The new dominion. [volume] (Morgantown, W. Va.) 1876-1904, 1894-09-15
MILES OF MARCHERS.
Parade and Review Of the Grand Army
Of the Republic.
l MAGNIFICENT SCENE.
Countless Multitudes of Spectators
Cheer the Veterans.

Countless Multitudes of Spectators I
Cheer the Veterans.
Glorious Weather for the Great Pa
geant of the Boys in Blue--How the |
Various Departments of the .Patri- |
otto Organizations Marched Over |
the Route--Order Brought Out of
Chaos at the Place of Formation.
Reminders OF the War Carried by |
Proud Surviyors--Scenes and Incl
dents ofthe Procession.
PITTsBURG, Sept. ii. = Grand !
Army luck'' was the remark of anA-
ious veterans who got up at sunrise
to see what the weather was going
to be for the grand parade, the great
est pageant of the week Clear, cool
and almost cloudless, the sun rose
with the promise of a magnificent
day. The temperature was bracing
enough to make walking a pleasure,
and the shower of yesterday had put
the streets in fine trim for marching
All night long and during the morn
ing hours, visitors and veterans were
still pouring in the city by every
line of railroad. From the surround
ing country, vehicles of all kinds
made a professional entry to the
city, and added their occupants to
the mighty throng.
Men were working all night along
the route, wiring the streets in Al
legheny and ropeing them in Pitts
burg. At the hospital tents the or
derlies and stewards were in attend
ance before daylight, and at A. M.
everything was ready for whatever
might occur. Some enterprising in
dividuals placed camp stools along
the sidewalk on Fifth avenue, for the
use of which they charged 25 cents
each.
| CROWDS EARLY AsTIR.
1--WE are coming, Father Abraham,
three hundred thousand more" was
the proudest boast of the martial
boys in blue early in the sixties, and
now, if the passing years have deci-
mated the ranks, bowed the heads of
the survivors and robbed the victor
of his naughty bearing, the same
boys in blue are on the march again.
Boys they are to each other, and
boys they will remain so long
as there are two left to salute each
other, but in the grand parade as it
passed through the streets of Pitts
burg, the spectator saw men, old
men, veteran and war-worn, but as
loyal, as proud and as true to the
flag as when they faced death be-
meath its folds in the days of their
lusty youth.
Spectators, toe, were moving
around in thousands at an early
hour, and many took up points of
vantage on the grand stands, at the
windows, in balconies, and on roofs
before the parade was scheduled to
start. Nor did they have any tedi-
um on their hands, for the streets,
especially the down town thorough
fares, were Kaleidoscope of life and
color before o'clock.
MARCHING AND coUNTERMARC HING.
Posts began coming into the heart
of the town soon after breakfast,
ready to take up their positions for
forming the column in the grand pa
rade. Bands and drum corps were
passing and repassing, marching and
countermarching on Fifth avenue
and all adjacent streets as they
moved at the head of their organi-
cations toward the points of rcndez-
vous
Loyalty was shown everywhere by
spectators, for the grim boys in blue,
to whom this tread of hosts of men
and tramp of squadrons were no new
sounds, did not require to be enthu-
siastic. Their uniforms and their
badges, their flags and their SCARED
bodies all spoke for them. The crowd
seemed to realize this and lusty
cheers and waves of honoring hand
kerchiets swept the multitudes that
lined the streets.
Crowds such as were never seen
before seemed to have been pouring
into the city from some reservoir of
humanity that was inexhaustible.
There were hundreds of thousands
on the streets. There was not a
window on the route of the march
that did not frame party of sight
seers. They occupied the miles of
grand stand, they were on roofs,
clinging to fireescapes, peeping from
underneath bunting-in fact there
was good sized population for a
big town that did not come down in
to the streets at all. The wharf was
black with veterans and spectators.
Water st buildings were alive with
faces, the Smithfield-st bridge,
Smithfieldst and all the cross streets
looking the formation were
teeming with onlookers and this
crowd extended all over the two
miles of the route, and for hours
they seemed to be coming in thous-
ands from other parts of the city,
ORDER OUT OF CHAOS.
As the hours wore on until after 8
o'clock Water-st., on which the pa
rade was forming, seemed to become
the scene of widest confusion.
Mounted aides clattered about,
hoarse voiced orders seemed fitting
accompaniment to the music of
marching men, as post after post
took up position facing the river and
extending west to Ferrys st. Illinois
Wisconsin, Ohio, Connecticut and
Massachusetts were the departments
which got ready to report at 10 A. NJ.
for the start half an hour later
Bands played until the resounding
echoes of martial music stirred even
the most unsoldierly citizen who
knew nothing of war. Some modern
tunes were played, but the old time
war melodies were the favorites and
post after post came swinging into
line to the quick step of Marching
Through Georgia" John Browns
Body" and even Dixie"
For a time it looked as if no one
could bring order out of the appar-
ent chaos, but soldierly instinct pre-
vailed at last and before the mount
ed staff began to assemble between
the Monongahela House and the
wharfmaster's office the departments
on Waterst, had extended in line to
the west in order and were ready to
move. Banners were waving, gui
dons tapping, horses prancing and