Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-09-20

make their guests comfortable, and 1t would
have been especially distressing had Jupiter
! Pluvius selected this particular time and place
at which to swing his watering pot. Two or three
showers later in the day, disasreeable as they
would be, could be borne, but an early morn
ing rain would result disast, ously for the pa
rade. But there was no early morning rain, SO
there was no unhappiness BY o'clock an un-
| interrupted flood of sunshine illumined the
city and cheered every one who had the slight
est interest in the review of 1892 For fully an
hour before preliminary preparations for the
parade began TO ma.erialze business opened up
on the reviewing stands, and when the head of
the great column finally appeared there were
people on the rough seats who had been wait
ing with all apparent patience for more than
two hours. The time was not monotonously
spent, for posts and departments we're passing
and repassing moving toward their quarters
or marching to take up the positions from
which they would start when their place in the
grand column was ready for them.
VINO will forget, who can forget, the scene
when the avenue fully occupied by the vet
erans? Two parallel columns, each twelve files
'front.' occupied the concrete on their respec-
tive sides Of the car tracks. 1t was q magnifi-
cent sight. No organized body Of men-so
many men-coaid be otherwise than impressive,
and when the eager, applauding multitude re-
membered what manner of men these we're and
with revivifed mental vision saw the heroic
work they had done during four years of incss-
SAINT suffering and slaughter they arose to the
occasion and could hardly contain themselves
1t was a glorious scene. From the Capitol to
i
within two walls of color-color that moved in
the pleasant breeze, waved by the unseen hand
of a sympathetic aerial spirit. Everything was
red, white and blue, but there was not even the
suggestion Of sameness; there was nothing but
life and variety in the display. Flags by the
hundred thousand, from the garrison bunting
down to the tiniost representation of the stars
and stripes, waved welcome, encouragement
| and gratitude to the host that moved steadily
onward hour after hour. Tricolor streamers
1oated from housetops and gyrated in all their
beauty ou. over the twin columns of those who
gave the flag Of the Union n permanent. place
among the emblems Of nations Complimentary
notices and patriotic sentences clustered over
doorways and hung from available projections.
of more interest than the decorations was ths
multitude that crowded the sidewalks filed Ii,
windows. occupied every inch of the balconies ant
reviewing stands and stood wherever there wa
enough fiat roof tostand on; q multitude that wa
too small for the sentiment which was generate,
l within it; multitude that cheered at every op
/ portunity and that accepted any thing and every
thing ~ fair incitement to congratulasory noise
q multitude that overfowed with the patrioti
feeling which naturally grew out of the inspira
i tiOn that Affected every apectator MANY N
those who watched the parade were entitled t
place in the column, but physical disabilit.
compelled them to sit and watch their comrade
as they participated in the memorable march.
And how they marched! Some in as sprightl
manner as was theirs when they pas ,ed be
fore their commanders in 1865, with perfec
alignment and a caring that would not be di-
creditable to the most thor oughly trained troop