I knraa isca mvot. v. no. 208. HON DIVISION THROUGH M T t jldier Sons Cheered From (?,Broad and Wharton Streets W- to Shlbe Park -&. GREETING IS STUNNING yiN uni IIMC AHin IMTCWCITV 6 )ramatic Independence Hall Scene Where Entire Command Ik Salutes Liberty Bell LAST OF LONG. LONG TRAIL WA. avernor. Mayor and Other a A if :!. tAuu OAMM-ni Kyi..:.. WMIUiaiO IIIUI UDIIOIOI .IUII "., in Reviewing Stand jjptwas, the last long trail for the ron.flicn. me home train i&il- neyjjaa rusnea to'tne. ngtit iikc. Men to a leto and today they srenea .nome. , l"Be proud," Marshal Foch had told tern. -and thev were as thev came Ri lMi-10,000 bayonets all that host of ooys tnat Pennsylvania nad nuried at the onrush of mad militarism at tjie Marne. IThey came Silently (proud through vide Janes ot loud acclaim, lanes of thousands upon thousands of justly aBtful jnothers and fathers, and brothers and sisters, and just ordi- ry proud unrelated folks their i folks. Before them moved a wave of ound that rivaled battle's roar. kbove them whirred the ulanes thev L'?-J ...i. Ol, J, A J il fea not mac irom. Arouna mem Bed the exultant spirit of a people they had'proved. liBoys they were clean, sun- f owned, valiant boys who laughed It shells and met death head on Bore -than men, more than soldier boys, bronzed men of iron. S?Three squads to a platoon, they ame, wnere once mere were seven. ilent empty flies spoke deeply "it those mute red keystones in the ijajjey" of the 'Qise, ori the banks of ;aevesie tne zavu oaa wno steep the France they saved. ThTa great and the rich, and e poor and humble paid them ibute. A state of 9,000,000 popula- .lon was ,. doing them homage. A i:i..' . o., innnn oVi fn fVin 13 " 6YC ,w,wvw owv. w ,- orlds cause gave these olive-arab ranks all the choked-up emotion -of ose who must stay at home. tyi ' ,. V' Jyei' lurn 10 iuou.ers -.But it, was to those crying, wistful housands in the stands at City Hall nd the Parkway, where sat the others of the boys who gave all, that'the boys paid their tribute. To n'. i i- ii-- .i -j n--; nem .ana to me emuiem ut uieir ause, the bid scarred Bell of Lib rtyi.'they turned their eyes. ft'Tothe Bell, heaped in wreaths at Independence Hall, they gave "eyes rigbt.as to smooth machine on pa- de. " To those wistful mothers their yes wenj by impulse as they i'ramped the broad Parkway. 'yt With' their tin hats bulging on their Continued on Vltn Too, Column Three 'Let er Rain, Now! Jttatp loniglit there'll he ihowen -- Out for, Ihat xct re not caring. 'Since iice'ee ivent iotioua hours. Late tonight there'll be thawert "With the"weett'1 takvi 1he"aours" h AnJi for- tcorfc be preparing. J But jot that we're not caring. X " l , What Members IDIKITH n I 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 I I I lilllnlnl in in 1 1 1 r u 'I'lllUU I L I U UIIIIl MSSi Publithed Dally ni-t Sumlay. Copyright, 1010. by GENERAL At Jlioad and Diamond WEEP AT OVATION Men Who Faced German Fire Break Down Under Cor dial Welcome VIEW PARADE FROM AUTOS Wounded men who faced all the Ger mans could give them nt Chntcau Thierry, Hill 204, nnd other historic engagements, broke down and actually cried at the cordial reception Philadel phia gave them ami their comrades of the Twenty -eighth Division today. It was a cheerful thousand casuals who Tilled the 200 automobiles furnished by the Emergency Aid and motor mes sengers to review the line of parade nt Rroad and Federal streets, but the cheerfulness gave way to anxiety as-j they waited for their particular units to come along. -Many mode no effort to hide tho tears that came when the units with which they went to France, and which they had not seen since they were wounded last year, passed