The times., 1901-04-17
THEIR FREEDOM ANNIVERSARY
Co1Ored Citizens Appropriately OBJ
serve EmRncipntfOn Day.

| Emanc!pation Day was duly observed
| by the various colored organizations of
| Washington. A civic parade, participated
4 In by the members of the Lincoln Eman-
| cipation League, and a military parade OF
| the Eighth Independent Battalion were
held in the early afternoon, and were fol-
lowed by a programme of exercises, in
Guiding addresses appropriate TO the oc-
| casion.
| The military parade, consisting of the
| Butler Zouaves and the Capital City
| Guards, the two companies of the inde-
pendent organization known as the
| Eighth Battalion, assembled at and
Tenth Streets northwest. The parade
| formed about / O'Clock. The route of
march was along Tenth Street to r
Street, thence to Fifth Street, to NJ
Street, through NJ Street to Twenty-fifth
Street, thence to New Hampshire Ave-
| nue., returning to r Street, to Twelfth
| Street and thence to the Vermont Ave-
| nue. Baptist Church.
| Major A Acwith commanded the bat
| TALON, and Capt r. Wormley, officer of
the day, acted as marshal. The Butler
| Zouaves were commanded by Capt.
Tasker Thompson, First Lieut. w. I. Her
ron, and Second Lieut.. Wilson Pead. The
Capital City Guards were under the COM
mand of Capt. j. II. Taliaferro, First
Lieut.. John 3. Robinson, and Second
Lieut.. George E. Brown.
The civic parade formed at South Capt.
tol and 3 Streets. Its route was from
the rendezvous along D Street to Third
| Street southwest, to Pennsylvania Ave
nue., thence to the White House, thence
| TO New York Avenue, to Massa chusetts
Avenue, to Lincoln Park; thence on North
| Carolina Avenue to d Street southeast
| to Second Street southwest, to the grand
stand at Second and Streets southwest,
where the ceremonies commenced at 3:45
| clock.
| Thomas Robb was grand marshal of
/ the civic parade. The staff was as fol-
lows: Chief of staff Lieut.. Winston B.
Hill; right aide, Paul Cant; left aide,
Francis S. Golden; assistant aides, Daniel
| Cant, Charles II. Strother. Emanuel
| Simms, =. f. Stubbs, Glen Smith, w II
Brown, Henry Matthews, P. w. Ross,
| and r. w. Gillian. Charles H. Strother
| is secretary of the staff.
At the Vermont Avenue Church the ora
| tlon of the day was made by Jesse Law
! son, formerly professor at Fairhayen
Academy. n. j. Other addresses were de-
| lvered by DR.. Reyburn of Freedmen $
| Hospital; George H. White, ex-Represen-
| tative from North Carolina; r. j. Bould-
| ing, pastor of the John Wesley Church.
and a. i. Manley, ana the Rev A Will
i banks, pastor of the Virginia Ayenue
| Baptist Church.
The exercises were under the direction
| OF Capt. Ralph Wormley, and the speakers
were introduced by Adjutant w c. Payne.
| both of the Eighth Independent Battalion
| Memorial services under the direction
| of the Blaine Invincible Club were held at
Grand Army Hall last night. Mrs Julia
| Mason Layton read a sketch of the origin
| and progress Of the organization. must
| cal programme was rendered und.r the
! direction OF Prof John r. Layton. Eulo-
| CYSTIC orations on benefactors of the negro
/ race Were delivered.
| The meeting arranged te- take place
| on the triangle bounded by Second Canal
| and G Streets southwest was not pro-
| nounced success. w. Calvin Chase and
| Thomas J. Jones were announced as the
| principal speakers. but neither was
| present.
About 100 people were on hand at the
| time, 3:45 o'clock, that Mr. Chase was to
| have appeared. This meagre crowd ling
| cred and was Increased TO probably 200 by
| : O'Clock. About this time Chase and
| Jones drove eastward along G Street in
| a carriage drawn by two grey horses
| but they did not stop.
The crowd remained. however, until
| 5:4D o clock, when james W. Poe, PreSi-
| dent Of the Lincoln Emancipation League,
| mounted the speakers stand and opened
the meeting, W. II. Matthews being in
| stalled as master of ceremonies. Mr.. Poe
| spoke for fifteen minutes He depIored
/ the fact that there had arisen among the
! coiored people a wide difference as to
| the manner in which Emancipation Day
| should be observed, and TO this he at
tribnted the apparent failure of the
| celebration
! Mr.. Poe was followed by w. II. Mat
/ thews. who said he had been slave, and
! that his last breath would be given to
| praise Lincoln, his liberator.
| Joseph G. Hill followed Mr. Matthews
| His speech was much on the lines of
! those which preceded.
Charles H. strother. Louis Willis, JOS
| eph NJ. Lee, and Louis A Wiles, the lat
| ter of Iowa, were the other speakers. The
| me citing broke up at 645 O'Clock, with
| cheers for Lincoln and Mckinley.