New-York tribune., 1920-03-18
1900 March
In Honor of
St. Patrick
E.u,on de Valera, President
Of the ''Irish Republic, -
Reviews Parade; Arch
bishop Hayes Also There
Smith Smiles Approval
Veterans of World War,
With Father Duffy Lead
ing. a Feature of the Day

Ryass bands, scores of them, hung
Nanny peever for the Wearin' of the
Green yesterday until the poor lads
neck was like to have been stretched
from Forty-second Street to Mount
Norris Park, which was the ~oute Of
she finest st. Patrick's Day parade
Archbishop Patrick J. Hayes said he
ever saw-and him New York boy
that has seen them every year of his
life.
In the reviewing stand. built on the
steps of the Fifth Avenue Cathedral
named for Erln's patron and within
whispering distance of the white haired
archbishop, conspicuous IN silken robes
Of ecclesiastical purple, sat another
born in New York. one who swelled
with pride as he read the defiant words
Of Sim Fem banners borne past him
nv 10000 marchers. This was Eamon
de Valera. the "presidcnt' of Ireland
himself. who reversed the usual i'm
migrant order by departing from Amer
ra AS a youngster to gather fame in
the land OF the shamrocks.
Governor Smith Smiled Approval
With these two, and proud 90 be
there, were Governor "Al" Smith and
Mayor Hylan, and the rest of the scanty
space in the stand was shared by
Judges, admirals. colonies, priests, poll
ticians and a sprinkling of women.
Justice John Gof. his white hair
blowing about his face. was there. and
10 was Harry Boiand. who held q barri-
cade in the Easter revolution and aided
De Valera to escape Lincoln gael.
First in the long procession, which
required two hours and ten minutes to
pass a given point came the SCARED
veterans of the old 69th, who fought
In the Rainbow Division from the
Somme to the Nesle and elsewhere as
the 165th United States Infantry.
Father Duffy WAS in front of them, and
if he had been elsewhere the lads
wouldn't have known how to act for
the strangeness of it.
Then CT the heels Of The soldiers
came Supreme Court Justice Daniel F.
Cohalan in big automobile beftting
the grand marshal of the parade, and
his machine was eniladed and finally
halted before the reviewing stand by
batteries Of moving picture cameras,
and when his silk hat had been re-
corded fer tEis weeks screen news
pictures, to say nothing of posterity,
the procession, marking time behind
him, moved on again.
Disguised as Scots
A host Of youthful warriors followed,
chershing circular shields and savage
glded spears. their slender legs
wrapped sprally with yellow cloths
where they were not Hidden ny kits
thai had Scottish look about them.
This was explained last night by a
message from the Friends OF Irish Free
com, which said that these were Father
Powers boys of All Saints School,
Irish. Christian Brothers, and that they
wore the historically correct costumes
OF the cucullan period of Irish history.
Anyway, there were many red heads
among them, and that seemed even
more likely to be historically correct.
The brown-kiltcd Shamrock Pipers,
Of Englewood, N. j., made such ca
dence that their rendition of the
"Wearin' Of the Green" caused the
spectators along the sidewalks to for
get III tempers, borne on a cold wind
and nursed by crowdine elbows and
careless feet. Long green shawis,
pinned to the pipers' shoulders BY a
large jewel, f1oated out behind them, as
NAN SHC tONh pue2SdEI IC2tnCrS th3t
were fastened to their tams.
And then who should come along but
the Friends of Freedom Of India. as
represented by coFee-colored Hindus.
some of them wearing green turbans.
some red and others ORANGE. One of
them fought with the wind for posses
s SION OF banner which bore the words:
president de Nalera's message to
andia: Our cause is common cause"
Signs Garry Patriotic Legends
Then there was another sign, carried
y, irish-Americans, which read:
,uncpe Sam, vindicate your dead. O K
the irish Republic"
TT, There were s other signs, among them
These; The only thing the Irish
uation" and If fighting for free
dom In Belgium is a virtue whv is it
crime in Ireland % There was this
DIT pulled from the Daniels Sims
ry.ontroversy: Good advice. Don't let
england pull the wool over your ewes"
d. anu England, damn your concessions,
we want our country"
But the one which caused laugh
IN the reviewing stand and almost
made the Archbishop weep with JOY
a.. 1lve me liberty or give me DEATH"
saa beneath those memorable words
was printed "Hoboken."
.;an mere were fifers. raising such
wv. S.no with their footing that they all
I Sus pew their own caps from their
sssI' asaus' tMere were mounted men in
saen numbers that it is doubtful if
sngie riding academy or livery stable
h:e hhotse mad so much as a chance 20 put
ans ars nose into Central Park yesterday;
sao then, too, there were hundreds Of
"omen, clad in white summer dresses
aug eioaks of green, white and orange.
~ "A member of the parade committee
,neneed side-line expressions of pneu-
"onla .n tears by stating officially that
very one OF them had been ordered to