The San Francisco call., 1899-08-26

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men filed from the breakfast room, and
it had not ended even when the parade
was over and the people had sought
their homes.
From the breakfast hall the men
marched back to the dock. There the
line was formed. and at, the bugle-cal
the gates were opened and the troops
marched out into the crowd. East
street was a dense mass Of people too
tightly packed to move, and through
such a throng the troops forced their
way to Market street. 1t was not a
quiet march. Every whistle was
screeching, every bell was ringing,
every man, woman and child was
cheering and yelling, and when the
head of the column turned into Market
street friendship would be denied no
longer and the people blocked the line
1t took half the police force to open
the way again, and by that time the
escort had moved into place and the
column was ready.
Up the street the people were ready,
too. From the ferry to Van Ness
avenue Market street was sight to
see. Along the sidewalks the streams
of people had long before been forced
TO stand. There was no going back
after starting down, and soen there
was no going forward. The people
worked toward the water front until
the street would hold no more, and
then the police pressed back the crowds
until they seemed one with the build
ings on either side.
At the newspaper corner there has
never been such jam. The committee
had the stand erected by Lotta's foun-
tain, but it absorbed no space, for the
crowd had worked in under it, and,
tearing the drapery from its front, the
people hoisted themselves up among It's
supports and hung there until the last
man had gone by. In the triangle be-
tween the three meeting streets was
solid crowd, and across on the Third
street corners there was room for not
one more. On either side there was not
a window but was thick with heads,
and the fire escapes, Overhanging cor
nices and fire walls each had their
knots of people. The altitude or frail-
ness of the structure was no objection
50 long as it afforded a view of the
street and the column upon 1t.
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der the strain of their exertions. The
crowd was good-natured but as per-
sistent as the fight of time. 1t was
like pressing a rubber balloon to drive
the crowd back, for when pushed In IN
one place 1t bulged out in another, anu
even the ropes stretched across the
cross streets aided the bluecoats out
little. The mounted police had WHIPS,
and it soon became necessary to use
them with unsparing hand, and with
those and the clubs and the horses
hoofs a thin. crooked line of pavement
was kept open.
At every available place reviewing
stands had been erected, and these were
filled long before the parade hove in
sight There was a large one in the
space where Battery street runs INTO
Market The committee had sent in
yitations to several notable guests, and
most Of these were in this stand. Among
the most distinguished of the guests
was Governor Steunenberg Of Idaho,
who is here to make arrangements for
the reception of the Idaho men when
they reach home. He was in the stand
with several members Of his staff as
the guests of the executive committee.
As a matter of fact, had he. received
proper courtesy, he should have been
in the parade as the guest of the Gov
ernor. It is etiquette for the chief eX
ecutive of one State to make visiting
Governor his guest at such celebra
ton as was held yesterday, for as the
guest of the Governor can he find his
only appropriate place in line. But
Governor Steunenberg has received no
executive COurtesies from the Governor
of California, and so he viewed the
parade from the midst of the crowds.
Just below Montgomery street the
head of the escort was waiting, the red
plumes of the artillerymen teasing the
crowds into straining their necks and
spreading premature reports that the
parade had actually started. General
Shafter and his staff, gorgeous in gold
braid and cooked hats, capered and
pranced around upon their horses, while
the people speculated as to which of
the gaily uniformed riders was Colonel
Duboce. Then as they looked the gen.
eral and his staff wheeled into line
ahead of the band of the Third Artil-
lery. The musicians piped the opening
bars of a march, and the column
moved.
Tt was supposed the people would get
back and let the leading horsemen
pass, but they did nothing Of the kind.
There were no police to head the line;