Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-09-22
SHRIEKED FOR JOY.
Rock Islands Hennepin Canal Dem
OnstratiOn.
SATURDAY NIGHTS JUBILEE.
The street Parade and IIluminations
he Bonfire on the Levee-Other
Features or the Celebration.

Had the preparations been of a much
more pretentious order, occupying MANY
DAYS OF system attic and exhaustive WORK
ana involving much greater outlay oil
money, Rock Islands celebration Satur.
day night in honor of the Hennepin ca
nails final victory, could not have been
more elaborate, more enthusiastic OF
more expressive. 1t was the noisiest
ilVeliest, most demonstratIve affair of the
klnd ever held in this vicinity, and vet
bat few hours were consumed in the
preliminaries. TWAS impromptu; an in
voluntary outpouriug of joy, the un
corking of pent>up enthusiasm and
anticipation which had unwsveringly
stood the test of years of varying sue.
cesses, disappointments and reverses
Had the Details been less i'm
formal, had more time been taken in the
arrangements and plans, the ratification
tcOuld not have been more of success.
1t was all that it was desired to be; it was
all that 1t was desired TO have it-a rip-
ping hilarious demonstration of the peo>
pie. 1t was not an affair merely for eff
| feet though there were those who were so
INSCRIPTIONS as to attempt to make politi>
cal capital OUT of It. The mass of the
people had no thoughts of politics on
this occasion and should not have. Ii
was not partisan event in either sense.
Democrats as well as republicans partic
ipated in the plans, both in labor and
means and took part in the demonstra-
ton in person. and the very few who at
tempted to take advantage of the public
enthusiasm to make little political boom
let simply won the contempt they mers
tied.
1t was as early as o'clock that the
celebration commenced. The melodious
whistle at the Rock Island pillow works
poured forth volume of sound for half
an hour at strtech, which was soon tax :
Ger and the locomotive whistles in the c.,
R. l. & p, Il. l. & P. and c., B. & O.
yards. There was a chorus of escaping
steam for fully an hour, and by the time
darkness came nearly all the business
houses on Second avenue and cross
streets were decorated and Illuminated, the
Harper and Rock Island houses. the Darts
and DOn's stores and the ARGUS office
containing some of the most extensive and
brilliant Nominations. Long before the
hour for the procession to form, pandimo-
mum had taken possession of the streets
The sidewalks were thronged, and in the
streets, big and little squads were march,
ing everywhere. with every conceivable
instrument of sound horns, tin pans,
etc. At 8 o'clock, just before the pro-
cessiOn started, the waterworks whistle
gave the signal for all whistles to start,
and the Others quickly joined the saw
mills. the ferry Spencer. and F. G. A.
Denkmann. the locomotive whistles on
the c. R. |. & P. c., B. & @. and X. l.
81 P. roads all Ginning in the merry
sound.
1t was grand triumph TO say the least
in securing order out of confusion, that
was accomplished by Capt. j. M. Boards
ley, chief marshal and Mai. L. NJ. Buford,
adjutant in getting the procession togeth-
er on time st o'clock, when the order
was taken up practically as previously
announced in the Saturday evening AR,
GUS. as follows:
Chief Marshall Beardsley and Adjutant Buford
Police Platoon
Bleuer's band.
Rock Island Flambeau club and n miscelane-
Gus company Of boys of several hundred strong
with all sorts Of noisecreating instruments.
Biehl's band
Carriages containing Capt T. J. Robinson,
President Jack son. of the Citizens Improvement
association ex-Mayors <. P. Reynolds Henry
Carse, Calvin rruesdale and Thomas Murdoch.
Drum corps.
Tin Pan brig ade under the marshaship of c. O.
Bloom.
Two floats from the Rock Island Plow Works
with fireworks etc.
Citizens on foot.
The line of march was along Twentieth
| street to Third avenue thence west to
Twelfth street. south to Fourth, west to
Tenth, north to Second and east to Eigh-
| tenth. Here the procession turned north
| to the levee, and in this a mistake was
unintention ally made owing purely to
oversight, as 1t should have gone on to
Nineteenth street, the next block being
the most gorgeously illuminated along
the line of march. Arriving at the river
front fine bonfire was kindled-a huge
mass of boxes, barrels. tar, etc.-whicf
sent up an immense blaze over which
lesped sky rockets and various ornamen-
tai pieces making display that lighted
up the river with gorgeous effect and
brought the good people of the other side
of the sire am to a realization that Rock
Island was celebrating something.
Afterward Capt. Robinson was sere-
naded at his home.
THE SUBSCRIPTIONS.
The list of those who headed the fun(
for the evening demonstration at tn,
morning meeting at the rooms of th'
Rock Island Citizens Improvement asso
citation. is appended:
liz p Reynolds -. $40 90 Ben Cable $50 0
z d Sweeney. 49, 500 VIM jackson 800. 80
+ Nader. ......... 500 Fay Lynde so
mr. Trnesdile 400 Mrs E Honsman...- 80
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