The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-05-02

| which, while they would scarcely serve for
working purposes, were an indication that
the men who wore them were not afraid of
| labor.
VERERAN FIRE-FIGHTERs.
The Hoboken fire department brought
with them their antiquated hook and lad
der, which was much admired by the old
volunteer tiremen from Brooklyn and Phil
adelphla. Eighty of these veteran fire
laddles came on from Philadelphia to 60
their share in honoring the father of his
country,
The first tableau was that of the Decla-
| ration OF Independence, representing the
reading of the document by John Nixon
IN the yard of the state house at Philadel-
phia.
Following this we're 400 Columbia college
boys whose blue and white banners called
out the applause of the ladies all along the
line.
"WashingtonIand his Generals, :" mounted,
| were escorted by company of Brooklyn
school boys, and close behind them
were eight battalions of New ~ ork
school boys under command of Principal
John ID. Robinson. These battalions were
divided into escorts for the other tableaux
Washington crossing the Delaware" and
Valley Forge" and "Fraunces Tavern"
were among the earliest representations.
| several temperance societies and Knights
or Pythias preceded the float, "Ihe
| designation of the Commission"
The Yonkers' Cadets corps escorted 1.-THE
| First Inauguration Between the Wash
lngton Continentals and 1000 sons of
veterans, was an elaborate tableau "The
State of Virginia" representing a ship of
the sixteenth century with adventurous in
Elizabethan costumes crowding the poop
deck crying land.
STATE TABLEAUX.
| Than fOl1Ovyad q cnriac oF toIloa,- -o.,.n
senting various states, as follows: New
York, "A Boat Load of Dutch Sailors and
| voyagers;" Massachusetts, "Anchcring of
the Aayfower;" Delaware, "Christianizing
the Savages;" Maryland, ''Lord Baltimore
and George Calvert;" Pennsylvania,
! ''Peun's Treaty." Georgia, "Lsst Pre- Revo-
lutionary Colonial Settlement
| After these came most interesting feat
ure, the Caledonian Club of New York and
the Seventy ninth Highland Veterans
Scotsmen in their kits They attracted a
| great deal of attention, aud their pipes
stirred up considerable enthusiasm all
the way down the avenue.
The Swiss centennial committee with
Swiss tableaux, were escorted by the Cen
| tennial Sharpshooters.
THE FIREMANIC DIVISION.
Then came the firemen's division. Chief
| among these laddies were 600 members of
the New York Volunteer Firemen's Asso-
citation and the Veterans Association. The
| engine and hose companies from out of
town, presented a fine appearance with
their highly polished machines and bright,
new uniforms. There were aboat
! 1000 men in this division, the
rear being brought up by the Brooklyn fire
department battalion, who fairly gained
the honors Of the unstinted applause The
! 400 Brooklyn police, who came along just
after the fremen, also presented
fine appearance. Then came the
Manhattan ship joiners and floats
| exhibiting their handiCraft, the co-opera-
tive plasterers' society at work at their
| trade, the cloak and suit industry hard at
| it with scissors and needle, the marble cut
| ters scattering chips broadcast 600 Brook
| lyn plumbers 800 Brooklyn carpenters and
| 5000 members Of the Union of Carpenters
| and Joiners of America, all carrying ban
ners or exhibiting some evidence establish
ing their identity.
SUNNY ITALY'S SONS.
Next came the Italian division, the ex-
| tent of which was very surprising to many
of the spectators. The Italian military
| association turned out thirteen companies
| of thirty-six mon each, and their civic soci-
eties as many more, while their two floats
were as we'll received as any in the parade.
One of these was a large boat on which
were represented Columbus and Washing
ton, the discoverer and father. The second
float represented Italy and America sitting
among flowers.
The Scandinavian-Americ societies
also made good showing. Indeed what
are usually termed the foreign elements
earned right to large share Of credit for
the success of the parade.
GERMANS IN THEIR GLORY.
The Germans had determined to lay them
selves out on this parade and they did it,
The marshal of this division was Emil
cEasfer, and it was headed by Eden's band
Of forty pieces. First came the German
American Sbarpsnooters to the number
of over 5000 men, including the
sociation from which the division
took its name, 300 men; the
COncordia Sharpshooters, $50; the United
Germania Washington Rifles, 700; the
United German-American Sharpshooters,
800; and several minor bodies whose com
plement OF men was smaller. Then came
the singing societies, of which the Schill-
bund was the largest in the first division,
with 80 men, while the Lorely Society had
over 500 in the second division. The feature
Of this part of the parade, however,
was the great number Of tableaux
and floats, which presented nearly
all the important historical events
and progress of the last century in
the arts and sciences, finding, each in its
respective place, almost every Crade known
to men, its representations among the Ger
man population, and at least few artisans
from each were in line.
A SCORE OF FLOATS.
Bakers, brewers, butchers, shoemakers,
piano makers, painters metallic workers,
engineers, all here found place for floats
and banners. They were, as already said,
numerous, interes ing. and some of
them exceedingly beautiful The
first represented the landing Of
tho emigrants 100 years ago
There were pictures Of 1.-THE Pioneers"
"The German Heroes of the Revolution
DeKalb, Steuben and Others.
The German regiments in the war be-
tween the states, and, 10 make contrast
with the preceding picture, German
Emigrants at the Present Time" OF course,
the sports so dear 10 toe hearts OF the Ger
mans we're duly depicted. "Bacchus' was
there, too, and King Carnival, while
"Arion" smiled benignly over the mighty
hosts Of singers whose patron
saint he is. "Meepomene,n the goddess OF
dramatic art, had her votaries, and the
printing press aud its aid in public en-
lightennent we're duly honored. "Coiumbia |
and Germaniah-one graceful and beam
ing, the other strong inbed and strong Of
yisage-looked as though their deStinies
were inseparabe. The floats, Of which |
there we're sixty, we're not confined to
purely German scenes and themes. |
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