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ARMYQFCHILSER PERSHING ATCEREMONY IN PARKGeneral Addresses 50,000 “Fut ure Defenders” at Demon-stration in His Honor.WILL LEAD PARADE TODAYCommander to March with Vet-11 erans of 1 st Division DownFifth Avenue.IIMORE THAN 25,000 IN LINEMen Will Wear French Helmet* and Carry Full Equipment t| of Active Service.Pershing’s Program Today.9 A. M.—Leaves Waldorf with r | | staff to Join parade at 110thStreet.10 A. M.—Leads parade of his picked regiment and 1st Division down Fiftti* Avenue from 110th Street to, Washington Square.7 P. M.—Attends concert by New York Symphony Orchestra in Central Park.8. P. M.—Guest of City at dinner at Waldorf. Addresses by Secretary of War Baker, Mayor Hylan5and himself.rlt;\i;LGeneral John J. Pershing’s second day ; I in New York was crowded with efforts by grown-ups and little ones, repre-t sentatives of organized bodies, and plain\t private citizens, to show him the whole town stands back of the city’s official hospitality. A mounting desire to see the Commander-In-Chief of the American Expeditionary Forces brought cheering crowds in his wake wherever ho | went: a manifest wish to make him ! feel at home brought him a variety of attentions, and offers of many more• which his time made it impossible forr Ihim to accept. i i Thousands of telegrams have reachedI- ! his headquarters begging him to attendi’ i every sort of function imaginable, and *f..j to visit st) many cities that he well might make a 'triumphal tour of all the j | Slates if he desired.j i The General’s experiences from the . i time the Leviathan neared the harbor on j ! -Monday had prepared hun for the tone ! j j and volume of the greetings extended j ► ! to him yesterday, but that he was !L ! *growlngly pleased at the spontaneous | cordiality expressed on every hand he made plain, not only in his manner but in the few speeches he made during the day. These, like thosis of Monday, were short, but they never failed to win the applause of those who heard them. ! b The chief event of the day was a re- s I J ception given to him on the Sheep Mead-ow In Central Park, at which 50,000 j j flag-waving little ones, who almost A blotted out the green with their red, j I white and blue, raised treble cheers as ^ Pershing called them “ the future de- ^ fenders of our country.”tFk
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Wed, Sep 10, 1919
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