Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1889-05-09
THE CLOSING SCENES.

THE CLOSING SCENES
Grand Civic Parade - Thousands -
Adopted Citizens In Line.
NKw YoRK, May 2-The crowd at Union
Square yesterday was, e any thing.
greater than that Of the day before In
spector Steers and his 800 policemen had
all they could do TO keep the immense
throng in order. The standA every win
dow facing the square. the roofs or the
surrounding buildings and the sidewalks
Were packed with humanity. The streets
on the Fourth avenue side OF the'squsre
from Fourteenth to Seventeenth streets
were FREE to women and children. Long
before it was time for the parade to start
they were crowded. Many OF the people
came as early Is three or four o'clock in
order to secure seats. At nine O'Clock IL
was impossible to get from one part Of
the square to another and when once one
got into the crowd there he had to stay.
President Harrison in his barouche,
drawn by Eve horses and headed by
squad Of mounted police. accompanied by
Vice-Presideot Morton. Colonel Cruger
and Lieutenant Judson. q. 8 A., drove up
to the Madison square reviewing stand Al
1880. Ex-Presidents Hayes and Glove
land. Secretaries Proctor, Tracy, Windom-
and Rusk, General Sherman and Russell
b. Harrison had previously arrived
Others on the stand were General Bur
leigh, OF Maine, and staff, Brigadier Gem
eral 81. N. Sprague Brigadier-Generat
Joon Harper, Fred Douglas, who received
q cheer as he entered the stand, and Sem
stor Gibson, of Maryland.
The first tableau, 'sThe Declaration OF
Independence" was intended to repressas
- clor Of Ind
pendeuce by John Nixon in the State
house yard, Philadelphia, July 8 17s0
This float was surrounded by an escort
of 100 members of the Society of Veterans
of the Regular Army and Navy.
The next float represented Nv ashtngton
and his Generals mounted" Washington
as Chief, occupies the cen-
ter of the line. with Major Ward
Putnam, Phillip. Schuyler and Charles
Lee on either side. Closely following are
the nine Brigadier-Generals.t the number
appointed by the Continental Congress at
Philadelphia in 17i5; also Marquis De
Lafayette. Baron Steuben, Inspector
General Count Rochambeau and others
This tableau is guarded as q special escort
by Wier battalion, school No. 10, Brook
lyn, Major F. II. Nichols commanding.
Following this tableau came the doaA
representing ."Washington Crossing the
Delaware" with its guard Of several hum
dred cadets in uniform
Then came 9. 500 school children escort
ing a rableau of "Washington at Valley
Forge, Winter of 1777 and IT'S" 1t repre-
sents the winter quarters at Valley Forge
and the meeting of General Washington
with Baron Steuben and the wounded
soldiers.
The Exempt Firemen's Association to
the number of 2O3 came next and after
them the Tammany Hall braves under the
chieftainship of General John Cochrane.
Several temperance societies and lodges
| of Knights of Pythias preceded the float,
'"The Resignation Of the Commission,
| and the Yonkers cadet corps escorted
| THE First Inauguration. Between the
| Washington continentals and l. 900 Sons OF
Veterans was the elaborate tableaux The
State of Virginia, /" representing ship OF
the sixteenth century, with adventurers
in Elizabethan costumes, crowding the
poop deck deserving the land Then fol-
lowed series of tableaux representing
various States as follows:
New York-A boat load Of Dutch sailors
and voyagers.
Massachusetts-The anchoring of the
Mayfower.
Delaware-Christianiz the savages.
Maryiand-Lord Baltimore and George
Calvert
Pennsylvania-Penn's treaty.
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colonial settlement
After these came q most interesting
feature-the Caledonian club of New Yor.-
and the Seventy ninth High 4dregimeps :
veterans The Scotsmen in their kits AM.
kirtles attracted a great deal of attention
and their pipes stirred up considerable
enthusiasm all down the avenue.
The Swiss centennial committee with
| tbs Swiss tableaux were escortAd by the
centennial sharpshooters and then came
the fremen's division. Chief among these
s1addies" were the 800 members of the
New York volunteers association and ten
veteran associations. There were about
T. 900 men in this division
The 400 Brooklyn police came along just
sfter the firemen.
Then came the Manhattan ship joiners
and the floats exhibiting their handicrafk
the operative plasterers' society at work
at their trade, the cloak and suit industry
hard at it with the scissors and needle
the marble cutters scattering chips broad
cast 600 Brooklyn plumbers. 500 Brooklyn
carpenters and 9, 900 members of the union
| of carpenters and joiners of America
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 men each and the civic So
cieties as many more, while their two
u0atS were As Well received - any IN tno
| entire parade Q
The Germans had determined to lay
| themselves out on this parade, and they
did it First came the German
sharpshocters to the number of over 0oQ
then came the singing societies The feat
| ure of this part OF the parade, however.
| was the great number OF tableaux and
floats which it presented, nearly all the
| important historical events and progress
of the last century in the arts and sciences
finding each its place.
| Next came the sHibernianso They NUM-
| bered 10, 900. Some were uniformed. Irish
| and American flags alternated all over the
| division and the elaborate float s'Tha
| World Moves On" added another feature
| to that part of the column.
| After the colored delegation had passed,
General Martin 7. McMahon appeared at
the head of the regular Irish section of the
| parade This included nearly all the Irish
American societies of New Y ork- the Papai
Veterans, 9, 600 members OF the Society Of
| the Holy Name, 5000 more of the Ancient
Order of Hibernians, 1000 of the provin-
| cial council, Temperance societies. and