The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1897-04-26
GRANT MEMORIAL DAY
THOUSANDS OF CONNECTICUT CITI-
zENS WEI GO TO NEW YORK.

State VIII be Represented by the Governor
and the National Guard-G. A. II. Veter-
ans VIII Participate-Represent
From This State In the Parade.
The representation from Connecticut
in the military parade at New York,
Tuesday, when the Grant monument
viii be dedicated, will be the following:
Governor Cooke and staff, First COM
pany, Governors Foot Guard Major
e. Henry Hyde, jr, OF Hartford; Sec
ond company, Governors Foot Guard,
Major B. E. Brown of New Haven;
Second company, Governors Horse
Guard, Major D. A. Blakeslee Of New
Haven; New Haven Grays, Company
| F, Second regiment, c. N. G., Captain
Charles f. McCabe; Company !, Third
tain Eugene kirkland,
Governor Cooke will ride in car
riage and will be accompanied by
Lieutenant Governor Dewell, EXecu-
| tive Secretary Buck and Colonel Hen
| ry c. Morgan, assistant quartermas-
| ter general. Other members Of the
staff will parade mounted. Major
| BlaReslee has been directed to detail
an orderly to carry the governors col
| ors. The governors carriage Will also
| be flanked With flags as usual.
The Connecticut troops will form at
| 1890 o'clock Tuesday morning on Thir-
ty-third street, east of Madison ave-
nue.. The infantry companies Will
| parade twelve files front, double rank.
The band Will stop playing at One
| Hundred and Sixteenth street, and the
column will be reviewed by President
Mckinley at the stand east of the
| Grant monument. A marching salute
will be given the veterans division as
| the column passes SEVENTEEN street.
| The column will be reviewed by the
grand marshal at One Hundred and
Seventeenth street. Bands are noti-
| fled not to play "IIail to the Chief
during any time on the march. This
tune will be played by only the Cover
nor's Island band.
General Henry S. Peck, who has been
appointed an aide ON the staff of Gen.
eral Porter, grand marshal of the Grant
parade, will leave for New York by
| boat this morning.
Though the entire Connecticut bri-
! gade will not participate in the Grant
memorial parade in New York city,
| Tuesday next, the state militia will be
we'll represented.
| About 700 men from this state, and
not less than 300 from New Haven
| alone, will take part in the military
| formation.
! The Second company of the Cover
nor's Foot Guard. Major Benjamin E.
Browns command, will attend with 1870
men in line. The Second regiment
band, which accompanies the Foot
Guard, will have thirty pieces.
The Grays will take along seventy
five men. The latter company has en-
gagged the Wheeler s. Wilson band of
| Bridgeport, and this organization will
number twenty-five men.
| None of the organizations will do any
escort duty to Governor Cooke, who will
| go to New York Monday night. The
| governor will be attended only by the
members of his staff, who will accom-
pany him from the Plaza hotel where
he is to make his headquarters, to the
position assigned to the Connecticut
| companies in the parade.
| Arrangements for transporting Mer-
RAM post, G. A. R. to New York to at
| tend the dedication of Grants monu-
ment have been completed.
Tickets will be on sale at the ticket
office in the local depot where anyone
DESTROYS of taking advantage of the
low rate, $3.50 for round trip, may Sc
cure them. The tickets will be good
for the $40 train only Tuesday morn
ing, but good to return on any trair
from there, including the 2Sth, Two
special coaches Will be provided for tht
Meriden party. 1t is estimated that be
tween $50 and 200 people will go dowr
from Meriden.
Bandmaster Fichtl of the Second reg
iment has arranged for an excellen
musical service for Tuesday, when hi
band accompanies the Second Co., Gov
ernors Foot Guard, to New York t.
participate in the Grant day parade
He will take a band of thirty pieces
classed as follows: Leader, Franl
Fichtl; piccolo, William Hegel; militar,
flute, Frederick Guilford; Joseph Eisen
man and Jere Lynch. E fat comets
Albert Cass, Charles Sherwood, Harr,
Walter, George Walters, Albert VIII
Hams and George Cooke clarionets
John Gould, George Kessell, William
Downs George Bernhardt, Frank FIGHT
: comets; A. j. Thalheimer, Jacob Ros
Genius, Adam Roscenius and Alber
Post, horns; Harry Hoare, Thoma
Hopton, Elnathan A Daniels. from
bones; George Spanutius, baritone
Charles Michaels, euphonium; Edwar,
Lee, D. w. Humphrey, tubas; Charlie