The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1903-07-23
THE PARADE.

For weeks, the bill posts, bridges
barns and fences throughout the length
and breadth of Washington county
have been decked in gay coiors and
pictures, proclaiming the one event for
which the old and young for miles
around have been waiting with expect
ant joy and pleasure, and Tuesday the
great Barnum 81 Bailey circus is in
the city "tc deliver the goods" To
say, judging from the parade, that the
celebrated company did deliver the
goods would be expressing it mildly
for it was PROFESSIONALLY the greatest
circus parade hat the citizens of
Montpelier and residents of the sur
rounding country have ever had the
privilege of beholding. Regardless of
their ELUSIVE manner of advertising
the parade in reality even went be-
You'd the expectations of every body.
The main streets through which the
parade went we're lined by black
mass of people on both sides of the
way and it is the general opinion
that there was the largest crowd
of people in the city since the cele-
brated dewey Day." which was one
of the events in the history of the
city.
Not only was the parade great sue
cess from material standpoint their
equipments and devices but, to close
observer, it was a marvel of arrange
ment from start to finish and the dis
tance over which it extended As the
great band wagon was coming up State
street toward Main street on the
homeward march the last wagon of
the parade was crossing the junction
of State and Main streets, leaving
Main street toward the red arch bridge
clear for the head of the parade again.
Thus the parade reached from the cor
ner of Main and State streets up Main
street to the Spring street bridge and
the length of Elm street to State
street and the section of State street
nearly back to Main
The great feature of the parade was
the large band wagon drawn by forty
horses, four abreast. The wagon is
one Of the largest on wheels, being
over thirty feet long, and gorgeously
finished in gold trimmings, a large
raised map Of the eastern hemisphere
appearing on one side and the western
on the other side. Large a number
of horses attached to one wagon is
something that has never been seen in
the city before and the drivers hands
were the junction of what seemed q
labyrinth of reins. After the band
wagon were the cages of animals sell
dom seen in Vermont, ana the tanners
sitting Quietly within attracted the
attention of both old and young
After the animals the various hand
somely embeHished wagons being
suggestive of the days of myths,
legends and chivalry with the various
wagons symbolic of nearly every ma
tlon separately ana country collective
ly, and the long lines of elephants and
camels arranged in pairs with the lar
ger in front tapering to the youngest
and smallest, even to that unique mu-
steal invention known as the steam
calliope each in their turn offered
much enjoyment to the onlookers.
The parade of over fifty wagons with
chariots, horses, ANIMALS, drum corps
and clowns with rigs passed, as it
were, in an incredibly short time con-
sidering its length. Much credit is
due the police department for the eff
cient manner in which the crowd was
kept back and order preserved during
the parade, fact noticed and COM
mented upon favorably on every side.