Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1901-09-21
GRAND PARADE OF
The OLD VETERANS
Of Thousands Of Spscta-
tors Watch Grizzled Soldiers
March in Cleveland.
70 HOLD A MEETING. OF PRAISE
VIII Give Thanks for the Prssident's Re-
co~very-south Dakota's Contingent
Was Conspicuous In tho
Parade.

Cleveland, o., Sept. 13.-The SURVIVE
ing veterans Of the civil war, In all
channels of history the greatest strug-
gle for human liberty the world has
ever seen-that iron gray host OF God,
known as the Grand Army Of the Re-
p~ublic-again responded to the bugle
call. and yesterday fell into line as
they were wont to do in the days OF
the civil war. They awoke In the morn
Ing to the sound OF reveille, and long
before the hour set for the starting of
the parade they lined the streets and
avenues Old veterans prominent In af-
fairs OF the @. A. Il. said II was the
grandest parade and the greatest day
the organization has ever seen.
In a seemingly interminable line Of
blue the various departments took up
their march over the hard granite e
nues. Surging masses OF people, num-
bering In the hundreds OF thousands,
lined the streets and h~ousetops. and
took advantage OF every available point
Of view along the entire length OF the
line OF parade. In the downtown dis
tricts the streets along and adjacent
to the line Of march were one strug-
CLING mass OF eager and expectant hu-
manity. 1t Is estimated that nearly
half n million people were spectators
~ iiC iiia6 iiiiNNiit pdbSoiiN. w oAaA'
was over eight miles In length and
was splendidly handled, moving stead
lily and with scarcely a halt or n break
until the entire line had passed the re-
viewing stand The scene was most In
spring. Aged veterans with tottering
footsteps and others erect as In youth.
with limbs and hearts Of steel, patient
ly marched side by side, and among the
men who made up that gallant throng
a~A -, .nA1 AA1f m dA7nr whom
the fatigues of the march caused to
fall out before they passed through
the living sea Of faces In the court OF
honor and the reviewing stand.
Start of Parade.
Promptly at the hour set for the
parade to move, General Leo Rassieur,
commander In chief, gave the signal
and the column moved forward. The
solid mass OF humanity which crowded
the street from curb to curb, gave way
like the parting Of the waves and the
march began. The governors Of several
states marched in the line with their
representatives. Even Senator M. A.
Hanna caught the infection Of the hour
and left the reviewing stand to march
down the line.
Every department as It passed the
court OF honor and neared the living
flag of children formed upon the grand
stand facing the long vista at the foot
Of Bold street. was greeted with ap-
plause and the chorus OF thousands OF
school children. Mingled with the in
spring strains Of martial music and
patriotic choruses was the unstinted
applause Of the populace.
The parade was led by mounted po-
lice. Following them were the local
camps The department marched In
the order Of seniority. with Illinois in
the lead. Ohio by courtesy took the
left OF the line. In addition to the reg
ula line Of veterans, ninety bands and
l0S drum corps necessarily played for
the parade.
A number OF women and children
were caught In the rus n the Red
Cross and city ambulances were kept
busy responding to calls, but no serious
casualty was reported.
1t is expected hat the patriotic out
burst will be duplicated Thursday af-
ternoon, when a mass meeting will be
held in praise and Thanksgiving for the
presidents recovery. M. A. Hanna,
Governor Nash of Ohio, Mayor Johnson
Of Cleveland, General Rassieur OF the
Grand Army, Judge william r. Day OF
Canton, Senator Fairbanks of Indiana
and Rev. DR.. Manchester, the presi-
dents pastor, will address the r.eeting.
South Dakotans Prominent.
South Dakota is here about 100 strong,
led by Department Commander Snow
OF the department staff. Besides him
there are present A. T. Bridgman, as
ststant ad1utant general, and j. l.. Tur-
ner, assistant quartermaster general.
Several past department commanders
are here, among them j. f. Barker, N.
G. Nash and Judge G. s. Palmer. In
the parade the South Dakota men car
ried the Mauser rifles which they first
made famou six years ago and the
banner they won in Chicago last year
for having in line the largest number
Of men from any state.
Proportionate to population the South
Dakota attendance this year will prob
ably be slightly In excess Of what It
was In Buffalo in 1899. Two South Da-
kota delegates are present-B. d. l..
Dudley and A. A. Drake-and two al
ternates-W. A. North and Charles
Barrot-thus completing the states
representation.