The Leavenworth weekly times., 1878-07-11
The Whole of Which was Witnessed
by at Least Twenty Thous-
and People.
From Saturday Mornings Ddily.I
4 GALA DAY.

a GALA DAY.
Lcavenwo-th never looked more beautIiuI
than she did on the morning Of the Fourth,
and while the anticipated rain. which the
falling barometer and the threateningly sug-
CcstiYe black huCd clouds Of the day before
seemed 10 indicate, kept many from iscoTt-
day OF days chased away bolh .hs clouds
and the foTebodlnSs- aus by nIne o'clock on
THURSDAY morning lere was not a solitary
business house whlc. did not
DISPLAY 4 DECORATION
OF some characte or description. Each and
every hldhIWoiu.tn and child seemed patriot
ically disposed, and nearly every residence
iipaied The national emblem. Crowds
Ihfonged me treets wearing flags and other
patriotic sign ficatIons upon their breasts,
ana traitor Was be, indeed, 10 his country
ana ms state II he enter not into
the spirit OF the great aud noincntous occa-
SION. Al an e,rrly hour
sTRANgEEs EEGAS To ARRIVE,
and by noon(therc were thoussnes in the city,
nan many 1I oI wIlom had come two and three hun
9Ieu I. iliieSE The Atchison, Topeka d santa
,,sIh Lah Scn excursion train from Topeka 10
AtchlsSn and Gown on the Missouri Pacific
line ITO this city, with several hundred cN-
Gl<T"uisrs, while the Rock Island brought
-. large numbers. Western Missouri contrib
utcI literally OF her population, while all of
Kansas sent representatives TO swell
THE EATIDLY INCREASING THEoNG.
Every a8.o. WAS crowded, and every place
capable Oi accommodating "A stranger, was
oy-TflOTlng. The streets were an impenetTa-
b.e mass, and had II not been for the imper-
tuTbab e good humor of the average Ameri-
can crowd there would most aSSurcdly, have
been some fearful accident 10 chronicle. The
surging, swaylng masses flowed like
AN IRRESISTIBLE TIDE or THE OCEAN,
and there was no Stemming 1t. From of the
sidewalks INTO the middle OF the streets the
crowd extended, the danger being all the
more apparent from the great number of
wagons being driven rapidly through the
streets 30 tie appointed place of rendezvous
iDr the industrial parade. by nine O'Clock
in the morning .ae crowd was uncomfOrt-
ably large; by haii past that hour it was
ALMOST Az IlITrSSIBILITY
TO make headway through il, while at ten
O'Clock, the hour SoJ for the parade ii was like
forcing "A way through hedge fence to effect
a passage. II j. doubtful il Lcavenworth
ever saw such a crowd before, or, If she has,
it must have been very many years back.
The enthusiasm was ineXIinguishab!c, and
.fierveScei and bubbled out upon the slight
est prOyocation.
EEEIAB BODY WAS HAPPY
in the anticipation of a pl leasant day and a
grand time, anu didn't seem To care whether
school kept or not. Every upper window
along the route OF the procession was filed,
principally with ladies and children, two .or
three hours before the advertised time for the
columns 10 move, and every awning and ac-
crsSIble place from where a view could be
had, was chartered. Thousands stood in the
hot and brOiiIng sgn, upon TIE streets lOrtwo
or three hours al 4 time, so great was the
Tush for an available SPOT from which to
eaten glimpse OF the passing pageant.