The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-04-17
STREET TO Be CLEAR
FOR 18th PARADE
Police Will Permit Only O
Reasonable Crowd Along
Sidewalks.
MANY SHOWS ARRANGED
Madison Square Garden and
Metropolitan Opera House
to Be Utilized.


seventh Division seems assured, the mill
tary officials of the Divisions advance
party and the Mayors Committee are
making definite plans for the review and
the entertainment of the men.
To avoid breaking of the column by
the surging crowds as was done in the
review Of the Twenty-seventh, the DO
lice are planning to keep the crowds
back for two blocks on either side Of
Fifth avenue after the sidewalks are
comfortably filed to the curbs, 1t was
said yesterday by Major Allan L.
Lindley.
THE parade undoubtedly will pass
given point within an hour and a half"
he continued. We propose to show
New York real military parade. The
Division is ready to parade as a divi-
sion and tho men will give snap to the
review when they march up the avenue.
We wish to avoid the disorder that I'M
fortunately marked the Twenty seventies
review and this can be done only by the
people helping us by keeping back to
the curbs and not breaking the line"
The seven welfare organizations re-
representatives. met with the Mayors Com
| mittee and officers of the advance party
yesterday and arranged part Of the pro-
gramme OF entertainment. Among the
parties will be dance in Madison
Square Garden on the night before the
parade. The men will arrive from nearby
camps the day before and will be quar-
tered in the State Guard armories.
Dancing Partners Provided.
In addition to the dance a vaudeville
show will be given earlier in the evening
and a buffet lunch will be served. The
Knights. OF Columbus. the Jewish We'll
| fare Board and the Young Womens
Christian Association will provide dane
| ing partners.
Another vaudeville show will be ten
dered TO the men the Sunday night fol-
lowing the parade at the Metropolitan
Opera House. which has been donated by
Otto II. Kahn, president OF the Metro
politan Opera Company.
The Y. NJ. C. A. will have charge OF
the Twenty-second and Seventy-first
Regiment Armories. which will accom-
modate $3.50: the knights of Columbus.
the Sixty ninth, Seventh and one half of
the Eighth, accommodating $500: the
Salvation Army. Ninth and Squadron A,
1850. and the Jewish Welfare Board,
the Second. Twelfth and the other half
of the Eighth. accommodating 5000.
Food and comforts will be supplied by
these organizations for the duration OF
the soldiers stay.
In Brooklyn the Y NJ. G. A has the
Twenty-third Regiment Armory with
1850; the knights of Columbus, the
Fourteenth, with 1876. the Jewish Wei
fare Board. Second Field Artillery,
1896. and the Knights Of Columbus and
the Salvation Army. the Forty-seventh,
with 2,42S.
After the parade the Y. NJ c. A. will
distribute box lunches to each OF the
10000 men of the division at the differ
ent armories. for the men will be with
out food from breakfast early in the
morning until their return to their
quarters for leave.
Entertainments by Auxiliaries.
Those making these arrangements
were the representatives OF the organl-
cations; Grover Whalen, secretary to
the Mayor and the Mayors Committee
and Capt. A. w. Aub of the Seventy
seventh Division and chairman of its
entertainment committee, and Ma ors s.
Fullerton Weaver, Allan L. Lindley and
Lewis Sanders, all OF the advance party.
There will be additional entertainments
made by these representatives and the
divisions auxiliary associations as well.
though 1t is requested that the auXlia-
ries refrain from setting any definite
dates for their parties until the Mayors
Committee has completed It's programme
so as to avoid conflict.
An innovation will be employed dur
ing the parade by cheer leaders who
will be stationed along the line Of
march. They will strive to concert the
cheers in a tremendous outpouring of
welcome all along the line instead OF
the voluminous swell of shouting that
usually greets the head of the column
and subsidies to scattered and chatter
ing noise for the rest OF It. It is in
tended TO cheer the whole line just as
vociferously as the head OF II, which
always brings a spontaneous thunder,
that dies as it passes.
Tunes associated with the going away
OF the division will be played TO recall
the martial spirit Of the people in the
early days when parents, relatives,
sweethearts and friends babe them
goodbye.