The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-03-05

and one so attractive as to be sure of
retention in the future.
The heart of the army, the main
stay of disciplinarians, the splendidIy
drilled engineers. were represented by
the Second battalion. Major Burr COM
handing, and as the men marched in
files of twenty. they received I'M
limited applause. The pick Of the
army had been chosen for the
splendid procession so that while the
representations from each branch of
the service was small it was beyond
question the finest body of troops
ever gathered on Pennsylvania avenue
The signal corps, the provisional regi-
ment made up OF two battalions, and
the coast artillery, all had represen-
tatiVes. The men who man the great
guns at the sea coast Notifications. in
their spick and span uniforms with
brilliant touches OF colors of white
yellow, red, blue and green, typifying
the various branches Of the. service,
stir to its depths the lovers of the
, regular army
Porto Rico in the Parade.
Porto Rico was well represented in
parade Major Thomas w Griffith. Of
the regular army, commanded the bat
TALON of the Pacific provisional regi-
ment which came all the way from it's
A7AeNitu uOiilt 10 participate IN the maui
SuratIon. The crowds We're quick TO
recognize them and were generous in
their applause of the excellent show
ing these troops made. Even more un-
usual, however, was the sight Of the
nrst battalion Of Philippine scouts. Ma
! JoF W. :. Johnson, u. 5. A, command
ing, who We're chosen to represent the
archipelago in the first inaugural pa
Tade in which these little brown men of
the Tar east have participated. Only
the American soldier who has served in
| the Philippines knows how loyal has
| been the service of these men for their
new found country. 1t was the eX-
pressed wish of the president that they
should be in this parade and the mill
tary precision with which they marched
up the avenue showed that they appre-
ciated the honor. About , o'clock the
troops came to halt. the president
having reached the White House on
schedule time and gone TO his official
l home for hurried luncheon. The men
as they rested on their arms along the
! broad avenue seemed glad of the op-
portunity the wait gave them to spruce
/ up to pass in review before their newly
/ lnaugurated president.
All along the avenue from the treas
ury building to the capitol and for be-
yond stretched the splendid pageant
| the trimmings OF the uniforms and the
steel of weapons glistening in the sun
light While at parade rest, the sol
dlerS amused themselves Watching the
| scenes along the curb Incidents of hui
| man interest were many On the top
/ OF a building opposite the poStoffice de-
partment young man and his girl
/ danced a twO-step to the rapid melody
] OF Back, Back. Back TO Baltimore,
/ played by one of the bands in the pa
/ rade.
| 1t was exactly five minutes before 3
O'Clock when the Philippine scouts who
| were toward the last of the second bril-
| gade, first division of the military
/ grand division. resumed their march
| and passed the postoffice department
/ with as perfect a line as was to be
seen in the parade. Their progress was
marked by great cheering
Cheers For Marines.
| With its peerless band playing mar
i tial air and the men stepping like au-
| tOmatons the provisional regiment of
United States marines, headed by Colo
mel Karmany and his staff followed, led
| by soldierly man with an empty
/ sleeve. He was Captain Harry Leon
| ard who left one arm in the battlefield
/ of Tien Tsin. when the American ma
| Tines pointed the way TO all nations in
/ the march to Picking. The marines are
| always popular and they We're greeted
with tumultuous applause as they
| marched proudly along. They opened
/ the way for something new in an in
1
/ Provisional regiment of sailors The
! crews of the armored cruisers Colorado
| and West Virginia made up a fun regi-
| ment and not merely a detachment or
/ two as in the past. The sailors wore
/ their leggings and tried their best to
! carry their CaTbines at the regulation
/ angle. The third battalion of field ar
/ tillery commanded by Major HOyle,
! with the men sitting mOtiOnless on
| their caissons, gave the public one of
| the first exhibitions of the new army
! field guns. This weapon, not bronze or
| blackened as was the old piece. but
/ shining like silver. mounted on its
khaki colored carriage, made a fine i'm
| preston.
There may be cavalry I'm other ar
| mics as good. but certainly no one ever
| saw on this side of the world the SUI
| perior or, perhaps even the equals of
| the gallant Seventh and Ninth squad
rons which next moved up Pennsylva-
! MIA avenue, sixteen files deep, their
| pennants swapping in the breeze. The
( Seventh rode bay horses as closely
matched as bits of mahogany save the
! last company, which was mounted on
| high stepping black chargers The
| black men of the Ninth mounted on
their bay steeds had come all the way
! from Kansas tC do honor to the presi-
dent to whose aid they had come in
! his hour of need in the bloody conflict
/ on San Juan hill.