Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1920-11-13
US. CELEBRATES
ARMISTICE DAY
Second Anniversary of Surrender
of the German Armies to
the Allies and u. S.
GIFTS FOR WOUNDED YANkS
Members of American Legion, Women's
Clubs and Others Visit Hospitals
and Bring Presents for the
Men Who Were Disabled in
Great War for Liberty.

Chicago Nov. 1.-Two years ago
today at IL o'clock in the morning the
order cease firing" was sounded
throughout. the many fighting fronts in
Europe. Millions of soldiers for the
first time in four years laid down their
arms for Marshal FOch, commander i'll
chief of the allied armies, had granted
Gcrmany's request for an armistice.
The long awaited message "Armis-
tice signed Peace in sight!' was
flashed around the world to millions
of people who were war weary.
Celebrations Throughout the World.
Then followed the widest orgy of
celebrating that the world has ever
witnessed. People, who ordinarily
would be called sane, acted like mani
acs, so relieved were they that the
great slaughter of human lives had
ended and peace was to reign once
more throughout the world and that
liberty loving people would be free to
live their own lives as before that
fateful July 80, 1914, when the great
kaiser declared war on France and
trampled little Belgium with his great
war machine.
When the newspapers announced
that the armistice had been signed the
people in the cities, towns, villages
and hamlets throughout the United
States and allied nations and cOun-
tries associated with the allies in the
war against the PruSSian war lord,
gave vent to their feelings by bowling,
cheering and making noises with every
| noise-making device that was ever in
vented by man. Bankers, business
| men, labOrers, school teachers, doc
| tors and professional men of all kind;
| and children joined the merry thrOngs
| parading up and down streets of the
| cities The celebration continued all
| afternoon and far into the night such
was the peoples joy when they learned
| that the bloody war was actually end
ed and that the German people had
| had their dream of world power Shat
| tered by the armies of the United
| States and the allied nations.
Second Anniversary of Armistce.
| To-day, two years after the war end.
/ ed, the people are celebrating, but not
as boisterously as they did two years
| ago.
! The mournful strains of TAPS was
| relayed by scores of buglers through
| the loop district today. Armistice day
as the American Legion's requiem Il
the soldier dead Of Chicago. This i'm
pressive tribute was given at l.
o'clock, and, as the haunting notes Of
flights out" floated through the cavern
Gus streets, hundreds of thousands OF
citizens reverently faced the east will
bowed heads. All traffic-trolley, horse
and motor-was suspended for on,
minute. Then the entire city gave
vent to paens of joy in memory of on
of the happiest events in history, tn
signing of the armistice
Gifts for the Wounded.
A practical part of the Armistic
day program was visits to ex-servic
men who are hospital patients by com
mittees of clubwomen, who brough
gifts of flowers, fruits, jelly, candy
cigarettes and magazines. Fort Sher
dan hospital was visited by the Win
netka and Fort Sheridan Woman
clubs. the Marine hospital by tn,
Lake View WOman's club, and tn
Drexel hospital by delegates fror
Englewood and South Side Woman
clubs and the Archie club; soldiers pa
TENTS at Oak Forest were remembers
by the Chicago Woman's club.
More than 400 victory medals wer
presented at an impressive ceremon
the evening Of Armistice day in til
First regiment armory, under til
auspices of Chipilly post. This unit
mainly composed of veterans of tn
fighting One Hundred and Thirty-firs
infantry of the Prairie division.
"Noise Parade" in SprinqfieJd.
In all cities and towns of Illino
the legion played a leading role
Armistice day celebrations. In Sprin,
field the legionnaires held a noise n:
rade' at a. M, led by the drum an
bugIe corps, which was featured h
the singing Of favorite doughbOy song
Burial of Lieut.. James c. Maruuard
Twenty aero squadron, wi
was killed in France, took place
Oakwoods cemetery, Chicago. The f
/ neral was under the auspices of &c
John Swift post. Williamson post
Marion, H., conducted two funeral
the first being that of Wagner Jane
Morley and the second of Winifre
Fairfax Warder, a girl ambulan,
driver.