The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-04-27
OFF FOR THE PARADE
Fourth Regiment and Naval
Reserves Make a Fine
Showing.

Jersey City was astir early this morn
ing and the streets wore a particularly
lively appearance. Crowds of well
dressed people made their way to the
ferries bent on viewing the great parade
in New York City. Flags flew from pub
lie and private buildings, and even the
drivers of trucks and wagons decorated
their horses heads with tiny American
flags Many of the stores and offices
were closed. The banks We're open, much
to the chagrin of the clerks, but very
little business was done.
Long before seven o'clock members of
the National Guard in dress uniform.
were seen on the cars going in the di-
rection of the Armory, and punctually at
seven o'clock the Fourth Regiment was
under arms, with Colonel II. H. Aber-
nethy at its head. Brigadier General
P. Farmer Wanser, in all the glories of
cooked hat, gold sash, gold epaulettes and
sword, took a car to the ferry, where
awaited him his staff, bedizened with
gold lace. On the other side of the river
they mounted their horses and pranced
off to the position assigned to them.
The Fourth Regiment men looked spick
and span, and there was on every guards
mans face Jersey -City-expects-t
day-each-man -will-do- his-duty look There
was nothing sloyenly in their appearance
and the crowd which saw them and
cheered them felt quite convinced they
would do credit to the city. They en-
barked at the Pavonia avenue ferry.
a special ferryboat took them across the
river.
Closely following the heels of the mill
tia came members of the G. A. r. posts
each man with a cane in his hand. Van
Housen Post, No. 8, marched from its
Arrnory, Belmont avenue, to the Morris
street dock, with colors flying and bands
playing. There they embarked on the
steamer J. S. Worden, plentifully clothed
with things dear to q veterans stomach.
Many people went with them. They were
landed at Seventy-ninth street and River
side Park, where the boat remained un-
til after the land parade. Then the vets
scrambled aboard and the steamer took
them up the river to see the naval par
ade.
The Jersey City Boys Brigade were
They formed on Grand street. near
Washington street, at nine o'clock. and
led by Captain Chas. W. Laws, they
marched to the Pennsylvania ferry
town.
St. Peters Cadets were on hand, and
they looked as they always do, well and
soldierly.
The members of the Battalion of the
East New Jersey Naval Reserves, as
sembled, this morning at their headquar-
ters on board the U. s. steamship Ports
mouth, at the foot Of Fourteenth street,
FIoboken, preparatory to tSiking part in
the Grant Memorial parade At ESQ
O'Clock the reserves. marched off the
Portsmouth and embarked on a special
ferryboat. They numbered 10 men and
were in charge of Commander Washing
ton Irving. A band of twenty-five pieces
led the procession.
The reserves were transported on the
ferryboat to this city, where they were
Joined at the Pennsylvania ferry by the
Battalion of the West, from Trenton.
The Battalion of the West was under
Commander Charles B. Dahlgren and
numbered 120 men
Commander William H. Jaques assum-
ed charge of the entire division, and they
were tnen transported to the foot OF.
Thirty-fourth street, New York The re-
serves of the Eastern Battalion were
armed with new Lee -Hotchkiss rirfies.
and included two divisions as artillery.