The record-union., 1898-05-08
AN OUTBURST
OF PATRIOTISM.
Sacramento Celebrates Commodore DeWey's
Magnificent Victory.

the ears. Fishhorns-red. white and
blue, of course-were everywhere, and
everybody was blowing them, and
while rockets flashed in the sky and
bombs bursted under foot, General T.
w. Sheehan, Marshal of the evening,
assembled his aides and gave them
their last instructions.
In the meantime a squad of ten po-
licemen to take the van of the parade
had arrived, and the Second Infantry
band, led by c. A. Neale, was also on
hand and warmed the cookies in the
hearts of the multitude by playing such
airs as America" Yankee Doodle"
and Dixie
Soon the great parade began to take
form, and shortly after o'clock the
crowd on Ninth street set up a roar
such as has not been heard in years,
and as it separated and waved back on
either side, the soldier boys came down
| the middle amid a perfect storm OF
cheers.
Then, while preliminaries We're being
| concluded, the Second Infantry band
marched up and down the street play
| ing "There'n Be a Hot Time in the
Old Town Tonight" and the prophecy
was confirmed.
Then the parade began to move, and
next in line after the band came the
soldiers, who came very nearly divid-
ing the honors with Admiral Dewey
and his victory.
Signal officer w W. Douglas and
his Lieutenant, Martin, with the Signal
Corps, headed the boys in blue, and
next came the tall, straight form Of
Captain Lucey, at the head of Company
E of the Second, and as the boys leave
for the front at o'clock this after
noon, and as most of the people along
the line of march knew it, an ova-
ton was accorded them from the begin
ming to the end of the march Captain
Zittinger and his company, G., shared
the honors heaped upon the men who
were about leaving to fight in defence
of the flag waving above every head,
and that Sacramento was proud of her
soldier boys was evidenced throughout
the evening.
Following the volunteers came the
members of the Grand Army posts,
and while many of the veterans showed
the scars of war fought over thirty
years ago. and showed traces of the
heavy hand of time, they still stepped
off with apparently all the ardor that
fired them in 81, and seemed paternally
proud of the sturdy, erect young fell
lows who preceded them.
Then came the local IroQuois Club,
and those who ran might read. Every
brave had on his war-paint, but the
curious feature was that it was striped
red, white and blue. All wore their
blankets, and fancy feathered head
1pnG iIA Ix,e- a. !, 4,
hawk f1uttered the emblem which an
nOunced them American" Indians.
Next followed the men from the rail-
road shops and citizens generally, and
here was the crowd File after file they
passed-one set of faces only glinting
by to give place to others, until at
length the last had gone, and winding
up the great professional victory dem
onstration came the Elks. And the Elks
were out to celebrate and to make more
noise than their brethren. There was
nothing judicious about their expendit
ure of lung power, but it lasted, just the
same. Those who imagined that pande-
monium had passed before the coming
of the ElkS were mistaken; it only then
broke loose an deverything from mon
ster bombs down to tin whistles were
called into service to prove that the
denizens of the forest We're proud they
were Americans, and that victory had
been with the tars who wore the blue
and fought under the old flag.
On, until the big Capitol building was
reached, moved the great parade, and as
rockets flashed, and the 24-pound gun
doomed its national salute of a. hum
dred guns, the volunteers counter
marched before the temporary stand
and presented arms to the Grand Army
veterans while the crowd hewled itself
hoarse.
Not so hoarse, however, but what it
could out-do all former efforts when
few moments later Deputy Attorney
General Charles Jackson, stepping to
the 'front.' proposed three cheers for Ad-
miral Dewey and the victory he had
won Then the crowd went wild and
the sea of flags swayed as the emotions
of the men who bore them. Fully 5000
men took up the mighty hip, hip, hur-
rah!" and rolled it forth with a volume
of sound which drowned the roar of the
Napoleon gun which was doing better
than its best to fling to the winds it's
notes Of victory.
What's the matter with Sampson?"-
inquired a stentorious voice in. the
crowd, and the answer rolled back as
then the crowd turned from Admiral.
Dewey long enough to yell for Admiral
Sampson.