The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1909-09-27

their annual gathering this year IN Bev-
erly and the posts at Beverly and Bev-
erly Farms voted nice sum of money
for the entertainment of Grand Army
visitors. The review proved an exceed
ingly popular event for the veterans
and also for the town people and for
the many wealthy summer residents on
the North Shore There has been very
little opportunity for the local folks to
see the President, except as a flying
automobile parsonage and the interest
Just to look into his face was very keen.
The city was very prettily decorated
for the occasion. There We're flags and
bunting and portraits of the President
to heighten the color of the street
scene. The morning opened with threat
ening weather. but it "burned away"
and by noon a frst-class brand of a
glorious autumnal day was in evidence.
The veterans came trooping into town
in high spirits for their reunion and be.
fore long were on the ground in saf-
fcient numbers to give the appearance
on a small scale of a National encamp-
ment. A reviewing stand had been
erected in front of the City Hall and
| the throngs of many thousands direct
! ed their steps that way as the after
noon wore on.
! President Taft is generally late at
public functions. He honored the Essex
Veterans. however, by being on hand
| to the minute. They had formed and
stood in line waiting the word to more
when at $3.50 O'Clock the President
| drove up to the reviewing stand, joined
J Gov Eben s. Draper, of Massachusetts,
Department Commander John l.. Par
! ker, of Massachusetts, and other not
ables, and the signal was given for the
column to be put in motion.
Commander Alvah A. Hanscom, o.
John H. Chapman Post, No. SO, Bev
erly, the veteran who, when it seemed
| impossible to persuade the President Il
review the parade, mounted his bycicl'
and rode down to Burgess Point insist
ing upon seeing the President. was th'
chief marshal, and Capt. James A
| Wright. a vigorous old Illinoisan; wh'
| has migrated East, was his chief o.
| staff The parade was very creditabl'
/ one, comprising about 1900 ex-soldieri
| who marched past the President Will
/ brisk step and erect figure. Almost ev
ery post had band and there was spir
I tied music in abundance. The Presi
| dent stood doffing his new black derb,
hat, which he wore for the first tins
this autumn, and evinced keen interes
lin the fine appearance of the marchers
s'From the looks of these men, y h
said to one of those with him on TIL
reviewing stand, .'the government vii
be paying pensions for many years t
| come. -
/ Several carriages of veterans were Il
the line In one of them rode Justie
| Oliver Wendell Holmes of the Unite'
States Supreme Court, SON of the Bos
ton poet. Justice Holmes has summe
i home near here. He was a first lieu
tenant in the Twentieth Massachusett
| Volunteers. was shot in the breast a
Balls Bluff, in the neck at Antietan
and in the heel at Maryes Height:
Post 1873 at Beverly Farms, which wa
joint host with the Beverly Post, invit
ed Justice Holmes to ride in one o
their carriages and he accepted, havin
with him Gen. c. L. Pierson, also
summer resident.
The two divisions of the parade, wit
their bands and drum corps were twent
minutes in passing. They marched u
Cabot street, the main thoroughfare o
the town, and deployed under the ia
elms of the town common. AS the
wheeled into the broad open space
showered with the full autumn SUI
Confined on Page Ten.)