The New York herald., 1922-05-30
IN|NGHEROESH HONOR
NATIONSDEADTODAY
Trimmed G.. A. r. Ranks to
Have Proud Place in
Riverside Parade.
TABLET FOR HEIGHTS
Military Organizations to
Hold Ceremonies in Many
Parts of City.
MILLER AT GRANTS TOMB
East Sides Memorial Services
to Center at Tompkins Square
and Seward Parks.

That ever thinning line of blue-the
Grand Army of the Republic, repre-
sented this year by between 400 and
500 veterans, or two skeleton divisions
in all from among New York's S26 en-
rolled veterans, will turn out this morn
ing for another ceremonial parade.
!, TIE column in which the G. A. r.
veterans will have the place of honor
will move north on Riverside Drive
from Seventy-second street promptly
at 9 o'clock. In the line will be vet
erans of the Spanish American war
and the world war veterans.
Brief memorial exercises will be held
at the Soldiers and Sailors Monument
in Riverside Drive at EigEty-ninth
street. The parade will be reviewed
at Eighty-sixth street by Major Gen.
John +. O'Ryan, commanding officer
OF the Twenty-seventh Division. 1t
will move north then to Ninety second
street and east to Broadway, where it
will disband.
On the Memorial Day program there
will be countless other ceremonies at
the headquarters of posts Of the G. A.
, r., the Spanish War Veterans, the
Veterans of Foreign Wars. the Ameri-
can Legion and other military organi-
cations.
Formation of Riverside Parade.
Commander John w. Noble. Grand
public, will assemble the units in the
Riverside Drive parade east and west
of West End avenue, near Seventy
second street. A battalion of the Twen-
ty-second Infantry, U. S. A., with the
Twenty-second Regiment Band will lead
the parade, followed by sailors and
marines and by troops of the New York
National Guard under command of
Brig.-Gen. George r. Dyer and the First
Battalion Naval Militia commanded by
Capt. William Bell Wait.
y Then will follow the two divisions of
the Grand Army of the Republic, Grand
Marshal Noble commanding, with Fran
els B. Stedman, Adjutant-General and
A. Dix and Peter Cooper Posts of the
G. A. r. Comrade Henry G. Frtsch
Will command the First Division of the
Grand Army and Comrade Charles Dick
inson the Second. Grand Marshal Noble
will review the parade at Riverside
Drive and Ninety-first street.
Automobiles and carriages containing
veterans unable to march will follow
the Second Division, after which will
come in the order named: United Span
ish War Veterans, the American Legion
Including members of the British.
French. Belgian and Italian veterans
organizations, womens auxiliary units
and gold star mothers, the Veterans of
Foreign Wars of the United States,
the Military Order of the World War,
the Army and Navy Veterans, the
American Guard Division and the New
York City Chapter of Disabled Veterans
of the World War.
The memorial program at the Soldiers
and Sailors Monument Will open with
a hymn and invocation by Rev. A. Ed
win Kegwin Ella Blxby Tent Daugh-
ters of Veterans will lead in singing
"Tenting On the Old Camp Ground -
job II. Hedges will make an address
and the ceremonies will end with the
singing of America and a benediction.
During the ceremonies. an airplan-
piloted by Major B. l.. Smith. will drop
flowers at the monument in honor of
American aviators killed in the war.
Tablet to BE Erected on Heights.
World War Veterans and some G.. A.
r. representatives will take part in
a parade in upper Manhattan from
Broadway and 135th street north 10
Mitchell Square, named in honor OF
Major John Purroy Mitchell. where a
bronze memorial to 357 soldiers, sailors
and marines of Washington Heights
and Inwood. the work of Mrs. Harry
Payne whitney. will be unveiled. Former
Commissioners and associates of Major
Mitchell. who lost his life in an airplane
accident. Will decorate his grave in
Woodlawn Cemetery at 1890
Gov. Nathan l.. Miller will be the
chief speaker at memorial services at
Grants Tomb under the auspices of
the Y. S. Grant Post G.. a. r., at 2
| o'clock. Other services will include one
' by the Charles II. Daimler Post Of the
American Legion at Tompkins Square.
Seventh street and Avenue A, at 23o.
Supreme Court Justice Robert Nc
Marsh and Representative Nathan d.
Perlman will be the chief speakers
On tho lower East Side at 2:30 O'Clock
1000 veterans will parade to Seward
Park. Hester and Essex streets, where
Magistrate Max $. Levine. president OF
the Grand Street Boys Association. and
possibly Mayor Hylan will make ad-
dresses.
Radio operators who lost their lives
In the world war will be remembered at
memorial service at Battery Park at