The evening world. Newspaper, August 30, 1917, Page 1

—— ' | f i Rad renter Ne . 7 pre * Verk and 0 CENTS eheowhere Sn SA Kh Ea > bey The Freee Publishing New York Worta) NEW YORK, THURSDAY, AUGUST 30, 1917. 16 EOITION _ “ Clreulation Books Onen to All. PAGES Sew Vere mnd WO CENTS ete where = REAT “SEND-OF F” PAGEANT IS WITNESSED BY 2,500,000 SOLDIERS’ SEND-OFF DINNER PROVES THE GREATEST FEAST ThE NATION HAS EVER SEEN 30,000 Dined and Entertained in Camp and Armory From Van Cortlandt Park to Garden City— Not a Hitch Mars the Festivities. Me and the other members of the manders of the regiments that the d 8 it has been a duty which we felt formed it as satisfactorily and as si Said Mrs. Charles 8S. Whitman, te be quoted. ‘eenes that I witnessed.” Tivrty thousand New York sol great tarewell dinner arranged in th Evening World Send-Off Dinner Pronounced Unparalleled Success “after making a tour of all the encampments from Mineola to Sheeps- head Bay, and from Van Cortlandt Park to Pelham, August Siz, Chair- man of the Mayor's Committee of Business Men, sald; hve witnessed indicate, we have reason to be pleased.” the habit of speaking for publication, but on this occasion I am anxious I want the public to know how really wonderful were the It is enough for cominittee to hear from the com- inner has been a huge success. For we had to perform. If we have per- uccessfully as the scenes which we wife of the Governor: “I am not in Idiers were guests last night at the ir honor under the auspices of the Mayor's Committee and The Evening World. It was a gorgeous success, sProbably never before in the his-¢ Rory of the country has a dinner on Bich a gigantic scale been given for! @ny purpose. The number of men Served and the great area covered by the guests in field service made the ‘wndertaking one to stagger the imag- tion of ordinary caterers. t it was New York's soldier boys Who were being honored. They are #00h to leave the city in which they have been quartered since the War Department's recent mobilization or- They are New York's favorite , and even the most difficult un- taking was easy when New York determined to pay them the honor that was their due; so the serving of the long-distance dinner was no ob: stacle for the Mayor's Committee and| The Evening World DIPLOMAS GRANTED AHEAD TO 150 WEST POINT MEN They Become Second Lieutenants Ten Months Before Their Terms Expire. WEST POINT, N, Y., Aug, 80.—One hundred and fifty cadets became sec- ond Meutenants in the Regular Army to-day ten monthe ahead of their time. Secreary of War Baker handed them their diplomas in a light rain during the exercises at Battle Monument on Trophy Point Herman H. Pohl of Alexandria, Va., s handed the first diploma. Pohl's 0,000 MEN “FALL IN” PROMPTLY | atnss address was a reiteration of Presi. FOR FEAST. Bo accurately had the schedule been arranged that promptly at 5.80 o'clock | yesterday mess call sounded in thirty- two camps and armories, Thirty thou- send men, making up the Twenty enth Division, United States Army, gan in” with plates, cups, knives, forks ‘and spoons, and with military prompt ness began filing past cook tents to be served with the big dinner @his culinary feat would have been lent Wilson's statement of the Ameri- jcan war purposes Secretary of War Baker also touched 1 the same strain The graduating men were given a ortnight's furlough before joining thelr commands a LANSING IN NEW YORK. ughters for France, Bou Setretary of State Robert Lansing werthy of historic me ntion had It been petformed with the thirty thousand @inérs assembled in one pl matter of fact, over a territory 0. As & 1 they w more than twenty ) five miles from end to end GREAT PARADE, MOVING DOWN FIFTH AVENUE phed by an Evening Werld Phot rerareenre Sse rae leosudionsorecenneseseseososecess: 0000895955550 pay ERE Afvaepe TAME YG) ar ’ . Ee 30,000 NEW YORK TROOPS leployed out of Washington Squar 3.16 o'clock flooded at in a downpour which depressions in the asphalt pavement and converted the sidewalks into shallow canals as men held to their places along the line of march to show the boys who are going to France to fight that they ave behind them the respect and sup- port of thelr home town and their home State ‘The streets of New York, which have been crowded with soldiers for weeks, will resume thelr normal as- pect after this evening. From now on our volunteers will fade away from the city to the training camps and from the training camps to the fighting front It in safe to say that not one wet, steaming sokiter that participated in to-day's farewell ceremony will ever forget the heartfelt sympathy of It, the tribute of affection that stood out from the moment the line left One Hundredth Street in Harlem until the last man walked into Washing ton Square Police officers who hav seen all th® , |areat parades in the past quarter of a #|century aay they anything like Fifth Avenue during the In the first place the odd former militiamen’ and the 4,000 members of the Coast Artillery never witnessed parade to-day 6,000 who As an example of the diMculties In Zeya 0 E thata | 8 ganas examine of tue dimcuen 1 nein hs 915,000,000 MORE," "ON WAR UPTO 0 PER CEN, way, proved not to be u lees | WILSON AND ROOT CONFER. | ae aj) if the succes beapenteel| | To Be Used for Purchase and Com-| | ee . : Also Urges Americans to Aid by i's nto con the guests| ‘Twe Painters 1 roo! , nd . TINGTON « *renide taken int Bia | ee eee torre cm PONE mandeering of Plants and Con- twison again tusned his on to} Purchasing Their Luxuries From of the Mayor's Committee Wo painters were injured at tha same : , im n Evening World were at Van ( moment to-day by falling from scat. | truction of \ Wiad in Russia at a ¢ ‘ French F | ontrol in landt Po in the persons of the | foldings tn widely separated parts of| WASHINGTON, Aug. 20.