The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-07-03

the leader of a cause which was
lost, and after 81 years at that?"
The parade started at o'clock and
1T was more than three hours before
the tennessee veterans had passed.
The Tennessee veterans were last, and
the North Carolinians were just in front
of them. The States had been ar
ranged in the order of their secession,
At o'clock this morning Main
street was as bare as if it had been in
painted picture. There were a few
struggling figures to be sure. and quite
gathering of veterans between
Twelfth and Thirteenth streets. These
were the only living objects in sight
down the historic thoroughfare that
undulates along seven hills from
Shockoa Hill to Church Hill. This gath
ering of veterans were members of the
Durham camp. They had slept on
straw pallets in a tobacco warehouse
on Shockoa Hill. Many of them had
sat up all night. Most of them had
risen early and this gathering was
now pressing in front of the door
where their meals were to be furnished
them. They were awaiting for their
breakfast as were other North Caro-
linians ON Broad street. At the same
time those Broad street veterans had
slept on the exposition grounds, and
others had been accommodated in
other places, all sleeping pretty much
as they did in war times.
MANY VETERANS TIRED OUT.
Many of the old fellows who had
arrived as early as Tuesday had be-
gun to ache in their bones and good
ly number had therefore left the city
last night and this morning. But
there was a fine showing left. Yet
some others did not appear in the
parade, for after the parade was over
Judge John Gray Bynum, who WAS
one of the general staff officers told
me that after standing three hours in
the sun, while the line was forming,
many of the old chaps were too over
come by heat to Stay longer. As many
he said as 200 or more, and yet there
were enough left in line,as will appear
later from the actual number taken
by roll call and the cheers of the thou
sands from one end of the march to
the other.
In the cool, calm quiet of the early
morning many of the veterans were
stretching themselves after their
nights sleep on the capitol square and
were amusing themselves feeding the
squirrels. Some were standing in
front of the Governors mansion. AS
early as o'clock Mrs. Gov. O'Ferrall
on the front porch of the
mansion with it's doors flung wide open
so as to give officially to the capital |
of the Old Dominion the first touch |
of hospitality. This was natural, for |
she is the wife of man who was shot |
eight times in the war, once through |
and through.
The headquarters of all the States |
consisted of bare rooms in the old |
City Hall with plain table, or
chairs and broken pen in each. The
North Carolina room was empty, |
many veterans, however, having slept /
on the floor. In this room the officers
of the veterans were to meet at 10
o'clock to arrange details of the
march.
Away up town in the fashionable
part of the city, exactly in the
centre of the deeply shaded Mon
roe Park, stood the platform, bound
i'm bunting, where the corner stone
were to take place after
the parade. All the entrances to the
Park were quietly guarded by police
men and the scene was an eloquently
still one, with city full of people, yet
asleep. Both Grace and Franklin and
Broad streets had been all night con-
under the sprinklers until
they were almost muddy against the
tramp of thousands that they were to
meet.
ELECTION OF OFFICERS.
Old Virginia was now ready for the
finale. Life took on color after color
swiftly, from until 10; the passing
If people became more rapid. each per-
son intent upon the great business of
he day. The Tar Heels, through their
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