The Portland daily press., 1889-05-02
Colonel Melville Bull; Vermont, Colonel


the veteran regiments of New York, militi
and volunteers. They acted as an escort Il
Alexander B. Butts, Commander-in-Ch Chief O
the Society of Veterans of the regular arm,
and navy of the United States. Then sep
arated by drum corps came 100 veteran
regular soldiers and sailors and the Twenty
fifth Regiment New York Volunteer Vet
eran Association, surrounding as an escor
the first tableau in the parade, which repre-
sented the reading of the declaration of In
dependence in State House yard. Philadel
phia, by John Nixon, July s, 1776.
THE SECOND DIVISION.
The next division, led by Marshal A.
Ketchum, contained 400 students of Colum
bia College and SEQ of the College of the Cit.
of New York, escoIting tableau of Wash
ington and his generals. mounted. The life
like representation of the features and cos
tunes of Washington, Putnam
Schuyler, Lee, Lafayette. Steuben
Rochambeau and the other Revolutionary
leaders evoked the enthusiastic plaudits Of
the spectators. Several thousand schoo
children of New York and Brooklyn fol
lowed, escorting tableaux of Washington
crossing the Delaware and Washington al
Valley Forge.
THIRD DIVISION.
The next division was headed by the La
fayette Guard, 100 strong, the Liberty
Guards and the second battalion Irish Vol
unteers guarding tableau of Washington |:
Farewell to his Officers in 1881. This pic
tlre represented the historic scene in
Fraunce's Tavern, one of the few buildings
of the Revolutionary era still existing intact
In this city.
Following came the Knights of Temper
ance, 500 strong. under Grand Commander
Robert Graham, and 200 Knights of Pythias,
under Coils. Thomas and McGill, escorting q
mission at Annapolis, December, 1888. The
Spuyten Duyvil Cadets and Yonkers
Continental Guards came next, escort.
ing a tableau of the Inauguration OF
Washington, the event which is the occasion
of the present celebration. The next tableau,
representing the State of Virginia, was
escorted by the Phelps Guard, the Washing
ton Continental Guard, the Excelsior Light
Infantry of Washington and the Washing
ton Continentals. The tableau consisted OF
a miniature ship of 18th century model, with
Capt John Smith and body of adventurers
on the deck deserving land. The Sons OF
Veterans, 1000 il number, followed, guard
ing tableaux representing New York, Massa-
chusetts, Delaware, Maryland and Pennsyl-
vania. The New York tableau pictured the
discovery of the Hudson by Hendrick Hud-
son, 1914, and consisted of a boatload OF
Dutch sailors and yoyagers. Massachusetts,
was designated by the anchoring of the May
flower at Plymouth, 1920. The efforts Of
Lord Delaware to christiauiZe and educate
the Indians formed the pictorial subject of
the Delaware tableau, A. ID. 1912. Maryland s
Catholic settlement by Calvert, 1888, and the
religious freedom guaranteed to Protestants
was the subject of the Maryland tableau,
and Penn's treaty with the Indians that Of
the Pennsylvania tableau.
Separated from these by band and del
egation of 600 members of the United Order
of Foresters was tableau of Georgia, 1882,
the last Colony settled before the Revolu,
tion. Oglethorpe and his little band OF
Scotch, Irish and English non-conf0rmists
were well depicted. Next in order were the
Caledonian Club of New York in their strik-
ing Highland costume with pipers. They
were accompanied by the Seventy-ninth
New York Highland Regiment Veterans.
The Rheinisch Schuetzen Bund and the Cen
tennial Sharpshooters followed with two
Swiss tableaux, Helvetia, with % living fe-
male figures, representing the cantonS of the
Swiss Republic, and an Alpine crag with
and the historic group of Tell defy
ing Gessler. The division was concluded by
the First Hungarian Schuetzen Bund.
FOURTH DIVISION.
The next division consisted of visiting and
local exempt and volunteer firemen's associa-
tions. They represented large number of
cities and towns throughout the Eastern
States, and presented fine appearance. The
widely known veteran volunteer firemen,
Harry Howard and Michael Crane, led them,
and were themselves among the most
notable figures in the procession. A feature
of this part of the parade was the old
Mechanics bell of the eleventh ward, New
York. 1t weighs 1900 pounds, and has rung
the hours of labor in the shipbuilding dis
trict for sixty years and more. 1t hangs in a
high skeleton tower at the foot of East
Fourth street. 1t was mounted on plat
form, drawn by eight horses, and rung at In
tervals by Peter p. Haulenbeck, the oldest
living ship joiner on Manhattan Island. The
Fire Company, of Alexandria,
Va, had in line the hand engine which was
the property of the fire company of which
George Washington was member.
FIFTH DIVISION.
The next division consisted of the Tam
many Association, 5000 strong. led by Gen.
John Cochrane, with his staff and escort.
This band of we'll known and popular polit-
ical lights received "a dattering ovation all
along the route.
SIXTH DIVISION.
The division which followed was led by
Marshal G. S. Burns and 400 Brooklyn po-
lice, and was made up of workmen plying
their various trades. First came 800 ship
joiners with vessels on trucks, and men
working at their construction. Then came
floats bearing plasterers, cloak and suit
workmen, painters, marble cutters, plumb
ers and gas filters, and carpenters and join
ers, all engaged in practical illustration of
their handicrafts, and escorted by large dele
cations of their fellow workmen. No fea-
ture of the parade excited more general in
terest than this. About 1000 men were in
the division.
SEVENTH DIVISION.
In the next division the military and civic
organizations of the various nationalities
were participants. The Italian delegations
escorted two floats representing Columbus
and Washington, Discover and Father, and
"Italy and America" The Scandinavian
and Scotch societies followed, making good
showing. Then came monster delegation
of German citizens, containing nearly $4,000
men. Marshal Schaefer, with his staff and
escort, led the van, and was followed by a
large number of delegations of German
American sharpShooters. rifle clubs, singing
the late civil war, turnyereins. social reform
clubs and various German workingmen' S
unions. The various singing societies rem
dered popular musical selections as they
marched. They put forth their best efforts
while passing the President, the pieces chos-
en- being the leading national anthems of
Germany and America. The President
seemed greatly pleased by this part of the
celebration. The chief element of interest
in this division, and one of the most strik-
ing features of the whole parade was the Sc
ries of allegorical tableaux devised mainly by
Joseph Keppler of Puck, and which pos
sesses great artistic merit aside from their
appropriateness to this occasion. The in
dustries with which the German American
citizens are chiefly identified were repre-
sented by living figures. German poetry,
music and art were represented partly by
living figures and partly by tableaux and al
legorical designs. Many of the latter are by
Keppler,. the others being by Operti, De
Grim and various other artists. In their
general plan of construction these tableauX
were modelled upon those of the New Or
leans Mardi Gras carniyals, and many spec
tators who had witnessed the famous South
ern exhibits pronounced today's floats equal
in magnificence to anything they had ever
seen. In the first float. by LAUDER, German
immigration to this country 100 years ago
was contrssted in an amusing fashion with
similar immigration today. The next
snoWeu Ine derman heroes OIL the ReVOlu-
tion, De Kalb, Steuben and others. The
next, and one of the most admired and ap-
plauded, represented the emigration
caused by the Revolution in Europe
In 1848." 1t contained living models
of the famous men who were driven
from Germany on account of their liberal
ideas and their sympathies with the masses
in the general uprising that signalized that
era. As the crowd recognized the familial
faces and forms of these heroes, some ol
whose originals are now among our foremost
citizens loud shnnts of annrnhation h,,rs,