The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-05-01
new JERSEY PATRIOTS.
The State Was Well Repre-
sented in the Great
Parade Yesterday.
GERMANS HONOR THE FLAG.
The Singing Societies Cheer Mayor
Cleveland and Sing National
Airs.

People in New York who think it witty
to say Jersey is out Of the Union" will
have no excuse for 1t n the future She
came to the front nobly yesterday and
was magniicently represented in the
great parade.
For it was a great parade indeed, and
there were great people in it. Amony the
many from this State was Governor
Green. His staff accompanied him. 1t
was composed of the following named
gentlemen - Brevet Major Gen
eral William = s. Stryker, ad-
jutant general; Brevet Major
General Lewis Perrine, Quartermaster
General; Brigadier General John D. Nc
Gill, Surgeon General; Brigadier General
John Watts Kearny, Inspector General;
Brigadier General Bird W. Spencer, In
spector General of Rifle Practice; Briga-
dier General William +. ALBEIT, Judge
Advocate General; Aides de Camp,
Colonels Charles w. Thomas, Rufus
penheimer, Isaac s. Snedeker, George B.
M. Harvey, De Lancey G. Walker and
John T. Van Cleef.
At about half-past eight o'clock yester-
day morning the Fourth Regiment lex
cept Company By, of the First Brigade,
formed in line on Jersey avenue, the
right resting on Montgomery street.
The boys looked well and when they
marched to the ferry were admired by all
They crossed the Courtlandt street ferry
and marched to the old Washington Mar
ket grounds, foot of Dey street, were they
Were joined by Company B. of Passaic.
AT 9.15 the First Brigade, under COM
mand of Brigadier-GeneralS Steele, formed
in line as follows: General Steele and
slot r., I'll
Barnard and staff, companies c, d, E, f,
g and HI; First Regiment, Colonel Edward
A. Campbell and staff, and Companies A,
B, c, d, E. f; Second Regiment, Colonel
Edwin A. Stevens, Lieutenant Colonel
Charles 1Grlenkoetter, Major Ramon M.
Cook and staff and Companies A, b, G, d
and E. The Hoboken boys were in great
not behind them, and the popular APP
plause was divided. The Fourth marched
thus.
Colonel P. Farmer Wanser, Lieutenant
Colonel Hugh H. Abernethy, Major Will
lam B. Mason and staff, and Companies
A, Captain Fred A.. Appelles, First Lieu
tenant j. Howard Bumstead Second
Lieutenant William Robertson, Jr; Com
pany B, Captain james j Reid, First
Lieutenant Andrew Derrom, Jr.; Com
First Rfn Lieutenant Rsa Robe Robert berry, Berry,
Second Lieutenant William H. S.
Nodyne; Company d, Captain
John N Bruins. First Lieutenant, Godfrey
G. Dilloway; Company E, Captain. Robert
G. Smith; First Lieutenant Arthur L.
Steele, Second Lieutenant William Her
mans, and Company f, Captain Joseph H.
Brensinger; First Lieutenant John G.
Berrian, Second Lieutenant John G.
Fream, Second Battalion Lieutenant
Colonel James V. Moore and staff and
Companies A, B and G. Third Battalion,
Major Edward H. Snyder and staff and
Companies A, B and G; First Battalion,
Major Samuel V. S. MuZzy and staff and
Companies A, B and G, and Gattling Gun
Company A, Captain and Brevet Briga-
dier General J. Madison Drake.
The first brigade moved only as far as
Liberty street, where it was halted for
two hours. From there it proceeded to
the Battery, where, at half-past one
o'clock, it fell into line behind the Second
brigade, which formed under command of
Brevet Major General William j. Sewell,
who was assisted by his staff. When the
New Jersey troops filed into Broadway
Governor Green and his staff preceded
them, and he was followed by Major Gen
eral Plume and his staff.
The Third Regiment, Colonel Elihu III.
Ropes, and Companies A, B, G, d, E, f.
G and H came next. The Sixth Regiment
manded by Colonel William A. Cooper.
The regiment contained Companies A, b,
G, d, Z, f, H and X The Seventh Regi-
ment, Colonel Richard A. Donnelly and
staff, with Companies A, b, G, d, E, f,
G and H, was followed by Gatling Gun
Company B, Captain Robert R. Ecken-
dorff. Then came the First Brigade, as
above stated.
Our boys in the Fourth Regiment were
500 strong, and they marched sixteen men
front in files, and marched we'll Colonel
Wanser, on an enormous gray horse, made
q handsome leader, and he was ably as
sisted by Lieutenant Colonel Abernethy.
1t was late in the afternoon when the New
Jersey troops reached Fifty seventh
street, which they marched down, the
Second Brigade going to the foot of Fifty
fifth street, where boat waited to con-
yey them home.
they received rations at the corner of
Fifty-seyenth street and Eighth avenue.
The troops in the First Brigade were
halted and fed at Eighth avenue and
street on the march home
It was about quarter to seven O'Clock
when the Fourth Regiment got to the
armory, and it was an hour later when
Van Houten Post, G. A. R., reached head