Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1913-03-04

Ellu the CARRIAGES Ol IFtSlucnt WllSOIl
and Vice-president Marshall. And then
with the steady Tramp, tramp, tramp
of marching feet, the stream of color
wound down from Capitol Hill and
breasted its way toward the White House
to which the presidential party had driv-
EN- brisklv ahead to take places for the
review.
The chief officers and divisions of the
parade were as follows:
Grand Observation-Disclosures General Leon
4 Wood.
First Division, Regular Army, Navy
and Marine Corps-Major General w.
W. Wotherspoon, Commanding.
Second Division, State Militia-Bri.
gadier General Albert L. Mills, Command
ing.
. Third Division, Veteran and Patriot
ic OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES James i Stu
art, of Chicago, Commanding.
Fourth Division, Civic Organizations
Robert \. Harper, Commanding.
As the procession took up the march,
the noted Essex troop of New Jersey
swung in behind the carriage i'm which
President Wilson and former President
Taft rode. Then came Vice-Prcsident
Marsha1s carriage and behind that the
Black Horse Troop Of Culver Military
Academy, pranciHg and bowling to the
lively music. a roar Of welcome opened
up before this whole party as it started
and swept along behind it.
Then came Major General Wood, Chief
of staff Of the army and grand marshal
Of the procession, heading the military
bodies, handsomely mounted with snowy
uniform of his high rank. Then the army
contingent, headed by the West Point
cadets; long straight lines of gray lacing
the avenue, each line stepping az one man
heads w, chests high, plumes aflutter,
rife barrels glistening. An ovation greet
ed them.
Tramping close behind came the First
Battalion of Army Engineers, the 18th
L. S. Infantry and Band from Fort Nc
Pherson Ga, and a regiment of coast
artillery from Fort Monroe. The crack
Seventeenth, III full marching order. a
solid column of full dress service blue,
swinging easily to the lively music Of
their band, made q splendid appearance.
Commanding no less interest han the
West Point cadets, came the midshipmen
from Annapolis. In thir regulation short
navy blue jackets and tan leggins, the
young sailors were received with waves
Of cheers.
Blu now the assembled thousands sent
up a new roar. a regiment of blue Jack
cts turns into the avenue. They tramp
along briskly, with the rolling quick
step of men who are not strangers to the
sea. A squadron of the Fifteenth cavalry,
a battalion of the Third Field Artillery
and a detachment of the Signal Corps
brought up the rear of the division of
regulars.
Then marched the second division.
made up of militia. D~elaware's troops
led, headed by the Governor and his
staff. New Jersey-President Wilson's
own state-sent its entire militia estab-
lishmcnt, including its battalion Of ma
val reserves. In line came the State troop
of Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Mary
land, Georgia, Connecticut. Virginia.
North Carolina, Rhode Island. Maine
Michigan, Ohio and other states Milit-
ia representations from the states was
not so great as at previous %inaugurals,
but there was a greater representation
of regular troops.
dent Marshall's state-was totally IN
represented. Many Of the states, howev-
er, which did not send troops because
of the long distance to be travelled were
representa- by thir govrnors and stats
in the Fourth Grand Division.
Cadets from the Carlisle Indian School
an their uniforms of cadet blue, were a
subject of remark in contrast with the
remnant of their ancestors, who marched
wrapped in multi-colOred blankets and
in full feathers and war paint. Cadet
battaliOns from the Virginia Military
Institute and Culver Military Academy
brought up the rear of that section.
The third division. made up of veteran
and patriotic organizations, was sugges-
tive of the fast diminishing ranks OF
the veterans of the north. and south,
Both sections were representa-, the near
by northern states and TIL District of
Columbia furnishing the large number
of men in blue. with here and there the
men in gray mingling with their former
adversaries. The fourth grand division,
composed of civic bodies, was probab.
lv the most diverse of all