The sun., 1899-05-31
1uE miRCn or THE SErENTH.

Applause, Too-Euli RINK, in Good Trim.
The kissing CT the Seventh began at the
very start In urper Fifrh avenue. Those who
had como to hiss hcsitgted until there was
some applause. 80 thut they would not be too
conspicuous when attention was attracted &c
their noise. The regiment got along block
or two with very little cheering or kissing. but
once tho comnlngled noise began 1t lasted
along the whole line of march. sometimes
swelling into roar and sometimes so faint
that the lisp of II little girl OF seven years.
"'Faid to 90 to wlr-D-o-O. could h" heau.
This incident occurred at Nineteenth street
and caused n hundred people to turn and look
at the mite standing on the newell post OF a
stoop and pointing - derisive finger at the
marchers Her father stood beside her and
evidently was resuonsbe for her sentiments
After passing through the Washington Arch
and reaching Fourth street. the Seventh
turned east to the Bowery. There were very
few onlookers here and no nol.e but occasional
At s:i5 O'clock yesterday morning go men
fell In and five minutes later the regiment was Hs
Leaving the "rG the S ~ "s or lme
ing into platoons 1t divided Yesterday into
tweaty e9mpanes 81 GlvHE az 9se. afeae for a eIG bs
way down the band stopred play ing because
the Sixty-ninth,s band had struck w Aud
in East Tiity.hrst street. waiting 70 fall in he
hind the Seventh Col. Duty ard his OIL GERS
and Cot Appleton and the Seventh's officers
gravey raised their campasn hats to each
II the Tlftoth street corner the. cheering
hegai. hanuclapTing when he rode by and as
soon rs they did some one else began kissing.
regiment @ was nothing 10 the hub6mh raised
at the rear. Such reception aS Col. Duly
got, II rang in the ears Of the endmnst Sev-
Washington Arch. The thunder OF IL was
continuous and people who were handclapiing
the Seventh looked ur the avenue in aston
ishmcnt when the din reached their ears: No
matter how enthusiastic the friends OF the
seventh may be they don't let themselves go
with the abandon Of the admirers OF the Sixty
Wherever hnarded. up door and windows in
and first balcony u ther" WAS one. IL was
r0% EoqTs CT this Kind h" 9s1es sson ppd gho s9s
had thrown uIen their houses to invited
friend, rapue' and rhcereu the seventh. In
front OF the site Of the burned.out Windsor
Hotel was one 0f these rendezvouses and the
Missing was louder there than at any noint
Miss Helen Gould was on the balcony over the
door of Ter home at the northeast corner ot
Forty. seventh street. With her vas rarty, of
at this corner to fail in the in1cession. AZ
Company Of the seventh passed .!l some one OF
fSf 6f nraes 6n Thsy wefe
Lieut. Du Val looked straight ahead. 81,
There were cheer, fIr the Six,ycninth ~ at the Ne
the Waldorf. Astoria were crowdeh with SER
T:yentv-eighth street well dressed man cried
Good old seventh Good old Seventh. and
kent it VI, until hi. throat vas sore; His ell
.N the Madison Suuare reviewing stand the
kissing and rrntcaling were tumultnous. Calls
OF he, mdest eli,hets were ,,,.lohsters." "
stills" "asrhn, soldiers" Tin soldier" .,.
AZ ws %n oSsssa srssi an pGT Sr sTS WSow Win
from a roof 4 few Of tie feathers iloated
down upon the hpi The cr"wd 60.
::W1no" ::1 " showed i the white ienther:'' were dis
It was not until Washington Park had been
passed that tho Seventh men were out OF
hearing. "l the thundcrous reception OF the
Sixty ninth Getting over to the Bowery tho
BY itself. the rro'ession having lroken up.
turned north and halted for rest. The faces
and they were hot and thirsty Several bow
with trays filled with glasses "f beer. 4 saloon
keeper at he northeast corner OF Eighth street
did this without money and without price.
They treat us better on the bowery than
mi man. n as he wiped the foam on hi cont sleeve
Nrthe Ninth street station OF the Third avenue
- road.the men took trains tor aixty.seyenth
were n sober faced lot Of men all day. They
had marched down Fifth avenue with the old;
to the left to greet applause nor to the right 10
meet hisses. With eyes front they faced a
| trial that they had known was coming. From
| the Colonel down hardly one failed 10 com.
| ment upon the large numher answering
Here at ro!lcall although every, man knew
| that thev were to encounter doubtful recep-
| tion. When back in the atmory and dis
missed they showed that there was little sore
| ness The men thought that the whole thing
| miCnt have been worse and said So.
| but we turned out strong. Just the same.
| said one
| Another admitted that he had received an
| anonymous letter warning him against parad
| ing. ns. tho letter said, the regiment was TO be
done up OF couPse. the recipient OF the let
ter was in line.
Col Appleton said that he was satisfied
| The seventh. he saiu got more applause yes
terday than it has got on any parade in his
| III never gets cheered," he said. We tax Q
| parade and other duty us matter ot course
| -day | heard more applause than ! evei
| heard before for the Seventh. and ! hoard
some Kisses. too. The small boys did the hiss
| Seventh IL still the finest. most 1T regiment in
| the National Guard. and az II always has been
| is ready 10 obey orders We went out to DAY
with full rank hecauso we haL orders to. ant
We will 20 whenever and wherever we get or
| ders to go.
| The cause OF the hostile demon STRAIT ior
Of the regiment to volun.eer for tho war with
| Spain. Each comrany. in its own room. voted
| for or against volunteering. and the vote
| showed that the reg would not volunteer
| ment you'd give no assurance that the organ
| iZatiOn OF National Guard regiments which
| volunteered would be kept in act The mer
OF the Seventh wanted 70 serve under thei
| volunteer Col. Aurletnn made statement t.
! the effect that the seventh would serve III,
| Government anvwherr. for any lenRth OF time
provided tho organization was called out as