The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-05-06
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Tho seventh Regiment paraded up Fifth
avenue yesterday afternoon In partial cole
bratlon ~ IL centennial. Secretary ~
Wal william ~ Taft came over from Wash
inRton to honor the seventh a. reviewing
Officer, The Secretary. with Gen, Fred ~.
Grant n ~ company ~ brilliantly I'm .
formed regular and gnard,men officers,
reviewed the column Of old boys and young
from a stand erected In front Of the Union
League Club NJ FIFTH avenue and Thirty
ninth street.
Save for a distressing quarter Of an hour,
just at the time the Seventies veterans,
in silk hats and frock coats. were about 10
marohout Of the new armory Of the Seventy
first Regiment at Park avenue and Thirty
fourth street. and join the regiment drawn
up in Fifth avenue, the afternoon was brill
liant and sunshiny, ideal for a military
parade.
During that quarter Of an our a sudden
thunderstorm drenched immaculate uni
forms. mudded snowy duck trousers, took
the kink out Of flowing feathers and spoiled
tempers. 1t even dispersed the Seventh,
drawn up at Fifth avenue and Thirty
second street, driving the men from orderly
formation and sending them sorambling
and scurrying to the shelter of doorways
and handy trees. Then the storm passed
and the rest of the day was AZ perfect as II
the Seventh had sent weather specifications
to Mr.. Moore of Washington.
Long before 3 o'clock, the time set for
the assembling of the regiment in its armory,
at Park avenue and Si~xty-seventh street,
and Of the former members in the Seventy
first's new house, Fifth avenue from the
Waldorf Astoria to the Yerkes mansion
was banked solidly with a holiday crowd
keen for a brilliant show. The thunder
shower bro 9 up the crowd temporarily
but quick as the sun came again there was
q rush for good places on the sidewalks
Every side street leading into Fifth ave-
niue along the line Of march was jammed
with all sorts Of vehicles turned into. OBJ
servation points. Even the old stage
coaches, which halt neither for time nor
tide, were diverted from their course, and,
crowded to the top, backed into side streets.
Automobiles, hanson cabs, coupes, buggies,
road coaches and English carts were
TANNED together. No attempt was made
to estimate the crowd, but easily 100 900
persons saw the show along the avenue.
By 8 o'clock the drill room Of the Seventy
frst's armory was humming and buzzing
with the old fellows Of the Seventh. Great
placarde. marked with the company letters
were placed along the walls and underneath
tho big As, Bs, Ca and SO on the veterans
collected. Many Of them had come from
distant parts Of the count y, some even
from az far as Denver, New Orleans and
Chicago.
Over on the Thirty-fourth street side
OF the drill hall, under the banner Of the
War Veterans, the old soldiers squared
their shoulders shook the stiffness out Of
their legs and prepared to obey orders from
the commander OF their division, Major
Gen. Alexander shaler. Some of the old
men held aloft, very proudly, the tattered
battle flags they carried more than forty
years ago. Major-Gen. Edward l.. Moli-
neux waved the old banner Of the Second
Brigade Of the Nineteenth Army Corps
which he commanded in The civil war.
There was hardly anything left of the old
banner save a blurred ~" and a hint Of
color. Capt. Richard s. Alcoke, who lost
an arm al FTeutTlChSDuiB MdNtu tlc licaut
quarters flag of the Sixth Army Corps.
Many of the flags, worn transparent, mere
shreds Of faded color, bore marks of Win
chester, Antietam, Chickamauga, the PENN
sular campaign and n dozen other battles,
Gen. Molineux, little, brisk, straight and
erect as a young lieutenant of regulars, re-
garded the war veterans very proudly.
There were forty-eight of them, fully a
dozen over eighty. years of age, not n mar
less than sixtv-fve. .
aThe good old boys" said Gen. Molineux.
Watch them throw back their shoulders
and forget there are such things az rheu-,
and govt. Watch them get out and
keep step to the oand. They'll make these
youngsters step lively, mark mel
Clear across the vast space of the Sew
enty -frst's drill room the veterans OF the
Spanish-American war were. marshallinR
under their flags, The floor was a shifting
Of brilliant colors. Oficers Of
the Seventh, in their blue, r and white
uniforms, communicated Col. Appleton's
to the various divisions. Squadron A
men, sin their trappings of gold and light
blue, chin-ohinned with regular army Off
cers in their full dress uniforms,
khan BoyAjian. an Armenian, now aEofonel
in the Persian army, and once y member
Of Company B Of the Seventh, talked with
his old drill mates. The Persian Co)onel's
was picturesque and distinctive.
wore a feg of black lambswool, on the
faca OF which blazed the golden lion of
The breast Of his blue coat gilt
tered with foreign orders and sparkled
diamonds. The red stripe of his light
blue trousers was three inches wide.
In another part Of the nall Capt. A, c,