their pa'rking place. "Hey, Charlie, they told me you were killed, " a one-armed sergeant yelled brokenly to his pal marching by. "Look, there's Sergeant Price," another said. "He's been killed three times that I V.v.rw of!" I "I guess you saw who led this old parade," Corporal Walter Baling, of Legoniere, nnd Private Aldeu Reed, 2510 Lehigh avenue, shouted "iis they at temnted to dance about, despite the car riage in which Saling's leg as placed and the weakness to which Reed is sub jected because of a machlue gun wound in the right chest. "That's Company JI, of the 110th( our old outflf," Reed said joyously "and they're right up there where they belong. Why, say, at the Marne, that company licked a whole regiment of Ger mans. And at Chateau-Thierry I Whew! Vou should see those boys battle." The wounded men In turn were recog- Contlnued on race Kloe, Column Seirn ' THE WEATHER Washington, May IB. Showers late tonight and Friday. 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MARCHES IN DENSE MUIR IN FINAL REVIEW OF HIS FIGHTING DIVISION streets (ienoral Mulr left Ills place at the Throng in City Streets Largest in Its History Hilarious Crowd Numbers 2,750,000, Says Mills; Thousands Jam Central Part of Town f Climb to Roof T.ops and Windows to Greet Boys; Blaze of Color Waved on Every Hand Philadelphia became n joyous, hysteri cal, scethng mass of men, women nnd children today when hundreds of thous ands strong tho people voiced n hearty "welcome home" to her)1s of Penul vania's own Twenty-eighth Division, It was the largest body of persons ever assembled in this city to view n parade, according to William R. Mills, assistant superintendent of police, who estimated their number to be'2,750.000. uder the guidance of song leaders, UU'J fuuu uuil I'lirritru us lilt- Klllini- ,i ... , .. . clad fiirhters strode bv. From mire1""1 Rroul" nIonB tUf roPps "I" rly happiness they wept and with tear-, dimmed eyes, they stood with bared heads as the draped casket, drawn by six white horses, saddled and with the stirrup guards turned backward, passed in the rear of the procession Then they "fell in" behind the soldiers and marched to Independence Hnll, singing nnd cheerinfe, and passed rever ently before the Liberty Hell, jamming the streets and holding up traffic, but venting their praise in no uncertain manner. Every nook and corner along the Hue of march, balconies and vylndqvvs lu the big office buildings', grandstands nnd roofs of houses, were crowded with the i .. fnd r n -Ar..i nAnt uupiM fuiva ui u Kiuivmi iii-uiui. " , . . . ,, They came from every section of the city, the state and from New Jersey. j.ney pusnea am. s noveu earn oc.er o, we Hirrew uuu trm. uib pauence- oi police, home guards and military police but no one seemed to rare about per. sonal discomforts not even those who were drenched through the carelessness of the driver of an automatic sprinkler cleaner. To see, to hear, to cheer, were their only objective. Fully 100,000 persons pacefl the cen tral section 'of the city around the City Hall and its approaches and down -Eighth Division Did i I i ' i 1 1 1 1 n i i - .. .,;' ? f.'vtS ' 4 " , i'wiiittfti'i-'' PHILADELPHIA, THURSDAY, MAY 15, 1919 HUMAN head of the line and watched his boys Size of the Crowds You Were Jammed In Total of Spectators 2,750,000 Kstimntp of AssNtaut Superintendent of Police Mills. 1,000,000 Estimate of tiovemor Sproul. 