The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-11-15
HONOR GUARDS
HEROES WHO DID
NOT COME BACK
Parade and Park CeremO-
MES for Dead of Twenty
seventh.
1000 LIE In FRANCE
Tablets Unveiled for Men of
Seventh and in West
Side Y. NJ. C. A.
PRAYERS IN CHURCHES
Services Throughout City Are
Part Of Armistice Day
Programme.
PRAYERS IN CHURCHES

On the sheep meadow In Central Park
yesterday noon stood an artillery cais-
son. draped with the Stars and Stripes
whose blue field was turned eastward to
France. In hollow square about the
gun carriage were lined the picked pro-
visional units of the New York Guard
division. the men chosen to carry on
the traditions of New York's Twenty
seventh. to wear the divisional in
sigma it wore in France. the constella-
ton OF Orion. They were gathered there
to do honor to the Twenty seventies
dead. 1000 Of whom lie in France.
They marched up Fifth avenue from
Twenty-third street in the morning,
passed in review at the Plaza, and then
moved on to the meadow. where brief
and simple ceremony was held.
Although the parade and the exer-
cises were primarily in tribute to the
men Of New York's National Guard who
of the national observance of the me-
mortal day proclaimed by President
Wilson In honor Of the country's war
dead, to be held on Armistice Sunday.
In the ranks of the Guard battalions
were men who fought In the old Twenty
seventh, men of the Seventy seventh.
National Army. old regulars, former
marines and those who were in the
Rainbow Division with the 165th, or
old new York Sixty-ninth.
Services I'm Bronx.
The parade and services were the
chief memorial occasions of the day,
but there were numerous others. The
American Legion In The Bronx held ser
vices for five Bronx men who gave their
I n Seventh NJ
yelled memorial tablet; the Elks re-
membered those who died in the Ar
gonne. special prayers were given in all
the churches, there were services at Co
lumbia University and tablet was UNI
yelled at the West Side Y. NJ. c. A. In
every corner OF the five boroughs the
war dead We're remembered.
Nearly two thousand men of tn .
Guard units marched in the parad
TLey left Twenty third street at 10 ID
O'Clock. and hundreds on their way to
Church paused as the Guardsmen swuns
by In platoon front, with fixed bay
lets bright in the sun. AS the head III
the column came opposite st. Patrick's
Cathedral the chimes were ringing
Onward, Chr. stan Sc. diers." Then the
bells stopped, and the band Of the Fit
te enth Infantry. Col w liam Havwards
ne gro regiment, carried on the hymn.
Waiting at the Plaza We're Major
Gen. Charles p. Summerall. commando
OF the First Division; Major-Gen. job.
T. Organ. who led the Twenty-sev-
erth; Brighten Cornelius Vanderbilt
Col. Daniel Appleton. long commando
of the Seventh Regiment. and Col. Will
lam Weigel. representing MaJor-Gen.
i.cbert Lee Billiard for the Department
c: the East They, with three office. 3
o. the State Naval Militia. made up tn =
reviewing party. There was some con
fusion concerning where the reviewing
party should stand, and when the pa
rade came up Major-Gen. SummeraIl
srd Maj. -Gen. Organ were standing in
an automobile at Fifth avenue and
Fifty-ninth street. Br g.-Gen. Wander
bit and Col. Appleton were on the side
Wulk, and over on the steps of the
Hotel Piazza were the other members
Cf the party. Much dashing about OF
excited Junior officers, much sGlutin &
and finally the generals and the colone.s
were arranged in proper formation.
The ceremonies in the park Taste I
ten minutes at most The hollow square
formed by the soldiers was encircle
by a big crowd who stood with head :
uncovered while Father Francis
Duffy. war chaplain of the One Hundred
and Sixty-ffth. read the ritual for tn.
dead. Father Duffy spoke first few
words In tribute to the Twenty-sev
onth's sacrifse. the men who lie on Tn .
brow of the lite hills Mt Gullemont
Dcny and st. Souplet. He called to
nind the dvis' on's achievements i'm the
assaults on Vierstaat Ridge, Rossgll0l
wood, Petit Bots and Plateau Farm,
ard the latter attack of which the :
we're the hammorhead. and on which
tneir fame chiefly rests. the breaking
OF the Hindenburg line.
When he fin shed speaking Il was
quiet on the meadow, quiet as the fields
In France where those same dead ar,
sleeping And then from the buglers
OF the Fifteenth Infantry band came
ue first notes of taps"
The parade was led by Col. Elmer
r. Austin. Of the l. ghth Coast Defencs
with a staff composed of Lieut.. Col Ed
ward Olmsted. chief OF staff to Major
Cen. Organ Major Allan l.. Reagan
ard Major HIllyer Eggloston
There was a provisional regiment OF
infantry under the command of Col.
Sidney Grant Of the Thirteenth Coast
Lefcnce. and a provisional troop from
Squadron A. led by Capt. John Reynolds.
Al the conclusion of the services on Tn
meadow, Major.-Gen. Summerall. with
the other officers OF the reviewing party.
inspected the Guardsmen. stopping here
End there to chat with man who ha
scen overseas service. as many member
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