The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1898-10-20

siusm for Illinois Fighting Regiment
A Stampede Which Threatened Serious
| Trouble.
| CHICAGO October 19.-One brief gleaTu
of sunshine and only one, has been
thrown upon the ceremonies of the peace
| Jubilee. It was a feeting burst Of third
| class sunshine and it fell upon the Presi-
DENTS reviewing stand just us the head
of the great parade was approaching.
| Chicago has seen many parades greater
than that of today. but she has never
seen one that pleased her people better.
Notwithstanding the most elaborate ar
rangements of the police department, and
the banishing of every street car and all
vehicles of every description from the
downtown streets, there were times today
when the crowd was too great for the
police to handle and at many places the
crush at times was dangerous. After the
parade the jam at Jackson boulevard in
front of the Union League club house
WAS frightful. Strong desachments OF
police, soldiers and marines while at
tempting to arrest the mass of the crowd,
were pushed 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
mass of surging, struggling humanity,
| which would not move and which could
n OF be moved until it pleased.
The greetings extended to President
Mckinley were en- tn usiastic in the ex-
treme as were the plaudits showered upon
General Miles and General Shafter as they
passed through the streets. The presidents
in his carriage was surrounded by nen1-
bers of the Chicago Huzzars, formed in
a square, and detachments 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 house, where In company with
all the other distinguished guests, he
alighted and reviewed the parade.
Throughout thu entire march past the
| stand, which lasted trif1e over three
hours the President remained standing.
| Mrs. Mckinley arrived at the Union
League club house somewhat In advance
of the Presidential party, escorted by Cap
tain McWilliams.
| During the passage of the procession
Mrs, Mckinley remained at an upstairs
| window of the cluD house. The Presl-
Dental party arrived at one O'Clock. AS
the distinguished guests alighted from
their carriages, they were welcomed ny
| Secretary CLARK OF the Union League ciup
and Immediately taken to the reviewing g
stand. A mighty cheer went up from the
crowd as President Mckinley took his
nlacs ON the stand. The following were
rmonp those on the Presidents stand !:
Secretary and Mrs. Gage, Secretary Bliss,
A ttorney and Miss Wilson, Postmaster
General Smith. General Miles. General
| lrlffi sIQnara1
Samuel Il. Morse, Governor Mount OF
Indiana. Mayor Malster of Baltimore,
Meyor May burg of Detroit, Mayor Rose
of Milwaukee, Admiral George Brown,
the Chinese and CoreaD ministers, Sam
uel Gompers, Judge Emery Speer, Assist
ant Secretary MeikleJohn, Il. H. Holden,
Senior Queseda, General Greeley and
wife: Governor Barnes Of Oklahoma,
/ Clark Howell, Governor Schofieid of Wis
consin. Archbishop Ireland, exVice Pres
ident Adlai E. Stevenson and vile,
Booker T. Washington aid Captain NC
Gala. All those forming the President
taI party were greeted with cheers as they
aiirhted at the club house, the favorites
with the crowd after the President and
General Miles and General Shafter, being
Governor Mount. Governor Schoield and
G aptain McCalla. a
In the reviewing stand proper there
were with the President General Miles,
| SiGQerdl ouhluoI DOtu Al luJ1 uhiAoAAA~
Governor Tanner, Mayor Harrison and
: Chairman Truax of the jubilee commit
tee.
The advance of the parade after the
Presidential escorts had wheeled out OF
the line of march, was given to the veGe-
rams of the Grand Army. Several oil ths $
posts carried gauzy old banners that nao
waved in battle 35 years ago and to every
one of the tattered flags the Presluen.
called the attention of those about nm p
and every head was bare until the hae
had gone by.
Behind the veterans of former wa,
came numerous civil societies. AI1ona A "
them we're the Clan-Na-Gael guarus "
Chicago, 500 strong but without weap9ns, Se ne,
r Not a man carried rifle nor an oosh oliogI
a sword. After these came the Ioulor
regiment infantry from Fort sneriu", a', y,
and then such of the lighting nen nor -
Chicago as have returned from 6hs WV hr
AS the military division, conmanoee9+ e ~, y.
Brigadier General Fitzsimmons oi W, W.
Illinois National Guards approached VI, VI,
REVIEWING stand, the enthusiasm VI ,,1i Tn'
crowd knew no bounds. The Flrso ltia the
nois which gave more lives durlufRi staf t,sf
war than any Illinois body OF enllsUHl. ea1' =,
men. set the people frantic. The seYoF., fta
infantry closed the parade. Directly, DIV ~,
:: the seventh infantry had passed, ;,,, w.
; President left the reviewing stand goans gor
into the club house. Three cheers wei' er
given him as he left. and the three cnee, g.,
were near being the death signai ~