The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-02-24
TRIUMPH OF THE TRADES
SAVANNAH'S GREAT INDUSTRIAL
AND TRADES PAGEANT.


A MAGNIFICENT Display of the City's
Industries and Comm erce-Gov. Cor
don Reviews the Procession - The
Night Illumination and Parade
Scenes and Incidents Ofthe Day.
The Trades Display yesterday, although
formed under the most uutavOrable circum-
stances which driving rain could entail,
was a grand success
From $50 until 1880 O'Clock the clouds
poured volumes of water that drenched the
officers who had charge Of the formation Of
the line. nearly drowned the occupants of
wagons. many Of whom were pretty little
misses. assigned, in costumes, to places on
the floats, and who, in some instances,
mingled tears with the rain, to think that
their gay decorations were hanging limp
and wet about them.
The Savannah fire department formed on
the Bay bet ween East Broad and Houston
streets and the main body of the procession
formed on East Broad, stretching west on
South broad to Habershhm street Along
East Broad street, although the rain came
down in torrents, the people thrOnged the
sidewalks, crowded under piazzas and avn
ings or stood openly out and braved the
storm rather than miss the sights, scenes
ana lDClOtllS WHICH were CLltAl az C-i iSJlH VI
the occasion.
The ram delayed, but it did not prevent
the display. II would have been larger, no
doubt, if the weather had been more
suspicious. As was, it represented III no
small degree the peerless mercantile, manu-
featuring and railroad interests of the chief
Atlantic seaport city of the South.
START or THE PROCESSION.
As the parade moved off to the music of
lott Vnk. Arsffl ut
1880 o'clock marching west on Bay street,
it was an imposing sight, not only in the
varied features representing the Industries
of the city but in the indomitable pluck
which would not permit of auy postpone
ment. The line was nearly mile long,
and as the last and most excellent float of
all, that of the Plant railway system, with
its train of triple cars completing the line,
fell into the rear, drawn by eight horses, it
was II o'clock and the rain ceased falling.
The procession moved on the Bay to West
Broad street, south on West Broad to
BroughtOn, east to Barnard, north to Con
preSs, east TO the southwest corner of
Congress and johnson square, north
TO Bryan street and around Johnson square
to Congress, to Drayton, south to BrOughton,
west on Broughton to West Broad, and
east on South Broad TO East Broad and Bay
streets, where it was dismissed, the bell of
locomotive No. 179 of the Central Rail
filed into East Broad street. II was half
hour later before the other half of the pro
cession reached the point assigned for
breaking up of the line The time occupied
by the march was two hours and fifteen
minutes.
SEVENTY-FIVE FLOATS IN LINE.
There were seventy-1ve floats and
decorated vehicles in line, not in
Guiding the carriages of citizens, Post
ID and the Carpenters and Joiners,
in spite of the fatigue of the march
Of the day before, and the rain, tramped
through pools of water and heavy wet sand,
with no break in the hard march except
along the asphalt along Broughton and Con
gress and along the green grass plot beneath
the oaks that flank the center of the avenue
along South Broad street
Along the entire line of march the scenes of
the day previous were repeated. Balconies,
windows and housetops were crowded with
spectators who cheered the workmen at the
anvil, the wheelwright at his wheel, the
cooper whose music ratified above the sound
of the tramp of horses as he drove down
the hoop on his rosin barrel, the boiler
makers as they riveted the steel plates of
the boiler, the firemen as with hose and
fireman's ak they exhibited their handi-
work upon the flames of the miniature
building, the pretty little misses
that sat, living models of statuesque beauty,
fianking cone and pyramid, the massive
paintings representing the Central Railroad
system, the strangely beautiful and yet pecu-
Jiarly humorous features of the Plant sys-
tem-ths Savannah, Florida and Westerns
tourist train, the original country merchant
and the persistent Savannah drummer, as
typihed by the float Of Port d, the Pap
poose Indian rider and driver the we'll
executed model D: the Guckenheimer build
ing, and lat, but not leas5, the big, fat
butcher in his cardinal costuma-aQ were
cheered, and cheered wildly by friend and
stranger, the shouts going up all along the
whole line from the time the grand process
sion moved until the march had ended
ALONG THE LINE OF MARCH.
On Broughton street the spectators over
flowed the sidewalks on both sides, and
stood III sohd ranks on the smooth asphalt
pavement, with barely room enough for the
procession to make its way through To
add to the excitement merchants scattered
samples of their goods at Intervals along
the line, and there was hustling and
snatching and cropping amid trampliug feet,
not only by boys, but by men and women.
Loaves of bread, bars Of soap, cfgirs, to-
bacco, papers of pins and various other ar
ticles were thrown into the crowd, which
kept every one in good humor, the
ludicrous struggles sometimes creating
laugh on the sidewalk, which was com
municated to the crowds in the windows
and the housetops, and adding to the gem
eral merriment
Where there we're so many commendable
efforts to make a fitting display com
parsons would be invidious, yet taken as a
whole, the Trades Display was one well
worthy of compliment, and some of the
features are deserving of more than pass
ing mention. Among some of these. al
though the lire moved rapidly through the
streets and divided ON the east side of john
son square, making it difficult to secure note
of all.
THE FIREMEN's DISPLAY.
The Fire Department turnout was very
handsome. The Hook and Ladder No. /
with engines Nos. l, 2, 3 and A. and reserve
engine No. 3, with their hose carts. made a
fine display. In the rear of the engines was
miniature house, about 6x12 feet. on
wheels. Inside the house was a real fire.
and amid the dense smoke begrimed firemen
could be seen at the windows fighting the
flames with chemical fire extinguishers and
hose, while on the roof were firemen plying
their axes vigorously to break into the attic
from which the smoke issued between rafter
and shingle. To add to the reality of the
picture the float took fire twice and few knew
when the interlaced rings of steam and
smoke began to issue from the No. fire en-
CINE and the huge lungs of the steamer he