Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-05-31

parade in New York City proper, re-
viewed by Major Gen. Miles, and the
military parade in Brooklyn reviewed
by Gov. Roosevelt. The New York
parade, consisting Of every national
guard regiment in the city, three COM
panles of the regular engineers, eight
batteries of regular artillery, and forty
two grand army posts started at 9
o'clock, and marched in excellent form
alton from Fifty-seventh street down
Fifth avenue to Washington arch,
where it was disbanded. The national
guardsmen were under the command
OF Maj. Gen. Roe, the sailors under
Capt. G. d. Sigsbee, U. S. NJ, and the
grand marshal was John B. Hyde. A
reviewing stand had been erected in
Madison Square and from this Major
Gen. Miles watched the troops swing
by.
The Brooklyn parade started at 10
O'Clock. 1t included marines, several
batteries of regular artillery, the naval
militia, Grand Army posts and other
organizations. Gov. Roosevelt review
ed the procession from a stand erected
near the soldiers and sailors memorial
arch in the park plaza As in Manhat-
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and cheers for the veterans were coup
led with cheers for the younger sol
diers, who had won their workmanship
under the heat of a Cuban sun.
These two parades constituted the
best military features that have mark
ed Decoration Day in this city for
years.
In Jersey City the chief event was
the dedication of a new soldiers and
sailors monument in front OF the city
hall. This monument cost about $12,-
500. A large parade, composed of mill
tary and civic organizations formed and
marched by the city hall. There rellg-
ious exercises were performed by Mgr.
Seton, and school children sang patr.oc-
ic songs. The Grafton of the Gay was
made by former Assistant Secretary OF
the Navy, McAdoo.
The more serious exercises in Man
haitian were held in the afternoon in
Riverside Park, under the shadow OF
Grants tomb. There the Grand Army
ritual was performed and speeches
were made by Gov Roosevelt and
others.
At New Brunswick, N. j., a monu-
ment erected in honor of those VINO
went down in the battleship Maine,
was unveiled, after parade of the G..
A. R. and civic societies.
At Orange, N. j., there was also I'M
yelled a soldiers and sailors monu-
ment. Judge Franklin Fort delivered
the Grafton. The monument cost So
000
One of the most remarkable features
of the day was the extraordinary re-
ception afforded the Seventy regi-
ment in the New York City military
parade. Several officers of the organi-
zation have been subjected to inquiry
regarding their conduct in Cuba, but
the men were greeted to-day with such
enthusiasm as has seldom been seen
in the streets of New York. All along
Fifth Avenue the crowd yelled and
cheered wildly as they did for no other
regiment. Men tore off sashes, ribbons
and even caps and waved them in the
air.
AS the Seventh regiment of the Ma
tiGnal Guard, which did not get to war
with Spain passed the reviewing stand
of the Manhattan parade several per-
sons began to hiss. The Kissing grew
in volume until it almost drowned the
cheers which the friends of the regi-
ment tried to tide this unfriendly dem
Onstration.