The New York herald., 1921-07-10
ENDEAF0R PARADE
NOT WET PROTEST
Public, However, Insists on
Viewing Marchers as Pro-
RrOhibitionists.
is COLORFUL PAGEANT
5000 Church Workers Move
Up Avenue and Listen to
w. j. Bryan.

Without intending their demonstra-
lion to be a protest against the wet"
parade of July the 5000 Christian
Erdeavorers who marched up Fifth ave-
nue. yesterday noon in the biggest re-
lEtous street pageant ever staged were
received by spectators as pro-prohibi-
ticnists. They carried no banners sup
porting prohibition enforcement and
there was nothing about their parade
that seemed directly related to the re-
cent outburst of the ''wets," but the pub
lie just wouldn't take them for any,
thing else. w. H. Anderson issued .
statement that the parade had no con-
nection with prohibition.
William Jennings Bryan. who ad-
dressed the delegates as they crowded
round reviewing stand In Central
Fark. accepted the public's interpreta-
ticn of their pagent and made the most
Of II in few words Of preface. Other
speakers also referred to the public's
view of the parade.
IF those people who carried empty
bottles in last Mondays parade would
5ust come around here MIR. Bryan said
to the mass of men and women sur
rounding the stand in the sheep meadow,
they'd find the people who emptied
those bottlesY A cheer greeted his
words. "And hear they had cotton in
the tops of some bottles to make Il
look like foam. l am glad that tho
Southland produces something better
than foam, something that can be used
without harm,
The sunset glow Of that parade was
the glow of closing day. Our parade
represents the glow Of the dawn. The
sunset glows on a crowd that is con-
tnuing to decrease. that is dying and
will soon disappear"
Not "The" Dry Parade.
The Rev. DR.. Francis f. Clark, presi-
Aent of the Christian Endeavor organiz-
alton. raised his voice in protest asainst
the public's misconception of their pa
seant efforts. This is not the dry
parade that was to have been organized
to show the vets that they did not
have 100000 in their ranks he asserted
before introducing the speakers. And
Homer Rodeheaver, director OF singing,
contributed a few words along the same
line when he told the audience In the
sheep meadow that he heard one man
ask another why the marchers didn't
have any dry banners in their parade.
They don't need any ; just look at their
faces I told him." And after that the
crowd didn't seem to mind having been
mistaken for the anti-wets.
It was one of the most celorful col
urnns of marchers that ever stepped UP
Fifth avenue when the head of the line
swung In at Twentieth street behind
mounted police and the police band and
started north. Frederick A. Wallis, I'm
migration Commissioner, who Is chair
man of the New York city convention,
led the groups. and behind him walked
the official family of the Christian En-
deavor Society.
The various State divisions were
dressed in special colors and some bore
emblems of their home organizations
Forty States were represented, and
among the largest delegations were those
of New York, Pennsylvania, Massachu-
setts and New Jersey. Nebraska dele
gates wore green and yellow; Ma ssachu-
setts, red and white Connecticut white
hats with blue streamers. Colorado
white, with white parasols Kansas, yell
low and black with big sunhower para
sol: New Hampshire. yellow New Jer-
sey, orange and black: PENNSYLVANIA
red and white; Wisconsin. green and
white California. purple and white. and
New York, blue and white for the State
officers and orange brassards for the
delegates.
Eleven Floats in Parade.
Capt William r. Fearn, grand mar
ehal. had eleven floats in the parade
These depicted episodes from Bunyan's
"Pilgrim's Progress
When the parade reached the park,
which II did in about one hour from
the time the head of the line started