Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1897-03-18

events of the daY.
The most interesting feature of the
parade to me was that OF the Indian
Manual Training school. The pupils
were fine looking handsome boys.
They were preceded by their own
band of music, which played beauti-
fully. The pupils walked in double
line and net ii Indian file, as might
have been expected, and each one
carried instead Of gun some imple-
ment or machine representing num-
erous trades. Altogether the process.
sion was beautiful and impressive
spectacle. OF course there were some
things that might well have been
omitted as below the dignity of the
occasion. For instance, there was a
''yaller kid" small yellow boy
dressed in yellow and looking the
ridiculous poster, SO popular Just
now. He strut ed along in an inn
pudent way by himself, though he
doubtless belonged to one OF the ma
marching clubs There was also
man dressed as Uncle sam, and
very self-important little mink
dressed a, Columbia. All these ..at-
fractions" came at intervals in the
professions wondered what the
grave looking president thought of
them as they capered by, He stood
there hour after hour with uncovered
head till the procession had passed.
He certainly has fine, pure face as
well as an intellectual one 1t is
strong and resolute face and promises
good things for his administration.
He is not SO tall as the vice-president,
who is very fine looking man but
does not compare with Mckinley. Al
ter the last company in the procession
had passed, the crowd swayed into the
street before the grand stand yelling
and waving their hats, canes and
flags rs If frenzied. All this was
splendid and impressive, even thrill
ling, but right at the heels of this
tumultous throng dashed along a
string of delivery wagons, brilliantly
placarded with .'Quaker Oats and
like advertisements, but by this time
the presidential party had turned to
leave the stand and maybe did not see
this part OF the display. At any rate,
they could not have been offended by
its representing. as it did, the reviv-
ing commercial spirit of the American
people, though to me, mere locker
on, it seemed something out of place,
or at least something not down in the
program.
At night there was brilliant dis
play Of fireworks. which we could see
at distance We could see it only
from the roof or fifth story windows
of our seminary building. What were
most notable at our distance were
something like balloon which at
great height unfurled into a great
banner with the stars and stripes
which hung there in the sky for few
minutes like flag of fire and then
faded away. There were also search
lights going from six to eight differ
ent points in the city, reaching up
wards and crossing each other at var
ious angles like great shafts of light
athwart the sky, in such a bewilder-
ing manner as to give us all kind of
unstable and earth-quaky sort of feel
ing.
The city is still full ofpeople, bands
of music, professions, parades of
clubs and various organizations. II
forgot to mention in it's proper place
the great bicycle parade. The riders
had to move slowly and looked more
like spiders than human beings as
they bent over their wheels carefully
lacking along the road, their chief
care not to get ahead of the process
sion. ELSIE.
New Monuments.