Richmond planet. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1883-1938, 1909-07-31
THE TENTH PARADEs AFoor.
Up Through the Town With a Pick,
aninny Drum Corps.

il Ladybug and Brigham Young
and the rest of the trained cavalry
horses that the Tenth left behind
when it came away from the Phflip-
pines had been IN town Yesterday the
coiored troopers would have had the
time of their lives. But when Won
take q cavalryman who is in the hab-
% OF saddlng his mount every time
ne wants 10 cross the companv street
and softeI him with seventy-one davs
on transport and then turn him
loose 90 march over eight miles or so
OF asphalt. YOU needn't wonder 80
that cavalryman finds the first chair
IN sight az the end OF the march and
uoesn limp away from &c until some
5hlng makes noise Ike a trolley
car
Yes. suhtr exclaimed Trooner
Nastus Lincoln Washington Jones as
ne stretched his legs in front OF him
up ar the SiNty-niuth Regiment Ar
morF Yesterday afternoon. 1--WE su+-
tenly did hate fo' 90 leave dem dor
bosses wuss'n an de Islands torethe~
why. dat Ladybug. She knew which
way 20 go befoh' DE so'jers done hear
&c hugle. Dis hyeah mahchfn's am
IlInt Tor douEnboys-d what MO
cans lHian;rymcu-but e. me q boss
D. an got 20 mahch, Yes. subj"
Notwithstanding their distasto for
personal locomotion. Yesterday v.ae o.
oaF That the Tenth won't FORGET ANA
me Tenth is regiment thaf bar
plenty of DAYS 90 remember Wv.
ORR seemed 20 be making nm i+e
mind whether the Serro r,.l-.. =
good soldier. and the troopers t-nov.
IT, New York decided that ba docs
ana tho troopers know rhe- 49,,
ana you are mistaken ~ Won ttf,l.
Ior moment that they fidr-+A So.
'he sensation az having the princIro1.
calcium aimed their wav n 49,
what they had been waiting FOR
The transport Kilpatricll lvfr~ 81.
.Ae root on Wall street. emitted c0o
troopers or there1bout WITH ge.v
"hlte ohcers into the street az q
rev minutes after IL o'cIoc,, yE-,1II
.eet woke NO 20 the fact that Some
tnlng queer was taking place vbcr
'ne music of the Tenth's hand No.
coIateo through the Offices r-i,,,
were nshed ont OF somewhere e,,4
nuns from the windows. vbor +Lr,.
DION have flags 20 wave the brol,or,
oI"ped few yards OF ticker t,Do
rom the cornices and made ur. 49,
.ne shortage of display by tho voInr7o
vi Solhu- When the head OF tho 1iDe
wheeled into Broadway win 80
.i' ore bands or local Negro orrapiza-
,lons downtown traffic stoDpe5 ana
hurrahed WY" anu
On the steps of City Han stood
mayor Mcclellan and presidor- M.
az the Board of Aldermen
-'lI- NcGowan had made an tho az
. 81" eAleAts Tor handling the omcia,
'eeuoIn 20 the Tenth while tho Nc
OF was away. so Mr. NTcCleIs, -
CIplea modest position behind on.
"4 the pillars. leaving Mr. NTcCov..,,
20 ac' as Municipal host Rorb ~
!. .leiN raised their hats when Troor
p went by with the colors
~ through Broadway the co1n,,r
'"L 20 NaVerly Place. then tbrouob |
- fiIth Avenue. When the lone
venue opened up ahead Of them ~
! oopeTs settled down 20 their sfri5s /
az p'CtoF boettler rode in a runo hone
q. '-e mead or the line with SOW
I any ana hve or six mounted nnep 4
~ ~ ush teamsters and automohiles
'-L OF the way. Then came oDeD
al 'lases with the colored commit
80 waving their hats in an dire
,o',s' mar a dozen assistant rosr
7,i"4s headed by Capt. Harry
! nom pson, u. s. V, very irnnress;,,,
n Nhlte linen uniform. did -bei~
80 70 restrain the sportive tender
.es OF an equai number OF very al.
- - tened mounts. There wasr,+
luch Tor the marshals 10 do o,-oa-..s
heir chests. SLICK out
Ihen came the Commodore O,t,..
u Ferry Garrison, Army and So.
mon No IS, with a goI1 go
ma tassels. After that was -
req oand with the sliding tronohoDo-
.reat quantity OF ta-da-de-da -
n NJ. a. me We're about twenty pick-
o. from the Nashville reforma-
90, nave a whole brass band
,iol,s Ihe school where unrulv
80. aIe made docile3 but this was
: uIun corps, which happened
ummer schools. i0' OF
;o T.Sy TOOK the whole thing so Sc
Sos as they trudged along wisb i
neas Do"eo httle legs giving al the
I nevS at every step. and their long
. snet s.ay coats with swaIIowtajjs
he, 't"s Gown so straight over Their /
baTo , euck kniekerbockers, makine
ve er- IoOh hke pouter pigeons. thai / I
ber 10y laughed and cheered when | i
~ pssseo; Without any warnin1
a 1rS wouiu race about and then fpr5I :
Ia. ~ again. 1t was estimate
jstor Ley walked exactly twice the
100 tnat the other paraders ala
he TnrsS 6. H c. Gale, headed {
ue Tenth' mounted. scattere5 1 ga
,-s ~ v"e me on horseback were NJ
~, as N. ID. Read, II. C. Grierson ma !
"a sands. Then came tbal
e1 - composed OF Troops X
, " y. n, f, B. c and ID Tha-aI
ere Dig strappline Negroes .