Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1882-10-26
THE SPECTACLE.
A Splendid Jubilee Industrial
Procession.

The industrial parade moved down
Main street between ten aud eleven
o'clock this forenoon, and the process
sion was witnessed by many thousands
of people. The spectators thronged
the sidewalks and streets, filled win
dows and balconies, and flags innumer-
able adorned housetOps, while every
conceivable adornment hung from the
buildings throughout the city. The
weather was salubrious, and all that
could possibly be desired. The course
OF the procession starting from Charles.
ton avenue, near the railway depot,
thence moved up Adams to Second,
thence to Jackson, from whence it
went to Main, alterward down
the latter to Beal, thence to DeSoto,
from where it turned north to Gayoso,
afterward to Main and up Main to
Court Square, at which point it dis
persed.
Three military companies partici
pated; the Porter Guards, some %
strong; the Waldran Guards.
with as many or more, and
Captain Glass company, the Nc.
Clellan Guards, with nearly as
many. The.military, altogether num-
beriDg about seventy, all in full uni
form, made very snowy appearance.
Captain Waldran acted as commander
Of the battalion and was mounted.
The leading feature of the indus
trial procession included the fire
brigade with their apparatus
FURNISHED and beautifully decorated,
number of city officers including
Judge Hadden, mounted and all in
their best rig, three bands Of music.
Arnold's the Chickasaw cornet band,
and another, and many floats typifying
progress and enterprise.
One of the most notable pictures
was a car or float in the form of a
mammoth globe, upon which was
mapped an outline of the countries oil
the world, the whole surmOunted by
an animated statue of liberty, suitably
costumed in red, white and blue.
This picture, symbolic of the four
great sections OF America, had at each
corner Of the float a number oi
handsome girls costumed to repre-
sent the inhabitants of various
countries. Following it in long liue,
came vehicles arranged to represent
the various manufactures and other
industrial enterprises. Men were OBJ
served at the work of making har-
ness, saddles, hames and collars, in
dia rubber goods, hammering iron and
steel into various mechanical de-
signs; making caskets, wooden
ware, and every conceivable object
among the many industries carried
on in and about the city. The lum.
ber traders and wood manufacturers
were especially noticeable for the ex
cellence of their display. This part ol
the procession was much admired
and the whole was pronounced great
success.
As terminal Of the days festival,
we are to have this evening, on the
bluff in front Of the city, between halt
past seven and eight o'clock, grand
pyrotechnic exhibition, which bids
fair to excel in spectacular features
anything ever seen here, or, indeed
anywhere South. Bombs and rocket,
will be touched of, and the air will bt
full of blazing consultations of every
hue and shade.
Besides the fireworks there is the
theater with Miss Jeffreys Lewis in
la Belle Russo; the exposition
masquerade and fancy dress ball; tht
Cochran Hall Terysichorean festival
with other pleasurable resorts too
numerous to tell about. 1t has so far
been fete day indeed and the pleas
ures are to be carried far into the
night.