- Crowds See Big Parade yee a ASHINGTON, Sept. 17.— Wa; made ee holiday today to home General Pershing and welcom: the fir: division. Every. government depa ment and commercial. house closed. Hours before the “Bagatie— G5 ready ant. sunlight, tempered with a tang of autumn in. the air, greet ed the capital when it turned out to pay full _ tribute. to the veterans. ES Bee. Aiong the coverging street s” leading to the starting point; impro mptu pa- Tades were held as the spick-andcolumns of the. division beganspan - to Sather: oer Along the route by..which ee | and | | e byes Sidewalks while adinirers viewed the cooks. - A Satisfying barra pleasant odors filled the Steel. ge of | At the reviewing. stand before 5. the White House, where Vice-President Marshall stood: to honor the fighti ng -|men, high government offici als ‘members of the diplomatic corps and were ‘Moving early -to their Seats) es ey | -, busy. crowds although the | _ sight of him. Tr Way ee in response shouted greetings. Pershing WASHINGTON, roar of welcome the First | division to the cheers and Mo, Leads Men. Sept. Ze . 17.—Amid a General Pershing led of the American. ex- peditionary forces up. Pennsylvan avenue today to receive the nationia ’s homage. fa e ee Mississippi. oe Cpt, Sg Need eee RAL- ss os, ao <. Fo . as. the Above spring i floods : each | by, came a battalion of tanks, streaked and yello wed with: paint to conceal them “aon and surrendered command Only to. take a higher post. Marching ahead of the formations, also, came a clanking their way behind the host of otnoisy response to the cheers that.troops 1a ficers and,men who saw their first sergreetea vice with the First divis them. ion in ee Franc e, eo oe : later to g0 to other units’ as . There was ffony encuy éyes, but now growling ana nothing lacking to make. parade an epitome of the whole the ' Then marching came the First in the French instructors. Infantry. mass brigade, forma tion, twenty-four men, abreast across the avenue, led by the Third machi ne gun date talion of bayonets for each ’ the trenches; high mount The Sixteenth infantry, vet| which peered skyward as thoughed rifles; battalion. still in erans of the bitter lighting at Cantieny Search of enemy flyers, Some suns were horse-drawn, some of ths where France learned in What fashion Lehind panting motor trucks or trundlea America coutd and’ would fight and tractors, breathed free again The show -was as complete after months of as the inge- Strain, led the way. ‘After its three bac. nuity of the war department could maks talion blocks had passe it, a cross section of the d came the High. American ex-~ teenth infan try in similar heditionary forces, <<) 6 - {lowed by «the First machi fofmation fot. But it was to the lines of khakiey ne gun bat-. -cla4. lalion of the brigade. brown-faced men themsélves eee that: first _ The Sixth’ field interest of the thronging crowds .artil all along followed by the Secon lery came next, the wide avenue turned. ‘The d infantry home-comcomposed of the 46th and 28th brigade ing of this first unit of Amer infantry ican man and the Second machine.’ gun. | power to cross the -subm battalion, arine-infested then — tting to his place on horseback, with his staff clattering behind him like a cavalr y troop, everybody recognized him ©6~—-—cCihis “hand was at salute most of sand the xe 4 #@ full resistlessly aa) own game. There were guns of all with its motorized guns. The the types used: in France ing that could) ie fantry march ed: in column of fours, |moved through the streats. four Machi ne compa nies abreast and with officers Lups, big and: little, bristled ana among” the file. closers ahead , leaving the men riflemen; squat mortars to ig hurl bombs form a solid block |from limousine in which he rode, denie army d the a ae the American skill and indomiiabl vast army | created to meet and beat the e will hag enemy at its General Pershing, en route to his \Office before the parade, was stopped and again, of ‘ —. infantry came, batteries. of rolling kitchens, smoking and bubbling with hoonday meals for the troop s in prebaration, stood parked against, the again -as << ~ / ERT YSBe © solid lock of infantry, rose the grim line ot | bayone and. ts, blued steel glinting dully as it caught the fight. Farther back came the long lines of field guns, ‘4 | “%5's’’ to. which ‘French office French | | Said Frence oves hei salvation rs have ari. after | jall the tizims and wagons had rumbl ea | Ts the from curb to curb. In their khaki olive drab uniforms, the men swung }by 7 gee ! "(Continued from Page Ay of burned fighting manhood that filled the street —« « £ avenue was Start.eyery street. ~Was pouring to its. thousands to iine the sidewalks and fill -the reviewing, stands, ..