The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-04-30
HOLIDAY DECLARED
/ FOR 77TH'S PARADE
Board Of Aldermen Takes Ac-
ton So City Employees
, May See Pageant.
CHANGE IN FORMATION
Maj .-Gen. Alexander Will Have
Infantry as Last Unit
in Line.
CHANGE IN FORMATION

Tie Board of Aldermen passed reso-
luton yesterday making next Tuesday.
May Q. an Official holiday for the city.
on account OF the parade Of the Sew
enty- New York city's own d.
vision. Most Of the city Offices will be
closed, and It II expected that the ma
jority of the city's business houses will
close also, so that their employees can
witness tho fighting men rs they march
up the avenue.
Ma3or-Gen. Robert Alexander an
nounced yesterday that an infantry reg
iment would be the last unit In the line
when the division parades This Is a
departure from the usual march forma-
ton. In which tho artillery usually
brings up the rear in a divisional pa
rade. and is due TO the fact that the
Stventy-seventh's artillery will not have
its field guns The General wanted the
final impression of the march to have a
distinctly military tone.
Gen. Alexander told yesterday how
the Seventy-seventh Division captured
during the fighting on the Vesle River
iour German los millimeter guns. which
viii be given to the city of New York
when they reach this country.
Captured Guns Marked.
~we captured these guna on the
vesle River and took them to the Ar
sonne Forest with us and used them
there against the Germans We had q
hundred rounds OF ammunition each for
them, and We picked up q lot aloNg the
road that had been abandoned by the
fleeing Fritxies. When we LEFT the guns
IN France our engineers etched with acid
the Seventy-seventh's insignia on. the
gun barrels. The weapons will be sent
C. US here as soon as possible. We nave
promised them to the city"
While he was talking probably the
youngest General in the United States
Army crept In under the decreasing top.
He was Gen. Pelham b. Glass
the 1891 Artillery Brigade, and who
stands In his interwovens feet 81
inches. He arrived yesterday aboard
the Agamemnou and had much to say
in praise Of his brigade.
Gen. Glassford Is IS years old and is
the ron of Col. w. A. Glassford. retired.
who wss in the Signal Corps when the
WAf began. The General was wounded
in the neck at St. Mihiel on September
II curing the drive. He was then with
the Twenty-sixth Division.
Father James J. Hallisan. formerly Of
St. Johns Church. The Bronx, chaplain
Of the 30sth Infantry. which unit mel
dentally had twenty-six denominations
Of religions represented, said that tho
American doushbSy IL "reverent being
toward God"
DouGhboy Shows Respect.
He may be blasphemous toward other
sAings-and he really doesn't mean It
but never toward God" said Father
Halligan. 1--WE know him In the front
close to each other, There the soldier
u stripped Of the trimmings OF civilian
life and he comes to just the essential
things Of life. He IL unerring in his
Judgment Of men; he respects others
religions and makes others respect his.
! have seen men fight quicker for this
than anything else"
Father Halligan told of Sergeant
Anthony Kruger. who was shot through
tho chest and throat and who received a
comforting shot of morphine to relieve
his suffering. The sergeant summoned
Father Halligan and whispered: ct can't
die: my baby's been born and must
see It,"
And Sergeant Kruger will. for he IS
we'll and healthy and soon will be re-
turned TO his home, Father Halligan
said. Speaking Of the division as a
whole. he said the boys are anxious to
parade.
Father Halligan was cited at Vile
oavoye August 81 for burying the bodies
of soldiers while he was under shell FIRE.
He Is glad to be back and said that the
men are in splendid condition.
A liberty ball will be given to 5000
men OF the Seventy-seventh at the
0eventy-flrst Regiment Armory by the
War Camp Community Service Wednes-
day evening. Each soldier will have a
feminine dancing partner.