-OAA ttljllt DdCk tt avenue IOudN 10. their triumphal review. i The multitude which alternately cheered and stood silent as the pro- cession passed, knew that grateful Ieople never paid tribute to braver >nen than these who looked death in the face and smiled as they went ever the toD'' with a SOLE on their | lips to smash the Htn3enhurg line
 that barrier against which Europe's
 sturdiest troops had swept ir vain i The clank Of their ho5~n.i'ed shoes
 upon the pavement spelled an epic i'll American history. HSever before
 had full division of Yankee veterans ?T@sh from European service passed in review in all American city. Fighting Jack O'Ryai:, who led the line, was the only major general of the Natio=.D
 Guard who took his Esr to France and brought them back, still their
 commander.
 Even New York. famed for its !: crowds, never had mobl'iYei so many : roen, women and children along Q sin
 gle street. To the city 1wellers were added hundreds of thousands who had poured in from every corner of the
 state and ters of thousands more had , come from other states.
 5 The police estimated more than
 three million persons were packed in tc five miles of Fifth Avenue in the
 sunshine of perfect day. The side
 walks on both sides were choked , with humanity and at every interest !, ing street the crowd buIged out east
 and west for a block. Every open I space was packed with an immovable mass of humanity and every window
 facing the avenue from Washington 9 square to 10th street was filed. Mer : and women hung st pecitous angles | over window lodges a. imminent risk = of their lives. Men cl,ing like flies I to copings and other precarious perch eS.
 }, Stretching along the east side ot ,, Central Park was a grandstand two Q and a. half miles long. Tn it were some S 60000 fathers and motners. wives ant
 3weethearts, sIters and little brothers = srandfathers and sraEdmothers = Gncles and aunts of the men of th' l. Twenty Seventh. The other Is ,00t
 seats were filled with wounded sol It diers from the army hosritals. fedora d officials, governors, memoars Of tn '- legislature L:ayors aBtt official dele
 g@tions from Spstate cities and con 'r Here and tn ! in ti tho srand srarrDsn. stand
 scbbing women sat Some were youn g and some were old. some were ric Il arG some were poor, hut tkey wer es sisters in sorrow. They had left th
 homes with the gold starred servic of flags in the windows to cheer for tn n I,Ning as they wept for 4ht dead. 1 IS was their tribute to tho comrades c IS their "boys" who had died that oth CT women in alien lands might be saf l. for all time from the :aragery of tn rS Hun.
 l. Ten o'clock came. Through tn at I1rable arch the city raised in recogni l. uon of the deeds of Washington
 drawn by eight black horse. came ed hiack draped caisson co cred with tn ts Stars and Stripes upon which reste An Q simple wreath. The catafalqu e. 1vmboIized 972 men killed iii actior
 or died of wounds Behind II marct S. eG a squad Of twenty-four honor me h. hearing huge banner upon whic at h;azed a star of gold for every ma re who had fallen.
 r. But the funeral hush was broke
 Tear-dimmed eyes thar followed Il to e sisson as it went by. turned Sout at again.
 at The wounded were coming. TT
 thousand motor cars In which the
 rode made up a heart wrenching cay
 alcade which seemed to have no en IN Empty sleeves and turned up trous ol legs, crutches and bandaged head to told of men who had looked into Il he lard of shadows from which the con as rades they left lover there" will n ut return.
 Beneath the arch rode c'Ryan ar ief his staff Behind them swept u Ire dOughhovs of the Fifty Fourth Bri es. ade. The roar of cllcarT whiC ,r- greeted them was at once a salt sh tati0n and a henedictior.
 ms The Twenty Seventh was maintai en irc to the last Its famed morale a1
 discipline. Eyes front was the o<1
 and there was no sign oe 1ecogniti'
 nT the stern young faces when sor AL friend along the way shouted aa gree
 ing. On their backs were overse +bo racks and gas masks were slung S ,[o their hips. Topping 'he riff i've bristled q forest of fixed hayoue 1r, vas no peace time parade hut a r ,n ,I1 CIV Of veterans This was the ste inr which had Leaten ba.k the f HIS trough the tunnel of S. Quentin,
 Mont Kenmel Jonc de Nor Ridge. - he SelIe ard the St Maurice a
 from the knoll at Guillclnont Farm. !l 'oh Where the crowds did not surge i Ut to the street and leave scarcely roc
 for them to move by n column ies squads. they marched in nassed forr lth ation--a long column of compact h; lall battalions, eighteen mon to [ lth marching front, resembling movi
 lsuccession Of squares af troops. TO- Every man in the Twenty seven his had furnished himself for the gre i've day. Their tin hats had been fresf ur- painted, their uniforms cleaned a pa pressed and their heavy shoes cal or fully polished. They seemed unco ans scious of the weight of their twen ' l pound packs and they carried tn ue rifles jauntily.
 an- Just below the splendid Arch lry, Victory which spans the avenue
 of Madison Square the procession W not halted by the myriads of spectat Ice. who plunged into the street. It W an with difficulty that the police fore wit way for the troops to pass, nay columns of squads.
 uch Under the arch the division moN lus- on to the Court of the Nictorit e a Dead at the Public Library.
 or roll of honor and the records of tn the heroic deeds were in the cente ot she cluster of trees SumOuAtld oy croS rom spears and golden eagles, from wf ibed hung golden shields emblazoued W eral the divisional insignia.
 of- Here the caisson memorializing
 dead was halted. Eight men, ssed wearing the distinguished serv in cross, who had been leading the ho In es lifted the wreath of the Twen
 seventh off the catafalque and lai,
 s1 reverentiy al the foot of the ho