The New York herald., 1921-05-30
CITY WILL have DAY
OF GREAT PACEANTS
In Manhattan Major Gen.
Bullard VIII Review Grand
Army Procession.
% G.. A. R. POSTS IN 1T
Brig Gen. Wingate Will
Be Reviewing Officer of
Brooklyn Parade.
DEDICATION IN THE BRONX
Gigantic Wreath to Be Sus-
pended From Shoulders Of
Statue of Liberty.
80 G. A. R. POSTS IN 1T
DEDICATION IN THE BRONX

Wherever the American flag flies
to-day patriots will remember that this
is something more than a popular
holiday mellowed by the early spring
time sunshine. They will pause at
least moment to recall that this
holiday is also a holy day, day con-
secrated to the memory of nations
war dead
In Manhattan the procession staged
annually by the survivors Of the Grand
Army Of the Republic is. expected to
be uncommonly impressive. 1t will
get into motion at 9 o'clock in the
morning and swing north along River
side Drive from Seventy-second street.
Near the Soldiers and Sailors monu-
ment, at Eighty-ninth street, the
parade will be reviewed by Major Gen.
Robert Lee Billiard, u S. A., who will
have as his guard of honor stationed
there the Veteran Corps OF Artillery
and the Old Guard With Gen. Bull
lard in the reviewing stand are ex-
pected to be Major-Gen. John r.
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Huse. Mayor Hylan and other city
officials and Col. F. w. Galbraith, Jr,
commander of the American Legion.
National Guard Units.
In the procession the right of line will
be held by battalion of the Twenty
second Infantry, U. s. A., from Gov
ernors Island, and a detachment of
seamen and marines from the Atlantic
fleet. brigade composed of units of
the New York National Guard organi-
cations will follow under command of
Brig Gen. George r. Dyer
Col. Christopher A. Farrell of the
G. A. r., who will be grand marshal of
the parade, will lead the veteran organi-
cations. the first two divisions Of whicn
will comprise members from twenty
New York posts Of the Grand Army.
The third division will be composed of
the United Spanish War Veterans of
New York county, under command of
Divisional Marshal Charles G.. Law
renee.
The American Legion posts of New
York county form the fourth division.
the British, French. italian and Belgian
veterans.
The fifth, sixth. seventh, eighth and
ninth divisions will contain respectively
te delegations from the Veterans of
Foreign Wars of the United States, vet
erans of the New York Police Depart
ment the Police Reserve, the American
Guard and. finally. the Hebrew Orphan
Asylum, the Battalion des Gardes La
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the Union armies and who for the first
time in more than forty years will not
carry the French tri-color beside the
Stars and Stripes-Girl Scouts organi-
zations. and various school cadet corps.
In Brooklyn and The Bronx.
Both Brooklyn Borough and The Bronx
will have their own professions. In
Brooklyn seven divisions, under COM
mand of Col. William p. Griffith. will
be reviewed on the Prospect Park oval
near the Soldiers and Sailors arch, by
Brig. Gen. George A. Wingate. The pro-
cession will start from the fountain at
Bedford avenue and South Ninth street,
proceeding up Bedford avenue to st.
Johns place, to Flatbush avenue to the
reviewing stand, after passing which 1t
will be dismissed. =
The Bronx promises the most impos-
ing parade In its history. 1t will be
made up of the county's own patriotic
and veteran organizations. AS It
marches along the Grand Concourse its
progress will be marked by unique
ceremony. The county's posts of the
American Legion will dedicate 900 maple
shade trees which have been planted to
commemorate the Bronx men and
women who made the last great sacri-
fice.
Upon each of these young trees along
the Grand Concourse and the Boulevard
will be placed a bronze plaque bearing
the name OF the individual honored.
For the first time since the war those
who lost their lives In the service of the
merchant marine are to be remembered
officially when the gold star mothers OF
the merchant marine are 10 be the
guests of the Shipping Board division OF
the American War Veterans under escort
of the United States Junior Naval Re-
serves. The mothers will assemble at
the foot OF Ninety-sixth street at IL 80
A. M. and will there go aboard naval
launches. The littlt flotilla will cruise
down the Hudson River between the
United States destroyers and the gold
star mothers will scatter upon the waves
a profuslon of flowers which have been
donated for the purpose by many city
florists.
New York florists are TO have a part
in another unique ceremony. In coop
Grafton with the Washington Post of the
United American War Veterans they
have produced a gigantic wreath, twen-
ty-seven feet in diameter, wrought OF
evergreen studded with poppies II is to
be suspended from the shoulders Of tho
Statue OF Liberty. The wreath Is TO be
especially illuminated at night by zoo
electric lights In