Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-10-20
THE PEACE JUBILEE.
$4,000 Men Parade the
Streets Of Chicago.
Battlestained Flags Of Civil War and
Soldiers Of Last War
Pass Before President and Other Dignitalics
in Drilling Rain.

Chicago, Oct. 19.-One brief CLEAN of
sunshine and only one has been thrown
upon the ceremonies of the peace jubi-
| lee. 1t was a fieeting burst of third
| class sunshine and it fell upon the
Presidents reviewing stand just as the
heard of the great parade was APP
| preaching.
| Chicago has seen many parades
| greater than that of today, but she
| never has seen one that has pleased
| her people better. Notwithstanding
| the most elaborate arrangements of
| the police department and the Danish
| ing of every street car and all vehi-
cles of every description from the
| down town streets there were times,
| today, whenthe crowd was too great
| for the police to handle and at many
places the crush at times was danger
GUS. After the parade the jam at jack
| son boulevard in front of the Union
League clubhouse was frightful
| Strong detachments of police, soldiers
| and marines, while attempting to ar
| rest the mass of the crowd, were push
| ed back, huddled together and finally
broken up and scattered by the sheer
weight of the throng. Long after the
parade was over the boulevard was a
mass of surging struggling humanity
which would not move and which
could not be moved until it pleased.
The greetings extended to President
Mckinley were enthusiastic in the ex-
IRENE as We're the plaudits showered
upon General Niles and General Shat
ter as they passed through the streets.
The President in his carriage was sur
rounded by members of the Chicago
Hussars, formed in square and de-
tachments of the Grand Army and of
the Confederate Veterans acted as an
escort. He led the parade from the
starting point at the foot of Congress
street and Michigan avenue to the
Union League clubhouse. where IN
company with all the other distin-
| guished guests. he alighted and review
ed the parade. Throughout the entire
| march past the stand which lasted a
| trifie over three hours the President
remained standing. Mrs. Mckinley ar
| rived at the Union League clubhouse
| somewhat in advance of the presiden-
| tial party, escorted by Captain Nc
Williams.
During the passage of the procession
| Mrs. Mckinley remained at an up-
| stairs window of the clubhouse The
presidential party arrived at l o'clock
| AS the distinguished guests alighted
| from their carriages, they were well
coined by Secretary Clark of the Union
League Club and Immediately taken
tothe reviewing stand. A mighty
cheer went uD from the crowd as
President Mckinley took his place on
the stand. The following We're among
! those on the Presidents stand: Sec
| rotary and Mrs. Gage: Secretary Bliss;
Secretary and Miss Wilson: Postmas-
terGeneral Smith; General Miles;
General Shafter; General Duffield;
General Corbin; Samuel E. Morse;
Governor Mount of Indiana: Mayor
Master of Baltimore; Mayor Mayor
Maybury of Detroit: Mayor Rose of
Milwaukee,; Admiral George Brown;
the Chinese and Corean ministers;
Samuel Gompers; Judge Emory Spear;
Assistant Secretary Meiklejohn; L. T..
Holden: Senior Quesada; General Greel
ley; Governor Barnes of Oklahoma;
Clark Howell; Governor Schofield of
Wisconsin; Archbishop Ireland; Elk
Vice President and Mrs. Adlai E. Ste
venson; Booker T. Washington: DIR.
and Mrs. VIM. B. Harper and Captain
McCalla. All those forming the presi-
dental party We're greeted with cheers
as they alighted at the clubhouse, the
favorites with the crowd after the
President and General Miles and Gen
eral Shafter, being Governor Mount,
Governor Schofield and Captain Nc
Gala.
In the reviewing stand proper there
were with the President General Miles,
General Shafter, both in uniform
Governor Tanner, Mayor Harrison and
Chairman Truax, of the jubilee COM
mittee.
The advance of the parade after the
Presidential escorts had wheeled out of
the line of march was given to the vet
Grams of the Grand Army. Several of the
posts carried gauzy old banners that had
waved in battle IS years ago, and to
every one of the tattered flags the Presi-
dent called the attention of those about
him and every head was bare until the
flag had gone by. Behind the veterans of
former war came numerous civil soci-
cites. Among them were the CIan-Na-
without weapons. Not man carried a
rifle, nor an officer a sword.
After these came the 4th Regiment In
fantry from Fort Sheridan and then such
of the fighting men of Chicago as have
returned from the war. AS the military
division, commanded by Brig. Gen. Fitz-
simmons of the Illinois National Guard,
approached the reviewing stand, the ELI
thusiasm of the crowd knew no bounds.
The 1st Illinois, which gave more lives
during the war than any other Illinois
body of enlisted men, set the people fran
tic. The 7th Infantry closed the parade.
Directly the It'll Infantry had passed, the
President left the reviewing stand, goina
into the clubhouse. Three cheers were
given him as he left, and the three cheers
were near being the death signal for
many people.
All day long, the pressure of the crowd
on the police lines at the two ends OF
the square in the center of which the
Union League Club house is situated had
been enormous. They opened their lines
just as the crowd in front Of the club
house was cheering the President, and
the crowd thinking some new excitement
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