The daily star-mirror. (Moscow, Idaho) 1911-1939, 1914-03-10
BATTLE SCARED
VETERANS PARADE
MOTLEY CROWD IN SPECTACULAR
ARRAY MARCHES THROUGH
MOSCOW STREETS.
Varsity Students Carry Out the An
nual STake-Off" on the Military In
spectiOn, Amusing the POpuIace,

If all military inspections were as
gay and giddy performances as the
burlesque given on Main street short
ly after one o'clock yesterday by the
members of the "Old Guard" of the
university battalion that event would
be little dreaded by those forced to
undergo its rigorous demands and tie
rest of us, as on-lookers, would never
need to sigh for the coming to town
of the circus with its jolly clowns,
melodious calliopes, and fascinating
parades.
Ever since the brave soldier boys
came back from the Philippines, they
have made the annual military inspec-
ton of cadets the occasion of take
off on all the pomp and circumstance
of that ordeal, and succeeding classes
have celebrated their release from
the tedium and dread of drill by con-
Quoting on Main street and on the
campus a mock inspection on the
very day on which those still doing
time" are forced to meet the grim
face of a regular army officer detailed
here to hold inspection of the battal-
ion.
Although the farces staged in the
past were all laughable in the eX-
treme, none surpassed in cleverness
and fun numerous hits of yesterdays
show. Shoppers thronging the stores
holding spring openings were sud-
denly drawn to the street by the trav-
esty of bugle call and the sound of
a band remarkable for vigor and speed
if not for harmony and balance Tie
sight that met their astonished gaze
was enough to drive all thoughts of
tango and peacock blue shades in
skirts and coats clear out of their
minds. Headed by motley crew
blowing horns and beating drums, the
and paint-bedaubed rem
nants of former military glory, attired |
in every sort of rakish and bizarre |
costume, marched sedately although |
with undisciplined irregularity of step
1own Main street. 1t was not only a
case of the blue and the gray march
ng side by side in peace and good
will, but red and brown and drab and
white and green and yellow adorned
he bent and limping frames of the
carred and bearded veterans of an
arlier day.
However fast may once have been
heir adherence to a fixed style in uni
orms, they showed today a becoming
atholicity of taste not only i'll color
ut in design texture, and accessories !
,anyas helmets, straw hats, fiat der
les, slouch hats, and sombreros of a
isgraceful limpness were among the
ead-pieces noted by our reporter.
md white duck trousers with cutaway
oats or scarlet flannel shirts were
OF the most startling combinations
isplayed. This heterogeneous com :
any was followed solemnly by an i'm
osing cannon of tremendous length I
nd brown cardboard composition, d
ON the mouth of which there issued 9
short intervals the most terrorizing l
)lleys of smoke and noise.
Behind the cannon walked the corps
surgeons carrying meat-saws, look
g bit the worse for their bloody C
and bearing, neatly en- O
oidered on the seat of their trousers, Il
Q badge of the Red Cross. Behind s.
ese came group of nurses not at tt
as our fancy has pictured those a
selfish harbingers of relief and COM O,
rt, but characterized here by a cer- fe
in masculinity of stride deep bass ki
IS of voice, cotumes of striking W
of style, and shapes not
the gentle curves so traditionally tb
ninine. fo
After reviewing the troops, the in st
sctor of the day ordered them to la
,ceed to the campus where it may be Gu
)posed they created quite the de- TO
,e of interest aroused by the reg
rs" he