The herald., 1897-07-06

Everybody was busy yesterday morn
ing on Main street from Sixth to Eighth.
The Fourth of July procession was in
progress of construction, and as nearly
everybody except the fire department
got into the position assigned to some
body else on the "official program" the
marshals Of the different divisions had
an active time Of it Strengthening things
out.
Restive bicycles were under every
bodys feet, the electric cars insisted on
getting in the way, horses were pranc-
ting about under gaily bedizened riders,
and the ubiquitous ice wagon made its
presence felt in the midst of. the confu-
sion.
On the corner of Sixth and Main stood
the "first stage coach. that carried pas
sengers before the railroad was thought
Of" and it looked as If it hadn't been
thought of since. It looked lonesome,
and it impressed one of the marshals
that way for he rode up to group of men
standing near by and said. Didn't you
come over in '49; you look so get in that
coach and ride around (any old thing II
do)."
Attention was Immediately riveted on
the individual addressed. and truth COM
pels the statement that the marshaPs
judgment was accurate. Clothes and
whiskers both indicated the vintage OF
'49, but the man demurred. "Oh, get in, VI
urged the marshal seductively, you'll
| have a good free ride"-magic words
Up he clambered with another individual
whose appearance bespoke later ad-
vent into California, and several more,
men in the flush of youth, but whose
dispositions forbade them to refuse SO
tempting an offer as a free ride" and
the coach was manned in less time than
it takes to tell it,
The honorable body of court officials
and foreign representatives as they
came up the street in carriages to take
their place in the line recognized ac-
quaintances on the curb in cordial, un-
official way and Major McComas pre-
sented a friend he discovered in the
waiting crowd with genial wave of the
hand. The bands roasted around on
convenient door steps and horse blocks
hugging their instruments and waiting
like the rest.
FIRST DIVISION
Finally at half past ten order was re-
solved out of chaos and the command to
march was given. Behind five solemn
looking mounted policemen who spread
out the width of the street and were the
advance guard of the procession,
marched the American Star Drum
corps in their black braided brown uni
forms and beating their instruments
right merrily; next came the redoubt-
able grand marshal of the day, Nicolas
A. Covarrubias, with his chief aid, w.
| I. Williams, Familiarity and lovingly
known by his intimates as "Bill'' both
mounted on handsome horses, and back
Of them in turn and also mounted were
| the other aids.
| Then came the First division, Thomas
J. Casey, marshal and aides, their
horses keeping step to the inspiring mu-
sic of the Seventh Regiment band. Back
of them a goodly battalion of the Sew
enth Regiment infantry N. G. c., COM
manded by Col. John r. Berry and
marching with proper martial pre-
cision and spirit. Following close on
| regiment, encouraged and sustained by
the moral support of Alfred Solano The
| Third Regiment band, sheriff and depu-
ties in carriages gaily decked with flags.
and the Fremont Signal and Drill corps,
who performed interesting evolutions
along the line of march under the able
command of Capt. Fred Munsey,
brought the First division to a close.
SECOND DIVISION
| In the second division, after H. H. Ap-
pei, marshal, and the division aides,
came Bosshard Brothers band, and then
line of carriages decorated with flags
In the first sat Governor John L. Bever-
idge, president of the day; Attorney
General w. F. Fitzgerald, orator, and
Colonel Harrison Gray Otis, and in the
others were the judges Of the federal
courts, Hon. Erskine M. Ross and Hon
Dim Wellborn; judges superior courts
Los Angeles county, Walter Van Dyke,
Waldo M. York, NJ L. Allen, Lucien
Shaw, b. N. Smith, w. H. Clark; for
eign representatives: Leon Loeb, French
consular agent; G. .Andrade, Mexican
consul; G. White Mortimer, English
consular agent; Victor Ponet Belgian
consular agent; j. Castruccio, Italian
representative. Following the. repre-
sentatives of law, order ard foreign ma
tions came the representative of ths'o one,
the Goddess Of Liberty, personifled by
Mrs. Ida A. Bishop She was surround
ed by forty-five young misses represent
ing the states in the Union, and they
We're effectively grouped on a large float
that was handsomely designed and deco
rated with the red, white and blue. The
Goddess was gowned in harmony with
the general design, and little flags were
futtering from all the children's hands.
A float evidently representing music
closed the second division. Musical in
| struments of all kinds, from a xylophone
to a harp, were to be seen between the
red, white and blue bunting with which
the float was. decorated, and two young
ladies in flowing garments of white, their
hair unbound, presided erthe float and
the instruments.
THIRD DIVISION
The Mexican Philharmonic band,
which was the best in the procession after
| the Seventh regiment, enlivened the
Third division, and followed closely upon
Marshal Thomas Strohm and his aides.
Them came the fire department. with
lflaEs autteriug everywhere. and Chief
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