Evening bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1895-1912, 1900-09-05
VETERANS ON PARADE
$4,000 GRAND ARMY
BOYS IN MARCHING ARRAY
Pathetic Scenes Demonstrate the Raw
ages Of Time Among the Ma
tons observation-disclosures
for the Brave.

and half today the thinning ranks
of the Grand Army of the Republic
passed in review before their leaders
and before million spectators, packed
In almost solid masses along the four
miles Of the line of parade. 1t marked
the climax Of the thirty-fourth annual
encampment and was, according ia
Commander-in-Ch Shaw, the great
est parade since the day In Washing
ton, when the hundreds of thousands
of veterans, at that time the most pow
erful army on earth, marched in review
to their final disarmament
| Probably 10000 members of the army
OF veterans took part in today's pa
rade. For exactly four hours and
twenty minutes, most of the time with
ranks almost perfectly aligned, but
occasionally faltering under the bur-
den OF years, they filed past the re-
viewing stand on Michigan avenue, sa-
luting, as they marched by, General
Nelson A. Miles, Commander-in-C Chief
Shaw, General Dan L. Sickles and the
Spanish minister, the Duke of ARGOS.
They marched through an avenue of
fame In which the portraits of their
great commanders, of Grant and Sher-
man and Sheridan and Logan and
many Others looked down upon them
to give them inspiration. They heard
the shouts Of million of their fellow
countrymen, gathered to see them and
to rejoice with them. They were led
through the beautiful court of honor,
erected for their exclusive use. Then,
III fail tttA aII
parade melted away and the veterans
mingled once more with the crowds
of civilians and sightseers.
Perhaps never again will the veteran
soldier of the civil war march as they
marched today through Chicago. Ger
tainly never again will they parade in
such numbers and with such spirit.
Weather conditions were almost
ideal for the parade. The rays of the
sun were yelled by light, fieecy clouds
nearly all day, and even when unob-
scured their effect was greatly lessened
by cool breeze which blew steadily
off Lake Michigan. The line OF march,
too, was much shorter than ever before
mapped out for the annual parade, but
Notwithstanding here and there vet
eran, exhausted, dropped out of the
ranks. Especially was this true after
the reviewing stand was passed, and
many pathetic scenes were witnessed
down the long stretch of Michigan
avenue as the veterans fell by The
wayside.
The one especially sad incident oc-
curing to mar in degree the glory
OF the parade was when Charles Beck.
with of Algonza, Mich, dropped dead
as the line was filing past the corner
OF Michigan avenue and Madison street.
The parade was halted for moment
and the body of the veteran who had
responded to his last call was tenderly
removed and his comrades passed on.
Twelve heralds in costume, each
bearing long trumpet, came down the
avenue announcing In mellow tones
the approach of the pageant Of patriot
ism which followed close behind them.
Fifty members OF Columbia post of
Chicago, wearing handsome uniforms
OF dark green, formed hollow square,
In the center of which were borne fifty
battle ilags which had been carried by
New York regiments during the war.
The spectacle of the worn and tattered
flags was greeted at times with a deep
silence more expressive than applause
could ever be. Whether the crowd
cheered or kept silence, 1t showed deep
feeling, and from end to end of the
parade all hats were off as the flags
went by.
Cheer after cheer went up as General
Daniel Il. Sickles, accompanied by mis-
aides, rode past the reviewing stand.
All along the line of march the gem
eral had been given a most fiattering
greeting, but the warmth of the recep-
ton that met him as he approached the
stand where Commander Shaw was
waiting to receive his salute caused
him to flush with pleasure and to bow
his Acknowledgements again and again.
Wisconsin was given the right Of
line and as her column came turning
around the cornel II Jackson boule-
ward into the broad sweep Of Michigan
avenue and with bands playing and
colors dying, the Army OF the Repub-
lie came marching down. the people
seemed to realize that here at last came
the true pageant of patriotism. The
old, worn out lluttering flags that had
gone before were nothing In them
selves, but as representatives of the
power that gave them tine glory that
they wore they were everything
Marching behind them under colors
fresher and brighter, as their own fame
must ever grow with the advancing
years, came the units Of that power.
No matter what might come In the
future, the men before them had made
the past a glory that may mellow nut
never grow dim, and the crowd, SEEM
ing to catch these things 'in breath
as rank after rank the old soldiers
wheeled into the avenue, went wild
with enthusiasm. They cheered, waved
their hats and cheered again until they
could cheer no more. Then they stood
as they had stood for the battered flags,
with barred heads, as the veterans with
steps more hating than of old, but
with hearts as high as ever, passed on
to make the parade OF 1900 what they
had made many another Marcia
credit to themselves and an honor to
their country.
The first cheers from the reviewing
stand were given to the famous old
war eagle of the Wisconsin troops,
"Old Abe" the stuffed figure of which,
borne aloft by a brawny buckskin-
dressed veteran, was heartily greeted
by the crowds and saluted by General
Miles and others in the boxes. The
post oscorting "Old Abe" was closely
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