The San Francisco call., 1896-09-10
PARADE OF THE NATIVES
Streets of the Hospitable Mil City
Threaded by a Magnificent
Pageant.

STOCKTON, CAL, Sept. 9.-The parade
started shortly after IL O'Clock. The first
two divisions were devoted to notables in
carriages, the marshal and his assistants,
the military escort and the Exempt Fire
men. Following Marshal II. r. McNoble
were Governor James II. Budd and staff.
General NJ. w. Muller and staff, Colonel ].
]. Nunan and staff and Major Gus G. Grant
and staff. The First Battalion of the Sixth
Regiment, preceded by the Sixth Regi-
ment band, followed. Several bicyclists
dressed in white and mounted upon white
flyers escorted the Exempt Firemen and
Mexican War Veterans. The thinness of
the ranks of the latter was evidenced by
the fact that they could muster only one
busloaG. The Pioneers showed more
strongly. Three carriages were taxed to
their utmost capacity to hold the sur
vivors OF the daring men of 49 who
founded the glorious Golden State.
The City Council and other municipal
officers of Stockton in carriages were fol-
lowed by the Exempt Firemen of the
State. The aged fre-fgh hters OF San Fran
cisco and Oakland were accompanied by
their own musicians. Their gay red shirts
at once caught the eyes of the onIookers,
and their appearance was always the sig
nal for round of applause. The veterans
marched sturdily and well. In the ranks
were men from Oakland, San Francisco
and Stockton.
The parlors of the Native Sons and
Daughters composed the divisions num-
bered from 3 to 10. Marshal Eugene F.
Bert had charge of the third division,
which was headed by Golden Gate mill
tary band, accompanying Mission Parlor
No. 38 of San Francisco. The banner of
the parlor was mounted upon bicycle
wheels and trundled by haif-dozen little
girls, all dressed in white. The vanguard
of the parlor was composed of eight trou-
badours, whose silent guitars hung use
lessly from the gay ribbons by which they
were attached to the shoulders of the
bearers. The imitation singers made up,
however, for their lack of music by the
lustiness of their cheers. They led the
outbreak whenever a passing parlor or a
group of friends gave the opportunity to
Mission So to make the welkin ring with
the sound of its voices.
San Francisco No. 49, a couple of whose
leading members were harnessed to a
little wagon with wooden wheels, such as
our fathers used to make for US to haul
dirt in when we wore pinafores, presented
q pleasing appearance. The members
were dressed in uniform Of negligee shirt
and dark trousers and carried Japanese
parasols. Seated in the little wagon were
three urchlns, whose ardor was not at all
abated by the hot rays of the sun, which
beamed down upon their unprotected
heads.
Oakland's representatives marched in
the fourth DIVISION TO the splendid music
of the Presidio band. Stanford ParIor
No. rs, whose members delegated the work
of carrying their standards to six giant
men of color, was not uniformed, beyond
the fact that they all wore tennis shoes.
carried canes and wore Fedora straw hats.
Nevertheless they presen ted a wonderfully
neat and attractive appearance. The gen
tlemen from the Athens of America were
not afraid of having their raiment spoiled
by dust and dirt and one and all wore
their Sunday clothes High standing col
lars and laundered shirt fronts may not
be conducive to personal comfort when
marching in hot sun, but they certainly
impressed the beholders with their neat
ness, particularly after so many negligee
costumes had been seen.
Eden Parlor No. 81 of San Francisco.
marched in columns of fours, two men
and two women composing each rank.
All were attired in white and carried
white umb mbrellas. Rincon Parlor No. 70.
also from San Francisco, was also dressed
in white and the mem bers were dis
uinguished from their confreres by the fact
that they wore tourist hats of peculiar
style.
California Parlor No. 1, whose members
too were dressed in white, carrying the
omnipresent Japanese parasol, showed up
well. as did Buena Vista Parlor, whose
mem bers marched each with lady-love,
sister or female friend. Golden Gate Par
ior No. % also made a pleasing appear
aDce.
Oakland Parlor No. so. Native Daughters
narched and formed Maltese cross. The
fair daughters of the City of Churches
we're attired in white, with trimmings oi
orange hue. They were followed by
Athens Parlor No. 1876, which mustered
about 100 men. They were dressed in
white linen coats, tennis trousers, negligee
shirts and straw hats, the monotony oi
the white being relieved by vivid yellow
streamers, which foated from the tops oi
the white silk umbrellas which they car
ried. They also wore belts of the same
warm shade. Yerba Buena Parlor No. "a,
Bay City No. 104 and Mantle No. 105 COM
pleted the four b division.
The fifth division was probably the star
of the parade. Most of those who marched
under the direction of Marshal w. NJ.
Henderson hailed from the Capital City.
They we're preceded by the Sacramento
Militant band, which preceded Sacra-
mento Parlor, No. 8. Dark-blue coats OF
serge, on which large white buttons, ar
ranged in double rows, showed promi-
nently, white linen trousers. straw hats and
white umbrellas, completed the neatest
uniform OF the parade. The members
each wore a Prince of Wales reef at the
bottom of their trousers legs. small
division Of the Capital City Wheelmen
followed their neigh bors on foot.