° =. © Brilli r & Pennsylvania Ae «> — It was the'last grand review of the armies, the Victory parade, the last chance for the hundreds of the Jong. lines of ‘75's’? Seas was in marked contrast and tha to its sil-. seventh field artillery, The. horse-drawn ,ent, mysterious,- unreported ‘departure, suns and limbers of the jand the men and women along the way seemed to feel the significance of the spectacle. | They Yecalicd the days wheu | the nation waited in’ wordl ess anxiety Fifth three columns abreast and. the rolled by “Seve ntu puffed and panted along with its-heavier suns in the same formation, “= a The regular trains of Ubousands of men, women and childr to hear that these same Smiling, en free- lowed, the First engineer’the division: fol~ “i aiwe havs had come safely regim ent leadto a Freno} |ing the way with ge the First engineer train ~esowss vi vile dire, tie policeman it was later taken over ana wm Sacan on the beat and Mr. Riggs’ privat d e watchman, Wallace Kirkwood, as the Kirkw both state that the watchman of ood House. Mr. Fowler’s It was greatly improved, as we find Stables was intoxicated during by The Star of the evening, and it is supposed that he let fall September 16, 1858, which says: a lighted candle, Which soon communicated “A force of mechanics is busily itself to the loose engaged makstraw and hay, enveloping the ing alterations in the Kirkwood entire structure House, at the in a short space of time. northeast corner of Pennsylvan ia avenue and Twelfth street northwest, embellishing and otherwise improving it, In Fecent years, this has grown to be one of the most popular hotels in the United States, and its proprietors have gained Nation-wide reputations, lustrative of the tizee s and like “The | fire was first discovered at the north “It was suggested in The Eveni ly to have historie waine. Th end of the stable in an alley : thet it would be profitable for ng Star today nature of these arti r. through cles dep ends the owners of © lots from Fifteenth Street, om the purpose for the property adjoining the and the feneral which the building is in. -elief Kirkwood House to is that tended, it was the work of an incindiary.” form a joint stock company, embracing in its Dossessions their houses and Deposited in the corn lots, as well ag er stone of the ney the present hotel, all of which Post. Office Departme nt Building in Wash could, with com_€rn, at F and Thirteenth in parati ton when it was laid vely little street expens s, the proe, be so remodeled as to on September 26 last: wai prietor did not receiv e much help or Sympathy, quadruple the capacity of & copy of the new the hotel, edition of the Postal laws as it was regarded by many as a slave bastile, “Thro ughou t the for recess here it is said Slaves were of Congress this Sumkept while waitmer, the Kirkwood House has been eréwded with .Suests. If its capacity had been much 1 a oe Hist edition ‘having greater, been issued in fire, @ woma it would doubtless have been n in a frenzy of despair . kept full, for no leaped other public house is better from one of the attic Windo established among ws and broke both the habitual visitors to the al : new legislation and __rhis hotel, now known Feder the introduction of as the Kirkwood new and improved methods House , For was some erect ed in 1847. years past, largely for reaso and facilities. in the In that year q ns apPostal p ealing to building on this site, occup the old-timer, the Assoc ied iation of The-preparation of this Inn, was torn down and a by the Fountain new edition: was in-bOldest Inhabitants has been holding its annual four-story hotel trusted by Postmaster anquets at the Raleigh build ing was put up. Hotel, one of the oldGeneral Walter PF: Brow n est hotel sites in the to his executivi e assi Fuller ’s Hotel, later city and associated with as the Irving House and stant » Harold N. Grav es, both national and finally as the Kirkwood House local history. .” Niess, who has had wide Originally here was locate d expe ‘the rien Fount ce ain over a num- Inn, from at ber of years wartime y ae , aX FITS . a en? rae ") REGARDING the burning of the Miller Tay- “Work, the ‘ais een arg ton of thie RE, Yo be fold inth e ‘outhern markt, "and least 1821 to 1832. in the postal tor and in the departme service as an inspec- was Dr. David Appler, and Tts proprietor his son, Dr. C. W. nt as an attorney and Apple is at present an attorney r, in the office of theresides the only member of the family living, Special assistant to the in this city. As the Fountain Inn, Attorney General for was it the Post Office Depa later operated by Azariah Puller. It was a rtment. Mr. Niess had small building, and in (1847, tt was torn down Neset| Jax (watching something tast y going ings “Please, Kin I hays measles when Willie’s throuma, gh ‘with ‘com? sick room): the eat Xe if 4