Evening star., 1922-08-21
U. S. DESIRES PEACE,
PRESIDENT TELLS
CITIZEN SOLDIERS
CONTINUED from First Page.l

P0fQQe Down AVcnu6s
Immediately after the review was
completed the troops. comprising
eight companies Of infantry, three bat
teries Of field artillery and two
troops of cavalry, under the COM
mand of Lieut. Col. Harry N. Cootes,
commander Of the. citizens military
training camp. marched down Penn
sylyania avenue to 7th street north
west, where the parade disbanded
and the cavalry and artillery equip
ment was placed In charge or Reeu-
lar Army troops for transportation
to Camp Meade. The route taken oy
the parade was north on West Exc
cutiye avenue to Pennsylvania ave-
nue.; east on Pennsylvania avenue
to East Executive avenue; south TO
the south end of the Treasury and
east on Pennsylvania avenue TO I'm
street northwest
Star Company Pays Expenses.
The review and parade were made
possible through arrangements MADE
between The Evening Star Company
and the Washington, Baltimore and
Annapolis Electric Railway. The Star
Company paid the expenses Of the
student soldiers from Camp Meade
to Washington under d reduced 1are
arrangement made with the electric
railway company
Thousands Of gtonians lined
Pennsylvania avenue to watch the
troops march down the historic thor
oughfare, where hundreds OF thou
sands Of defenders Of the nation have
marched in years past, either pelore
or after a war, in defense of the ma
tion's principles. The student SOL
diers, many OF whom are from Wash
ington. made an impressive appear
ance as they marched down the Ave
nus toward the Capitol to 7th street.
where they disbanded, proceeding TO
18th and II streets for lunch before
going back to Camp Meade to com
plete their four weeks OF training
Members Of the present Citizens Mill,
tary Training Camp were gathered
from the District of Columbia. Mary
land, Virginia and PennsylVania
Complimentary Remarks.
Comments made among the high
military ofhcers from the war De-
partment as tho men passed IN re-
view before the President were highly
complimentary to the trainees. The
cavalry and artillery outfits were
manned practically in their entirety
by students Of the training camp,
although a few Regular Army men
from Fort Myer were in the outhts.
The Washington Barracks Band.
preceded Company A of infantry in
the review. After the infantry had
passed the reviewing stand the Sd
cavalry Band. mounted, marched by.
The troops then dismounted and
gathered in hollow square to listen
to the address Of the President.
Camp ON Ellipse.
The artillery and cavalry units, in
charge of soldiers of the Regular
Army from Fort Myer, came over the
road yesterday from Camp Meade.
camping last night at College Park
They arrived in the city early this
morning and stopped temporarily
along Maryland avenue. east of the
Capitol, while police arrangements
for their route through the city to the
Ellipse were completed. The Reg
ular Army detachments were in
charge of Maj. c. P. George. 3rd Field
Artillery. Fort Myer.
Led by motor cycle policemen, the
artillery and cavalry outfit travelled
south of the Capitol to- Maryland
avenue, down Maryland avenue to
Virginia avenue southwest, and down
that thoroughfare to Potomac Park,
proceeding through the park to the
Ellipse, where the artillery and cav
airy equipment was turned over to
! the troops from the Citizens Military
Training Camp at Camp Meade.
from the training center! preceded
the other two arms of the service to
the Ellipse, coming from the 18th and
II street station of the w. B. & A
| in automobile trucks. They biv-
ouacked on the Ellipse while awaiting
the appearance of the cavalry and
artillery units.
The latter outfits were put in
charge of soldiers from the I'd Bat
| TALON, I'd Field Artillery. from Fort
Myer, after the parade broke up at
7th street and Pennsylvania avenue
tA n.rtp 49,.
back to Camp Meade. They expected
to camp above College Park tonight,
and resume their trip back to camp
tomorrow morning.