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Show I! NATION IS FOR I PREPAREDNESS 'Nearly 145,000 Men and Whom March in One of JjjlJ Greatest Processions of M J Kind Ever Assembled. SI B( New York, May 13. New York's I belief that the nation should prepare , ! for war Avas expressed today by near- fc y 146,000 men and women marching s in one of the greatest processions ever -it assembled for the promotion of an ) idea. :t Twenty abreast, filling the streets i from curb to curb, keeping in step to I the patriotic tunes of two hundred 9 bands, the parade that bogan this , morning will last for 12 hourB or long- I er. It is estimated that at least one I million persons saw. the demonstra-3 demonstra-3 Twenty thousand women are in the A pageant. Workers in two hundred oc-H oc-H cupatlons, lawyers and other profes-K profes-K sional men. city officials and city employes, em-ployes, and ton thousand members of jj the National Guard in uniform and ' thousands of veterans of the Spanish ; war compose the long column. The ' lawyers are led by twenty justices of the supreme court. ': Great Demand For Places. ' Demands for a place in the parade ; so greatly exceeded the time and space that the promoters were compelled com-pelled to reject CO.OOp application's. f Major General Leonard Wood, Rear Admiral Nathaniel R, Usher. com mandunt of the New York navy yard and Mayor Mitchell reviewod the j parade, i Antl-prei)arednoss bodies such as ; ' the Woman's Peace Parly and the so-: so-: clalists endeavored to offset the pre- paredness spirit by the circulating i among the spectators of circulars. V Across Fifth ave., -from the reviewing i stand the woman's party hung out a ' banner with the inscription: "There . aro only 100,000 of you. You are not the only patriots. Two million fam-1 fam-1 illep, 500,000 mine workers and organ-Vj organ-Vj if izod labor of America are opposed to ? I what you and Wall street arc march-Si march-Si 3 ing for. Are you sure you aro right." 5 4 no |