The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-07-05
The Stars and Stripes Now Wave From
the Belmont and Third Ward Schools.
A Magnificent Street Parade. Martial
Music and Appropriate speeches-A
Brilliant Pyrotechnic Display at
Night.

formation WAS quickly and skillfully
done and throughout the whole line of
march there was not a hitch or any
evidence of mismanagement. Much
credit is due for the splendid manage
ment of the organized bodies to the
chief marshal, Maj j. ii. Featherstone,
and to his able aides; G. II. Loser, C. w,
Thomas, E. G. Garretson, ST., and R.
Wingheld.
The procession moved in the following
order:
Squadron OF police.
Mayor Trout, Rev Or Fair, Capt r. b. Moorman
and Others in carriages.
Members OF the City Council.
The school board, Hon. Bsshrod Rust, Rush U.
Derr and others.
Roanoke Machine Works Band
Reliance Council, No. 1s. Jr. o. u. a. NJ.
sG yI.,ISs co1Rs No =, g q,
Grand Army Post, No. 4S.
Roanoke Post, Sons OF Veterans
Roanoke Light Infantry
Roanoke Light Infantry drum corpe
Uniformed Rank Knights of Pythias.
Koan0Es b MTG Tihns " wG5 ss drum MsI corps
Roanoke fire department.
Bicycle club
The following line OF march was fol.
lowed: Campbell avenue east to JEFF
ferson street, thence to Salem avenue
west to Commerce street, thence south
to Church avenue, thence west to Park
street, thence north to Gilmer avenue,
thence east to Com monwealth avenue,
thence to Brooke avenue, thence 10 the
Third ward school house, where the
process sion came TO a halt
When The procession reached the
Third ward school house a large and
beautiful United States flag was un.
furled and asalute was fired by the Roa-
noke Light Infantry amid the cheers of
the multitude and patriotic music by
the different bands. The march was
tLen taken up to Lee street, thence to
Shenandoah avenue, thence on Ran
dolph street to Tazewell and Belmont
boulevard on the Belmont school house.
Belmont school building was beauti.
fully decorated with flags and bunting
In the front large stage had been
erected and seats reserved under the
trees for the organizations in the parade.
After some enlivening music by the
Roanoke Machine Works Band, John e
Boehm called the Assem- bly, to order and
Rev. DR. w. G Campbell, of the First
Presbyterian Church, opened the cere-
monies with prayer. Another selection
of music followed and then Hon. Henry
) Trout, mayor OF Roanoke, made q
brief speech in which he welcomed the
visitors to Roanoke and said he hoped
they would go back to their homes with
pleasant memories of the Magic City.
He com plemented the Junior Order of
the United American Mechanics and
spoke OF the principles of their order.
lie said a man who does not believe in
God has no place in free America. He
belie' in the reading of the Bible in
the free schools and congratulated Roa.
noke on her public school system. lie
thought the Juuior Order OF United
American Mechanics was right in want
ing to restrict emigration and said that
from the foreign element comes the an.
archist and the socialist
Mr. Trout then introd uced Capt. R b.
Norman who congratulated the people
on this suspicious occasion From the
North. the South, the East and the
West the people are rejoicing but here
they have right to rejoice, he said.
lie spoke in fatteiiDg terms OF the
Jr. o. u. A. NJ, and said the watchword
of the order was, Home. mother
heaven" Nowhere else, except in free
America, is a country that comes up to
the sta ndard of this. Home and mother
run hand in hand, and are synonymous
terms. He spoke Of the daily reading of
the Bible as the germ of education, and
thought it ought to be taught in the free
schools. Upon this order would be
ouilt superstructure that would tell
for good. He cited the instance where
a revolutionary hero said, Put none
but Americans on guard"
Captain Moorman's speech was in
teresting, appropriate and eloquent. In
concluding he introduced the orator of
the day, Rev. DR.. Fair, of Richmond.
Va.
DR.. Fair speech was one of the most
mastery efforts that has been made in
Roanoke for long time. In substance
the orator said: II am deeply i'm.
pressed with the significance of the
occasion, which was to the schools q
copy of the word OF God wrapped in the
folds OF the American flag. / thank
God the Bible is to- be read in the
American schools, and on every fair dav
the flag OF the nation should wave over
them all In the symbol of the order
we see their three cardinal principals:
Morality, Education and Liberty.
Education to fit our children for the
d. ties Of American citizenship must be
founded uLon morality. we echo the
words another mechanic spoke hun.
dreds OF years sgo, The truth shall
make me free.
The shores Of the past are literally
lined with the wrecks OF splendid
empires II at once seemed 10 be eternal
but they drifted away like summer
cloud. The land that Sir Thomas
Moore wrote of is no more Utopian
than that OF today. The symptoms Of
visionary and impracticsble tniGgs can
be seen now. II a country can be- saved
to Immortality there is only one way.
IL is not in the halls OF kings or in the
groves Of PHILOSOPHY, bu. in the shop