Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-03-04

gathered from far and near. At , O'Clock
the funeral procession LETT the White House
and proceeded down Pennsylvania avenue
10 the Capitol.
The avenue FOR the whole distance had
teen cleared by the police and soldiCfy. lint
the pavenents were lined with silent and
| subGucd citizens. lew cf whom took the
trouble to hide their grief The column
moved to the solemn booming of miuate
! guns. first the military escort. "A mile in
, length. each soldier with arms reversed
! and drdpcd in black. marching 20 the sound
! of mutfied drums and mournful d.rse music
! After the military division followed the
| civic procession, headed Ly Marshal La
! mon, Surgeon General Barnes and the
| physicians who had attended the rresi-
dent. Behind these gentlemen was the
f, funeral car. attended by fifteen p1llbcarcrs
selected from Congress. the army and The
| ravy and civil life. and then the Presidents
| family. The civic societies. delegations
| from other cities, etc, brought up the rear
! The whole procession was three miles long
| and consumed two hours and quarter ia
! passing given point
Grand Review.
/ \ little more than month later. on the
| 23d of May, to be exact the grand review
began. the greatest and most important
parade that Pennsylvania avenue ever saw
| or probably ever viii see. Two hundred
and forty thousand men. comprising the
| victorious armies of the Potomac and the
Mississippi, under Generals Meade and
! Sherman, marched up the avenue and
| were reviewed by their constitutional COM
| mander-in-chief. From dawn Till dark for
! two days, the Union soldiers marched in
! a constant stream and the clouds OF dust
kicked up by their swinging stride hung
| over the city Ike a pail For PennsyI-
| vania avenue then, and in the years pre-
ceding was far different from what il is
| now. The worst street in the country
| it had often been called in those days and
| from all accounts it deserved the name.
! In dry weather highway of Choli-chOking
| dust. in the rainy season a quagmire of
yellow mud and many pitfalls. But the
/ great army did not mind; they had gone
! farther and Jared worse. and the ovation
] they received was in itself reward. Prob
ably the country Will never again the
| like of the grand review. Some of the
| soldiers Were barefooted. all were worn
and dust begrimed. many were ia rags.
Some of the regiments in the march past
were numerically as strong as when they
| went into the federal service; others could
muster barely a oorporal's guard of
vivors- Some were fully Differed. while in
others sergeauts, corporals and even pri-
Yates, recently promoted and ununiformed
We're in supreme command. The spectators
alternated between laughter and tears
cheers and groaLs. The review was pro-
portfonately proper and imposing climax
to the greatest war in the nations his
| tory Never was Washington so packed
with humanity. relatively speaking, as dur
ing the grand review. The ncwspa pers OF
the city and of the country gave sufficient
| notice even to the remotest hamlets and
| the people came literally in multtudes
Painters. poets journalists and historians
We're there TO give ii fame. The lawyer
| left his briefs. the artisan his bench, the
farmer his pillow. to greet the veterans
whose trials and exploits for the proceed
ing four years were the general theme of
| office, workshop and home. The spectators
who were there may have read of the tri-
umphal entrance of victorious legions in
; old world countries but they felt and acted
| 1 grand cltrp al in
| tacular display and historic interest any
] thing the world had ever seen.
Garfield Funeral Cortege.
In 1881. sixteen years after the Lincoln
| funeral procession, and the march past Of
| the armies in the grand review, the Gar
! field funeral cqrtege passed down the his
toric avenue. Probably event in history,
save perhaps the assassination of President
| Lincoln in 1863 and of President Mckinley
| forty years later, SO shocked the American
people as the killing OF President Garfield
| by the lunatic Guiteau. The funeral pro-
| cession from the railroad station when
Garfelds body was brought to the capital
| from Elberon, where he had been taken,
and later from the Capitol to the railroad
! station, was imposing, although the gather
ing of citizens from other points was lack
| ing. But the crape-draped military again
marched with arms reversed to dirge music
and muffied drums.
| Like the Inauguration OF President Abra-
!
Cleveland on March T. 1885, denoted
| change in the reigning parties, and was a
| noteworthy event in the history of Penn
/! sylvania avenue pageants. Hundreds of
thousands of people poured into the city
from every section of the United States to
| witness the ceremonies. No such military
| display had been seen in Washington since
! the grand review OF 1850, and the procession
| on Pennsylvania avenue was probably the
| largest in point of numbers that ever es-
| corted President
in 1889 was nothing out of the ordinary,
| but when President Mckinley inaugu-
| rated for the first time the procession was
! quite as extensive and imposing as that
| which escorted Cleveland. The famous
| Black Horse Troop of Cleveland. Ohio.
| formed the Presidents body guard. and
| the civic organizations in line were particu-
larry numerous. So it was when McKiH-
| ley was inaugurated for the second time.
Prince of Wales Visit
| OF course during all the years there have
| been parades in honor of distinguished Wis
| itors. The Prince of Wales who visited the
| United States when only nineteen years of
age, must have thought but little of the
military forces of the United States, for his
escort was small in numbers and not par
| ticularly imposing in any other way. The
| citizens of Washington tried TO supplement
| the escort with their militia and civic or
CARNATIONS. but the avenue was not par
ticularly graced on that occasion. The
Grand Duke Alexis was here good many
| years ago. too, before great pageants on
| the avenue on an occasion OF public I'M
| portance became the rule, and in large
measure he had to take the Gill for the
+, deed. Something more in keeping with the
| Importance of an international visitation
| was offered on the occasion of the visit
of Prince Henry of Prussia. All the reg
ular army organizations for miles around
| Washington were turned out then, and the
| prince probably took home with him a bet
| ter impression of the paseantry resources
of Washington and it's historic thorough
| fare than did his royal visitors who pre-
ceded him to the national capital.
The last great funeral cortege that passed
down Pennsylvania avenue was. of course
that which bore the escorted body of Pres
ident Mckinley from the White House to
the Capitol where il lay in state. All the
distinguished men of the national govern
ment Were in that sorrowing procession.
and the usual military division formed part
of the escort Never has day been more
In keeping with the spirit OF an occasion.
The skies gray and it rained all the
time the funeral cortege was en- route to
the Capitol, but Notwithstanding, the popu-
lation of Washington and distinguished vis-
itors from all over the country stood bare
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