The record-union., 1898-10-28
Military and Naval Day Of the Peace
Jubilee.
Twenty-Five Thousand Men Take Part In
Yesterdays Parade.
The Most Brilliant and Spectacular
Pageant Witnessed in the Coun-
try in Many Years-President
Mckinley Reviews the March
ing Legions Under the Marshall
ship of Major General Miles.


ship of Major General Miles.
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. 27.-For
| three hours to-day William Mckinley,
Chief of the United
States army and navy, saw his victori-
Gus sons pass in review before him. 1t
was military and naval day of the great
peace jubilee. Twenty-Five thousand
men marched in the most brilliant and
spectacular pageant the country has
witnessed in many years. In a semi
circular enclosure of the big reviewing
stand, in the magnificent court Of
honor, the Pres dent stood erect and un-
covered throughout the entire process
sion. AS the legions marched past his
face was set. but not stern, and in his
eyes was a CLEAN of satisfaction. From
his steadfast gaze one might have fam
cied him listening to sounds other than
those which struck on the common ear
sounds of deeper import, telling the
meaning of this glittering panorama
Behind those martial tunes he might
have heard the music of cannon volleys
the sound of falling cities and the dying
shrieks of decadent people. But over
these and louder he might have heard
paens of praise from a helpless infant
nation, lifted out of servitude and
cruelty by the work of the embattled
hosts. The central motive of it was
pride Of men and their work and the
nation Of which they are. This was
the true significance of the event Here
and there, when some particularly re-
nowned body of troops marched by, the
President pleasantly waved his nat
and motioned the crowds across the
way to cheer.
Mrs. Mckinley reviewed the process
sion from a small stand on top of the
conservatory Of the Lippincott man
sion, back of where the President stood
There was not an untoward feature
of the day-weather tonic autumn
sunlit, gusty; the vast crowds were
handled with commendable skill and
whatever accidents occurred were of
the most trivial character
Over the Presidents head hung
canopy bearing on its face the coat of
arms of the United States and sur
mounted by the new Presidents flag,
for the first time unfurled in the United
States.
surrounded by a small party consisting
of Vice President Hobart, Secretary of
War Alger, Secretary of Agriculture
Wilson, Postmaster General Smith, Pri-
vate Secretary Porter, Mayor Warwick
and a few members of the Jubilee Com
mittee.
Mr.. Mckinley rose early this morn
ing, and after a light breakfast taken
In his Bellevue apartments, he and his
party were driven in open carriages
along the route of the parade, about
seven miles in length. The drive was of
course marked by incessant applause
from the crowds. While driving up
Broad street he passed General Miles
and his staff, who We're riding to the
place of formation. The moment the
Generals sword made its salutary
sweep, the President arose in his car
riage and raised his hat, holding il
aloft until they passed
Returning to the Bellevue. the Presi-
dental party was escorted by SQUAD
ron of First City Troop of Cavalry
across Broad street to the reviewing
stand. They had been preceded a few
minutes by Generals Shafter. Lawton
and Chaffee, with their aides and a
party of ladies.
Ten minutes later, at 11:15, the pla-
toon of the Emergency Corps. which
held the head of the line. reached the
stand, and from then until 2:3O O'Clock
the soldiers and sailors tramped on in
splendld marching order, every sword
raised IN salute, every gun presented.
Many illustrious heroes We're in line
but there was little partiality displayed
in the kind of quantity of enthusiasm
accorded the men,
Major General Miles, as Chief Mar
shal, 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 Joe 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 gem
orally.
General Sumner, Captain Evans.
Commodore Philip, CAPTAIN Sigsbea
Colonel Huntington, with his marines of
Guantanamo fame, all received tumult-
uous greeting, but, after all. perhaps
the loudest ovation was that given HOB
son 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 800 strong under Colonel Nc
Kibben. With them marched the
Fighting Musicians of the regiment
the men who in the thick of the COM
bat flung their instruments from them
and made music with the guns snatched
from their fallen brothers. There are
only twenty left of the originally thlr
ty-eight bandsmen. The others fell in
the fight.
The Twentyfirst carried the colors
presented to them by Mrs. Mckinley.
who called them '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-