100,000.000 What it hccmcd lilc to wrao of us. Where Crouds Were Thickest liroad nnd Wharton streets, MI00. Itroad nnd Chestnut streets, 10, 000. Sixth and Chestnut streets, ."000. Ilroad and Market streets, 10,000. liroad nnd Spring Cnrden (.trrett., 0000. Hroail and Diamond 'strccU, 0000. Ilroad street and Lehigh avenue, 7000. Chestnut nnd Market streets, when the signal to clear the traffic from the streets -was given at I) o'clock t"fJ' ind been nssembli ng singly, in pairs morning. -i"cy elimg to their places i like glue nnd it was only after much arguing nnd gentle persuasion that those .,, , , coruers relinquished their holds loner enougn to permit others to pass througli Nenrjy iriU.OQfl persons came from New Jersey, ferry and railroad official estimated. Camden ferr.v boats were jammed to rapacity throughout the morning hours A steady stream of men, women and children poured into 'standing near the east entrance to City t Mn-w .,.,.. .i!llall. saw- her point to a. man who was the ferry house a . .......,. .,..., ......;, a square. As soon as a ferrjbont was loaded to capacity the sale of tickets was I stopped until auuther boat came in. fi lf .- . .... io ciipiicuy me sale o tickets VVU" I,,,,,,,', ' . r , " '' , ,, " ,, hm . . VcuwyX. lvcry extra boat on both the Pennsyl. a ,, d, f . ; ,,, , -,1. ' "" . ifnmn h,Im- t ..... o-.l. qngcuinus young women nt Ilroad and r ,.- .--.,. -,,,. Chestnut streets brought red, white and lilop-Wrfmnecl nrhomadelra nn ..ltlnli were screwed blc-vcle seats, that tl.elr lung wait might bo broken by n semi- sitting positiqn -on these improvised scats. Continued on rare Nine. clan... n the Camden police formed them In long '01rPIK m? ?. irKU ,l, cro"" lines, which extended back n.oic than ' The chase lasted fully five piinutes The on prance's Battlefields Is Graphically Described on Pages 17 to 23 of This Issued f i i ii 1 1 i i n ii ii " " 7 ii i ' t ' " ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' ' " ' ' . .. - . - - - , i i j. tU , V-." vjn.n s six -A . - , A llw'i' -1 uiotuSk $L. ; , -Sh,V , -r X iiiiiafcilirriiii iiiiii TiliiniSiiif'' -a .ifKiiiitinii yjlnterrfi '' iiVi'm-' ;;"' : .4 WELCOME-HOME LANES EIGHT k b, in farewell review. I; E 310th and 312th Field Artillery Are First to Sail on Two Transports DOCK AT NEWPORT NEWS IVnnsjIviiiiia's national aim dti Hon, the Seventy-ninth, has Mai ted on 'its homeward journc. Two tianpm'tH i .no now at i-cn beating units of this divihinu, nnd nie scheduled to armi: in i about ten dajs. I The Scctit -ninth Division is com posed maiul of men fioiu 1'liilailelpliiu. eastern Peiinslvniiiti, Mnilaiiil and the Distii-t of Columbia. , Wind bus just been icceived from Washington, where it wn made public by the war department, that the :i12fh 1 Field Artillerj complete, and the .'!12th Machine (lun liatt.ilion. hntli of the Seventy-ninth Division, sailed from St. I .luznire. i iniice. ,i ursuav. .iiiij i., on i the ti.liisimit Virsiiiliin Thev are dpi- ! tlned for Newport News where they aid , expected to mmeS.iml:n Mnv 2.". The IllOth Field itillci lumpirce Conttnurd on I'aer Two. foltiinn Pile ROBBER IN PARADE CROWD Patrolman Hears Woman's Scream, Nabs Suspect and Recovers Wallet A woman screamed. Pntrolmnn Deliossi. of the Third nnd Dickinson stieets station, who was . ... .. ,, JUJlluil clown wnn joicicsil'ii um uoc ciilighteued. The patiolninn i (-turned witli his prisoner and found the woman had inc- imcio man iciunicu wiin ins , , , ., , , .prisoner anil found the woman . lint fn. IK; not ml Viiiili his hand ""',.. ' ,V '"'".'. "im""" --"..' !'- ""--". ";"'. '.""" """, uiiiiynril liisei. ot iinciciouiiei.i. .. .. "I'vo been lobbed " Kisel said The I patrolman, the prisoner and the IU.l - I'lontield man went to Cent.al Station. i Here the wnlh-t was returned to KM. ..i... k 1.K...1 " i.t. ...... .,.,.. ,. .-.. -, ..