Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1921-05-31
ALLIED ARMIES
REPRESENTED
!: IN BIC PARADE
Civil and Spanish War
Veterans Join With
Those of World War.
Tens of Thousands Ser
vice Men Do Honor to
!. the Soldier Heroes.

New York, May 30.-Tens Of
thousands of veterans of thu
Civil, Spanish and World wars
marched Monday in parades
Throughout Greater New York
lin honor of the dead they had
left behind them on the Grim.
soned soil of battlefields and
under the white-flecked waters
of the sea.
Joining hands with them beneath the
Stars and Stripes were allied patriots,
who, during the conflict, went to the
front in the khaki of Canada. the kits
of Scotland and the horizon blue of
France.
\ The nurses who cared for the wound
ed and welfare workers who lent aid
hand comfort to weary and hungry
Fighters also donned their uniforms
and trod along behind the countless
bands.
t.. SaIutes OF 2l Guns.
Everywhere in the city flags flew
at haf-mast. From each of the great
forts guarding the harbor the Memorial
day salute 0f 81 guns doomed forth at
noon. On the Hudson river the flag
ship Of 20 destroyers joined in the
chorus with the bark Of its one pound
er, which echoed off the Palisades and
the great stone homes of Riverside
Drive, by which thousands marched in
the greatest of the many parades.
Hundreds of gray-haired warriors
who defended the Union in 81 headed
this pageant. which for three hours
passed beneath the elms and naples
that shelter the fashionable drive. Age
had bent low the shoulders of many of
these heroes of Gettysburg and Bull
Run, but they dressed their ranks and
spiritedly Obeyed the command, "eyes
left" as they passed the reviewing
stand
Honor Guard Of Old Vets.
The guard of honor for Major Gen
eral Robert Lee Bullard. who reviewed
the parade, comprised the veteran corps
of artillery and the Old Guard-their
tall poms, glistening swords and bright
hued uniforms brought back all the
pomp and color that camouflage had
erased from the picture of war.
Fluttering in the various parades
were old war flags. some torn in the
conflict between the blue and gray,
others powder stained on Cuban soil,
and still others tattered in France.
Old Marching Airs.
With each group of veterans came
a band, recalling old marching songs.
The blue uniformed men of 81 kept
step to Marching Through Georgia"
and yankee Doodle"
"Hot Time in the Old Town Tonight"
flared from the band that marched at
the head Of the Spanish war veterans,
in their blue campaign shirts and khaki
breeches.
Survivors Of Recent War.
And then the veterans of later
and ghastlier war-pathos set to rag
time. For with the survivors of a
world conflict-many Of them with
empty sleeves, many of them so grave
ly injured that they had to ride
marched bands that played the synco-
pated music that had rung out on the |
battlefields of France-lively, cheerful
notes for an army of gallant lads who |
had Knocked death.
Graves Of Revolutionary Dead.
The dead Of three centuries who !
sleep in historic Trinity churchyard |
were not forgotten. Over the graves
Of those who died in the Revolutionary !
war-the first of the many who have
made the supreme sacrifice for Amer !
ica-were placed the 13-starred Betsy |
Ross flags.
Posts of the American Legion, vet
Grams OF foreign wars and other organ
lzati0ns planted memorial trees in each
Of the boroughs.
Ten thousand persons visited the
resting place of Theodore Roosevelt at
Oyster Bay and as many more filed
u and out of Grants tomb.
HarbOr craft was crowded with thou
sands who steamed down the bay to
view the immense wreath placed about
he shoulders Of the Goddess of Liberty.
Electric bulbs were shining tonight
Imong the poppies and evergreens com
losing the wreath.
aEMEMBER LUslTANIA VICTIMS
Queenstown, Ireland, May 3O.-The
american Memorial day was celebrated
Iere with a naval and military pro-
ession, headed by Mason Mitchell,
American consul, and Admiral Gaunt,
L the royal navy. The marchers pro.
eeded to the graveyard of the Lusi-
leetOwed on behalf of the American
moassy anG others. Clergymen of va
i0us denominations offered prayers,
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