The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-03-24
CITY READY FOR
27TH'S PARADE
Fifth Avenue Wears Gorgeous
Dress and Victory Arch
Shows Its Glory.
VISITORS POURING IN
Units of Organs Heroes viii
March To-day to Their
Designated Stations.
VISITORS POURING IN

10 the Twenty-seventh Division to-day
Brooklyn began hers yesterday.
Though the big parade, when tho he
roes Of Organs own march through
the Victory Arch and before the mile
on mile of stands along Fifth avenue,
will not take place until tomorrow,
the various units OF the division have
to reach their armories by noon to-day.
To reach their armories they will have
to pass through the streets, they will
have to gather a crowd and where a
crowd gathers to see the Twenty-sev-
enth march-any part of it--there will
be a celebration.
So, while Brooklyn in formal fashion
is passing her own soldiers in review
along Prospect Park West. there will
be a half dozen little parades through
out Manhattan, Harlem and The
Bronx. Fifth avenue began to re-
sound yesterday to the tread of march
ing feet. Not hobnailed feet in meas
ured tread, but civilian feet attached
to legs that bore eyes whose owners
believed they would get no chance to
see the great avenue in it's greatest of
holiday aspects tomorrow. So they
took yesterday to do It,
Even BuGgtes Appear.
They tramped from Washington
Square to 10th street. They rode in
buses, limousines and taxicabs. Even
side bar buggy carried a gaping lit
tie family. The busiest of rush hour
traffic was outdone on the avenue yes-
terday and late into the night as the
crowds formed and dispersed about the
Victory Arch at Twenty fifth street
and about the great luminous gateway
to the reviewing stand at Fifty-ninth
street.
They were well repaid for their trouble.
Seldom has the finest street in the world
been more beautiful. particularly after
nishtfan The genius who replaced the
glary gas-lit-fron: -parlor arc lights OF
ordinary days with globes of orange at
tanned triumph. Fifth avenue became
paved with gold. The new globes shed
soft though BRILLIANT radiance on the
windows. on the flashing motors and
over the myriads OF spectators that
transformed the whole scene.
What had been n brightly lighted
street became warm, glowing bit of
just what the returning soldiers ought
to think it--home. And when one got
to the top of the hill ut Thirty-seventh
street II seemed as IL tho very heart Of
the great home city were throbbing
ahead, for even from that distance the
luminous span at Fifty-ninth street be-
came visible. Its millions OF colored
facets sparkled and its tall white
columns rose fairylike from tho COM
parative darkness at either side.
Beside this gateway tomorrow will be
one OF the most stirring places of the
whole long route, for there, In the
camouiaged bit OF Mount KENNEL, into
which the Deznon Contracting Company
has turned its subway digging plant,
will be seated the soldiers from the New
York hospitals who are suffering from
shell shock. The DeEnon company
agreed TO give up its stand for these men
and they will be placed tomorrow be-
hind machine gun nests. back OF ini-
tation barbed wire. and in canvas
trenches TO see their steel hated bud
dies march by.