The Bourbon news. [volume] (Paris, Ky.) 1895-19??, 1901-09-13
d. A. R. ENCANPNENT.
Thousands of Veterans Parade the
Streets at Cleveland, o.
Eighty-Seventh Anniversary of Oil
yer II. Perry's Historic Triumph
on Lake Erie Celebrated By
Grand Parade.

Cleveland, o., Sept. 1.-THE naval
veterans took first place in the festiv-
tiles attendant upon the Grand Army
of the Republic encampment Tuesday.
The s7th anniversary of Oliver Hazard
Perry's historic triumph on Lake
Erie was fittingly celebrated in a
grand parade of naval veterans and
naval display upon the lake.
| Features OF interest in the days
programme were as follows:
Reception by the Cleveland Yacht
club, naval display on Lake Erie, the
fleet being opened to inspection of
the public; dog-watch of association
of naval veterans at Gray's armory,
campfire of Union ex-Prisoners of War
at Central armOry, reception for ma
tional officers of the Grand Army
by women's relief corps at Chamber
of Commerce hall, reception of ladies
of the Grand Army of the Republic,
west side campfire at Turner nall,
and a lake-front naval display by the
! United States naval reserve boats,
including illuminations and manOeuv-
ers by the feet.
At Central armory Tuesday night
the Union eX-Prisoners of War held
their goth annual reunion. The ar
mory auditorium was packed to the
doors. Tom L. Johnson, mayor of
Cleveland, presided. Gov. George X.
Nash. of Ohio, and Gov. A. L. Bliss,
Of Michigan, addressed the assem-
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prefaced his remarks with a feeling
tribute to the stricken chief execu-
tive of the nation, and John G. Black.
OF Illinois, voiced the sentiment of
the assemblage when he said that
mo assassin's bullet could ever en-
danger the life of the republic"
At naval dog-watch in Gray's
armOry the principal speaker of the
night was Capt. Richmond 2. Hob
son, of Merrimac fame. Capt. Hob
son was enthusiastically received
by the large audience.
President McKinley's old regiment,
the 23d Ohio, in which he enlisted
as private in Company G, in 1861,
and which had for its commander
Col. rutherford B. Hayes, another
president, held its annual reunion
Tuesday at the Chamber of Commerce
auditorium. Over 800 men attended
which made the largest gathering of
the regiment in ten years.
A resolution was unanimously
adopted calling upon senators and
representatives in congress to enact
a law banishing all anarchists from
the United States. Gen. Kennedy, of
Columbus, then offered a resolution.
which was adopted, stating that the
ED Ohio infantry, in mass conven-
ton assembled, extend its sympathies
to its former comrade in arms, Will
liam Mckinley, president of the Unit
ed States, and Mrs. Mckinley in the
affection brought upon them by a
cowardly assassin.
Cleveland, O., Sept 12.-The sur
viving veterans of the greatest war
in all the annals of history, the
Grand Army of the Republic, have
again responded to the bugle call
and Wednesday fell into line as they
were wont to do in the dark days of
the civil war.
IN a seemingly interminable line of
blue the various departments took up
their march over the hard, granite
pavements. Surging masses of people,
numbering in the hundreds of thou
sands, lined the streets, and the house
tops, and took advantage of every
available point of view along the en-
tire length of the line of parade. In
the downtown districts the streets
intersecting and adjacent to the line
of march was one struggling mass of
eager and expectant humanity.
1t is estimated that nearly half a
million people were spectators OF The
magnificent pageant. The column
was over eight miles in length, and
was splendidly handled, the column
moving steadily and with scarcely a
halt or break until the entire line
had passed the reviewing stand.
The scene was most inspiring. Oc-
togenarians of the tottering foot
steps and others erect and sprigntIy
as in youth, but all with limbs and
hearts of steel, plodded patiently side
by side, and among the thousands
who made up that gallant host, there
were scarcely bare half-dozen 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.
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 Bond street, was greet
ed with a patriotic chorus from the
threats of thousands of school chill
dren composing ''The Flag" Mingled
with the inspiring strains of mar
tial music and patriotic choruses was
the unstinted applause of the popu-
lace.