Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1892-09-23
The s.Capitar' Man at the G A. R
Parade ON Tuesday.

Parade ON Tuesday.
During the recent encampment of the
q. A. r. at Washington, Captain Brown
had to get wheels under his tickets and
cash box, being compelled by the rush to
ge; aboard the 6.35 A. NJ, train and sell
tickets most of the way 10 Odenton
A better natured crowd has seldom left
the city-certainly not q handsomer-and
there was a good deal of wit and philoso-
phy all around making the journey APP
pear shorter. But in the shortening pro
cess circumstances and the Pennsylvania
Railroad Company took hand, Tor We
went through tunnell-stopped-We
on-repeated the stop-but 1t was short
never TO go again and Ike the conven-
tioual mule stuck right there. The
| hint was nderstood-somebody said
'swhere are wet" Another, a newtown-
| er responded, "Oi be cripes, we're stuck.
| "Where"-'.rite here, be crtpes. We
| were q half a mile from the depot. Our
| people made the best of their way TO the
parade
your man and some friends on II
| street N w took position on 14th
street opposite the Treasury Building.
| The FIRST division, Illinois, preceded by
| Prof. Zimmerman and our Academy
Band. led off; then came Wisconsin. As
| soon as the band reached the dispensing
point. they returned to the line of for.
nation and led the Arkansas Division,
then in the evening serenaded four head
quarters at as manv hotels. The band
was under contract with the Illinois Di-
vision, and were well treated. boarding
at Lincoln Hotel. On comparing notes
at Odenton with some members OF the
band and others, one fellow remarked
that their exhaustion resulted from over
indulgence in cider. All the Annapoli-
tans present knew better and would'n
believe IT, One remarking that they
were opposed to cider. The band, how
ever, need never be ashamed of their per-
formances, they were very much admir-
ed as were also the Capital" man and
| the rest.
THE FIT MACHINE.
Going up Pennsylvania avenue In the
| throng we became appriZed suddenly by
the most unearthly yell that ii has been
| our misfortune to endure, right behind
our left ear nobody did it-but it was
there. The notes produced were some
thing between that of frog, goose in
agony, and the last expiring notes of
| a wood-saw to the man driving il. This
| fit machine was discovered to be a di-
minutive Chinese lantern, with string
through the top-tjed TO a stick in the
hands of a velly blad Mclean bloy
| There were no end to its tunes, and
| wherever you turned and whenever you
| turned-and no matter how you turned
| 1t was wild YOU " Get mad-you be-
came fool target for all the Mexican
| bloys" around you, who, like the ma
chine had all the appearance OF innocen-
| cy itself. There is no youth in the world
| who can compete successfully with the
A in I'M
| deviltrY behind a sanity countenance.
The fireworks at the Washington
monument surpassed anything your man
has ever seen. Seventh street and Penn
| sylvania avenue were nothing but lights
| The show windows on the former were
| just delightful, for pleasing artistic eff
| feet. At one place Grants proposed
| tomb in silk was perfection itself. AT
another Washingtons tomb at Mount Yer
non. Sax's clothing house made a fine
display of a mammoth G A. II. badge
with electric jets.
WANTED TO GO HOME
At 1915 we reached the depot-the
| train leaving at 11.15. The place was a
solid mass of humanity, AT 11.05 we
were informed that the train for Annap-
oils would leave observation-disclosures In
ten minutes We were told to go right
ahead till we came to IT, We thought it
| q long way to walk in ten minutes-but
we did as we were told-being ignorant
in railroading until some good Samaritan
| told us the train had left twenty minutes
before. Some of our people were on
board too, and when they got within four
| miles of Odenton some fellow practicing
| for the position of conductor shouted
out "change cars for Annapolis this
was obeyed by four or five who, when
the train left them found themselves in
a wilderness of wood and woe,-they
built them fire and whiled away the time
until they succeeded in getting the next
train about five o'clock in the morning.
Wednesday at 1850 A. NJ, we found
our train hid behind some freight cars
playing high spy--snd we changed cars
at Odenton-being greeted with the
Dudes March on boarding the train
by the St. Louis. Mo, band that played
in our streets later on during the day.
There Is no place like home, and no
paper like the Capital" which we can
not get along without--nor can the An
napolitans living in Washington find so
favorable an existence without it, for
those who took care of US put 1t in our
hands as they received 1t daily.
JAY DEE.