The New York herald. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1920-1924, 1920-10-29
THE NEW YORK HERALD FRIDAY OCTOBER 30 1920

usually the quietest part Of the city at this
hour swarmed with eager Harding and
Coolidge shouters when the parade got
under way at twenty minutes after six.
All the way up Broadway to Eighth
street and over 10 Washington Square
and farther north on the West Side and
over on the East Side. two new battal-
ions were forming to fall in and march
to the place Of junction with the main
current at the designated minute and
second
The many battalions making up the
Wholesale Dry Goods Division, had the
place OF honor as the foremost ranks
behind the Seventh Regiment Band and
Gov Coolidge. And first among them
stepped the girls of the cotton goods
trade. each sporting a white plume in
her dark hat and holding over her left
shoulder pointing skyward. the little
oriiagstatf with its radiant tip of red,
white or blue.
Lights Flare and Bands Blare.
The head Of the procession found
Washington square light as day, made
so by white flares, which there and in
front of the Union League Club gave
the motion picture men a chance.
Brass band after brass band tumbled
into line. until more than hundred as
them. at proper intervals In the parade.
were beating out the patriotic measures
OF the night, yet so perfectly was the
whole thing timed that no band intruded
upon another's music. Under the Wash
ington Arch and up the avenue past the
Flatiron Building, which was wonder
OF the world when McKinley's marchers
passed the same way in 1896, the Hard
ing and Coolidge parade of 1920 Jared
along. And n few minutes later. under
the reviewing stand OF the Union League
Club. II made its first long stop.
But we made more little stops than
in the old days" one of the banner
bearers said. because 1t was thought
best to give tho women time to rest.
Not that they seemed to need 1t. but this
is the first time they've been in with us.
you know, and we didn't know how
they'd take it."
Up on the platform in frsnt of the
Union League Club. at the height OF
the second story windows, stood Elihu
Root. to be Joined with Calvin Coolidge
and paired with him as chief review
ing citizen as soon as the Governor
should arrive. Others in the official re-
viewing party at that time or later
the parade kept going SO long that the
reviewers had to serve in relays--were
Senators Calder and Wadsworth. Chaun-
cey NJ. Depew, VIII Hays. the national
chairman ex-senator John W. Weeks
of Massachusetts,. a. 7. Hert, national
committeeman from Kentucky: Frank
A. Munsey. George Glynn. Republican
state Chairman. and Lafayette II. Glea-
son. secretary of the State committee.
These were Joined by Assemblyman
Theodore Roosevelt, ex-Gov. Benjamin
L. Odell. Arthur S. Tompkins. Justice
John Proctor Clarke. Henry L. Stod-
dard. Gen. Nelson a. Miles, a. G.. Cush-
ing and James J. Lyons. acting chair
man of the clubs committee of ar
rangements. To the reviewing stand
also went Gen. Sheriff.. with his grand
marshals' sash. after the head of the
column. marching sixteen abreast,
reached Fifty seventh street.
The club flung forth its own chal-
lenge. Union League Club. Harding and
Coolidge" in electric lights from the
facade above the stand. and otherwise
displayed many American flags. on
wlndowsills of a tall building down the
avenue red fire burned necessarily.
The Seventy-first Regiment Band, on
the sidewalk in front of the Union
League. was playing THE Rose OF
Washington Square" as the automobile