The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1892-09-21
LEAVING THE CAPITAL
Exodus from the G. A. r. Re-
Union Begun.
VISITORS HAVE NUMBERED 100000.

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WASHINGTON, Sep. 21.-.Tbe great even
OF the goth annual reunion of the Nation
al G. A. R. is over, and the visitors, VIII,
yesterday were numbered at 100000 ar
fast leaving the city By tomorrow tb,
exodus will be in full blast.
The spectacular feature OF to-day will
be the concert by the consolidated bands
In the city, under the leadership of John
Philip Sousa. formerly director Of the
Marine Band. One thousand pieces will
render number of National airs.
There will be many reunions during
the day.
Last night was even more glorious than
the day. Shortly after dark, which was OF
most favorable density, owing to the
lowering crowds, the multitudinous
thousands who lined the avenue while
the parade was in progress, repaired. SO
far as possible, to the vicinity of the monu-
ment. Here the elaborate display of
fireworks provided by the COMMITTEES and
ram, the pyrotechnic king, was made.
1T was magnificent show, in some re-
spects unequalled, and was worthy of a
place on the programme of the days
events
Succeeding the fireworks displav
there was an electric illumination, on A
scale never before attempted in this coun-
try. 1t was one Of the attractions of the
reunion provided by the citizens com
mlttee and was complete success
Pennsylvania avenue, from the Capitol
TO seventeenth street, was ablaze with
colored lights. Every available dynamo
IN the city, public and private, was
| brought into requisition, and numbers
| Were Sninna6 hapa al 60 81 i.
play.
The feature of the illumination was the
display along both sides of the avenue of
brilliant presentations of corps badges.
seventy of these had been placed on sun
| ports at convenient distances in three
colors, red, white and blue, the respective
colors of the first second and third divi
sions. Each Of these was outlined in in
candescent lights of the same color as the
badge.
AT the head of Fifteenth street. at the
entrance to Executive avenue. was a
monster fac-simile of the q. A. r. badge.
10 feet in height. 1t was made up of in
candescent lamps of the various renula-
llon colors OF the badge, and produced a
grand effect. A duplicate of the piece was
also shown at the corner of Pennsylvania
avenue and Seventh street.
fine display, and something entirely
new in Washington, was shown in the
Whlte House grounds in front Of the
Mansion. Here innumerable lights were
nan hidden IN the shrubbery, all of them
changeable in character disappearing
and reappearing in the most beWilderino
manner.
The illumination Of the Treasury buiId-
ing with colored electric lights was especi-
ally fine and notable, as also were "A nun-
Der OF large set pieces at intervals along
the avenue, the most conspicuous being a
great anchor of blazing light placed at
the corner of Tenth street Powerful
seafch lights, thrown from the tops of
hlgh buildings, produced dazzling eff
feet.
The display continued until midniobt
and was witnessed by countless thou,
sands, who regretfully disappeared in the
darkness that succeeded the turning off
OF the dynamos.
Nearly half as many old soldiers were
IN line yesterday as passed up the
avenue on the historic days of 1865.
The procession moved under the or ders
OF the Commander-in-C Chief in double
column rows of u, one on either side of
the car tracks, platoons being IL
PAGES apart, and between departments "a
PAGES.
This procession was, as far as possible.
strlctly q. A. r. organization, the first
ana last divisions containing the only
lon-soldiers.
Heading the procession was the citizens
COMMITTEES on parade. They vera ,
mounted and with the aides appointed hv
'he Chairman, numbered a hundred or {,
more VI
The rear of the procession was brouobt
lp by the Naval Veterans Association
Times ravages in its ranks made n
possible to attempt in one day what IL
equlred Two long days to accomplish in
900. 10 the survivors of the 100 OOO a
men of the armies of the Potomac and
he West, who on the memorable 23rd
nd gath of May, 1865, passed in review b
efore the President and his Cabinet lin n
ludlng Secretary Seward, Just recovering 4
rom the assassin's knife) the foreign :
llnlsters, the military attaches of all the
reat powers of Europe, and their own 9
eloVed and illustrious generals Grant. Il
herman and Sheridan, the contrasts and
called out were necessarily CT
iriking. al
1t took seven hours-from 8 to 4-each 4
ay for the armies of 1865 to pass the Ia
'yiewing stand, and the estimated @,
lies. was oO % -
washington was very different citV al
ien' The Capitol in 1865 was walled re
ana surrounded by heavy timbers
elVher OF the present stately marble tn
lngs now occupied by Senate and House 4,
as then completed. The cobblestone an
lVement of Pennsylvania avenue was ga
orn into alternate ravines and hillocks
the passage of heavy commissariat
igons and artillery.
Many OF those in the march Yesterday T.
're there in 1865, and not a few of the o., o."
esent spectators saw that other bistoric ~,
enc of twenty-seven years past ',a
The parade Of 1865 was the first orast w ",
tional review the country had ever he,
IN. AT the close of the war there wera ~
o armies in aud near this CITY. ha
All Of the soldiers composing 1t dwelt hn
the North, and Washington was a bet tsr
place than any other for their disper-
a. The fortitude of the men and the
uggles in which they had borne SO
ave part deserved commemoration.
4 out of this sentiment grew the scu
IfCn which WAS ranaafaI ,ragtavsl,.. AM