Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) Eagle Hut for American servicemen during World War 1. The YMCA hut is formally opened at Bryant Park in New York City. Ex Ambassador to Germany, James Gerard, the guest of honor, addresses the gathering. Miss Ethel Barrymore donates the flag pole and raises the first flag which was presented by Charles Everson of Lafayette Post G.A.R. Soldiers surround the flag pole as Ethel Barrymore comes in between the crowd. She hoists the flag and stands as the French Military band finishes playing the Star Spangled Banner.
Crowds in New York City celebrate end of World War 1 near time of Armistice. View from above of crowds on 5th Avenue, in Manhattan, gathered at Madison Square, around the Altar of Liberty designed by architect Thomas Hastings, to honor homecoming American soldiers. Camera pans across celebrants waving hats, hands, and flags. Scene shifts to the financial district, and the George Washington Statue at Federal Hall, Wall Street, which has been draped with American flag and signs reading: "Liberty cannot die." A clergyman standing below the statue, paces back and forth. Closeup of a bearded Jewish man, wrapped in a Yiddish newspaper announcing the armistice. He is blowing a horn and has an American flag and a blue and white Jewish flag fastened at his back. Camera pans over young women dressed in costumes as: soldiers, nurses, drum majorettes, the statue of liberty, red cross workers, and Uncle Sam. View shifts to an effigy of the German Kaiser suspended high above the street, between two buildings. Men ride on the outside of a car. One "chokes" an small effigy of the Kaiser while another pummels it. Another crowd raises an effigy of the Kaiser aloft holding a white flag of surrender. A man wearing a grotesque mask of the Kaiser, with Kammerad written across the forehead. He holds an American flag. Vehicles, including a horse-drawn carriage, move along a street surrounded by vast crowds. Confetti flies through the air. Jubilant crowd wave newspapers with headline: Germany Surrenders. A double-decker bus seen in background.
New York City. View of Statue of Liberty. Parade on street with man carrying giant flag of the United States. Crowd lining up sidewalks. Brooklyn Bridge over East River. Canoes and rowboats in water of Central Park. People in park.
A Patriotic Ceremony conducted at the Statue of Liberty during World War 1. Massive flag of Red Cross draped on front of the Statue of Liberty. Members of various veterans' organization, Red Cross nurses, military personnel, and women and girls of Camp Fire Girls organization, dressed in Native American Indian clothing, attend the ceremony. Boys wearing robes in a boys choir lined up to sing. Various children's groups lined up. Crowd on pedestal of statue. Red Cross flags, American flags, and various other flags seen. Ceremony in progress as speakers address the crowd. During part of ceremony a nurse appears to put a white glove on a Navy sailor's hand. Girl holds Red Cross flag. Bi-plane aircraft in flight overhead. Camera men setup with still image cameras and motion picture cameras on tripods. Views of the Statue from vessels in the harbor and views of New York City from Bedloe's Island.
U.S. Army and U.S. Navy officers along with large group of sailors, pose beneath a B-class and a C-class Navy airships in a hangar, at Fort Tilden, Rockaway, Queens, New York City. The B-class airship on the right is removed from the hangar. Then, the C-clas is moved out of the hangar and prepares to fly. View of two aviators, dressed in leather flying gear with helmets and goggles, are seen in the Gondola, which looks like an open boat. One of the aviators stands by a motion picture camera fastened to the gondola. The airship is moved into position and slowly takes off from the field, with several crew members visible in the open gondola.
A military parade on the streets during a World War 1 Liberty Bond fundraising rally in New York City. United States Army troops parade, followed by U.S. Navy forces. Crowd gathers on the streets. Buildings decorated with American flags.
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