The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1903-09-10
IN PROUD ARRAY.
V-aborinq Men Of the City Make a
Grand Display Of Their Strength
in Their Annual Parade.
HOME INDUSTRIES PROSPEROUS.
Happy Contented Laborers to the Number
Of over thousand March in the Big
Parade-Picnics Great Success.

Labor Day was celebrated in Keno
sha as never before. 1t was record
breaker in every particular. More meu
were in line IN the annual parade and
more people attended the various pic
MICS given by the labor organizations
in the groves about the city than ever
before.
The workingman and his employer
took holiday ard everyone seemed to
catch the spirit of the day. Not
wheel turned in the city and even the
marts of trade on Main street were
closed during the entire day.
1t was a remarkable display of the
strength of trade unioniEm, but over
and above this it was mighty object
lesson of the great industrial growth
of Kenosha during the past few years.
There we're other years when labor
unionism had deeper hold on the city
and when the meu were more enthusl-
astic supporters of the union princl-
pie, but even in the palmiest days OF
union labor no such turnout could
have been secured. The men who
marched in the line of workmer were
all prosperous looking fellows. Every
one of them had money in his pocket
and good job to return to when the
delights of the annual holiday were
over.
The parade was indeed a record
breaking one and it was more than
half an hour passing the points along
the line of march. For more than
mile the representatives of Kenosha
labor unions and henosha industries
marched in proud array. Every one
turned out. In the parade there we're
more than twelve hundred marching
men and among the number were
polishers, carpenters and builders,
brass bed workers, typos, tanners aud
in fact some representatives of every
division Of labor. In the parade we're
six bands from Kenosha and surround
ing cities and they wed with each
other in furnishing the martial music
which inspired the marching feet of
the toilers.
Following was the lineup:
First Division.
Mounted Marshals.
City Police.
Mayor and Members of the Common
Council.
Band.
Trades and Labor Council.
Cigar Makers.
Polishers.
Hawthorne Club Band.
Floats.
Painters and Decorators.
Brass Workers.
Bartenders.
Distinguished guests in carriages.
Second Division.
Band.
Typographical Union.
Machinists,
Bed Enamelers.
Floats.
Retail Clerks.
Iron Bed Workers.
Floats.
Tanners and Curriers'.
Third Division.
Band.
Carpenters.
Floats.
Bricklayers.
Fraternal Organizations.
Band.
Uncle Toms Cabin Co.
City Fire Department.
The line of march was as follows:
Formed on Market Square, west to
northwest Main, Inorth to Grand ave-
nue., east to Union, north on Union
and Milwaukee avenue to Orange,
counter march to Main, south to Park
avenue and Demiug, west to Chicago,
north to Prairie avenue, west to How
land avenue, south to the picnic
grounds at Lothrop's Grove.
The polishers were the most note
worthy organizatio in the big line.
They were decked out in purple and
fine linen and their natty uniforms at
tracted applause from the crowds
which gathered along the line of
march. The carpenters and brick
layers also made a splendid appear
ance.
The popularity of labor in Kenosha
was shown by the crowds that lined
the streets during the parade and
thousands of people we're on Main
street while the big parade was passing.
In speaking of the parade some men.
ton should be made of the floats OF
the carpenters and bricklayers and OF
"a. y
by Wade Bros, George Fay and the
Bode furniture store. Of course, al
the breweries IN the city we're repre-
scented with displays IN the parade.