Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-09-14
100000 MARCHERS
! IN n. R. A. PARADE
New York's Greatest Process.
sion Continues Until After
Midnight.
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press
NEW YORK, September 14.-Up
the grand cayon OF Fifth avenue
they came, the mightiest peace army
ever assembled, through the warmth
of a mild afternoon. on through the
dusk, through a night made fantastic
bv the glare of yellow street lights. the
drum of their feet, the blare OF their
bands, an army of 100000 marching
In the name of N. R. A.
New York, that welcomed John j.
Pershing and the triumphant Amer
lean Expeditionary Forces with a riot
- patriotic fervor, that cheered ana ana
LGped in relief at the return OF the
old 69th, battle-ridden though it was;
that shrieked and filled the sky with
ticker tape in hysterical acclaim OF
Charles A. Lindbergh. still never had
seen anything like this.
- Sections in Parade.
From half-past one in the afternoon
from Washington Square down below
Fourteenth street they march to the
tunes of a hundred bands, filling the
majestic avenue from curb to curb,
hundreds of thousands of weary feet
plodding on until after midnight
brought the last of n sections, repre-
Senting almost every single branch of
the military. civil, political and indus
trial life of the worlds largest city
to the goal of Fifty eighth street.
1t was a parade, to be sure. but
to the 100000 more who lined the
way. grimly silent for the most part, it
was more than mammoth expression
of eXuberance and the high glee of
celebration. The cheers of the march,
ers, rising to their highest pitch as
Clev dipped their banners in salute
Passing the reviewing stand on the
steps of the public library at Forty
second street, seemed rather a mighty
prayer of hope and confidence in the
recovery program of President Roose-
Welt and his administration
Inspiring Keynote.
For instance. the was the group
of $50 bent, gray-headed old men who
trudged happily along, members of the
musical indutries, bearing a banner
that stretched from sidewalk to side
walk:
We are back to work"
Theirs was the keynote of the pro-
cesSion that stood for hours uncom-
planning, waiting to form the gigantic
worm of humanity that craWled through
the avenue for nine endless hours.
Made possible by the half holiday
for the industries of the city proclaimed
by mayor John P. O'Brien. the quarter
of million marcherS made the most
OF the occasion.
ThrongS of men. in their business
clothes carrying the banners of the
companies they worked for all members
of the N R A, plodded along, singing
Hail Hail, the Gangs all Here" From
ether groups came the roar of Pack
up your troubles in your old kit bag and
smile, smile, smile"
There we're 300 Chinese, all laundry
men. and they had their band that
played chinatown. My Chinatown"
The garment workers, mustered by
the thousands. howled "Forty-second
Street" A woman's fife and drum
corps. placed too close to a kltie band,
Gueled the Scots in a battle of piercing
tones all the way up the avenue. And
the boys band from the Jewish Orphan
Asylum played Onward Christian Sol
diers' lust as well as did the bands
Of the Salvation Army.
Reviewed by johnson.
The marchers poured past the re-
viewing stand at the rate of more
than $4,000 an hour. dipping their flags
and banners lifting their shouts to
grim-faced Gen. Hugh johnson. tacti-
cal commander of the recovery drive;
Frances Perkins, Secretary of Labor;
Governors Herbert Lehman of New
York. Wilbur Cross Of Connecticut and
A. Harry Moore of New Jersey. Mai
Gen. Dennis Nolan, marshal of the
parade. and New York's mayor, John
p. OBrien.
In that line were $4,000 women
more women, the veterans of things of
this kind said, than ever before had
marched in one parade. even in the
DAYS of SuffragiSt agitation Most of
them were red, white and blue, with
N R. A. banners on their arms and
small flags in their hands
Gov. Lehman watching them pour
by in the eerie yellow light of the ave-
nue's lamp clusters, breathed what
might be the answer.
There's no war, no depression, no
hardship that can down a Nation
capable of this