The Portland daily press., 1892-10-26

ners with New Jersey inscribed upon
them came Gov. Albeit of New Jersey.
! The Essex Troop which escorted him
made fine appearance but the infantry
regiments seemed to be lacking in disci-
pline. Then came Gov. Buckley of Con-
necticut with four regiments. Each
regiment had a signal corps and a gatling
gun section. The signal corps of one of
the regiments was mounted on bicycles.
Then appeared Gov. Russell of Massa-
chusetts followed by his staff and an or
derby with state flag but with no troops.
Each governor in his turn had received
much applause but when the beardless
! governor of Massachusetts appeared we
rose to our feet as one man and cheered
| him loudly. He was the last governor
to appear. The governors of North
Carolina and of South Carolina were I'M
avoidably absent, but the celebrated re-
mark of one to the other was often
| quoted during the day. The next divis-
ion
Was 1.-THE Grand Army.
Some of the swell posts were very
handsomely uniformed and all attracted
much attention with their battered battle
flags. Then came the letter carriers who
marched exceedingly well and made an
excellent appearance. Then came the
fire department of the City of New York
represented by nineteen engines with
hose carriages, nine hook and ladder
trucks and the fire patrol. Most Of the
engines had three horses abreast and the
hose carriages two. Engine Is with gray
horses and engine u with bays made
fine appearance as they trotted I'D the
:. I,ns., ot1,o1 aTld
in perfect step. Then came a large num-
Der of organizations of veteran firemen
and representatives of the active fire de-
partments of neighboring cities and
towns
It seemed rather absurd to see sixty
middle-aged or gray bearded men in red
shirts and tiremen' Shafts hauling,an ante
diluvian looking machine that probably
could not throw a stream across the
street, but nobody begrudged the old
boys the good time they were having as
they paraded with the machine once
more The next division consisted of
Italian military and other organizations
wearing uniforms of different kinds and
carrying swords. The Bersiglieri wore
very peculiar looking black felt hats with
long plumes hanging down the side;
Then came the German shooting and
numbers and marched well.
The Tenth and Last Division
consisted of independent organizations
principally knights of different kinds
wearing feathers in their hats and carry
ing swords. Then escorted by aEcolored
military company was Governor Flower
of New York standing in a barouche and
closing the procession. The military
had been three hours in passing and the
whole procession had occupied five hours
and twenty minutes. As soon as the
crowd thinned out little I walked up
the avenue to see the new arch and adj
mired it much although | thought a bet
ter place for it would be block farther
up at the entrance to the driveway of the
park.
Italians soon began to pile up the
boxes, load them in the teams OF pile
them up in convenient places in readi-
| ness to sell again for the evening parade,
| and at six o'clock people had already be-
| gun to take positions for that pageant.
The celebration was on the whole a
success although there was considerable
| complaint about mismanagemento on the
| part of the committee especially in the
| arrangements at the grand stands. The
official programme was full OF errors and
was, generally unreliable and the evening
parade seemed hopelessly lost in the
lower part Of the city. 1t was adver-
| tised to staTt at eight o'clock but as it
| was not in sight from 31st~ at eleven
o'clock, 1 was unable to see it as had to
take the midnight train. 1t finally APP
peared I learned, about midnight CON
sisted of an army of bicyclists and lot
of floats of different kinds and. was ex-
tremely interesting.
On our train, although the berths had
all been sold in the morning, nearly half
of them were unoccupied, the owners
having been unable to get through the
| crowd to the station. accomplished it
| by getting on cross town car at And
street, which followed mail wagon
having the right of way. j.