Daily tobacco leaf-chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1890-1895, 1892-10-11

passed. The hundreds OF thousands of
strangers thronging the city realize for
the first time how exceedingly beautiful
a city ''newest New York; is.
At 1928 the first division came to the
waiting ground. The carriage Of Gov
ernor Roswell p. Flower, New York's
chief executive, drawn by pair of
spanking bays, drove up rapidly to the
presidential reviewing stand on Madison
square and the governor alighted, ac-
companied by Adjutant General Porter
in full dress uniform, and followed by
Generals Eale, Varnum, jerks, Halsey
and other members of the governors
staff, The spectators cheered the gov
ernor and renewed their cheering
when, Immediately afterwards, the
guest Of the day, Vice President Morton,
representing President Harrison, drove
mp in an open barouche and was re-
ceived at tbs entrance to the stand by
Governor Flower, who conducted him
to the seat set apart for the absent
president.
Mr.. Morton was accompanied by Mr..
Hugh Gardner, president of the Southern
society, and Mr.. Howard Carroll. He
entered into pleasant chat with Gov
ernor Flower and those around him and
with number of prominent politicians,
who came up and shook hands with the
governor and the vice president. Then
came another lull of waiting expectancy
while the hot rays of the nearly vertical
sun beat down upon the spectators in the
uncovered stands, and peddlers of ice
water at ten cents glass drove -four
ishing and profitable trade.
1t was 11:15 o'clock before the first
distant strains of the numerous bands
fell upon the ear, and at II :25 the ad-
vance squad of splendidly mounted po-
lice and the marshal and his aids wear
ing gorgeous sashes of the national
colors rode past. The vice president and
governor rose to receive them, and
bowed as each of the well-mounted aids
raised his hat. Next came Mayor Grant
and Commissioner Guggenheimer sturd-
lily marching ON foot at the head of the
first division and Justify cheered as they
came along.
Then came the boys with their own
bands in uniform marching twenty
abreast with rythmic swing and
military bearing which carried all be-
fore it, and company after company was
greeted with shouts of applause as each
seemed to march even better than the
company preceding.
Each company carried its company
flag to the right and every boy had
pinned on his left breast tiny United
States flag. Their captains carried
canes and gave their orders inva shrill
boyish treble pleasant to hear. Heads
up, eyes front, looking never to the
right nor left, not even when they
passed the vice president, the soldier
lads tramped, with a perfect alignment,
which nothing was allowed to break
Looking up Fifth avenue, as far as
the rising ground on Forty-seventh
street, nothing could be seen but an
undulating army of boys marching rap
idly on without break.
After half an hour had elapsed, thir-
teen of the twenty regiments of the first
division had passed in review and then
the first company of little colored lads
came In sight, marching as proudly and
as deity as their white comrades,
cheer greeted them.
The silver letters on the crimson
company flags glistened in the sunlight
like the CLINT of bayonets. Every com
pany carried at least four small United
States flags and some bore silken colors
of almost regulation size. Some of the
companies were armed and some were
mounted.
The boys of st. Peters school, 200 in
number, uncovered and held their
shakos over their right breasts as they
marched past the stand. The second
division occupied forty minutes in
marching past, and at 1916 o'clock the
third division came by, headed by thirty
little midgets in uniform from the
Hebrew orphan asylum.
The Indian scholars from Carlisle,
Pa, were cheered as they uncovered
and marched silently by, wearing blue
tunics with blue trousers and red
stripes, They showed signs of careful
drilling. Quite as interesting was the
company of Indian maidens, which fol-
lowed them, wearing loose dark blue
dresses belted at the waist and march
ing as smoothly as the Indian lads them
selves.
The Dalton lads in their sailor cos
TUNES marching with clasped hands
we're pleasant change. Then came
the cadets in uniform carrying muskets
and dragging miniature cannon. AZ
ter them came number of sweet faced
little German girls, uniformed in blue
and marching with surprising steadiness
and grace. The next college company
carried canes.
The Columbia college students were
headed by sixteen collegians wearing
tall gray hats tied up with blue ribbons
and each had stamped upon his breast a
big letter. They 80 maneuvered in front
of the vice president that their evolu-
tons spelled the words columbia col
lege." Most of those that followed had
blue streamers in their hats or carried
canes with a knot of blue ribbon at the
ends, and some of them twirled open
umbrellas similarly decorated.
The medical students, with miniature
skeletons pinned to their hats, marched
past singing "There are no flies on us"
The art students carried painters
palettes and maulsticks and wore glen
garry caps.
Every new batch of students intro
duced some new vagary or some start
ling college cry, and the fun waxed fast
and furious.
Vice President Morton and Governor
Flower heartily enjoyed the diversion
and exchanged frequent comments with
President Si1nmonds of the board of ed
ucation and Ex-Mayor Hodges, of Balti-
more, who sat alongside of them.
The order of parade originally laid out
was considerably changed on line of
march, The last organized body passed
the grand stand at 80 oclock-a little
over two hours in passing.
Governor Flower afterwards held an
impromptu levee and introduced many
friends to a mysterious stranger in a
SLOUGH hat who had stood by his side
and recognized, and who turned out to
he Governor 1illman, of South Caro-
lima.