The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-05-31
THOUSANDS MARCH
IN MILITARY PARADE
Veterans, Children, Regulars
and National Guardsmen
Pass i'm Review.


Paul on a Memorial day. Bright sun
shine not only contributed to the sue
cess of this feature of the observance
of 1904, but the line of march was
thronged with thousands from Rice
park all the distance TO the new state
capitol nearly mile away. The side
walks We're filled with a crush of hu-
mainly traffic in the streets traversed
by the procession was entirely sus-
pended for the time, and the people
gave themselves over to admiration
for the marching thousands. The mem
bers Of the G. A. r. and naval veter-
ans, many of them showing in their
hating walk the equally destructive
effect Of . rebel bullet or the whitening
palsy of old age, were the center of at
traction, and all else was but supple
mental In spite of the somberness of
the occasion, Youthful spirits were
manifest, and with waving flags from
sidewalk and housetop told the story of
patriotism triumphant, and young
Gr generation ready to do and dare as
their fathers had done before them.
The parade formed at Rice park.
Adjt. Gen. E. d. Libbey, of the Mime
sofa national guard, was chief marshal,
and he had as his aides the members
of his staff. He had distributed the
sections which were to constitute the
parade in the streets, radiating from
Rice park, and shortly after o'clock
the parade moved.
Drawn up on the east side of St Pc
ter street, between Fifth and Sixth,
and stretching around the corner and
east on Sixth were Garfield and Acker
posts Of the Grand Army of the Repub-
lie, the Minnesota branch of the Naval
oft De-
camp of the Society of the Philippine
Wars. Each post had more than a hun
dred men in line, there were some
thirty Of the naval veterans Of the
Civil and SpanishAmerican wars, and
the young men in the smart khaki uni
fOrmS-fifty StrOng-Were SURVIVORS Of
the military establishment in the Span
ish American war. The soldiers and
sailors of the two wars had the post
OF honor, and almost the entire parade
passed in review before them. both the
regulars and the national guard pre-
senting arms as they marched past the
veterans.
BugIe Starts Parade.
At the blare of a bugTe blown by c.
E. Kasler, the bugler for the Sons of
Veterans, a platoon of mounted police
under Lieut.. Budy swung into ST Pc
ter street, from Fifth, and the parade
was in motion. Following the police at
the head Of the first section came Adjt.
Gen. Libbey and his staff. superbly
mounted and caparisoned, and then
line of automobiles containing Gov.
Van SAINT, Gen. c.. G. c., Carr, Rev. j. J.
Lawler. Rev. Alexander McGregor, Rev.
Henry Y. Givler, Thomas r. Kane, DR..
o. S. Pine, Judge Louis William Kelly
and Gen. L. r. Hubbard
The judges of the United States cir
cult court of appeals and of the state
supreme court were also occupants of
automobiles, and were followed closely
by the Twenty first United States in
fantry. under command of Col. Charles
A Williams, and headed by the crack
regimental band. The regulars from
Fort Smelling marched with a precision
truly soldierly, and they divided atten-
ton only with the Tenth and Thir-
teenth batteries of light artillery,
which brought up the rear of the first
section.
The second section was headed by
the Minnesota State band, and included
the St. Paul companies of Ethe First
Minnesota regiment of the Minnesota
national guard, under command of Maj
Charles T. Spear. When this division
had swept past the long lines of vet
Grams, with colors dipping to the men
who had preserved the nation, the vet
Grams, too, fell in line, and headed by
the drum corps of Plummer post, OF
Minneapolis, Acl1er post took it's posi-
ton at the n6du OF the COiQ1lln- LIE
soldier veterans and the survivors OF
naval fights marched in columns OF
fours and following the old-time vet
Grams of Acker and Garfield posts were
the members of st. Paul camp, Society
of the Philippine Wars and of the new
ly organized camp of the United Span
ish American War Veterans. Former
sGov. l.. F. Hubbard was marshal OF
this division of the parade.
Coboof CbiIdrsy, ia I inc
The Sons of Veterans bugle corps
and drum corps led the third section
which included 200 school children
from the Jefferson school and nearly
as many from the Monroe building
The children marched in good order
each bearing a flag and numbers of the
little girls being gowned in the nation
al colorS. A carriage containing Col
A. r. McGill and the chiefs of the de-
partments of the st. Paul postoffice
was followed by the Letter Carriers
Association, ninety strong, and they by
the postoffice clerks, numbering almost
as many as the carriers. The division
was in charge of Col G. f. HauSdorf
The last division included fraternai
societies in uniform. The Minnesota
brigade Uniform Rank knights of Ply
thias in command of Col Fred Z
Wheaton. was composed of Uniform
Rank division No. 2, of st. Paul, and
Knights of Pythias band of Mime
apolis headed the two divisions, which
consisted also of ST. Paul lodge No
of the Knights of Pythias. Two com
panies of Modern Woodmen, those OF
Camps 3101 and 1049S, in uniform
pleted the order of march.
The line of march was up St Petel
to Sixth street, to Cedar street, and III
Cedar street to the new state capitol.
Gov. Van SAINT and his party, incIud
ing the speakers and the members o.
the federal and state courts, stationed
themselves on the approach to thu
new capitol, and there the long line
passed in review, the regulars and
guard passing on across WabaShs
street and. out Central avenae where
ranks We're broken. The old soldier:
and the school children, with severa
thousands of others, massed themselves
on the long flights of steps leading al
to the front entrance of the big state
house and on the grounds surrounding
the approaches. and there listened Il
the eulogisms of the nations dead.