The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-05-31
PARADE HERE A FINE SHOW,
ALL THE NATIONAL GUARD OUT
--REVIEVED BY LINN BRUCE.
schoolboys Take . Big Part IN the Turn
out and Get Hearty welcome-Womeu
in the Ranks With the veterans-Marcf
Heads . Varied Crowd Of Italians

Heads Q Varied Crowd OF Italians.
Memorial Day in the Borough Of Man
haitian was celebrated with q military
parade which has not been surpassed in
numbers and brilliancy for many years.
All the National Guard Of this borough was
out, and there were hundreds on hundreds
Of veterans Of the civil war and Of the
Spanish war in line.
Besides these the march was notable for
the part taken In it by the cadets from the
public schools and the semi-publio institu-
tons. The little fellows marched with a
manifest pride that was the delight Of all
the crowds which lined the sidewalks Of
upper Broadway and Riverside Drive.
There we're exercises at the Soldiers and
Sailors Monument and at Grants Tomb,
in which the United States cruiser Tacoma
had a part. and speeches were made by
Lieut.. Gov. Bruce and others.
The parade began at little after o clock
1t was headed by a deta chment Of Regular
troops and bluejackets They swung by
Lieut.. Gov. Bruce, who reviewed the pro-
cession from reviewing stand erected un
der the monument while thousands cheered.
Mr.. Bruce had been brought to the stand
by tho Old Guard and had been received
by the Society OF the War Of 1872.
The Old Guard, which was almost though
not quite as beautiful az the men Of the 1912
society, came into line opposite the re-
viewing stand. The 1912 society members
were stationed at intervals ten feet apart
In front OF the stand and for a hundred
yards or more south Of 1t.
The display made by the National Guard
was one which stirred up the greatest en-
thusiasm from one end Of the line of march
to the other. Behind Major-Gen. Charles
F. Roe, commanding the State troops,
was Squadron A, headed by its own mounted
band, and as spick and span and spirited
and business like as the squadron always is.
Then came the battery Of the immortal
Wendell; it looked as serious minded and
as ready for business and as fierce as though
It had never turned out to celebrate
doomed betrothal.
col. Franklin Bartlett led the Twenty
second Engineers, attired in their full dress,
red trimmed uniforms and stepping out
line After them came Col: Dan Appleton
, and the altogether beautiful Seventh in its
| gray and spotless white. the sturdy Sixty
! ninth, under Col Duffy, Col Morris's Ninth,
Col william 9. Bates and the Seventy
! first. and Col. Dryer and the Twelfth. The
Naval Reserve brought up the end Of the
National Guard division, and there were
repeated burste Of applause as the machine
| guns trundled by.
The veterans. for whom the National
Guard was the escort. were conspicuously
fewer than they have been in paradee here
tofore. II was noticed that in many Of the
| Grand Army posts 1t had been necessary
| to hire young men to carry the colors.
Just how come Of the old fellows we're able
| to stand the fatigue Of the long hot march
uptown was a marvel to most Of the spec
| tatoYs.
The boys Of Public School 1856 were drawn
up along the sidewalk Of the drive from
Eghty-nnth street almost to Eghty-sev::
enth street. They stood up uncovered
1t was good to watch the faces Of the old
soldiers when they saw the youn gsters
thus approaching the spirit of the day.
But there were plenty more evidences
is being impressed on the youth Of the public
schools. Following the Grand Army men
were three ambulances, q tribute to the
tenderness with which the city watched
the failing steps OF its heroes.
The ranks Of the veterans were frightened
here and there by the presence Of ' omen.
young and old, maphing with the old
soldiers. Some Of them were grand
children. some were daughters. and one,
Mrs. Prownell, who marched with the
vice Vi, Il in the feid.
was for the cadet division. There was lots
Of IL up, starting with the whoops Of the
School los boys and ending with the APP
plause Of Lieut,-Gov. Bruce and that OF
the wonderfully appareled members Of
! the Governors staff who accompanied him.
But whom the tiny boys from the Hebrew
| Orphan Asylum and the Hebrew Sheltering
Guardian Society came by. swinging right
and left most, dramatically in time to their
hands, the spectators almost cried for Joy.
They were 40 wonderfully little and they
were 40 perfectly glad to be as important
as they we-a
The parade also Moulded a very full
representation Of Nizza First Regiment
Cavalry, the Guardia Colombo, the Tor
q,ata Tasso and other OF tho wonderfully
arrayed organizations which might have
been expected to be found In division OF
which James F. March was marshal. A
remarkable showing was made also by the
Gardes lafayette and Veterans des Armeee
de Terre ct de Mer.
The parade was two hours in passing the
| reviewing stand. At the end OF the maroh-
ing the School 1876 boys were moved up to
| the plaza around the monument and DR..
| p. II. Murphy presided over exercises which
began at noon with twenty -one gun salute
| by the United States cruiser Topeka, an
chored In the river of the monument.
Lieut. Gov. Bruce made a little address
| in which he said that no city in the country
had ever seen q more notable Memorial
Day parade-one more significant OF the