Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1892-09-28
THE 6. A. R. PARADE.
20, 900 Old Soldiers Pass the Reviewing
Stand ar Washington.


ing, pushing humanity gathered on the
level expanse of asphalt pavement at
the foot of the entrance of the capitol
than was this morning assembled to see
the grand parade of the Grand Army of
the Republic start from that point on
It's march up Pennsylvania Avenue.
Long before the hour appointed for the
parade to assemble thousands of
persons were congregated on the
broad marble steps, and every
point where foothold could
be had on the stately capitol
building Every window in the capitol
facing the starting point was filled with
faces and even on the balcony around
the dome appeared line of persons
looking down on the gaylv unitorme ed
bands, the handsomely caparisoned
staff of the commander-in-chie and the
Tapping markers and banners Of the
different posts, waiting for the sound of
the bugle to march. Every street lead
ing to this scene of the assembling COM
rades, many of whom had gath
cred there before the grand re-
view of 1865, and now forming
in procession for their last time
in many cases, was packed from curb to
curb with people who evidenced the
| ton to have the head of the long pro-
| cessien start promptly at $50 o'clock,
| but it was not until half an hour later
that the commanding general and his
staff arrived. and delay followed, owing
to the dense crowd and great confusion
incident to posts arriving; 50 it was past
10 O'Clock when the word of command
was given by Gen. Palmer, and the
parade started, accompanied by burst
Of music and shouts of thousands
of voices. The parade was led by the
Old Guard Band, of this city. Behind
came the Old Guard itself in four COM
panies of double columns dressed in q
neat uniform with q headgear of black
| shakoes. Then came band playing
lively music just in front of banner on
which was picture of Gen. Palmer
held aloft by four sturdy intantrymen,
TO the rear of whom there rode the AL
| bany Guard with its colors haunt-
ing defantly TO the breeze.
Gen. Palmer and his staff Of 200
superbly mounted men were next,
above which waved the headquarters
| flag of yellow silk, with the @. A. r.
emblem emblazoned upon its center.
| The procession after sweeping around
the east front at the capitol marched
down the hill, where it was met by the
with silk hats and unusually we'll
mounted. The procession then swung
into the finest parade street in the
world, Pennsylvania Avenue, and was
soon on it's way down that thoroughfare,
marching between q mass Of people
who were cheering and waving flags
hats, canes and handkerchiefs and in
every way giving vent to their enthu-
| siasm.
| The scene from the Vice Presidents
reviewing stand during the parade was
an exhilarating one. Twenty thousand
people had congregated in the two
squares between the treasury and the
state, war and navy buildings. All of
the massive public stands were full to
overlooking. Every foot of space for
| 100 feet back from the pavement
was occupied. The windows and
roofs of all the buildings in the
neighborhood were taken advantage
of by the throngs that eagerly
sought to catch a glimpse of the
grandest parade of veterans since the
war. The great crowd was an en-
thusiastic one, and as the old soldiers
marched by it frequently cheered them
again and again. In the line of eacn
state department were borne it's tat
tered flags, and on sight Of these the
|
| found vent in the widest cheering 1t
was noticeable fact that those posts
| which made no pretensions of display
OF fine uniforms received even more at
| tention than those that did.
| Vice. President Morton arrived at
about 10 o'clock. He was accompanied
by Secretary and Mrs. Charles Foster,
Miss Foster, Atty-Gen. Miller, Secre-
tary and Mrs. Noble and Misses Hal
stead, Mrs. Rusk and daughter Secre-
tary Tracy and his daughter, Mrs. Will
merding, Mrs John w. Foster, wife of
the secretary of state, and Postmaster
guests who had seats in the Vice Presi-
dents stand were Gen. and Mrs. Scho-
field, Gen. and Mrs. Palmer, DIR.
Scott, father of the Presidents
wife, Mrs. Russell Harrison, Senator
and Mrs. Henderson, Senator Gibson,
Representative Boutelle, Gen. Gibbon,
Representative Mitchell, of Wisconsin,
Rockwell, Of New York, DurboroW, of
Illinois, Mrs. Logan and Mrs. John A.
Logan, Jr., Representative and Mrs.
Newbury, Marshall Ramsdell, Gov.
Pattison. of Pennsylvania, and staff,
and Maj-Gen. Snowden, of the National
Guards, of Pennsylvania, who COM
manded the troops at Home
|
the column headed by the citizens To-
cal column, mounted, turned into Eff
teenth Street, and from that time there
was hardly break in the lines. The
veterans marched in double column,
which is an innovation in street pa
rade in Washington, and the change
was marked success. Vice. President
Morton stood at the front of the plat
form. and, as the departments dipped
their colors in passing. he returned the
salute by lifting his hat. Gen. Palmer,
commander in chief, was cheered as he
appeared.
The commander-in-ch as he
reached the stand which had been
erected for him, dismounted and, stand
ing between two brass fieldpieces, with
his staff, reviewed the marching COL
umn. Passing up Pennsylvania Avenue
the procession, in double column, made
an extremely imposing appearance.
AS the head of the procession swung
around Pennsylvania Avenue, up Fiji
| teenth Street, past the treasury build
ing, the wheel around the corner was
signal for 500 young school girls
on the n0ioh boring GRAND Stand oDd