New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1876-07-04
NIGHT PARIDE AT PHILADELPHIA.
SUPERB PUBLIC DECORATIONS.

TIE PROCESSION IMMENSELY LONG-A GALAXY OF
GOVERNORS N TIE IINE-THE FOURTH UshERED
IN AT INDEPENDENCE HALL.
lBY TELEGRAPH TO THE TRBUNE.l
PuuADFLpHI, July 3.-This has been day of
PROFESSIONS blaze and torchiight. The railroad
trains have been overloaded with human freight,
and tonight the city is full and the hotels are at
last in the condition that the landlords hoped they
would be in during the whole Exhibition season-
criwded from basement to roof All the we'll
known establishments in tie city and ont at the
Centennial grounds were full before noon to-day.
At most of them the expedent of putting cots in the
hall failed to supply the demand for lodgings The
numerous small hotels improvised for the fair and
the almost countless boarding-hOuses received the
overflow, and it il not probable that anybody will
be obliged to pass the night without some sort OF a
bed. From what can be learned this evening, 1T
would seem that the city Is demonstrating adlnl-
raby her capacity to take of her visitors The
severest strain upon her accommodations Will come
tonight and tomorrow night.
The great event Of the morning was the parade of
the Grand Army of the Republic II was a much
more imposing demonstration than any one had ex-
pccted. There were more than 5000 men in line
and nearly every Post marched under torn and
ragged but historic batte-hag The line was formed
between o and 10 o'clock and Gov HaFtranft
Grand COMMANDER OF inc OTutI, lOOh HIS pi'Co III
front of the veterans. The Pennsylvania Posts
marched up Brcad-st. to Coumbia-ave.. where they
were Joined by Posts from Ncw-En gland and thence
to Masonic Hail. the veterans of New-York, Now
Jersey Maryland and Virginia taking their places
in the line az it advanced The boys of the Soldiers
Orphan Institute, armed with miniature mtisketS,
Joined the ranks of their fathers comrades, and the
girls rode behind in carriages. II was pathetic
and significant feature of the parade. The process
sion marched to Independence-square, and thence
by long detour to Chestnut and BrOad-sts., where
II was dismissed. The tattered flags We're received
with cheers every corner. Faded, torn and battle
stained they bore witness on the threshold OF the
Centennial Independence Day to the great civil war
which had well nigh undonc tine work which the
Continental soldiers had wrought.
battalion of 800 men from the ODD Infantry of
Ncw-York arrived this afternoon, and were received
b. battalion OF the LIST Regiment. The 1st Light
Infantry Of Rhode Island, carrying one of the
standards Of Gen. Grecnes army, also reached the
city. There are now six encampments on the Cen
fennia grounds. The attendance there during the
day has been immense.
The civic procession this evening was as tediously
aud proyOkingly slow getting itself into shape and
moving OIL "a such bodies usually are. Long after
the time appointed for the head OF the column to
move UP Broad-st. Struggling odds and ends of the
line. wagons with transpareDcies, onnibuses with
choirs Of young ladies' aud trade organizations
went down the street when they ought to
have been going the other way; and when the pro-
cession began 20 pass the Union League Club at half
past nine many people thought il not worth the
trouble and fatigue they had been TO. II was inpos-
ing by reason of its vast proportions. but although
brilliant in spots as whole it was rather tame and
wcarsnme and scarcely deserving of the immense
outpouring of spectators that packed Broadst from
The Baltimore Depot clear up to COumbia-aye., and
converted Chestnut-st. into an Illuminated river OF
humanity As a torchlght parade II could not for
moment be compared with the political demonstra-
tior made by the Republicans last Fall The torches
were few and far between; and if now and then a
BRIGHT spot in the form of a company well provided
with hambcaus appeared it only served 10 make the
darkness OF the preceding and following divisions
mo~r striking. 1t is, however. not worth while 10
be critical as to details. The affair may be charac-
tcrized in n sentence. As well-0rganzed torch
light parade and trades demonstration il was fail
nre but ~ q great spontaneous. popuardisplay it
wonderfully successful Thousands of people were
in the marching column. and hundreds of thousands
looked on with sach degree of enthusiasm as their
fatigue and the suitry night would admit Of There
WAS little system or order, but there was great
heariucss which after all was the best thing for
the occasion.
just what notably gracod the procession il was
not easy To ascertain, for the mixed light Of the
moon and the torche, served much 10 obscure as
to illuminate the faces OF the people in the barouches
Gen Grant was not there. lhat much was certain,
for the transparency bearing the words welcome
the President" seen to 90 OF down back
alley ia the arms of cOiOred individual
but the prospective President, Gen. Hayes,
wa, in the line. He waited long time in front of
81 T.,
open barouche with an Illuminated placard bearing
the words Welcome 70 Gov. Hayes of Ohio borne
llolt from the drivers seat, he was naturally
the object Of much attention. aud had
enough of Handwriting TO give him a
foretasc Of what will be his fortunes at White
House receptions in case he should be elected. Ten
other Governors were in the line, namely Hartranft
Of Pennsylvania escorted by that queer and veneI-
able club THE State in Schuylkill;' Bagley of
Michigln1 Rice of Massachusetts, Conner Of Name,
Peck of Vermont, Lippitt of Rhode Island, Carroll
of Maryland, Cochran OF Delaware McClcary OF
Kentucky, and Bragden of North Carolina. Very
few Of the Foreign Commissioners appeared the Bra
lillian reception at the Continental Hotel having a
prior claim upon them Apart from the Americus and
few other political clubs the procession was almost
wholly composed of vehicles of various kinds. htted
up by manufacturing and mercantile firms, carrying
delegations of wOrllmcn and transparcnclcS, and
Illuminated with torches and Roman candles. Inc
length Of the procession, measured by the time IL re-
ouired 10 pass given point, about three hours.
MIpSIGHr.-At this hour the head of the process
sion is in sight from Independence Hall, ceaying ITS
way slowly through the dense mass of people that
ills Chestnut-st and the ceremony OF ushcrlng IN
the new century OF the Republic with music and
song under the portals of the venerable temple of
liberty is now beginning. A chorus o. Geo voices,