Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1882-10-26
THE TRADES DISPLAY
"A GR ,ND FEATURE OF THE FESTIVAL

"A GR IND FEATURE OE The FESTIVAL
A Procession OF Industries That Occupied
-Four Hours In PassinE-The Tabieaux
on the Streets.
The grand parade of trades display day
which has been looked forward to with so
much interest, took place Wednesday after
noon. and proved as fine a demonstration
as was ever given in Philadelphia, occupy.
ing four hours in passing given point. The
many stands along the route and every
available elevated place vherefrom to
view the pageant, as we'll as the sidewalks,
were crowded. but notwithstanding the
immense throng the best of order pre-
vailed, the people good-naturedly aiding
the police to prevent pushing, The dem
onstration was under the direction of
Chief Marshal Walter G.. Wilson, to
whom great credit is due for the admirable
ana systematic manner in which he ar
ranged those details upon which the
success of such an affair always depends.
In tue performance of his work Mr.. Wilson
was assisted in large measure by his
chief of staff. Mr.. Sylvester Bonnaffon.
The line, composed OF fourteen divisions,
commenced moving shortly before noon.
The first division was under command Of
Major VIM. A. Delaney, the post of honor
both in division and parade being as
signed to the Pennsylvania railroad com.
pany. The fifteen hundred employees Of
the great corporation were preceded by
military band. The men wore neat
uniforms, and marched in excellent style.
In the middle of the detachment
another band was placed. Following the
railroad employees came the Adams express
company with four decorated wagons,
drawn by four horses each, while the
Union Transfer company had two wagons,
eight horses and four men. The vehicles
were piled with trunks as an illustration
of the company's business. The Baldwin
locomotive works had three large engines,
| mounted upon trucks, each drawn by
thirty horses in the line, together with
several wagons exhibiting the various
branches OF the firms business. Two
thousand employees Of the works followed,
and then came the exhibit of w. g. ALI
son s. Co., car builders, who had six
wagons, twenty six horses and a large
| number Of wOrkmen. Tho rear of the
division was occupied by the Knicker-
booker ice company, whose thirteen hand
somely decorated wagons, in charge Of
thirty uniformed men, attracted general
attention.
The second division was entirely made
up of the Wanamaker exhibits, the firms
represented being Wauamaker s. Brown,
John Wananaker s. Co., and John Wan
| amaker.
The third division, under the marshal,
ship of Albert J. Phillips, was led by rep.
resentatives from S. F. Phillips harness,
manufacturing establishments. One OF
the wagons contained wooden horse,
mounted by . jockey, and upon another
| figure a handso me set of harness was
placed. The Matchmaking firms came
next, those represented in tho line
being Hagstog & Thorpe, and the Ian,
caster watch company, the latter Of which
made an extended turnout of Is wagons
and % men. Upon each of the wagons
were large pictures of the operations of the
principal departments in the mandatory
at Lancaster. Anoticeahlc figure was that
Of Father Time, mounted on dust and
damp proof watch, which was painted tu
represent bicycle. A particular feature
Of this part of the division was an old
Conestoga wagon, fitting representation
of transportation in the days before rail-
roads. This numbering old wagon, it is
said, was run for thirty years between
Philadelphia and Pittsburgh in the old
eiNCoS sAuSA NbAAlOu rlsO uCstVlCSO lUdu, ~,
O13 pounds ever hauled across the A;le-
gheny mountains with six horses. 1t is
now owned BY Samuel Gingerrick, of Ian
caster, who prizes it highly. It was drawr
by six horses and was driven EJ
James Booth, of Lancaster, "a years ce aye
and an old stager of the Philadelphia aud
Pittsburgh line. The old feed box hung
from the tail board, and battered tar boz
swung from the running gear.
After this came tho varied industries OF
Pennsylvania, comprised in fourteen dis
tinct divisions. All the results of Ameri
can brain and Drawn, which have at once
lightened life's toll and enlarged life's re
suits, trailed their instructive lcngth fol
five hours through the same eager lines o
sight seers and bright decorations as baG
made the day before 50 noteworthy. Ii
tue army Of workers and the array of theil
! work were fourteen thousand men, one
Thousand wagons and two Thousand horses
This parade Of Realities was supplemented
in the evening by series of illuminated
aIlegOrical tablcaux, drawn through si1
miles Of streets brilliant with electric
lights, chemical fires and Chinese lanterns
This pageant, representing historic event,
in Pennsylvania history and lengtheDeG
BY tatleaux significant Of India's mythol.
ogical epic, was received with more won
der than applause by million or more
people, who had waited its appearance
through three hours of standing WEAKNESS
or seated discomfort.
A most praiseworthy feature of the
day parade was its formation. To wheel
fourteen thousand civilians in line, all in
order and all on time, to hold them in i'm
pressive form and send them on a march
of miles without a break, is problem
which might have puzzled the best drill
master who ever studied martial ma
chinery. But the problem solved itself
with very easy execution, and the
triumphant result was due simply to iudi.
vidual willingness and Intelligence. Every
man in the trades procession, from brick
layer to prosperous merchant at the
head Ct his employees, mechanic,
clerk, laborer and capitalist, felt that
he was posing as a factor
in Pennsylvania greatness and as
an active contributor to her prosperity.
The liue was living, moving treatise on
political economy in the broadcast sense of
that term. There were farmers, bread
makers and bread consumers, workers
and hirers, manufacturers, exchanges Of
produce, manual and skilled Iaborers,
builders, transporters-in brief, all who
grow, all who make, all who carry, all
who trade, all who consume. Borne in
review before the throng was almost
every kind of mechanism, from an anvil
to watch movement, from sewing ma.
chino to cambria needle, from burglar
proof safe with sides grim and defiant, to
an open piano, with attuned strings,