Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1899-11-02

elegant or beautiful than many other
pieces Of furniture
sHrBRICK ANI MERRIMAC.
Al exact reproduction of the shubrick
and The OLD Merrimac We're two floats
arranged by the committee. and We're
extremely interesting Captain Little
page. of Washington. who helped fight
The Merrimac was seated on the hoat
with her.
Tine Virginia Pharmacal Company and
The Tragic Drs Company mad very
handsome displays ol unique design.
Rhemhemel's and M0esra's confection-
cry aud -oda-Water establishments were
reureseuteI boy beautiful floats The in-
terest in which was very materially in
creased boy the SAMPLES of candy and
cakes literally distributed
Tho Fonucoll0 lthia water had a fine
float I'm the line. Just behind 10 came "a
fac-simile OF 3D. carload oi Good Luck
baking powder. which was shipped by
tho Southern Manufacturing Company
recently tO dealer iu Texas.
Warner Moore az Co.'S mills had
q very conspicuous place in the parade.
a. ". Clark * Son exhibited very att
tractiyo display of hardware arranged
on a large float in O. manner to catch the
eye of al on the sidewalk.
I'll. plumbing establishment OF Morgan
r. Mills had "a unique exhibit. The mos,
conspicuous feature of this display was
q large bath tub. in which two little ne-
groes were seated, supposedly periormin1
their abuu0us They would wash each
others face and created much dmuse-
mcni.
Haley. the plumber, also had a fine ex-
nibI;.
LONG LINES or WORKMEN.
The marching workmen made one' o.
the great features OF the parade. Follow
in. a carria-e containing President Jo-
seph Bryan and other officials OF the
Richmond ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS camo seve-
ral hundred OF the employees iu the va
ri0us departments headed by the Grays'
Band. of Petersburg. The men wore
white top-hats. and presented fine ap-
pearance. calling the hearuest applause
an along the line. Banners were carried
al first To designate the various depart
mcnt- of the works in which the men la
bored but the wind was so strong these
had To be lowered. Behind the white
ompl0ve,s came the First Battalion
Band ,colore0. and behind the band came
"a largo number of the cOiOred workers.
A somewhat remarkable feature of the
parade Was the applause given the negro
workmen.
THE SHIP-YARDS.
The exhibit from the Trigg ship-yards
came uexr. II could scarcely have been
,,,or. Interesting OF impressive. First
came an exact fac-simile Of the Shubrich'
complcted. the smoke coming out OF run
ua1s Rehind came a nCat on when d
number Of workmen were engaged III
rivetfns a buikhead. The next hoat car
riod a big condenser ana veutilator. made
al the Trigg yards. while the fourth noa'
bauled a boiler similar IO those used In
tbs Shubrick. COnspcuously displayed
an the last float was the legend. GIVE
is Deeper Channel" The NTH float
carried Il forge. such as is seen In the
/ Trigg shops. and al II workmen "ei
making rivets, which were thrown OUT
into the crowd.
behind the forge came five carriages
containing workmen from the ship-yards
,rnen came the Blues Band heading a
larye number Of the employees OF the
vard II was stated that the number
,vould have been much greater had not
some mIsapprehension arose as 10 the
place of rendezvous.
MAKING NAILS EN- ROUTE
Immediatelv behind the ship-yard ex-
hibit came that OF the Ola DOMINION
IRON and Nail-WOrks. II was q very
fine one. On a large float was a Forge
al which workmen were making nals'
The merry clink OF the hammers on the
anvil was pretty music, and caused mucil
applause. The roof of the iloat was OIL
TN. which was made at the ola Donih-