Evening journal., 1898-10-28
JUBILEE'S BIG DAY.
Military Celebration Meets All
Expectations.
REVIEW BY PRESIDENT M'ElNLEY.
Thousands Of Troops In Line--Thc
'rresident's own" aud other va
nous Rcgiments-Dinnern at the
Glover Club Last Night.


commander ia chief of the United
states army and navy. saw his victor-
Gus sons 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 n semi-inclOsure of the big re-
viewing stand In the magnificent court
Of honor the president stood erect and
uncovered throughout the entire pro-
cession. AS the legiOns pressed past
his face was set, but not stern, and
IN his eyes was a gleam of satisfaction.
When some particularly renowned body
OF troops marched by the president
smilngly waved his hat and motioned
TO the crowds across the way TO cheer
the men who were their heroes as well
as his.
Mrs. Mckinley viewed the procession
from a small stand on the top Of the
conservatory of the Lippincott mansion
Immediately behind the larger stand
where her eminent husband stood She
too. was not chary Of applause.
over the presidents head hung a
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 The nag was only recently
adopted by the war department. To the
left of the stand was the coat of arms
of Philadelphia.
During the parade the president was
surrounded by a small party, consist
ing Of Vice President Hobart. Secretary
of War Alger. Secretary Of Agriculture
Wilson, Assistant Postmaster General
Heath, Private Secretaries Porter and
Cortelyou, Mayor Warwick and a few
members Of the jubilee committee.
Mr.. Mckinley arose early yesterday
morning, and after a light breakfast
taken in his apartments he and his par
ty 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 the party passed General
Miles and his staff. who were riding to
the place of formation. The moment
the generals sword made its salutatory
sweep the president arose in the car
riage and raised his hat, holding it
aloft until they had passed. Returning
TO the Bellevue the presidential party
was escorted by a squadron Of the First
City troop of cavalry across Broad
street to the reviewing stand, where
thoy had been preceded by Generals
Shafter, Lawton and Chaffee, with their
aids and a. party of ladies' Ten min
utes later, at 1925 o'clock, the platoon
of the emergency corps, which held the
head of the line, reached the stand, and
from then untn 2:30 o'clock the soldiers
and sailors tramped on in splendid
marching order, every sword raised In
salute, every gun presented.
Many illustrious heroes We're in line,
but there was little partiality display
I cd in the kind or quantity OF enthu-
siasm accorded them. Major General
/ Miles, as chief marshal rode at the
[ front until he reached his special re-
viewing 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 pres
/ idential stand was reached and bowling
/ repeatedly to the presidents waving
hat and the applause Of the others OF
the party and the people generally
/ Commodore Philip. Captain Sigsbee and
Colonel Huntingdon with his marines
Of Guantanamo fame. all received tu-
multuous greeting; but, after all, per-
haps the loudest ovation was that given
] Hobson and his Merrimac crew. They
rode on a tallyho. and as they reach
the reviewing stand an rose. faced the
president and bowed their barred heads,
So far as any body OF men was con-
| rerncd. perhaps the Twenty first resu-
| lar infantry. "The Presidents own.
received the greatest tribute. They
marched 500 strong under Colonel Nc
kibhin. and the memory Of their valor-
our deed at the storming of SAN Juar
hin stirred the people 20 a thunderous
clamor OF applause. These are the mer
who. with comrades dropping al
around them in the fame and fury Of q
Spanish attack, waded waist deer
through water. forcing their foemer
back and singing "The Star spanglet
Banner as they fought
with them marched the fighting
musicians" OF the regiment, the mer
who. In the thick Of the combat, funf
their Instruments from them and med'
music with the guns anatched from
their fallen brothers. There arc onl1
90 left OF the original 3S bandmen. Th,
others fen i'm the nght.
The Twenty-frst carried the colori
presented TO them by Mrs. Mckinley
who called them "The President
own" and also those given hy a lad!
of New York city.
Tho Tenth cavalry. colored was dis
mounted, and TO it tho president re
poatcdly nouriehed his hat
HuntiNvdon's marines. who made III
FIRST hostile landing on Cuban soil
, were immediateiy preceded by the Ma
rue band with them trotted along
kid brought from the tropics and ar
raved I'm slowing colors OF course TIA
J highest degree of local enthusiasm wa
r.-towod unon Colonel Hulings and M
sixteenth Pennsylvania regiment. III
flank movement I'm the fight at Colmc
Porto Rico. had not been forgotten
The sailors were no less well receive
; than the eoldiers. There wero lines q
: iackies from the Texas. Gloucester
2 Marblchead. Topeka and Mayfowei
with few scattering mon from th
j Yoeemite Yankee and other ships.
70 The rear of the line was held by IN
Grand Army OF the Republic and thel
IN