Omaha daily bee., 1889-05-02
Beautiful Floats and Tableaux IL
New York City.
BLUE AND GRAY FRATERNlze
loutbcrn Soldiers and Grand Army
Men Meet as Brothers - The
PresIdent Leaves for
Washington.
fhe DnY in Gotham.

hLally started shortly after III O'CLOCK, win
Mayor Grant, representative delegates from
lhe civil, industrial and commercial societies
and organizations in advance. When
the reviewing stand was reached the
mayor presented an address TO President
Harrison. The city council took the places
which had been reserved for them on either
side of the president Next came General
Butterheld, chief marshal, followed by his
staff. The first tableau, 1.-THE Declaration
Of Independence was intended to represent
the reading of the Declaration of Indepen-
1ence by John Nixon in the state house
yard, Philadelphia, July 8, 1776 This float
was surrounded by an escort of 100 members
Of the Society of Veterans of the regular
army and navy.
n the German division were over 1000
men, members of the singing societies, clubs
md military organizations, representing
almost every trade known to the Teuton.
The feature of this part of the parade was
the great number of tableaus and floats
which IL represented some sixty in all.
Nearly all the important historical events
and the progress of the arts and sciences
were represented.
The Hibernian division consisted of about
10000 men. Some were uniformed ana some
were not. The Polish ana negro delegations
followed.
The regular Irish section Of the parade in.
Cluded nearly all the Irish-American societies
of New York and the papal veterans, 5000
members of the Society of the Holy Name,
5000 more Of the Hibernians, 1000 of the
provincial council temperance societies and
about n dozen Catholic benevolent societies.
In the last division there were u number of
Interesting trade floats, and struggling at the
end of the line were a lot of impromptu ad-
vertisements.
This was followed by other floats guarded
by detachments of cadets and representing
"Washington and His Generals Mounted"
and washington Crossing the Delaware"
Following came 3, 500 school children escort
ing tableau OF. washington at Valley
Forge in the Winter of 1T7-S." The
Exempt Firemens' association of the city to
the number of 200 came next, and after them
the Tammany hall braves under the chief
tanshp of General John Cochrane. Several
temperance societies and knights of Pythias
preceded the float "The Resignation of the
Commission and the Yonkers cadet corps
escorted 1.-THE First Inauguration Be-
tween the Washington Continentals and 1000
sons of veterans was an elaborate tableau,
''The State of Virginia." representing ship
Of the sixteenth century with adventurers in
Elizabethan costume, crowding the poop
deck deserving land Then followed series
Of tableaux representing the various states
as follows:
New York-A boatload of Dutch sailors
and voyagers
Observation-Disclosures of the May
flower.
misunderstanding the savages.
Calvert.
Pemnsylvania-Penn's treaty.
Georgia-The last prerevolutionary colo
nial settlement.
After these came the most interesting fea-
turC-the Caedonian club, of New York, and
the Seventy y-ninth Highland regiment Of
veterans.
The Swiss centennial committee, with
Swiss tableauX, were escorted by centennial
sharpshooters and then came the firemen's
division consisting of about four thousand
men. Four hundred Brooklyn police came
along just after the firemen and presented a
fine appearance. Following were about four
thousand representatives of the different
trades, hard at work. Next came the Italian
division. The Italian Military association
turned out thirteen companies of thirty-six
men each and the civic societies as many
more. One of the floats in this division was
large boat on which were represen, ed
columbus and Washington, r,-Discoverer
and Father" The secoud float represented
Italy ana America among the flowers. The
Scandinavian American societies also made
good showing.
CROWDS AT UNION SQUARE.
The crowd at Union square to-day was
greater than that of yesterday. The police
had all they could do to keep the immense
.throng in order. The stands and every win
dow facing the square, and the roofs of the
surrounding buildings and the sidewalks
were crowded and packed with dense mass
of humanity
President Harrison, in his barouche drawn
by. four horses and headed by squad of po-
lice, and accompanied by Vce-President
Morton, Colonel Kruger and Lieutenant Jud-
son, u. S, A., drove up to the Madison square
reviewing stand at ten minutes past 10.
ExPresldents Hayes and Cleveland, Sec
retaries Proctor, Tracy, Window and Rusll,
General Sherman and Russell b. Harrison
had previously arrived.
INA CYLINDER OF SILVER.
Major Grant, with the body of aides who
had been waiting ut Twenty-fiftli street, then
afp nrplRntpl nraSi1apf
with an address, enclosed in cylinder OF
repousse silver. The address was signed
BY Mayor Grant and large number of busi
ness and other prominent men of the city
II presents anew to the president their al
legiance TO the government, constitution and
laws, with their congratulations upon the
completion OF century of constitutional gov
ernment. The mayor then took his place be
side the president, and the big parade began
to pass by. The president left the review
ing stand at q; 10 and drove at once to Vice
President Morton's. 1t was estimated tina,
at that time 1900 men had passed befor,
him.
HARRISON RETURNS TO WASHINGTON.
After a light lunch at Mr.. Mortors resi-
dence President Harrison was driven TO tn,
New Jersey shore, where he started FOL
Washington at 5 o'clock. The presidential
party consisted OF President Harrison, Sec
retary Window, his wife and two daughters
Secretary Proctor, Colonel Barr, Colone
John NJ. Wilson, Walker Blaine, Private
Secretary halford, Secretary Tracy, Post
master-General Wanamaker, Secretary
Rusk and TWO children.
WILD DISORDER
The scene of the dismissal of the parade a
Canal street. to-day, was one of the wildes
confusion, and at one time it looked as il
panic might ensue. When the head of tn,
parade arrived the excitement began. Gen
eral Butterheld's stan were mounted oI
spirited horses, and many of them did mo-
know how TO ride. The animals became re It
less and plunged around violently Tn,
crush Of the crowd was simply terrible. Tn,
police had their hands full. Considerabl,
confusion also resulted from the failure o.
tho aids TO obey the orders of the chief mar
shall The bands, IN some cases, wandered OFF il
the wrong part OF the parade. In passing th'
finish each divisoh saluted the chief mar
shal al Broadway and Canal streets. Their
were number OF accidents The tabeaul
On the three high floats were caught in tn,
wires and torn down. Float No. 10, repre-
senting an emigrant ship, with deck, steer
age and smoke stack while turning mt
Canal street, was wrecked by the rea
. wheel on the right SIDE Of the grea
truck being wrenched on by ca
track. The upper part OF the structure
around the smokestack was occupied by hal