-. - .la, .,... ti. i.rUm.er. who cave the .n.n di m starts m TARRV MAY a Hurieu Xapolleon, of Fifth nnd (ireeni T,, Mimmnry: streets, was held in S1000 bail for court!,, rffiis"' f"r throc-"'r-0""' ,e,llnB- . by Magistrate Pennocl: ou the charge of ji:mcient; ill. McAtee . 7 to l S to l even ' larceny from person i:nter?J ns Sccond-Claa Matter at thn Postnmce at Philadelphia Ta Under t e Act of March 1R70 TODAY'S BASEBALL SCOREBOARD Pittsburgh U 1 Phillics....a HHIBHUffirH- Adams and Schmid; Oeschger and Adams. Athletics. St. Louis . NATIONAL Cincinnati . Brooklyn . . St. Louis . . . Boston Chicago... H New York. S ES AMERICAN New York. Bj I Detroit.... H H I , Boston Chicago. ..H Wash'gton.fl Cleveland. -H H fer TC'C" '-. -" WOODWARD WORKS Many Keystone Division 12,000 Crowd That Sees Third of Series in BABE ADAMS ON THE MOUND Ry ROUKRT W. MAXWKIA. Kditor K rning Public Ledger I Phillies' Rail Parli, Ma 15. With ' the lighting men of the Keystone Divit sion in the gianilstmul as guests of, President linker, the Phillies mid Pitts- , burgh resumed hostilities for the chain- , pionship of Pennsylvania this af iTiicmn. A ciowd of about 12,000 thionged the paik. It was one of the largest weelt day thiongs of the jenr. Recause of the parai'e and the con gested traffic, the game did not begin until 4 p. in. Rabe Adams was ihe pitching selection of Huge Recital: nnd Woodward did duty cm the tiring line for the Phils. 'STILL KEPT PARIS TIME But Colonel Thorr . s Watch Is Up-to-Dato American Now Colonel .liiseph C Thompson, com mander of the Ulllli Infiinti. (Mine to lll.tt- .l-l..l.t.i f.ni tr.iltll I t ill lilt IklMII . . .. .rtil,i, L.:n .i(i.tt,. iiU ttmo. tllll till UtllLM rH t ...... i...... "What time is it in Aineiica. uuy - hovvj" he asked this nioining, and ex- plained that he had not had time to adjust his tiniepicsT. lie "sjnchronlzed" his watch, us gen- crnl staff orders enjoiued, with the big clock on City Hull. The 110th got off on "Philadelphia time." RACING OPENS AT JAMAICA Efficient Triumphs in Metropolitan Dlstrict First Race .Jamaica. L. I.. May 1.". Racing in t ne .vieiroiioiiciiu uiscrnc uim-iii-ii iiitc ' ... .,.' ... ..,,nt IironiiSM to be .. -.. . ,,t. .n. .ti .i , ni()lt snrf.ossfll, ,, ,n tllp llN. .ory of the turf. VHi,ie.,l cnnie home n winner In the1. i . - r ;.. ,...;. ,. "ix-furlong event lor mice-.vear puis 1'n. "" ''" ,1,p '" I'"- K"..... ..iinK Adam was second and War on thM , - , s x-turiong event inr ciiice-.vcar puis I The odds cm the winner were 7 to 1. Continued on Tare Two, Column Tvo AGAINST PIRATES ILES Jl T JL LEAGUE LEAGUE U. S. DIRIGIBLE C-5 'JOHN'S Ready to Start Overseas When Ordered NC-4 Lands, but Renews Trip i PLANES MAY HOP TODAY Data of Nciv Flights by U. S. Oversea Craft 8 a. in Wednesday Diilsible C-." lea?i Montaiil. Point. X. V. !):4.'i a. m. Tlmrsd.iv ('-." rr.u Mrs St. .John's, in Irss than scheduled luflit-si boms. K:."ii a. in. Tliiusday Seaplane X('-t leaves llallf.i for Trep.issey. n:22 a. in. 'Ilmisda NC J forced to land at stoic IIp.nl. tl:47 a. in. Tlnrsilay Fliilit to Trep.issey ic-sunieil by NO-1. It Associated Press St. .lohii's. X. F.. May 1.". The Amerli .in naval dliigibta (' 5. scheduled for a pnssililr nonstop flight fioiu this port to thr' Itntish Tslps, hi lived hcic itodav afii'i m div and nlghl cmise from Monlaiik renin " Y The balloon luiil been in liic an 2"i hours and 1 minulcs The (' .". iinln'd the cliiidividi a.i- chiirncp jU 1 4. n in. iiiMimnli tinif l,(!) -!." a m Plnladclplii.i i The stmt flom Jiont.ink Point was m.W at S n m ,,,(,,, (nv, ' ,. '.,.' , , . , II1" l"ls1"" "ns 1,nlv 1ar " "'K1" across the Atlantic, her commander, ! Lieutenant Commander 'oil. declared. as he stepped out of the diiigilile's Las. ket. Roth the ciew and the machine stood the tiip well, he said. As et he added, no oiders'had been' issued' for! futilie movements. The i oinninndcr said he would be icad.v to cake the nir tomorrow if or- U,T? "'" .. , i'"1v-',,s '"; mvorauiei winds made seventy miles tin hour part tl i . '" l,,lp- Kulluuo Kaihoad Trade ' Will. Lieutenant I). P. Campbell at 1... ub.