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break until the entire line had
passed the reviewing stand.

and sprightly as in youth, plod-
ded patiently side by side, and
among the thousands who made
up that gallant host there were
bare half dozen whom the IA
tigues 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.
Promptly at the hour set for
the parade to move. General Leo
Rassieur, COMMUNICATIVE chief,
gave the signal, and the column
moved forward. The solid mass
es Of humanity which crowded
the avenue from curb to curb
gave way like the parting of the
waves, and the march began.
The governors of several
states marched in line with their
respective posts. Even Senator
Hanna caught the infection of
the hour, and left the reviewing
sfsnd to march down the line
with Memorial post. Every de-
partment 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
greeted with a patriotic chorus
from the threats of thousands of
school children composing 1.-THE
flag"
Mingled with the inspiring
strains of martial music and pa
triotic choruses was the unstint-
ed applause of the populace,
With General Rassieur in the
reviewing stand were the follow
ing: Tom l.. Johnson, General
Henry S. Peck, Adjutant General
F. NJ. Sterrett, NJ. A. Taylor,
Surgeon General Viking, George
Stone, department commander of
Colorado; General John &. Black
of Illinois, General Joel Longer
ecker of Illinois. General Daniel
D. Sickles, Guy T. Gould, past
department commander of Hi
nois; General Louis Wayne OF
Pennsylvania. General James
Barnett, Colonel Thomas Scott
of Illinois. L. E. Holden, and
General J. Warren Keifer.
The parade was led by mount
ed police. Following were the
local grand marshal of the par
AIDE, Captain Russell E. BurdiCk,
and his staff.
1t is expected that the patriotic
outburst will be duplicated this
afternoon, when mass meeting
will be held in praise and thanks
giving for the prospective re
covery of President Mckinley.
Senator Hanna, Governor Nash
of Ohio, Mayor Johnson of Cleve
land, General Rassieur of the
Grand Army. Judge William R.
Day of Canton, Senator Fair
banks of Indiana. Charles eros
venor, and the Rev. DR.. Man
chester, the presidents pastor,
will address the meeting.
CLEVELAND. Ohio, Sept. 49,
The first day of the national con-
ventipn of the Grand Army of
the Republic was taken up with
the reading of the reports by the
commander IN chief, adjutant
general. chaplain, and the vari-
Gus committees. The proceed
ings of the convention were pre-
faced with the adoption of a re
solution offered by General
Daniel E. Sickles, rendering to
the president the affectionate
congratulations of the Grand
Army upon his rapid GONZALES
cence The resolution was en-
bodied in a telegram, which was
Immediately sent to Mr.. McKin
ley at Buffalo.
Commander in chief Rassieur
devoted a large part of his an
nual address to the matter of
pensions. Without any effort,
he said, ''on the part of the
organization or its officers to
give the pension problem any
undue prominence, that subject
has overshadowed all others and
has called for more attention and
thought in the last year than all
other questions which concern