The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1898-04-27

West Scranton residents. at least
those who We're fortunate TO be there,
will never forget last evenings popu-
lar demonstration at the corner of
Main avenue and Jackson street. No
one knows how it started and no one
dreamed after It had started how far
the affair was to be carried Company
T. held its last regular drill for some
time in these parts,and many had gath
cred to see them. The crowd was com
POSED Of countless small boys and
many older folks. The drill began
early and most of it was held on Main
avenue. The evolutions brought out
the Hrst burst of cheering and it must
have been the leaving that later worked
the crowd up to its climax of fcnzy.
The soldier boys marched as il on the
eve of battle. Orders were given sharp
and quick. Action was equally quick.
Then it was all over The company re-
turned to it's quarters and the crowd
began to disperse. But there was more
to follow. Quietly marching down jack
son street in files of two came 80 schol-
ars from Public school No. Is. Proudly
in the van stepped Master James Nc
Conan struggling beneath the weight
Of flag which floated in the breeze.
on either side of this lad walked two
bright girls, the Misses Hattie Ellis and
Kate Stemicke, as a color guard.
For an instant the crowd remained
silent and then cheer OTTER cheer rent
the air. 1t was the flag of free Cuba.
Hats were tossed up. handkerchiefs
waived and a general pandemonium
seemed imminent. The police cleared
way through the crowd and quietly
and in perfect order, the children, for
their ages did not exceed II years,
walked up into st. DaVid's hall and en-
tered the company room where the
company was drawn up at attention as
the children filed in and stood oppo-
site.
The color bearer STEPPED to the front,
attended by the color guard and the
Gel cmpony which up to this moment re-
mbained q mystery to nearly everyone
was begun. Masters Lewis Justin and
Chester Thomas stepped from the ranks
of the children and in concert rendered
the beautiful emblem of Cuba to the
| company, in behalf of their fellow pu-
pills The little fellows spoke shortly
and to the point. When they We're
through, the flag was baptiscd with an
| expression of enthusiasm which fairly
! SHOOK lUt dIIlolS'
Captain Fellows, in a few words
fraught with emotion, accepted the gift
! rendered by the little folks under such
heart thrilling circumstances, and Col
| or Bearer Frank Rymond, of the COM
| pany, was ordered to step forward and
| receive the gift.
Yesterday morning some of the chill
! dren from the rooms taught by the
| Misses Agnes Murray and Sarah A.
| Jones, went to the teachers and asked
| If they could not give something to
the soldier boys of Company F. The
rooms are i'm intermediate A and h
! grade. The money was raised, a Gu
! ban flag purchased and at s o'clock
they gathered at the school and
marched down to the armory and pre-
sented it,
! A fitting climax was made when
| the teachers were called up in front
! of the company and they and their
scholars saluted and given three rOus-
! ing cheers. Miss Stemicke, James Nc
| Cowan and Chester Thomas are from
| Miss Jones room, while Miss Hattie
| Ellis and Lewis Justin are pupils of
| Miss Murray. The flag is a beautiful
| one, eight feet long, seven feet wide
and attached to a ten-foOt pole.
When word was passed outside what
! was going on inside, cheers followed,
| some one turned in the fire alarm from
box 50, the companies responded, and
COlored lights, rockets and fire crack
ers We're set off at The Tribune bull
| letin at jenkins pharmacy