-nl. the- LI- bus made a ncrfect : .. ,. ." . " .' : jancliug wlliiiu tne narrow counues ot 1'" oM ticket Held iis,-d as an auclior- age. It had been seeking St Johns fr wymX '' "' ' ' ""'"' 'mV'"g bf'" lamuug vviiuiu ine narrow counues oi Continued on Vuce lnr. Column Two VISIT M'.V JflHH NKXT 81MY .S0 round trln l'ennojlvsnl 11 It I.eavti Ilrcmd St. 7,10 a. m.: Vt 1'hlIaJflphlB, 7 41 North Philadelphia. T:3t a m. Slral. lar excursion June I. Aay. REACHES SI PRICE TWO CENTS PARADE LONG IS REJECT SGEES TEUTONS URGED Answer Declares Peace Terms "Insure Realization of Re forms Labor Expects" GERMAN PLANS GAVE WORKERS NO ENVOYS I Foch Sent to Rhine to Prepare Coercive Measures if Enemy , , Rejects Peace WON'T SIGN, SAYS RANTZAU Austrian Delegates May Get Terms Next Wednesday Are 1 Ready to Accept I The Allies have sent a noJsutoiLthe German envoys refusingfo-con.-sIdcr"thtr-Tcutort-,mtssage-ron fn t ternational labor legislation.- The I answer says the.peace terms meet I the world's need. 1 Count Brockdorff-Rantzau told tho other Geiman envoys he would re i fuse the terms until they were poa i sib:e of fulfillment. The Austrian envoys, arriving at St Germain, have assumed the atti tude that their nation is a new born state. They give the impres sion of willingness to sign the ' terms, but mildly demand Ger , man Tyrol and Geiman Bohemia. 1 They are divided on the question I of annexation to Germany, which i the treaties forbid. The terms 1 probably will be presented to the I envoys next Wednesday. Marshal Foch has been sent to the Rhine to prepare coercive meas ures if the Germans reject the ! peace treaty. Hv the Associated Press I Paris. .Ma 1.". The council of four has declined to consider the mote from Count von Rrochdorff-Rantzati, chief i of the (ieniun peace mission, relative to international labor legislation. I In a note .sent to the German dele ! nation vesterdav M. Clemenceau, nresi 'dent of the Peace Confeicnec, ss that the allied and associated government aie "of the opinion that their decisions ,! satisfaction to the anxiety which the (ierinnii delegates profess for so ' cial justii e, and Insure the realization ,r """"i" "hlch the worliing classes have metre than ever a right to expect after the citiel trial to which the world has been subjected dining tho last flvo i-ars." Reply to German Note The text of the reply to the (Icrinan i. oil- sent b M Clc-niencenii follows: "Sir 1 have the honor to acknowl edge the leceipt of jour tatter of May 111. in legaid to international labor legislation, together with a draft of an international agreement on labor law. The icply of the allied nnd associated governments is ns follows: The tuke note of the declaration made b the Column delegates that domestic peace and the advancement ot mankind ilepenu upon the adjust ment of the labor question and they "'.'- ;"viu'!'1 y"a' ?uvli adjustment will lit- icudeied easier in the iiitura than in the lias oh men's minds are freed from the fear of war, and in dustr is relieved of the burden of Cnntlminl on l'nito S6. Column.Thre President's Message Brief, Ho Tells Cable Companies Paris. Mnv 17,. (Ry A,P.) President Wilson has advised the cable companies that his message to the foithcnmiug special session of Congress will not be more than a few hundred woids, enabling It to be cabled probably ou the day of delivery. I itt $n m 1 405
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