Los Angeles daily herald., 1888-07-05
INDEPENDENCE DAY.
lcoNcLUDuD FROM SECOND PAGE.

returned to thread the mazes of the
thickly crowded streets. The restaur-
ants and hotels soon filed to overflowing
as everyone by this time was necessa-
rily both hungry and thirsty, and the
stand of the Woman's Relief Corps on
Spring street, received liberal amount
of the public patronage. As the balloon
had gone up, there was nothing to
do but wait for 'the horribles,"
and while the crowd was lining the
streets so as to obtain good position for
this second parade the Salvation Army
created a good deal of attention by
marching up and down the principal
thoroughfares, attired in full uniform,
and with drum and tambourine playing.
Before the strains of the music had died
away the news went around that the
| Horribles had started, and from their
meeting place on Franklin street, these
quaint paraders soon came into view.
| HORRIBLE ANTICS.
All was we'll done before, but what
came at this stage of the days showing
was best of all. The ludicrous side OF
life, the caricatures of its evolution, the
folly of existence, with or without bells,
the Righteousness of persons and things
exaggerated, are themes which touch
the human pulse and incite inter-
est and excite to wholesome laughter
and enjoyment all classes of the
domain, to those in elegant equip
ages down to those who walk
the humber ways of every day
existence. So then on streets
and in privileged doors, windows and
sequestered places a great multitude
awaited the advent and appearance of
the "Horribles.' To whom is due the
inception and carrying out Of their "quips
and pranks' it may be said that the old
couplet, 80 serious, unburdens itself in
a lighter mood:
Honor aud fame from no condition rise;
Act well your part; there all the honor lies.
And so the Chief Disturber OF our Natal
Day, A. A. Adams led his motley crowd
through the pueblo assisted by his aides,
S. X. Adams, E. Nittinger, and G. E. At.
wood. Amid the blare of tin trumpets
and the tocsin OF COW bells the homo.
geneous array moved at 3 P. NJ.
down Franklin to Main street. Officers
Mcguire and Dillon, selected as the anti.
pathists of all that is horrid, led the
van. Following were the Band of the
Horribles, and more fearful and discord-
ant music than they produced has moi
been heard since Lucifer was welcomed
into the weird echoing halls of Hades.
The bandmaster of this nelicon and tin.
tuba blasting and unique horn blowers
was E. A. Durant, and his mother
wouldn't have known him in his lank
attire. The other blowheads of the band
were the three Rudy brothers, Joe
Smith, Henry Dyer, B. Nilligan, L.
Sinkohoin, Theo. Mersch, James Martin
w. H. Davis, Frank Patterson, Will B.
Griffith, G. A. Broadwell, D. X. Rayme
and Fl. Strickler.
i The Chinese contingent was on hand
with Johnny Comprador and Mrs
Johnny and the kids, umbrella bearers
and "Jolie Our Natal Day" mandarin
with the red button, in the person oi
Deputy Constable Fred G. Smith. The
Chinese element, la Harrison, were
portrayed by Messrs. Adams, Jenkings
Adams, Lazzarevich, Elliot, Whitley
Edwards, James and Roder.
His Satanic Majesty, J. A. Nicoll, oc
cupied a platform car, and was accom-
panied by. numerous sprites of various
color and lineage.
i The Sonora Town darkies drove team
tandem and the cold man" Browel
and ''brudder" Fisher and "Lean Ella
Coulter were not the least insignificant ol
the off-colors.
| The Barrel Brigade, attired with 6
barrel, as suggestive as the scant COS
tune of the Texas major who only wore
a collar and pair of spurs, was followed
by the Chariot Oxtet. This company O
eight, gorgeously and Enthusiastically at
tired as male English and female Irish
warblers were the striking feature of the
turnout They enlivened the march
with superbly rendered numbers, includ.
ing: Gin Our Little Bark We Are Gid
in" Girly, Girly, Kitty was Sweet
heart,' "Cricket on the HEARTH" and
a medley chorus composed by the
Oxtets. The singers who accompanied
the nicely decorated chariot were Messrs
Sweeny, Packard, Steinfeldt, Brent
Barry Jackson, Keller and King. They
took the prize.
| Dinah and her baby were after the
Oxtets, and then came Chief D. F. Done
gan with band of Indian braves. The
tail end of these scavengers terminated
in a wheeled crockery crate, drawn by a
well-fed horse and meek burro. The
former was placarded Protection" ano
the little long-eared servitor, "Free
Trade" ALI of which meant that the
pooo oPAAAAlCI was COSulZdQC LQdG pro
lection fattens upon the masses and
that he was jackass to thrust
the free trade discussion upon the peo
pie while dust still arises on those streets
| lilly-watered by contracts; the which
how instituted and how carried out, re-
main an abomination which cries to 8
monopoly in vain for betterment
Republicanism was ever a synonym fol
"gall."
The cowboys in the procession are
deserving of more than passing mention.
They gave an exhibition of fancy riding
at the Park in the early afternoon and only
Joined in the parade near the end
The band comprised Frank Reyson, oI
Tucson, Ariz. Con. Listman, of Pueblo
Jack Smith and Geo. Swanson, of Los
Angeles, Jose Gonzales of the CITY
OF Mexico, and Fred r. Wanger sof FL
Paso, Texas.
Among the incidentals were Robert
McGregor, aliving cartoon of the HERALD
s. w. Dodsworth, the "bang-up" clown
on the celebrated "water-cress" burro
Wakely Nittinger, as Zulu boy; w.
Thatcher, the fat boy; Milton r. Levy,
the traditional Jim Grow, and the ScriIm' |
Fiend, Ed. Cheney.
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