New-York tribune., 1921-05-29
ALI Borouglas Take Part
Veterans of Three Conflicts
to Join in Ceremonies:
Special Services To-day

Never in the history of the city has
,sere been as elaborate program
rl.nned for the ceremonies OF Me-
sorial Day as that scheduled for this
yssr Each of the FIVE boroughs of the
srester city will have its individual
psrade and service, and the youth of
he country, in honoring its dead of
The Word War, will follow in the falter-
;ng footsteps of the Grand Army of the
RspubEc. survivors of the Civil War.
The United Spanish War Veterans
will join in the demonstration. and
representative of the hosts who con-
nuered Germany will be. scores of posts
Il the Americat Legion, the Veterans
~ Foreign Wars snd the United Amer
ran War Veterans Others who Will
march are gold star mothers, who gave
their sons to- the colors; members of
The auxilisries of the American Legion,
the Bow and Girl Scouts and numerous
ether patriotic organizations.
The program for tke day as an
nounced by each of the FIVE counties
OF the city is as follows:
Borough of Manhattan
The most impressive of the cere-
monies in this borough will be the
uarsde, starting at Seventy fourth
Street and Riverside Drive at o'clock.
Major General Robert Lee Bullard,
commander of the Second Corps Area,
United States Army. with other army
and navy officers, will review the col
umn at Eighty-ninth Street and River
side Drive. and at Ninety-frst Street
Grand Marshal Christopher J. Farrell
will review it. The parade will dis
band at Ninety-second Street and exer-
cises will be held at the Soldiers and
Sailors Monument. The line of march
will be as follows:
First Division-Grand Army of the
Republic.
Second Division-Grand Army of the
Republic.
Third Division-Sp Spanish War Vet
srans.
Fourth Division-American Legion.
Fifth Division-Veterans of Foreign
Wars.
Sixth Division-Veterans of the New
Ierk Police Department.
Seventh Division-Polic reserves.
Eighth Observation-Disclosures Guard.
Ninth Division Miscellaneous or
carnations.
battalion of the United States Army
end detachment of sailors and ma
rines also will be in the line Of march
and fifteen minutes before the column
moves General Bullard will be escorted
to the reviewing stand by the Veteran
Corps Of Artillery of New York, Major
Bryce W. Metcalf commanding. and the
Old Guard OF New York City, Major
Edward Havemeyer Snyder command
ing. The 1st Brigade of the New York
Guard will Immediately follow the
army, navy and marine detachmentsi
altar which will come the G. A. r
veterans.
With the American Legion contin-
gent there will be representatives OF
the Allied countries and scores OF
wounded veterans who are still patients
in the hospitals in the metropolitan
district
The Rev. DR.. Joseph SilveIman will
be the principal speaker at the exer-
cises at the monument, and the Rev. A
Edwin Keigwin will pronounce the in
vocation and the benediction.
Other Manhattan Exercises
Other exercises to be held in Man
haitian are:
At the list Regiment Armory, Thir'
ty-fourth Street and Park Avenue, at
II a. m.-UnveiIing of tablet in mem
CRY of Captain Hedley H. Cooper, for
mer regimental chaplain, who was
killed in battle on May 26, 1918, while
acting as q stretcher bearer.
At the foot of West Ninety-sixth
Street, North River, at /11:30 a. M.
gold star mothers of men who lost their
lives while serving in the merchant
marine will be the guests of the Ship
ping Board Division of the United
American War Veterans at exercises
in memory Of their dead. The mothers
will board naval launches and be con-
yoyed through the feet of de&troyers
now at anchor in the Hudson, scatter
ing flowers on the water. AS they pass
aPresidential salute of twentyone gun!
Wall be fired from the Rochester, the
Dixie, the Bridgeport and the Leonidas
On returning to the pier the mothers
NIL march to Grants Tomb, where they
VIII attend exercises to be held under
the auspices of U. S. Grant Post, 327
y A. r., at 2:3G p. IN.
The exercises at Grants Tomb will
have as the chief speaker Justice Fred
enek Z. Crane, of the Court of Ap.
peals
At l15th Street and the Speedway, al
!, p. M, members of Washington
heights Post, American Legion, will
participate in the naming of Mahel
Slrele in honor of Joseph r. Maher, 6
lieutenant in the Marine Corps, whit
vas killed in action.
AT Trinity Cemetery, 153d Street Gnc
nofeadway, at 1I;30 a. m, John A Di2
ppost Z. A. R., and Washington Heights
fost American Legion, will hold serv,
ices for Civil War veterans.
feature of Memorial Day cere
monies this year will be the decora
Hon OF the Statue of Liberty by tht
washington Post of the United Ameri
ssn war Veterans with huge wreatt
ninety feet in circumference. 1t will
oe hung from the statues shoulder.
sac sna at night will be Illuminated with
zVo electric lights.
at the Custom House, Bowling Green
?. M, tablet to the marine dead will
oe unveiled by w. w. Miners, feet sur
Ssoh OF the United States Shippint
= 1'afa' The government will receive
~ .hrough James j. Hand, head of ths
'ilhe division of the Shipping Board
Borough of Brooklyn
There will be seven divisions in the
snsi9oSJyn parade, the first consisting o.
sr;., s'ate az militia, led by Colonel Fred
- .'eA ". Baldwin. Others will marcf
"a tne following order:
second division, G. A, r.; third divi
S;O' S;Vh' spanish War Veterans; fourth di
vtSlon' American Legion; fifth division
;serans OF Foreign Wars; sixth divi
s;o' ;on' sons of Veterans; seventh divi
S.' army and Navy veterans anc
re miscellaneous organizations.
,Anae reviewing stand will be in from
SolSie S1e oval at Prospect Park, near the