The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-11-14

I W r. BlOis of the First cavalry, and
! Lieut.. W. X Leakin Of the Guards bat
] talon. Lieut.. Leaken was detailed later
as special bodyguard to Gov. Altgeld.
The Guards, Hussars and Galatians
were nrst on hand, with large tOurnOuts.
l Inc First Georgia and the First Illinois
/ regiment arrived together, the First
/ Georgia taking the right of the line at
/ BuIl street on the west side facing north,
/ and the First Illinois taking position east
I OF Bun street, facing south. There was
| tremendous crowd gathered at the start
/ able difficulty in keeping the spectators
ouI OF tne way Of the troops.
/ Nal karow commanded the First reg
lnenJ capt Flannery being in command
Y OF the Il lrSt battalion and Lieut.. Gleason
commanding the Irish Jasper Greens.
Iapt- holshorn commanded the German
/ olunteers and Capt. Dixon the Repub-
mean Blues. Maj. A. r. Lawton was out
with the Second battalion, with Capt.
rockwell in command Of the Oglethorpes
anu capt Brooks Of the Cadets. Both
companies made large turnOuts. Col. Gar
fard was at the head Of the Guards bat
tahon, with Leuts Bryan and kOllock
on the stan The company commanders
We're as follows: Company b, Lieut.. Ba-
/ con; Company G. Lieut. Bryan; Company
! y, capt. WHY, and Company A, Capt.
Williamson. As usual the Guards show
Cd up We'll Capt. Walker and Lieuts.
cam and Carson were out with the
Chatham Artillery for the first time since
receiving their commissions. The Hussars
made fine turnout, under command of
capt. Gordon, and received much praise
from the visitors.
The line of march was taken up at 4:90
clock, IN the following order
Mounted police, Lieut. Reilly command
ing.
Acting Brig. Gen Reilly and staff.
First regiment band
First Georgia Regiment, Maj. Edward
karCW commanding.
battalion band.
savannah Volunteer Guards battalion,
Lieut.. Col. William Garrard.
Chatham Artillery Capt. George p.
Georgia Hussars. Capt Beirne Gordon.
Co!. II. l.. Turner and S,aff.
Chicago regimental band.
First Regiment Infantry, Illinois Ma
tional Guard.
The formation Of the last named com
mand was as follows: Col. Turner and
staff; the veteran corps in regulation
blue uniforms and bcarskin caps; the
drum corps and bandi the signal corps
Win signal uags and instruments in
cases; the First battalion, Lieut.. Col.
George Y. Lauman; Second battalion
Maj. Edgar b. Tolman; Third battalion,
Maj. James NJ. Eddy, Jr.; gatling gun
corps, three gdthngs with caisson; the
hospital corps.
Altogether the regiment had about $50
men IN line. 1t was continually cheered
all along the route, and was the object of
general admiration and applause. The
regimental band was big feature in it
SELL II made the best military music
ever heard in Savannah The selections
rendered along the line of march were
inspiring, and when the drum cOrps got
in its work it almost took away the
breath Of the spectators, who were not
used to that sort of thing. The negroes
fairly went wild.
'Dey don't mind fghtin' when dey got
music ike dat TO go by" remarked one
Ogeechee coon to another.
The line of march was short, out Bull
street on the east side Of the squares to
CASTOR to Drayton and to the parade
ground Arriving at the parade ground
the local military formed in line on the
north side, with right resting on Dray-
ton, TO allow the visiting regiment to
pass in review, this being the arrange
ment agreed upon between Col. Reilly
and Col. Turner, in order to save time by
dispensing with the usual exchange of
salutes at the conclusion of the parade
position on the right of the line their
right resting at Whitaker and New Hous-
ION streets. This completely encircled two
sides of the parade with military.
There was a tremendous crowd i'm the
park but 1t was handled without trouble
by the police; This was due to the excel
lent precautions adopted by Chief Nc
Dermott. Sergt Killourhy was sent to
the ground early in the afternoon with a
squad of thirty-seven men, with instruc-
tons TO keep the crowd off the parade
ground. Sergt. Killourhy is a success al
handling crowds, and fully sustained his
reputation yesterday. In addition, the
squad Of mounted men which arrived
with Lieut.. Reilly ala excellent work il
keeping the crowd from enCrOacning. In
cluding the three detectives, there were
Just hfty police on the field, besides the
chief. IL was not found necessary to make
a single arrest
Gov. Altgeld and staff and Mayor Swift
and the Chicago delegation proceeded 10
the ground in carriages and took a posi-
ton on the east side of the field, facing
the confederate monument. Mayor Myers
was in the carriage with Gov Altgeld,
and members of the local committee were
distributed among the ChicagOans After
the troops had taken their positions they
were drawn up in brigade formation for
review by Gov. Adgeld and party. The
governor and party passed down the line
from the right and back by the rear, the
troops saluung and the bands playing.
The governor and his party then resumed
their former position and the troops pass
ed in review on dress parade, the Chi
cago band furnishing the music The Wis
itors did not fail to note that while the
First Illinois regiment was in gray the
Z First Georgia regiment wore the regula-
ton blue uniform. After this ceremony
the parade was dismissed and each COM
mander assumed independent charge of
his command The First Illinois regiment
went through a dress parade on its own
account but It was growing TOO dark to
afford much entertainment to the specta-
tors
The several commands marched back
to their armOries and the visitors to the
quarters assigned them, and everybody
hurried to get supper in order to be in
/ readiness for the entertainments of the
evening.
The Chicago boys expressed themselves
as delighted with having struck a gem
timely military town. They seem to lay
great stress on the fact that. the proper
military courtesies were shown them.
They knew as soon as they saw the escort
waiting for them at the depot early in
the morning that they had found place
where the people We're up on military mat
ters they said. They were also pleased
to find the military so well provided with
( armores and club quarters. They could
not say enough of the hospitality Of the
Savannah military. and when the as
sembly sounded, many of them were very
/ 10th to leave.
The drills Of the First Infantry Drum
/ Corps were a feature of the day. The
corps is composed of "a officers and drum
mers, and is one of the crack drum corps
of the country. 1t gave an exhibition drill
on Bull street in the forenoon which
attracted crowds of people, and the ap
plause of all who saw it. The movements
of the corps were made. with almost abso-
/ lutte precision. 1t also gave a drill in the
park extension which again won shouts
of applause The corps is composed of
Drum Major John c. Cluett, Principal Mu-
stefan Edward a Griffin, Lance Sergeant
Frank F. Webner, secretary and treasu-
rer; Lance Sergeant VIM. d. Goldman,
Lance Corporal Louis d. Johnson, Lance
Corporal. Agustus w. Cakes, Lance Cor
poral John W Williams; Thos. A Black
burn. Eben J. Beach, ELAN l. Chambers,
4 George d. Chase. Alfred Frankel. Will f.