The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1883-07-07
From the Daily Of Friday.
OUR BIG SPREAD.


The Largest and Most Show
Procession Ever Seen In
Butte.
Three Thousand Strangers Part
cipate in the Celebration.
Martial Music, Eloquent Grafton
and Brilliant Pyrotechnics.
The Fireman's Ball a Gran
Success.
The people of Butte rarely enthuse
but when upon an occasion like tn
celebration of the anniversary of tn
birthday of American liberty, the.
are called upon to respond with thei
money and cooperation, their grea
big, patriotic heart svells with ma
tional pride and their gener
osity is as boundless as theil
patriotism. The city of Butte
and probably no other city
in the Territory has ever witnessed
80 enthusiastic a celebration as that
of the 10th anniversary of Independ.
ence day. At twelve o'clock Wed
nesday morning the populace were
awakened by the whistles of the
mills mingled with the report of fire
arms2 and patriotic shouting of men
on the streets. At day break q ma
tional salute heralded the dawn
of the 10th anniversary. The streets
rapidly filled with the thousands of
strangers who had come from every
direction to witness the celebration
and didn't propose to lose any of it
by tardy rising. By nine o'clock
Main street was crowded and before
noon, two Deer Lodge trains and
the regular train from the south hav-
ing emptied their loaded cars, it was
estimated that not less than five
thousand persons were upon the
streets. In the meantime the grand
procession had formed on West
Broadway, but the members who
in the procession made it nec-
essary to extend the line onto Mon
tana south, to Park and thence east
to Main street. The procession final
ly formed, it presented the grandest
scene of pageantry ever witnessed in
the Territory. AS al prominent fig
ure in the scene Col. J. G. C. Thorn
ton, who must he mentioned as the
grand marshal of the day, preced-
ed the procession, mounted upon a
dappled gray charger, and with the
precision and discipline of a veteran
guided the movements of the
civic army. The Alice
with their snowy uniforms,
preceded the Union Guards. The
Guards, although but recently Or
gained, are a credit to the city
and Territory. Their soldierly
bearing, the precision with which
they performed the most difficult
svolutions, and the martial appear
which they presented, with
their new uniforms and FURNISHED
arms, was a surprise to everybody.
They had the drill of veterans and
trim appearance of a provost
Following the Guards
came the Fire Department..
The Fire Brigade, with full fremen's
inform and hose cart handsomely
decorated, presented a fine appear
lnce. They were Immediately fol-
owed by the City Fire Department
dressed in uniform, with black pants
md hat and white shirts, and
urned out the full force
# the department., manning
wo hose carts and one hook and lad
Ter truck. Next came carriages CON-
the Mayor and city officials,
With the speakers of the day includ-
ng Prot. w. Egbert Smith, Hon.
Tobn F. Forbis and Rev. Charles w.
chaplain of the day. Next
anne the car of state, a large float
decorated in the national
with the Goddess of Liberty,
plendidly personated by Mayor
Nhitford's daughter, seated upon a
hrone in the center and grouped
bout her, thirty-eight little girls,
|ressed in white with silver chaplets
pom their heads, representing the
tates of the Union. The Deer
brass band followed
he car of state and discoursed
ome very fine martial music as the
recession wended ita way through
he dusty streets. A hundred mount
d boys, who had been provided with
inform caps and red, white and blue
came next and a long line of
arriages, wagons and buggies
up the rear. Taken
3 a whole the procession
as exceedingly snowy, the gorgeous
ar Of state forming a central figure.
18th the contrasting colors of the
'nion Guards uniform, with the
ID shirts of the Fire Brigade and the
lack and white costumes Of the City
ire Department, making a picture
vic pageantry, which could scarcely
, surpassed in heighth efcolor. After
arading the principal streets of the
ty the procession halted at the Pa
lion, which with its wide expanse
floor. large seating capacity and
erfect ventilatio n, proved itself a
'lendid place for the Fourth of July