The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1889-03-08
NUMBER 3s

crowd on the platform into the capitol.
He walked to the basement door whore
he had entered the building and where
his carriage was waiting for him. He
and the ex- president, with two members
of the committee of arrangements, took
seats in the carriage and were driven
out to join the procession.
THE LINE OF MARCH.
Fully Forty Thousand Men Tramp
Through the Rain to the Music of a
thousand Bands.
As the president and ex-president
drove out from the carriage entrance of
the senate wing of the capitol, the head
of the procession appeared in the great
open space in front of the east portico
and joining it at the head of the line, the
presidential party was driven down
Pennsylvania avenue and to the Execu-
tive Mansion. Meantime the procession
began to uncoil from the side streets on
Capitol Hill. It was of huge proportions.
The rain had not interfered with the en-
thusiasm or the patriotism of tho mill
tary and civic organizations who had
come to Washington for the parade.
Fully 10000 men marched IN the rain
to the music of 1000 bands down the
broad avenue between the lines of cheer
ing people. The stands on the avenue
were not well filed, but there was a
dense crowd. The windows were
crowded and the covered balconies were
all full. Occasionally head peered over
the edge of the roof of some tall build
ing. At the head of the column rode
the grand marshal, Gen. James A. Bea-
yer, and his chief of staff, Gen. Daniel
E. Hastings.
Order of Parade.
FIRST DIVISION.
Presidential party in carriages, pre-
ceded and followed by escort of surviv-
ors of SEVENTEEN Indiana volunteers.
The first division was composed entirely
of regiments of regulars.
SECOND DIVISION.
National Guard of the state of Penn
sylvania--Maj. Gen. John F. Hartranft
commanding.
First brigade, Brig. Gen. George R..
Snowden commanding, includes the Sec
ond, Sixth, Third and First regiments,
State Fencibles, Gray Invincibles, Bat
terry A.
Third brigade, Brig. Gen. John P. s..
Goblin commanding, has the Ninth,
Eighth, Fourth, Twelfth, and Thirteenth
regiments. Governors Troop, Battery G.
Second brigade, Brig. Gen. John A.
Wiley commanding: Tenth, Fifteenth,
Eighteenth, Sixteenth and Fourteenth
regiments, Sheridan Troop, Battery B.
THIRD DIvISION
Gov. j. B. Foraker commanding.
First Brigade-Company c, Third
regiment, N. e. N. j.: Company A.
Fourth regiment, N. G. N. j.: Bib Com
pany Blues, Ga. N. G.; Georgia Cadets,
Governors volunteers, Ga. N. g.: Third
regiment Conn. N. g.; Eight regiment
Mass. V. NJ: Company 1, Sixth regi-
ment Mass. V. NJ; First battalion Va. V.
NJ; Second battalion Va. V. NJ: State
guard. Va. V. NJ: Garfield Light in
fantry, Va. V. NJ; Battery G. Va. V. NJ.
Second Brigade-Brig. Gen. Stewart
Brown commanding.
Fifth regiment, Md. N. g.: Baltimore
Light infantry, First regiment, Md. N.
g.: Company c, Third regiment, Md. N.
g.; Baltimore rifles, Monumental City
guard, Allegheny County guard, Md, N.
Third Brigade-Brig. Gen. B. Louis
Fitzgerald, N. G. s. N. Y, command
ing; composed of individual compar;o~
from different states.
FOURTH DIVISION.
Gen. William Warner, marshal; Col.
Charles p. Lincoln, chief of staff, con-
tains posts of the Grand Army of the
Republic in three brigades. First, De-
partment Commander w. 8. Odell COM
manding. Second, department of Mary
land, Department Commander George
F. Wheeler, commanding. Third, Union
Veterans union, department of the Po-
tomac, Col. John c. WEIGH, command
ing.
FIFTH DIVISION.
Col. Myron NJ. Parker, marshal, COM
posed of all the civic organizations, and
divided into four brigades, commanded
respectively by the following assistant
marshals: Edwin s. Stewart, Gen. John
Ramsey, w. w. johnson, Gen. III. A.
Barnum and Gen. F. G. Butterfield.
THE SCENES ALONG THE LINE
of march from the capitol to the Execu-
tive Mansion and at the reviewing stand
beggar description. A surging mass of
covered the sidewalk on either
side of the street. Every window in
every hotel, store and residence on both
sides of the wide thoroughfare was
crowded with people, and on the scores
of stands erected at street corners and
little parks along the route, thousands of
people stood sheltering themselves with
seemingly acres of umbrellas from the
peltering rain and cheering themselves
hoarse as the presidential party and par
ticularly brilliantly caparisned horsemen
or splendidly uniformed military and
civic organizations passed by. The
march from the capitol to the White
House was one continual
OVATION TO THE NEW PRESIDENT
and it is safe to say that a quarter of a
million people watched and waited and
cheered him as he passed along. At
Fifteenth street the procession was
halted. and the carriages containing the
president and vice president made de-
tour through the treasury grounds and
then
TO THE EXECUTIVE MANSION.
A light lunch was waiting the presiden-
tial party in the private dining room.
Among those who sat down besides the
president and vice president, were Mr..
Mrs. Harrison, Mr.. and Mrs.
Mckee, Mr.. and Mrs. Russell Harrison,
Mrs. Saunders and several others. The
party were at luncheon only 10 minutes.
After bidding Mr.. Cleveland good bye,
the president, leaning on the arm of his
son Russell, proceeded to the reviewing
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