The San Francisco call., 1903-09-08

shirts. Their float was busy hive OF
masons at work on walls and arches. The
hOdcarriers, seventy-five strong, with NJ.
Ryan and James Campbell, followed.
They wore a uniform of white relieved
by dark neckties and soft gray hats. Al
Hilliam led the Plasterers' Union, the
members of which wore suits of white.
The fathers, ]. p. Burke president, car
ried their hatchets in their belts. and for
a further emblematic device bore laths.
daintily beribboned for walking-sticks.
Each member of the Plumbers Union,
j. Avaler president, bore aloft a parasol
of variegated color, the effect being
unique. The shingiers. nattily attired
and in command of = A Mitchell, pre-
ceded the Amalgamated Carpenters. VIII
liam Jess, marshal. The Metal Workers
Union escorted a model of a span bridge.
The electrical workers, r. p Gale in
charge, carried wands crowned with in
candescent lamp bulbs. E. w. Davis
headed the striking Linemen's Union. the
members of which wore their everyday
working clothes and carried the tools of
their trade in belts and swung over their
shoulders. A float depicting flair work"
and unfair work IL line and box hand
ling was sent ahead of the union.
MASONIC BOYS BAND.
The sewer workers and housemovers
brought the second division to an end.
Division three was in charge of Marshal
j. S. Carney and aids, James Monahan
and Daniel Madden. The Boys Band
from the Masonic Home played stirring
marches for the marching men, first in
line being the Painters local, No 127
Marshal A. II. Hetherington. The men
wore white duck trousers, white hats
and sunt1owers. The departments of their
trade were represented in a decorated
float. The carpet mechanics cement
workers, tallymen, brick, tile and terra
Gotta workers followed with detachments
making way for the Machinists' Local,
No. 2S4. Charles Eoerns commanding.
There was a large delegation Edward
Griffen was at the head of seventy-five
machinists' apprentices, who attracted at
tentiOn. Each youth wore neat working
suits of blue stuff, black caps white
gloves and carried a machinist's ham
n!er. The iron. steel and tin workers es-
corted a float that exposed big pieces of
steel construction from the Judson works
John Martin was in charge of the union
The men wore dark suits of trim appear
ance.
A boiler shop in operation furnished the
float for Local Union 23S of boilermakers.
II. Brown led the detachment.
The stationary engineers. NJ. Rose pres
ident, in suits of blue and white stuff,
closed the division
division; Miss Grace Cole and Miss Mar
garet Faulkner being aids. The local
unions of the carpenters and joiners of
America headed the division, followed by
the boxmakers and then the gasworkers.
who carried vari-colored gas balloons.
miniature gas works was used as float.
The Laborers Protective Union and the
Newsboys' Union with a little queen,
Juanita DefouT, in a chariot. followed
The United Brotherhood of Railway EN-
ployes was represented by a delegation
from the West Oakland yards.
LINE OF MARCH.
The last division was marshaled by F.
Higuera with J. Cunningham and F. Ryan
as aids. The Brotherhood of Teamsters
made a splendid showing each member
being neatly uniformed and carrying
whip as insignia of his occupation. In
close order were the soda water, ice and
mineral water drivers with a unique ex-
hibit of fruit. fish. flowers and soft
drinks" bottled and embedded I'm cakes
OF ice. The wagon workers displayed a
massive anvil and the longshoremen. last
of all. brought up the rear with a. float
bearing a full rugged ship, manned by
host of youthful tars. The men wore
light shirts, dark trousers and white cans
The long line marched through Broad
way to Seventh street. to Washington. to
Fourteenth and to Clay to San Pablo
avenue, to Eighteenth to Broadway.
countermarching on Broadway from
Seventh street north to Fourteenth.
where Grand Marshal Bowen and his staff
reviewed the marchers, after which they
disbanded.