The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1898-10-28
HEROES IN JUBILEE PAGEANT.
TWENTY FIVE THOUSAND MEN RE-
VIEWED DY THE PRESIDENT.

Wheeler and Gen. Miles in Line.
President Mckinley the Guest of
Honor at the Banquet of the Glover
Club.
Philadelphia, Oct 27.-For three hours
to-day William Mckinley, commander-in-
chief of the United States Army and Navy,
saw his victorious soldiers and sailors
pass in review before him.
1t was military and naval day of the
great peace jubilee. Twenty-Five thou
sand men marched in the most brilliant
and spectacular pageant the country has
witnessed in many years
Within a semi-circuiar enclosure of the
big reviewing stand in the magnificent
court of honor, the President stood erect
and uncovered throughout the entire pro-
cession. Here and there, when some par
| ticularly renowned body of troops march,
ed by. the President smIingly waved his
hat and motioned the crowds across the
way to cheer the men, who were their
heroes as well as his
Mrs. Mckinley viewed the procession
from small stand on the top of the con-
seryatory of the Lippncott mansion, i'm
mediately behind the larger stand whore
| her eminent husband Stood She, too, was
not chary of applause
There was not an untoward feature of
the day-the weather was tonic autumn
sunlight. gusty; the vast crowds were han
died with commendab,e skill. and what
ever accidents occurred were of the most
trivial character.
/ over the Presidents head hung a cam
opy bearing on its face the coat of arms
of the United States and surmounted by the
new Presidents flag for the first time an
| furled in the United States The flag was
only recently adopted by the war depart
ment To the left of the stand was the
coat of arms of Philadelphia.
During the parade. the President was
surrounded by a small party, consisting of
Vice President Hobart Secretary of War
Alger, Secretary of Agriculture Wilson,
! Postmaster General Smith, Private Secre-
taries Porter and Cortelyou. Mayor War
wick and few members of the jubilee
/ committee.
Many illustrious heroes were in line, but
there was little partially displayed in the
Kind or quantity of enthusiasm accorded
them.
Mai. Gen. Miles, as chief marshal, rode
al the front, Immediately behind the emer-
/ gency corps until he reached his special
reviewing stand, az Broad and York
streets, the northern end of the route.
/ Here he dismounted and from the stand
watched his men file past.
Gen. Joe Wheeler rode behind the Gov
ernors, his gray head barred for some min
ufes before and after the presidential
| stand was reached. and bowling repeatedly
] A.. T1,a- 1c1,fs g inc !, ,rf
plause of the others of the party and the
| people generally.
Gen. Sumner, capt. Bob Evans, Com
modore Philip Cape Sigsbee, Col. Hun
! tngton, with his marines of Guantanamo
fame, all received tumultuous greeting.
/ After all, perhaps, the loudesI was given
4 Hobson and his Merrimac crew They
rode on a tally-ho, and as they reached
the reviewing stand al arose, faced the
President and bowed their barred heads.
Then marched the "hghtng musicians
! Of the Twenty-frst Regular Infantry, the
presidents own the men who in the
/ thick of the combat flung their instru-
ments from them and made music with
/ the guns snatched from their fallen broth
ers There are only twenty left of the
original thirty-eght band men, The otn-
/ ers fell in the fight. The Tenth Cavalry
/ (colored) were dismounted and to them the
! President repeatedly fiourished his hat.
The sailors were no less well received
! than the soldiers There were lines Of
! tackles from the Texas Gloucester, Mar
/ blehead, New Orleans, Topeka, Mayflow-
er, with a few scattering men from the
/ Yosemite Yankee and other ships.
The rear of the line was held by the
/ Grand Army of the Republic and their az
! lied military organizations. Between two
4 of the Grand Army of the Republic posts
rode in a carriage Harry L. MacNeaI
/ who had charge of a gun on the Brooklyn
4 and who crawled out over the side of the
( ship while under fire. TO extract a frag-
ment OF shell, which had become fixed in
| the muzZle.
As the last line OF soldiers and the body
Of police behind them passed the stand
the crowds broke through the ropes and
made q rush toward the Presidents en-
! closure. He merely bowed his acknowl-
edgments of the cheering and then with
drew 10 the residence of Mrs. j. Dundas
Lippinrott Immediately back OF the stand
President Mckinley was the guest of
honor tonight al the peace jubilee han
auet of the Glover Club, at which ne met
nearly all of the distinguished visitors to
the city and the leading citizens of Phil
adelphia as wei. Among the 200 who sat
around the table were the following: Vice
President Hobart, Secretaries Alger and
Wilson. Postmaster General Smith Gen.
Miles, Gen. Shafrer Gen. Wheeler, Gen.
Sumner, Gen. McKibbon, Commodore
Philip, United States Senator Boes PEN
rose, William II. Crane, Charles III.
Cramp. Commodore silas Casey. Commau-
der w S. Cowles of the Topeka, Gov.
Lorrin A. Cooke Of Connectl-
cut. Capt Robley d. Evans,
Pension Commission II. Clay
Evans William L. Elkins, Maj. Gen. Will
lam NJ. Graham, Gen. A. w. Greeley. Gov.
Hastings, Commander j. n. Hemphll of
the Buffalo, Col r. w Huntington, Unit
ed States Member of Congress; Brigadier
General w. j. Hullings, Lieut.. Richmond
Pearson Hobson, Capt. Theodore f. Jew
ell Of the Minneapolis. Maj Cen William
Ludlow. Mai Cen Henry w. Lawton,
Commander w. w Meade Of the Marble
head Lieutenant Commander Mark.
Lieut.. Albert p. Nib,ack of the Wiuslow,
Archbishop Ryan. Capt. Charles D. Sigs-
bee. GOV. Eben Tunnel Of Delaware, Gov
J. Hoge Tyler of Virginia, Lieutenant
Commander Richard Wainwright of the
Gloucester. Mayor Warwick. Commodore
j. c. Watson, Capt. Thomas H. Wilson.
Capt Barclay II. Warburton, Frank
Thomson.