The sun., 1919-04-24
CHEERS GREET 9th
COAST ARTILLERY
Old and New Organizations
Are Reviewed During Pa
Made on Fifth Avenue.
DANCE HELD AFTERWARD
Greenwich Village Shows En-.
thusiasm Over Fine Record
Made by ats own"

Greenwich Village was agog with en-.
thusiasm last night, feeling that not the
least OF the rewards of victory which
have come to its own particular regi-
ment--the old Ninth Coast Defence Com
mand Of the New York National Guard
was that organizations triumphal
march down Fifth avenue yesterday
afternoon, where 1t was reviewed by
Mayor Hylan.
The parade was arranged by the new
Ninth Coast Artillery Corps, New York
Guard. Col. George w. Burleigh COM
manding. which supplanted the old
Ninth after the latter had been federal
ICED Headed by a detachment OF
mounted police they left their armory on
West Fourteenth street at 8 o'clock,
swung up Seventh avenue to Fifty-ninth
street and then to Broadway and the
FIRST Field Artillery Armory. at Sixty
seventh street, where they met the over
seas veterans under Col. John ]. Byrne
who had commanded them in France.
AS detachiaent of 200 members OF
the Spanish and civil war veterans OF
the old Ninth stood at attention the reg
mental colors were presented to Col.
byrne. The escort wore campaign hats
and the bayonets upon their rifles were
hxed. but the soldiers just back from
France, who had served in the fighting
in the Arsonne Forest, were without
equipment. There was a liberal sprfnk-
ling OF wound stripes among them and
some wore the Croix de Guerre.
Col. Byrne explained before the COL
umn moved out that the men OF the old
Ninth had been distributed among the
First Trench Mortar Battery, Fifty sew
enth Artillery. Forty-third Artillery,
seventy-fourth Artillery. Fifth Trench
Mortar Battery. Seventeenth Anti-Air-
craft Battery. Thirty-seventh Artillery
and Thirty-frst Artillery before going
overseas. With the exception OF a few
who had remained at Sandy Hook, he
SAID that every man in the outit had
seen service abroad
After leaving the armory the lire OF
march was UP Broadway. across Seven
ty-second street and thence south down
Fifth avenue past the reviewing stands.
which stretched from Sixty-seventh to
Sixty-nrst street. The Official party.
headed by the Mayor. was between Six
ty-hfth and Sixty-fourth streets Twenty
thousand etthusiastic spectators were
massed at this point.
The Mayors automobile was preceded
by one containing Grover Whalen his
secretary. and detachment OF motor
cycle cops guarded the two machines
as tsey sped uptown from City Hall.
The cadet battalion from st. Francis
Saviers School served as a guard at
the reviewing stand.
with the Mayor were George T Will
son. vice-presdent OF the Equitable Life
Assurance Society: Col. Amore g
Austin, commander OF the P1fty.ssventh
Artillery Gen. Daniel Appleton. Col
Edward Olmsted, assistant chief Of stan
OF the Twenty-seventh Division Major
Fullerton Weaver OF the Seventy-sevenrf
Division. Commodore Forshew. U. 8. n.
Col. Alfred Schermerhorn and various
members OF the Mayors Committee OF
Welcome.
In one section OF the stand were sixty
students from the Salvation Army Train
ing College under Col. Charles Miles.
The college. Col. Miles explained. was
used by officers of the old Ninth for
instruction purposes prior TO their going
abroad.
Some OF the former members of the
old Ninth who had fought In the civil
war rode in automobiles provided by the
Women's Motor Corps OF America
Major Helen Bastedo. in command OF the
corps. saluted the reviewing party.
After the review both the old and the
new Ninth continued TO the armory on
Fourteenth street. where dinner wa.
served and where the veterans were
guests at dance and vaudeville enter
tainment.