—Another to-tay with Elihu R wh 1 the | a ASIM Aun, theo het Boventy-first, Twenty-third and First Brooklyn, One was Henry Siegel of | $91 D.C fae 4h pping Board's) American M n s Mie TON, Aug Infantry, and Squadron A bam 103 East One Hundred and Fourth building programme w ked to-day} Mr. Ro ond 6 c of the| put the oat: of he war © M McAdoo and Re 1 Bay Pavk the Third Inf. ntry and the| Steet, Manhattan, injured at No. 4/of © Mission eon pressing the imme Je to bear it by taxing war profits up| not agre n what powe 1h . I ap eas eying Street. ‘The other was Benjamin! It used for A and | diate f material as well ) per cent, nferred on t by t r divisional ammunition train; at Gar 9 a ay itp bid eel ieee p den City the One Hundred and Sixty |38 ein, injured No. 55 Chureh Ave. uma 1 plan a i he M b Fines ne Th ne is meaarentry. Tho other gusate wer - > — If this 88 1 the board's total have been ta tome aeady an scheme of financing the war > —— Satine " Further. action. may fellow. to-day He added @ spectal plea that American b @ontinued on sixth Page.) (For Racing Results Page2) | “Edward N. Husley, Chaban of the gonterence, aid Frease by putshaaing Weir luxuries ~ “a - 2+). smote ‘ ) > | parade and Coast Defense forces formed the 1 body that argest military ever lenis ity, And the crowd that viewed the was the sembled In Fifth Aver largest that ever as. ue between One MEXICO COMES FOR ARMS, Lifted ava Aug. 20. the United States to for the shipment of arms he Wants Meld, ) arrange Women as well) ved through the streets of the! pretend to Pablo | MARCH DOWN FIFTH AVENUE: RAIN FAILS 10 MAR PARADE Mothers Weep as “Boys” Pass — Roosevelt Leads Cheering From ReviewingStand—Greatest Military Spectacle City Ever Saw. in Khaki ‘The love and respect New:York feels toward the old National Guard of the State was well éxemplified this afternoon when cheering thousands stood in the rain along Lower Fifth Avenue for more than an hour und! the iast units of the great “Send-off Day” parade had passed under Wash- ington Arch and disbanded in and about Washington Square. Showers that drenched troops and spectators alike failed to spoil the goody of this city to the volunteer citizen soldiery. 2,500,000 persons witnessed the pageant. QoS The rear guard of the great parade / It was estimated | Hundred and Tenth Street and Wash- | pening ington Square Those who had anticipated that the young soldiers of New York would march down Fifth Avenue to the ac- companiment of tumultuous cheering found themesives treated to @ lesson in the psychloxy of crowds. There was an unexpected solemnity about to-day's affair, The office Gen. John F. the head of the line, were greeted en- thusiastically, but when the boys came along carrying their packs and their guns the cheering died away. ‘There were too many in the crowds Jamming the sidewalks who had p sonal interest in the soldiers passing by to permit the cheers and good-na- tured chaffing that generally charac- terizes a parade. The strange silence of the crowds was puzeling until trailed along with the parade for a time and observed what the spectators were doing. Every few feet there was a weeping woman sometimes an elderly woman, sometim' young woman, but always a weeping wom “There goes my boy,” a woman would cry with a brave effort to voice the exultation she felt, and the boy would hear her and shoot a glance in her direction, and the woman would begin to cry and all the women around her would begin to weep, and all the men around her would pull out Rheir handkerchiefs and mop thelr faces and eyes and be suffering from hay With something like this hap- every few seconds there fever | wasn't much time for cheering, TROOPS ARE CHEERED FROM THE SKYSCRAPERS. It was not until troops got downtown among the sky Was a great deal the away ers that ther ac of cheering. The reception there was more impersonal. Tens of thousands of people in the windows of the tow. ering buildings viewing the soldiers now released. He !e els0 authori to|*ssregation of personalities ap- rehase additional munitions for Mex-| Plauded and waved flags, but even te down there the weeping women had The Government ts pr ding rapidly | their influence on the crowds. at A great Kipling’s comparison of the colonel’s unt peen held too | dy to Judy O'Grady held good to on t terfelting and is rant Jay in at least one incident whic h in taken Manly 1168/008,080 fe ae errnioe Van Jerbilt, at the head of fective paper money nas already been incinerated, the Twenty-second Engineers, passed dis bome at No. 677 Fitth Avenue be