Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1900-08-28
GRANDEST MILITARY DISPLAY SINCE CLOSE OF CIVIL WAR
MANY THOUSANDS OF VETERANS.
FLAGS AND MEN THAT SAW SERVICE
CHICAGO PUTS on GALA ATTIRE FOR HER HONORED GUESTS
LARGEST CROWD EVER SEEN IN THE CiTY-FINE
WEATHER PREVAILS.

Chicago. August 2s.-Along streets
filled with cheering multitude, past
towering buildings. gay with the glow of
the Stars and Stripes, through arches of
honor, beneath suspended banners and
swinging portraits of illustrious leaders,
now part of the muster beyond the dark
river. on whose bank their feet had so
often pressed, $4,000 of the lifeguard of
the nation-the Grand Army of the Re-
public-marched today. 1t was their
when. with ranks fresh from the tri-
umphs of war, they had marched down
Pennsylvania avenue, in Washington,
with their faces turned tow ard home and
their hearts filled with the promise Of
the victories of peace.
1t was probably the last of the great
parades upon which many of the men,
bers of the Grand Army will march on
earth. The average age of the veterans
is close upon the average span of human
life: it's ranks are thinning fast and it's
members commencing to fall away. The
muster roll must hereafter, according to
the officials of the organiza ton, decrease
more rapidly than at any period from
the end of the war to now.
The last year of the century. across
the years where they have emblazoned SO
glorious a record was a most fitting
ime fer what so many of them have
declared will be their last review, and
still more appropriate was it that sun and
wind combined to produce a day emf
nently suitable for the occasion. A light
breeze came off Lake Michigan, strong
enough to lift the banners out of the full
ength of their folds, and at times with
force sufficient to make it necessary for
more than one old soldier to grasp the
staff to hoist his flag on high. 1t mat
tered nothing, however how many hands
were necessary on the staff. they were
ready always. The veterans carried the
flag today as they had done years ago,
and save in salute, not banner was low
cred, not fold touched the ground.
A ROYAL GREETING.
Not in many years has Chicago ex-
tended so affectionate a welcome to the
, strangers within it's gates as it did today
% the members of the G. A. r. Her
people watched the march of the old
soldiers with respectful bat enthusiastic
interst. AS Chicago estimated them, SO
she greeted them. NotWithstanL.n the
age of the members of the Grand Army,
more members of the organization had
announced their intention Of joining in
the line than was expected by the most
sanguine of the veterans. Old soldiers
from every state in the Union were in
the march with their comrades of former
years, and throughout the length of the
parade 1000 posts of the Grand
Army had representation. The pa
rade. which started at the intersection
of Randolph street and Michigan avenue,
was about five hours in passing a given
point The lines OF march were short and
from the start OF the south end Of the
court OF honor, where it disbanded after
passing in review before Commander in
Chief Shaw. they cn-aprised twenty-sev-
en- of the city squares. Even though the
| majority of the marchers were men Of
! advanced years the parade moved swift
:, ly and without breaks or disorder. The
columns came in twelve abreast, well
closed, solid ard compact. The fcln
| tions We're almost invariably well kept
! for the men who had gone through years
of desperate war without being guilty OF
struggling were too old to be laggards
now.
ORDER OF MARCH.
The marching column was headed hy
a detachment OF the city police unde, ~.
| command of Lieut. Flynn. which in hat
talon formation. swept tla street from
curb to curb Behind the.n CAME a band
of seventy pieces, and then Chief Mar
! shal ]. H. Wood with his immediate
staff, consisting of Col. H. S. Dietrich
i Col. ]. e. Stuart and Col. C. e. Young.
A regiment Of assistant marshals and
aides came cantering on and then be-
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