Albuquerque evening citizen. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1905-1907, 1905-09-21
RECORD BREAKING ATTENDANCE
FOR ALBUQUERQUE DAY
Fifteen Thousand People Witness Grand Trades Display Parade This Morning
Pageant Was FOryFiVe Minutes Passing Corner Railroad
Avenue and Second Street.

Fully $4,000 people witnessed the
grand street parade this morning. The
crowd was thickest on Railroad ave,
nue., between First and Third streets,
and the police had much trouble in
keeping the spectators from swarmlng
INTO the street. The sidewalks in the
down town district were blockaded,
and all along the entire line of march
twenty-six blocks in length, the crowd
extended on either side many persons
deep. 1t was the largest crowd even
congregated in Albuquerque.
The first division left the starting
point at the corner of North Second
street and Marquette avenue at 10: 80
o'clock, the appointed time, and it was
1880 before the last coach had pass,
ed the corner of Railroad avenue and
Second street. Considering that IL
took fifteen minutes for the first di.
vision to traverse the first seven
blocks, the parade was forty-five min,
utes in passing any given point on the
line of march.
Col. John Borradaile, marshal OF
the day, Adjutant General A. p. Tark,
ington, of the New Mexico National
Guard, and Captain B. Ruppe, of the
national guard led the procession, and
were followed closely by the First reg.
mental band discoursing martial airs.
The band boys We're garbed in the IA
tigue uniform of tbe United States
soldier.
The Territorial Mounted Police
w in
rifles and girdles of leather filled With
Of West Point gray and they carried
cartridges.
Troop II, Fifth United States cav
airy, Lieutenant Lewis in command,
came next. The soldiers were in
dress uniform and the gold braid and
glittering sabers /ave forth brilliant
and thrilling scene.
Fire Chief BuItless led the city fire
department of three wagons, and the
Santa Fe shops department followed
close behind.
President Greer of the Territorial
Fair association; Col. Ralph f. Twit-
chell, presideIx of the Northern New
Mexico fair, and d. A. Macpherson
followed the fire department in Darby
A. Days automobile
Then came the queens float, Miss
Jessie Ilfeld adorned a large float
splendidly draped with national col
Ors. On her brow rested the giided
crown of the Queen of the Twenty
fifth Territorial fair
The Ladies of the Maccabees fol
lowed with a splendid float, the most
exemplary lodge float in the parade.
"The industrial cooperative league
and trust buster" were the burning
words which garnished the Socialists
float, A large number of boys and
girls rode inside.
The Knights Of the Midnight Sun
had a good float advertising the mas
Quorade ball, which will be given at
Colombo hall Saturday night.
The Sellers Printing company had a
float which reflected their line Of
business and the Southwestern Cream
cary company had a float with excel
fent advertising features.
The Southwestern Brewery and Ice
company's display, a cart loaded with
beverages drawn by burro, was one
Of the strikingly funny floats OF the
parade.
The Diamond Ice company followed
with three ice wagons
Kirster's Havana Buds cigars to
the number of several thousand, filled
one wagon
The Superior Planning Mil had a
good industrial float containing ma
chinery and carpenters at work.
+. j. Post & Co. hardware merch-
ants, exhibited a cart pushed by a
mule harnessed between two shafts of
gas pipe. It was one Of the really fun
ny floats i'm the procession.
The Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
railway was well represented with
two floats. One float represented a
passenger coach and II was filled with
little boys and girls. The other repre-
scented box car in course of construc-