The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1898-11-03
10 HEROES
! President Reviews Brave Fight
ers in Philadelphia.
,r uIgRINAUs VALIANT DREW

.,ngh the other Army and Navy
,.roes Were Wildly Greeted.
,s,,adelphia, Oct. 2S.-For three hours
',arday william Mckinley. COM
..dsr.In-chief of the United States
.~v and navy. saw his victorious
mss in review before him. 1t was
~,ary and naval day Of the great
.os mbilee. Twenty-Five thousand
:, marched In the most brilliant and
.c,acular pageant the country has
,nessed in many years Within a
circular enclosure Of the big re-
.ving stand in the magnificent court
honor the president stood erect and
.covered throughout the entire pro-
ss,on Here and there. when some
.r,Icularly renowned body of troops
.rched by, the president smilingly
we'd his hat and motioned to the
,,wds across the way to cheer the
rsn who were their heroes az well as
h. Mrs. Mckinley viewed the process
Ian from a small stand on the top Of
Az conservatory of the Lippincott
ropsiou. Immediately behind the larger
,snd where her eminent husband
tood.
Mr.. Mckinley arose carly in the
rorning and. after light breakfast.
y and his party were driven in open
,-riages along the route OF the parade,
bou, seven miles in length. The drive
WAS. Of course. marked by incessant
Epplause from the crowds-
returning to the Bellevue the presi-
Aertial party was escorted by a squad
Ton Of the First City troop Of cavalry
across Broad street to the reviewing
Etand They had been preceded few
moments by Generals Shafter. Lawton
md Chaffee with their aids and a party
Of ladies'
Ten minutes later. at HIPS o'clock.
|,he platoon Of the emergency corps.
which held the lead Of the line, reached
|the stand, and from then until 2:30
o'clock the soldiers and sailors tramped
on in splendid marching order. every
sword raised In salute. every gun gre
snted.
Major General Miles, rs chief mar
shal, rode at the front. immediately
behind the emergency corps. until he
reached his special reviewing stand at
Broad and York streets. Here he dis
mounted and from the stand watched
Bis 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 president
waving hat and the applause OF the
others Of the party and the people gen.
raly.
General Sumner, Captafn Bob" Ev-
ans, Commodore Philip. Captain sigs-
nee, Colonel Huntington. with his ma
rnes OF Guantanamo fame. all reoeiv-
ed tumultuous greeting. but. after all,
perhaps the loudest ovation was that
given Hobson and his Merrimac crew.
They rode on a tally-ho, and as they
reached the reviewing stand all rose,
faced the president and bowed their
barred heads.
So far as any one body Of men wns
concerned. perhaps the Twenty-first
Regular infantry. the presidents own"
received the greatest tribute. They
marched 800 strong under Colonel Nc
Kbbin. and the memory OF their valor-
ou deed at the storming of the San
Juan hill stirred the people to a thun-
derous clamor OF applause. These are
the men who. with comrades dropping
all around them in the flame and fury
Of Spanish attack. waded waist deep
through water. forcing their foemen
back, and singing 1.-THE Star Spangled
Banner" as they fought.
With them marched the ''ngt,tdng
musicians" Of the regiment, the men
VINO, In the thick Of the combat, flung
their instruments from them and made
music with the guns snatched from
@eir fallen brotherk. There are only
left OF the original 3S bandmen. The
others fell in the fight
The Twenty-first carried the colors
presented to them by Mrs. Mckinley.
VINO called them 'the presidents own"
and also those given by q lady Of New
York city.
The Tenth cavalry. colored, were dis
mounted. and to them the president re-
eatedly flourished his hat
huntingdon's marines, who made the
nrst hostile landing on Cuban soil,
were Immediately preceded by the Ma
hne Band. With them trotted along a
KID brought from the tropics and ar
rayed in glowing colors.
AT every halt in the parade the SOL
oers were literally showered with
.luits and delicacies by the admiring
thousands, and in many instances coin
was thrown to the defenders, who In
duged In good natured scrambles for
possession.
VI course. the highest degree Of local
!, was bestowed upon Colonel
hullngs and his Sixteenth Pennsyi-
'ahia regiment. His flank movement
y the fight at Coamo. Porto Rico, had |
40. been forgotten.
ine sailors were no less we'll received
eVed than the soldiers. There were
~, ,aes OF jackies from the Texas,
,,'oucester. Marblehead, New Orleans,
,opeka, Mayfiower. with a few scatter
w men from the Yosemite, Yankee
va other ships.
Inc rear OF the line was held by the
,,and 'rs Army Of the Republic and their
I,ed military organizations.
oetween two Of the Grand Army of
" ae Republic posts rode in a carriage
larry l.. MacNeal. who had charge OF
sun on the Brooklyn and who crawl
out over the side Of the ship, while
aaer nre, to extract a fragment Of
nell which had hecorno Axad IN <bo |