The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-03-05
MARCH OF THE PAR ABE.
The Pageant One OF the Most Imposing
aver Seen at the Capital

The Pageant One Of the Most Imposing
liver Seen at the Capital.
WASHINGTON, March 4.-The parade Of
to-day was greater in numbers and more
imposing in military and civic display than
that OF any previous Inauguration. Gen.
Martin T. Mcmahon of New York, the
grand marshal, carried out in the organiEa-
ton of the procession the same admirable
methods Of assembling bis forces which
made mis- MANAGEMENT or the Columbian
parade in New York city last October so
successful. With military sagacity he
recognized the fact that it takes many hours
to march 10000 or $4,000 men past given
point, even under the most favoriug
circumstances of broad and we'll paved
streets, and instead OF ordering all the orr
ganized bodies to be ready to fall in at one
and the same time, he allowed sufficient lns
tervals between the hours of assembling to
prevent as far as possible fatigulng waits,
and so arranged the assembling places on
contiguous side streets that the men were
able to form and drop into line without de-
lay and without crossing the line of march.
In all these matters he was ably assisted by
his adjutant general, Col. H. G. Corbln, U.
s. A.
THE ESCoRTING DIVISION.
The escorting division. composed Of 0rtil-
army, drawn from the garrisons of Fort
Monroe, Fort Myer and Fort McHenry, aud
the marines from the Washington navy
yard, with the admirably drilled national
guard of the district, the high school cadet
regiment and other local organizations, ss-
sembled in the neighborhood OF the white
house and the war, s ate and navy building
AID formed III columns of sections of twelve
each promptly at 1890 o'clock. They
marched down the avenue, accompanying
the presidential party from the white
house to the capitol prior to the
inauguration. All the rest Of the parade
assembled below the capitol and marched
from the capitol up tho avenue after the
Inauguration ceremonies were over, dis
lance Of fully two miles to ths point OF dis
bandment - Washington circle, near
Twenty-third street. For more than halt
the day the city looked like vast military
camp, the almost interminabls marching
past OF regulars and the numerous well
equipped militia forces of the states being
broken In upon only in part
by the visiting governors in their
the order that their states were admitted
into the union, and accompanied by their
brilliantly uniformed stats. Then, with
an intervening iuterlude of grand army
and union veterans, ca To the civic half OF
the parade, fully rs numerous and as inter
esting as the military display. The civic
procession, under the marshslship of Col.
William Dickson, was in six divisions,
and aggregated more THAI 10000 men, and
quite noticeable dash of lady equestrians.
Tammany, with its gorgeous new banners,
held the right of the line. The second di-
vision was assigned to Pennsylvania, Mas
sachusetts, New Jersey aud Delaware held
the third division; Maryland the fourth,
the fifth was the western division. and the
sixth was made up of the late arriving Or
CARNATIONS The bicycle clubs OF WASH
ington and Baltimore brought up the rear.