The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-04-20
WEALTH OF FIRE
DAZZLED NATIVES
MARCH OF POLITICIANS
WAS BRILLIANTLY ILLUMINATED
WITH COLORED LIGHTS.

Bull street Was ThrOnged With
Spectators as Component Parts of
Citizens Club Passed in Review.
Roman Candles and Red Lights
Were Burned by the ScOre-Presi-
dent Mcbride Rode at Head OF
His Club, with Secretary HalIi-
gan, in an Automobile.
With hundreds Of dollars worth of
Roman candles and red lights, the
component parts of the Citizens Club
made a dazzling display before several
thousand people last night.
To those who lined Bull street from
Broughton south, and who crowded
Chippewa Square and stood on tip-toe
to see the pyrotechnic display, it was
difficult to understand just how so
many men could get so enthusiastic.
There have been torchlight process
sions in Savannah before but they
were on the eve of political strife, or
Immediately following a political vic
tory, when the participants were ex-
cited to fever heat or when their joy
knew no bounds. But now there could
be such a turnout when there is no
battle to fight was little more than
a vast majority of the onlookers could
figure out.
Automobiles i'm Line.
The parade was probably the big
gest affair of the sort ever pulled off
in Savannah. And it was a modern
ch a head
the district clubs-the w. w. Osborne
Association of the Fourth district
the president and the secretary, Mr..
James Mcbride and Mr.. Thomas Hali-
gan, were mounted in an automobile.
In the same line another automobile
carried. Messrs. A. A. Lawrence,
Louis Garfunkel. E. H. Abrahams and
Ed. Mcintyre.
The first organization to make its
appearance on Bull street was Wick
hams First District Club. The turn
out was a large one and the men in
line were literally supplied with red
lights and Roman candles.
j.. ]. Garrity's First District Os-
borne Association was the second club.
A monkey pearched on the first trans
parency attracted a great deal of at
tention. The Clarity aggregation was
out in force and the president was
gratified at the showing made.
street Bright Day.
President McBride's Osborne Assoc
citation came down Bull street from
Broughton and made a splendid show
ing. The street was made as bright
as day by the red lights and Roman
candles, and the Fourth District show
ed up with it's full strength.
While President McBride's crowd
was moving into Bull street from
BroughtOn the South Side Administra-
ton Club and the Fourth District Adj
ministration Club President Samuel
Reynolds, were crossing Jones street
going north. The South Siders were
out in force and these two clubs south
of Liberty and the Osborne Associa-
ton north of Chippewa Square made
Bull street from Broughton to Castor
brilliant. t
Small Boys Fought.
After the clubs had made their way
into the crowded theater the bands
gave an open-air concert in the
square. This was enjoyed by several
hundred who were also entertained
with free fights and wild charges by
gangs of small boys. There were
strenuous times in the square for half
an hour or more, and a dozen or more
fights between black and white jul
veniles occurred.
Just where four bands were secured
was another feature of the perform
ance that puzzled the uninitiated ma
tives. One or two of them did not
really sound like bands. but the musi-
cal instruments were there. and the
men were blowing them.