Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1905-03-08

man the great guns at the big seacoasl
Notifications in their spick and span
uniforms, with brilliant touches of
colors of white, yellow, red and blue
and green, typifing the various branch
es of the service, in the brilliant sun
/ light of the mild March afternoon,
made moving picture calculated to
stir to its depths the lovers of the
regular army.
Porto Ricans in Parade.
Porto Rico was well represented in
the parade. Major Thomas w. Grit
fifth of the regular army, commanded
the battalion of the Porto Rico pro-
visional regiment which came all the
way from their island home to partici-
pate in the presidents inaugural.
They We're a sturdy lot of men.
smaller perhaps of statue than their
American brothers in the service. but
well built, thoroughly trained in
marching. The crowds were quick to
recognize them and were generous in
their applause of the excellent show
ing these troops made.
Even more unusual, however, was
the sight of the First battalion of
Philippine Scouts, Major w. S. John
ston, U. S. A., commanding, who were
chosen to represent the archipelago in
the first inaugural parade in which
these little brown men of the far east
have participated. Only an American
soldier who has served in the Philip
pines knows how loyal has been the
service of these men for their new
country.
United States Marines.
With its peerless band playing
martial aid and the men stepping like
automatOnS, the provisional regiment
Of United States marines headed by
staff followed, led by a soldiery man
with an empty sleeve. He was Cap
tain Harry Leonard who left one arm
on the battlefield on Tientsin, when
the American marines pointed the way
to all nations in the march to Picking.
they We're greeted with tumultuous APP
plause as they marched proudly along.
They opened the way for something
new in an inaugural line of march in
the shape of provisional regiment of
sailors. The crews of the joint
armored cruisers Colorado and West
Virginia made up a full regiment and
not merely a detachment or two as in
the past.
Squadrons of Cavalry.
There may be cavalry in other
armies as good, but certainly no one
ever saw on this side of the world the
superior or perhaps even the equals of
the gallant Seventh and Ninth
squadrons which moved up Pennsyl-
vania avenue sixteen files deep, their
remnants swapping in the sharp north
west breeze. The Seventh rode bay
horses as closely matched as bits of
mahogany save the last company,
which was mounted on housekeeping
black chargers. The black men of the
Ninth mounted on their bay steeds had
come all the way from Kansas to do
honor to the president to whose aid
they had come in his hour of need in
the bloody conflict on San Juan HILL
Formation Of Parade.
The parade was divided into three
grand divisions: The military grand
division came first, as follows Major
General James +. Wade, United States
army, chief marshal: First division
Brigadier General f. ID. Grant, COM
handing; corps of cadets, u S. Nj. A.;
Midshipmen, Z. s. n. A; United States
forces, Brigadier General L. H. Barry;
National Guard, District Columbia.
Second division Governor S. w.
Pennypacker, Pennsylvania; Governor
Preston Lea, Delaware; National
Guard. Delaware and Pennsylvania;
Governor Il. G. Stokes, New Jersey;
National Guard, New Jersey, Georgia,
Connecticut, Massachusetts; Governor
Edwin Warfield, Maryland; National
Guard, Maryland, South Carolina, New
Hampshire, Virginia.
Third division Governor +. w.
Higgins, New York; National Guard,
New York. North Carolina, Rhode ISL
and, Vermont; Governor NJ. II. Her
rick, Ohio: National Guard, Ohio,
Louisiana, Indiana, Maine, Michigan,
Florida; Albany Burgess corps; Mill
n. A. q