, 1892-09-20
THE PROCESSION.
SiIyer-Haired Veterans on the Ma
tional Avenue.
A Gorgeous Procession of Old SOI-
diers-Scenes Along the Line, Re-
calling the First and Memorable
march-NOGes and incidents.

march-NOtes and incidents.
WASHINGTON. September 2O.-The feat
ure in today's proceedings was the Grand
Army reunion parade of veterans. In the
early morning the weather was mild and
hazy, and later the sun came ont, shedding
its genial warmth, but the sky was soon
cloudy again and cold wind made it un-
comfortable in exposed places. At 9:3O
a. M, the hour set for starting the parade
the streets were lined with people, but long
before that great crowds had lined up
against the wire cables, stretched outward
along the sides of broad Pennsylvania ave
nue. from the capitol buildings. The yari-
GUS veterans posts formed at their head
quarters and marched to the positions as
signed them on the diagonal streets on
each side of Pennsylvania avenue, begin
ming at the west front of the capital. The
Illinois posts. coming from the state in
which the order was first organized, had
the place of honor at the head of the line
next to the general officers, and the Wis
consln posts came second, and so IN due
order through the dense lanes of thous-
ands OF people who lined the pavement
and side streets.
Cheered by the fresh voices of hundreds
Of school children singing patriotic airs,
the grizzled veterans, who, tWenty-seven
years ago, occupied two days in passing in
review along this grand national avenue.
moved today with thin ranks, whose num-
bers did not preclude the completion of
the journey within a single day. Then
over the rough cobble stones they marched
as members of the great modern armies,
frrann rufx -Aos.
but with fierce exultation and pride born of
knowledge of their deeds and accomplish
ments. Today, over the smooth asphalt
pavement, they marched again, still proud
that they had been members of that great
army, but in the years which thinned their
ranks, the fierce war spirit had died away
and left little behind but feelings of iov
and good will to all men.
In their grizzled locks and reminiscent
faces one could read the recognition of the
fact that it was the last time many of them
would see the national capital. So it was
they decided to make the parade the great
est feature of the encampment, knowing it
was coincidence which could never be re-
peated. On a lawn adjoining the south
wing Of the treasury building, on large
covered stand, named in honor of Lincoln,
were placed 800 school girls, so arranged in
red, white and blue dresses as to produce
living star-spangled banner Farther
down, near the central market, colored
school girls massed together on a stand,
with melodious voices, blending harmonic
ously In grand chorus, as the old soldiers
marched past
The order of march was as follows: Cit
izens' committee, Old Guard of Washing
ton as escort of cOmmander-in-c chief, Grand
Army battalion of Albany, commander-in-
chief, Grand Army battalion of Albany,
commander-in-chief,j junior vice comman-
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ticial staff of commander-in-ehief, aides-de-
camp to cOmmander-in-chief, escorts of
Grand Army, First Defenders, Sixth Mas
sachusetts, United States Veteran Signal
association, Department of Illinois, Ed
ward Harlan, commander with twenty
three posts and about 800 men in line,
gathered from all parts of the state. Next
came the Wisconsin department,
with more men than that state ever
had before in an encampment parade,
headed by the department commander,
Cylonel @. B. Welton. G. w. Sutherland,
carried Old Abe, the famous war eagle,
carried through the rebellion by the Eighth
Wisconsin regiment. Theodore Riel
carried the badger, emblematic of the Wis
consin shield, and Doc Aubery, the original
newsbOy of the Iron brigade, carried a
number of the identical newspapers he had
unsold at the close of the war. There were
twenty-three posts in line. Next came the
IouuSyIVduld uepdTJul6ug Wild the largest
representation in line. Then came another
heavy department, that of Ohio, headed by
Commander l. f. Mack.
Then in order came New York, with ten
brigades, with Slocum, Sickles, Howard
and Reynolds in the ranks, then New Jer-
sey and Maine. The Californians, who
came next, were all mounted and carried
a crimson silk banner with the picture CT
a grizzly bear; Connecticut and Massachu-
setts, with General Butler, the department
commander, came next. J.. B. Falls led
IA posts and the admirable riding of the
men was the subject of much comment.
Next followed Rhode Island New Hamp-
shire, Virginia, North Carolina, Mary
land, Iowa, Nebraska, Michigan. Indiana,
Wyoming and Colorado included in one
department and made fine showing with
38 posts, led by the department commander,
John @. Kennedy and staff. Then came
Kansas, Delaware, Missouri, Kentucky,
West Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee,
Louisiana, Mississippi, Florida, Oklahoma,
Texas, Alabama, South and North Dakota
and Indian Territory with a creditable
showing. The procession closed with the
posts of the department of the Potomac
and the naval veterans.