Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1908-10-10
GREAT PARADE
OF INDUSTRIES
One Hundred and Elghiy-One
Floats milne In Philadelphia.
A MAGNIFICENT EXHIBITION

Development In Quaker city-one
Float Was Drawn BY Forty Horses.
Parade Of Labor Unions Was Held
In the Evening and Over Twelve
Thousand Persons and Many Floats
Were In Line.
Philadelphia. Oct. S--Half a million
spectators. filling Broad streets miles
OF grand Stands and jammlng the side
walks from curb TO house line. wit
messed two-hOur-long pageant that
placed before them in pictorial floats
the story of the birth. development
and present day greatness Of Philadel'
phia's Industries.
Without doubt II was the greatest
Industrial demonstration that any
American city has ever seen and was
fully worth the $20O. 900 which II Is es-
timated by those who placed in the
line the 1871 floats that participated,
the exhibits cost.
While the parade had no marching
companies of soldiers or other organi-
cations in line, II was not without
music. At various points among the
floats there were scattered two score
bands.
In the line were some OF the largest
floats ever seen in an industrial pa
geant One. shown by the Keystone
Telephone company. was drawn by
forty horses.
Another float. one Of the two shown
by the BALDWIN Locomotive works.
bore an exact copy in wood of "Old
Ironsides' the first locomotive built
by Matthias Baldwin. the founder or
the present great plant. when he
started at Broad and Buttonwood
streets In 1882.
Still another striking float was that
Of the Philadelphia Jobbing Confec-
TONERS association. on this was
shown a life.sized statue of William
Penn coated with chocolate. the
founder offering box OF candy TO
figures In white representing the vari-
gus possessions OF the nation.
Seven floats were carried in the line
lion. The first showed an Egyptian
temple or beer vault, dedicated To
Osiris. the god who II is said, taught
the Egyptians how to make and drink
beer 20O0 e. G.
Float No , showed William Penn's
brewery in this city in 1858; the third
showed a modern brewery; the fourth
carried grains used in making beer;
the fifth dealt with the bottling trade;
the sixth touched upon allied trades
and industries. and the seventh car
ried pictures showing how much the
brewing industry means to the city,
the state and the nation.
The Henry Disston Saw works Of
Tacony sent six floats. The first OF
them showed the old and new ways of
making saws comparison being the
cutting OF forty-hve teeth by the old
method and 1900 by the new.
On intervening floats were exhibits
of saws OF every description on the
last the largest circular saw in the
world. being 100 inches in diameter.
MANY OF the Disston saw workers
marched ahead of the exhibit.
On the float OF the Southwark Mills
company manufacturers OF woollens
were half dozen live sheep with men
shoaring them. On the rear OF the float
was weaving machinery in operation
Tuesday morning was given over to
the German.American citizens who
paid homage to the memory of the
first immigrant from Germany To
American shores This part OF the
celebration had its center in German
town. where there was parade many
miles long and where the cornerstone
OF the monument TO be erected In
honor OF Francis Daniel Pastorius In
Vernon park was unveiled with ap
propriate ceremony President Roose
welt sent fluctuations; the German
embassy at Washington was repre-
scented by an attache: Governor Stuart
paid Pennsylvania's tribute. and Mayor
Reyburn spoke In eulogy Of the Ger
man residents OF the city. Prominent
German.Americans from all sections Of
the country attended the celebration.
The feature OF the afternoon was
a parade down Broad street of the po
lice. firemen and letter carriers of the
city, the state constabulary and volun
teer fire companies from many of the
neighboring towns and villages. The
idea OF historic significance. prevailing
in the entire scope of the Founders
Week celebration, was carried ont In
the display OF the police and iire de-
partments. The far cry from the old
hand-drawn hose reels and hool; and
ladders. with their spiier-like wheels
and seant equipment. TO the modern
trucks with towering extensl lad
ders. the powerful compound steamers
and the heavy laden hose wagons OF
the present day. was amply Illustrated
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