Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-09-21
$4,000 VETERANS IN LINE,
And 250 Bands Employed to Keep
Them All in Marching Time.
PENNSYLVANIA'S GREAT TURNOUT
The Fest in Numbers and Equal to ANY Of
Them in Appearance.
ODDITIES OF THE BIG PROCESSION
rBY ASSOCIATED PRESS.

WASHINGTON, Sept. 20.-Vice President
Morton arrived at the reviewing stand at
about 10 o'clock. He was accompanied by
Secretary and Mrs. Charles Foster and
daughter, Attorney General Miller, Secre-
tary and Mrs. Noble and the Misses Hal
stead, Mrs. Rusk and daughter, Secretary
Tracy and his daughter, Mrs. Wilmerding,
Mrs. John w. Foster and Postmaster Gen
eral Wanamaker. Among the honored
guests who had seats in the Vice Presidents
stand were General and Mrs Schofeld, As
sstant Secretary Grant, General and Mrs.
Palmer, Dr. Scott and Mrs. Russell Harri-
Gibson, Adjutant General Vincent, Repre-
sentative Boutelle, General Gibson, retired,
Representatives Mitchell, of Wisconsin;
Rockwell, OF New York, Durborrow, of
Illinois; Mrs. Logan and Mrs. John A
Logan, Jr., Representative and Mrs. New
bury, Marshal D. NJ. Ramsdell, Governor
Pattlson, of Pennsylvania. and Colonel
Louis r. Reed, General Greenland, Colonel
A. D. Seeley, Colonel w. d. Wilson, Col
onel S. Bradley and Colonel r. WILDER, of
his staff, General Snowden, Commander of
the Pennsylvania Militia, and Colonel
Charles s. Green and Colonel D. Bownatfon,
Jr., of his staff.
1t was nearly II o'clock when the
column, headed by the citizens local
committee, mounted, turned into Fifteenth
street under the reviewing stand, and from
that time there was hardly break in the
line The veterans marched in double
column, which is an innovation in a street
parade in Washington, and the change was
a marked success. The Vice President
stood at the front of the platform, and as
several departments dipped their colors in
passing, he returned the salute by lifting
his hat.
Guests of the Commander-in-Chief.
Commander-in-Chef Palmer, as he
reached the stand which had been erected
for him, dismounted, and, standing between
two mounted brass field pieces, reviewed
the marching column. Among his guests
were Colonel Dufield, Senior Vice Com
mauder-in-C Chief, OF Detroit; w. H. Finn,
aide-de-camp, representing the navy; Adju-
tant General Fred f. Phlsteree, Thomas
Osborn, Jr., aide-de-camp; j. S. Thorn, Of
Aspen, Col, standard bearer; Mrs NJ. S.
Hotchkiss, department treasurer, Colorado,
and Wyoming Woman's Relief Corps, and
Mrs. F. L. Freeman.
At 10:4O o'clock the head of the process
sion, composed of the citizens committee,
swung around Pennsylvania avenue up
FifUenth street past the Treasury build
ing. Their wheel around the corner was a
signal for the 800 young school girls on the
nelghboring grand stand, and led by sew
eral conductors blowing cornets and flutes,
their young voices burst forth fresh and
strong and in unison, singing "America
The successive organizations were greeted
frequently with other patriotic songs,
greetings were usually acknowledged by
salutations and doffing of hat by the vet
Grams. The District Old Guard ard the
Albany battalion which formed the escort
to the Commander-in-Ch Chief presented fine
appearance. After General Palmer and
his staff, came the Carter Band, of Boston,
leading the Sixth Massachusetts, and First
Defenders of Pennsylvania, who, as the
first comers. had the right of line of all the
Grand Army posts. They marched in
double line formation, which avoided any
dispute over precedence.
Illinois Makes Good Showing.
The Illinois Department of the G. A. R.
headed the State posts. The Nineteenth
Illinois Veteran Club, armed with muskets
and headed by a fife and drum corps, were
specially noticed, as was also Columbia
Post, whose uniform was neat and rich.
The crack G. w. Cook Drum Corps, of
Denver, one of the finest marching organi-
cations in the country, headed the Chicago
city posts, which fully sustained their high
reputation. 'The Goose Hangs High" was
emblemstically represented by the Illi-
noisans, who had a stuffed goose perched
high on a pole.
Secretary Rusk was one of the leading
figures of the staff of the Wisconsin De-
partment, which followed. He rode a fine
horse and rode it well. The troops from
the Badger State in their front line carried
high their old war totem, the stuffed skin
of Old Abe, the live eagle which went
through the war with them.
The keystone State was the banner State
of the procession in numbers, and 80 of her
cracked cavalrymen rode past at the head
of the long line of Pennsylvanians, who
took up the whole of the avenue at one
time. 'The Frosty Sons of Thunder" was
the device which introduced a detachment
from Somerset county. Cradle Post Band
varied the strains of Marching Through
Georgia." "John Browns Body" and
"Rally Round the Flag. by lively rendi-
tion of 'Listen to My Tale of Woe" and
other bands likewise played catch songs of
the day. ''Owl" Post, of Reading, had
yellow-eyed bird at the head of the column,
and marched in good style, each man carry
Ing corps guidon.
MANY laCCereU Out hOnOreu rags.
The Wyoming Band, of Philadelphia
headed one of the noted Philadelphia posts,
carrying 200 musket-armed men and dozen
battlehags, some of which were SO frayed
that mosquito netting had been wound
about them to keep the sIlken tatters
around the flagstaff The first negro COM
pany then appeared, being Lewis Post. Its
members were headed by the post band, and
carried themselves we'll, Other coored
troops were seen later and came along at
odd intervals, just as popular as any other
sections of the columns, and just as proud.
Worn old men with the whitest of wool and
the broadest of grins hobbled along
Post "a, of Pennsylvania, showed up very
nattily, with red canes at carry, and
Scranton's posts were distinguished by
huge miners lamp carried ahead of them,
and miniature ones worn in their hats.
Erie posts were unmistakable, as thev carried
white umbrellas conspicuously marked
Ohio's marchers were distinctive in every
way, and were probably unique as a march,
ing body, for in their ranks. stepping
briskly along like the plainest citizen, was
an President-Rutheriord B. Hayes.
President Hayes received an ovation along
the whole line of march. He marched
afoot, and his hat was in his hand most of
the time, waving a courteous response to
the kindly greetings he constantly received
The Ohio men were not as neatly attired as
men from some of the other States Many
in their lines had no uniforms at all, and
their appearance as whole was more
weather-worn and not so prosperous look
ing as that of the New Workers Tor instance.
Ohio Has Daughter of the Regiment.
A Daughter of the Regiment" walked
in the front line of the Ohioans. This