The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1898-10-28
WAR VETERANS
MARCH IN THE
PEACE Parade
PresideDt NICK kinley Reviews {
Pageant in Which Are
Many Heroes.

I and from then until 2:30 o'clock the SOL
diers and sailors tramped on in splen-
did marching order, every sword raised
in salute, every gun presented.
Many illustrious heroes were in line,
but there was little partiality displayed
in the kind or quantity of enthusiasm
accorded the men.
Major General Miles, as chief mar
shall rode at the front, Immediately
behind the emergency corps, until he
reached his special reviewing stand at
Broad and York streets, the northern
end of the route. Here he dismounted
and from the stand watched his men
file past.
General 80" Wheeler rode behind the
| Governors, his gray head barred for
some minutes before and after the
Presidential stand was reached, and
bowling repeatedly to the Presidents
waving hat and the applause of the
others of the party and the people gen>
orally
General Sumner, Captain Bob"
Evans, Commodore Philip. Captain
| Sigsbee, Colonel Huntington, with his
marines of Guantanamo fame, all re-
ceived tumultuous greeting, but. after
| that given Hobson and his Merrimac
crew They rode on a tally-ho, and as
they reached the reviewing stand all
arose, faced the President and bowed
their barred heads
So far as any body Of men was con-
cerned perhaps the Twenty-first Reg
ular Infantry, ''the Presidents own,''
received the greatest tribute. They
marched 300 strong under Col
onel McKibben. With them marched
the fighting musicians" of the
regiment, 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
brothers. There are only twenty left
of the original thirty eight bands
men. The others fell in the fight. The
Twenty first carried the colors pre-
sented to them by Mrs. Mckinley, who
called them 1.-The Presidents own," and
also those given by a lady of New
York City.
The Tenth Cavalry, colored, was dis
mounted, and to them the President re-
peatedly fourished his hat
| Huntington's marines, who made the
first hostile landing on Cuban soil,
were Immediately preceded by the Ma
rine Band.
/ OF course the highest degree of local
enthusiasm was bestowed upon Colonel
| Hulings and his Sixteenth Pennsyl-
vania Regiment.
The sailors were no less we'll received
| than the soldiers. A line of jackies
| from the Texas, Gloucester, Mayfiower,
Marblehead and New Orleans. with a
| few scattering men from the Yosemite,
Yankee and other ships, followed.
The rear cf the line was held by the
| Grand Army of the Republic and their
allied military organizations. AS these
| ancient warriors filed past with none
too lusty step they saluted the Presi-
i dent in their own way. Some waved
their hats, others timorously raised
| their hands in the conventional way,
while several companies halted, turned,
/ and, fronting the chief executive, pre-
sented the tattered battle flags. One
1 of the posts carried battery of two
guns and saluted with a shot from each
as the stand was passed. The President
responded with a sweep of his hat and
| continuous bows. Between two of the
Grand Army Of the Republic posts rode