The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-08-25

MEMORIAL MARCH.
The Fighters of Rebellion
Days ATrayed in the
Streets of Buffalo.
ANOTHER ARMY TO APPLAUD
The City by Lake Erie Given Up
10 Festival McKinley's
Speech.
ANOTHER ARMY TO APPLAUD

jill AWAKE Dy StNSli OsSicCh eiAl9 Aiioi4Aii,o- |
Main street was filed with people, and
the hum Of preparation rose from all
sides.
In all of the Grand Army camps. vet
Grams were getting hurried breakfast,
and some of the Illinois posts We're get
ting in line for the march to the place
of formation.
Aide-de-Camps. in the golden lace of
the National Guard of New York, We're
dashing about the streets on rearing
horses, looking with anxious care to the
divisions to which they had been assign
ed. Men and women, and even children,
began to post themselves against the
long wire Gordon that had been spun
out along the line of march during the
night like an immense spider web. Every
moment the space along the front OF the
sidewalk grew less, and by $3.50 o'clock
those who had secured first place against
the wires began to feel the pressure of
the crowd from behind, which would
squeeze them, trample them, and hold
them prisoners for the hours that the
parade would take in passing.
In the corridors of the Iroquois Hotel,
spurs were jingIing and swords clanking
in scabbards as the officers of General
Clarkson's staff hurried to the headquar-
ters of the Commander-in-Chief, to re-
port to Colonel G. Cory Winans, Chief
of Staff.
From east and north there came at in
tervals the rattle of drums and the clear
notes of the bugle. Posts of the De-
partment of Illinois and some from the
Department of Wisconsin were on the
march by nine o'clock The music and
the tramp of the marching feet brought
cheering crowds to the little detach-
ments as they passed, and the hum of
expectancy of an hour before 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 al
ready .congested thoroughfares, and the
railroad stations took on the appearance
Of human beehives. from which asswarm
was flying.
The street cars, as they pushed slowly
down to the centre of the city, by i'm
provised side street routes, were filled to
the point of distress.
Excursion boats were screeching their
whistles in the harborS in an endeayor
| to get to dock with their quota of spec
| tators.
General Clarksen and his staff rode
from the Iroquois Hotel to the Hotel
/ Niagara as soon as the staff had assem-
Niagara the staff drew up in line and
| General Clarkson waited upon President
Mckinley to escort him to the head OF
the column. At ten o'clock the President
| left the Niagara accompanied by an es-
cort. Along the way to the point OF for
| nation the President was cheered to the
echo Arriving at the corner of Main
| and the upper Terrace, his carriage took
position at the head of the column, di-
rectly behind the citizens committee, the
members of which were mounted.
AT l0:30 o'clock the command to march
was given and the procession started.
To the roll of innumerable drums, the
blare of trumpets, the clash of cymbals,
| the screaching of flies, the Grand Army
| of the Republic headed by the first citi-
| through a sea of elbowing, cheering hui
naanity. Against the strong wire cor
dons stretched along the route of march
| the people crowded each other until the
| sidewalks on each side of Main street,
| as far as the eye could reach, were filled
| tightly that to move was almost out of
| the question. From every window faces
beamed out by. the half dozen and more.
/ and the roofs had population equal. if
| not greater, than that of the windows.
Cut clean and clear in the center of
these two walls of spectators, reaching
! from curb to building wall, and between
walls of buildings, which every window
| filled, and with every roof loaded, the
| path of the parade stretched out, a long
/ white ribbon of asphalt.
/ On to this gulf of admiring country
| men, tossed with a tumult of huzzas,
! the head of the procession plunged, to
| move two miles, in the presence of the
| homage of a grateful people.
| Up Main street it advanced, passing
Seneca street and Swan street. on each
| side of which the people stood in crowds
stretching their necks to get even
| glimpse Of the face of President Mckinley,
| or even to see the top OF the hats OF the
| comrades as they passed down the line
In the great square in front of the Erie
grand stand, the immensity of the crowd;
/ as seen for the first time in the partial
| open formed by the triangular junction
| dawned on those in line the. first time. It
seemed like q tide that. had been poured
down upon the arch Of t we!s9me and y .R ne
/ standing out to the right and left like
/ great wings of red and blue. In stand
was wa s stationed a band which played Hail
! to the Chief as the President of the
/ United States and the Commander-in
| passed through the monster portals
/ The people on the grand stand gave
| a mighty cheer which was taken up and
| to the west. president Mckinley, !"
: scomrade Mckinley THE Grand
| Army could be heard above the roar
| ing tumult of voices.
| Again the column plunged in between
/ the congested sidewalks, and the walls
| of populotis windows and again the deaf
/ ening applause roared back from wall
| to wall.
/ By this time President Mckinley and
| General Ciarkson had passed beneath the
! white portals of the imposing triumphal
| arch which spans Main street, at the
/ junction of East and West Genesee and
/ Huron streets, fully three-quarters of a.
| mile had been covered by the marching
/ men. and the throng of spectators were
/ coming to understand what the maSS1ng
/ Of the Grand Army signified. The lines
/ were scarcely started and division after
| division which were to form on the side
1 streets, would not be moved for hours.
4 All along the route the President ac-
/ knoWledged the saluteS of the crowd his
/ face wearing the while its accustomed
Scalmness.
The Imposing Department Of Illinois,
/ on the right Of line received an ovation
/ as 1t passed along Columbia Post of
/ Chicago was wildly applauded, but the
| white haired veterans of the humber
posts, in remote corners of the State,
| were not forgotten by the generous
| crowd.
/ As the veteran color guard. the old
! old battlefag battalion, passed heads
/ were uncovered and eyes dried. There
were thirty battle-worn, shot-torn flags
carried in the parade by Camp !, Buffalo
| Sons of Veterans in company with the
| crack Meade Post of Philadelphia. The
/ old color guard was under command of
/ Captain Morgan and Edward Curtiss.
/ On came the procession, post after post,
In columns of platoons eight files front,
| pageant wheeled at Chippewa street and
ispassed through the gaily decorated arch
/ erected BY the colored people of Buffalo
Is Once clear from the portals OF this