The record-union., 1897-08-26
A Great Parade of War Veterans at
Buffalo, New York.
Estimated That Forty-FiVe Thousand Men
Were In Line.
The Procession, Headed by FRESH
dent Mckinley, Moved for Five
Hours and Forty-Five Minutes,
and Was Witnessed by Half a
Million Enthusiastic People.

Million Enthusiastic People.
BUFFALO IN. ", Aug. 25.-Forty-
five thousand men to-day marched
through streets glorious in flags and
bunting, receiving the ovations of a
halfmillion people. The President Of
the Union they fought to save, him
self their comrade, was at their head.
When the line of the Grand Army pro-
cession moved, at 1870 o'clock this
morning, the sky had not a cloud. The
transforms of the night left clear,
bracing air that was like a tonic to the
marching men. The procession moved
for five hours and forty-two minutes.
Along the route of march 100 girls,
dressed in the colors of the flag, scat
tered flowers in the path of the SOL
diers.
President Mckinley rode in a car
riage at the head of the procession, and
waved his hat at the cheering crowd.
At the reviewing stand he took his po-
sition with Chief Clark
son and Governor Black, and the head
quarters staff passed in review.
Of all the throng viewing the process
sion, no one person was more enthusi-
President Mckinley. With his hand
on his hat, continually uncovering to
the national colors or the saIutes of the
veterans, the President watched the
array of proud veterans march by 1t
was certainly a column to inspire adj
miration. Such men as Secretary of
War Alger, General Lew Wallace and
General John Palmer walked side by
side with the negro or the decrepit pen
sioner whom they had to assist
The closing event of the evening was
a reception to the President.
Other events tonight were a recep-
ton by Mrs Catherine E. Hurst, Presi-
dent of the Ladies of the c. A r., at
the Iroquois Hotel; a reception by Mrs.
w. G. Woodley, National President of
the Army Nurses, and numerous recep-
tons by minor organizations.
THE BIG PARADE.
BUFFALO, Aug. 25-When the
morning. gun on the ramparts of the
fort doomed it's salute the sun was OBJ
scured by a furry of clouds which
darkened into blackness in the west.
A heavy mist rose from Lake Erie and
lowered over Camp Jewett, and was
carried back cityward by a fresh
broke through the clouds and gave
promise of a brilliant day.
Drums beat in reveille brought the
comrades from their tents Aides-de-
Camp in the gold lace of the National
/ Guard of New York We're dashing
about the streets on horses, looking
with anxious care to the divisions to
which they had been assigned. Men,
women and children began to post
| themselves behind the long wire
screens that had been spun out all
along the line of march during the
night like a spider web. Every mo-
ment the space along the front of the
! sidewalks grew less, and soon those
who had secured first place against
the wires began to feel the pressure Of
the crowd from behind, which held
them prisoners for the hours that the
parade would take in passing.
In the corridors of the Iroquois Hotel
spurs were jingling and sabers clang-
ing as the officers of General Clarkson's
staff hurried to the headquarters of the
Commander-in-Chief to report to Colo
mel J Corey Winans. chief of staff.
4 The posts of the Department of Illi-
nois and some of the Department Of
| Wisconsin were already on the march
The music and the tramp of the march
| ing feet brought cheering crowds to
the little detachments as they passed.
and the hum of expectancy grew into a
roar of excitement as the time for the
moving of the procession grew nearer.
Excursion trains on every one of the
many lines leading into Buffalo began
to pour thousands of recruits into the
already congested thoroughfares, and
railroad stations took on the appear
ance of beehives from which swarm
was flying.
General Clarkson and staff rode from
| the Iroquois Hotel to the Hotel Mag
ara as soon as the staff had assembled
on Eagle street. In front of the Mag
ara the staff drew up in line and Cen
eral Clarkson waited upon President
Mckinley to escort him to the head Of
the column. AT 10 o'clock the Presi-
dent left the Niagara, accompanied by
the escort. All along the way to the
point of formation the President was
loudly cheered.
At 1870 o'clock the command to
march was given, and the procession
moved. To the roll OF innumerable
drums and the blare of trumpets, the
Grand Army of the Republic, headed
by the President of the United States,
took up its triumphal way through the
seas of cheering humanity The side
walks on each side of Main street as
| far as the eye could reach were filled
with a solid mass of people. From ev-
cry window faces beamed out and the
roofs had a population equal to, if not
greater. than that of the windows.
! In the great square in front of the
Erie County Bank the first glimpse was
| caught of the head of the procession,
/ for here the close walls of the houses
opened out on either hand, and the
great tide of humanity poured out from
the narrow street as from funnel and
swept in a solid mass of blue and gold
beneath the arch of welcome On the
balcony of an arch a band played Hail
| to the Chief" as the Presidents car
riage passed below. The people on the
grand stand gave a mighty cheer,
which was taken up and echoed back
by the hundreds in the plot to the west.
/ President Mckinley" ~Comrade Nc