Greene County herald. (Leakesville, Miss.) 1898-current, 1916-03-10
THE CALIFORNIA TRIP
THE SAN DIEGO EXPOSITION vIADucr.
Seeing An Inspiring Parade March In.
Fly JAMES FAUX. ]

to the fairgrounds on q car which
brought us to the entrance on the CD
posite side from that where we had
gone in the nlght before. This en-
trance was reached by traversing as
an approach viaduct over half a
mile long we would take it. which
was an immense concrete affair, bull
ded to set the traffic over a great
valley which lay In between the city
and the fair grounds from this side.
1t had majestic arches glistening 10
the characteristic exposition color OF
white and it afforded splerdid COM
prehensive view of the fairgrounds
as whole the broad, and. sweeping
valley below. and the camps or tents
of the u. soldiers or marines to one
side and adjacent to the fairgrounds
proper. This viaduct or wav, was
broad plenty for vehicles and pc
destrians of more than one row with
out crowding one another. 1t was
down in that we saw one of the most
inspiring sights that our eyes had
yet gazed upon a few minutes after
we had gotten inside the fairgrounds
and up in the art building in strag-
etc point for observance. We had
caught onto it that there was to be
parade and were on the lookout
and when the faroff biare and bray
of the brass bands proclaimed its
approach we hurried to our point of
advantage which was on a bridge,
like onto those pictured over the
streets of Venice; this bridge or
overlapping portions of the art
building stretching over the en-
trance through which the glad pro
cess on was to come marching.
The parade stretched as far as the
eye could see backward down the
street oct of which it wound onto
the viaduct and reminded us some
what of the lcgions of Rome bearing
the conquering eagles over the APP
plan Way and other ways in their
Irresistible sweep But this was IA
peaceful procession though some oil
them wore the habilaments of war
1t was some regiments of u. 5. Sol
diers and Battallions of u S. Ma
rines and number of bands of ma
sonic bodies all in their uniforms,
with up raised banners and flags and
eelefs coming on in stedcy phalanx
in their measured tread 10 the Expo
sition entrance. The booming OF
those big drums. the rata tat-tat Of
the snare drums, the responding
regis ser of thousands of feet on the
concrete pavement in unison step;
the picturesque colored admiral-l look
ing hats of the masonic fellows; the
glistening guns and clean uniforms
of the soldier boys and the flashing
swords and commands and dstin
gushing cOlors of their officers,
coupled with the great combined
blare of those several bands aroused
an enthusiasm which only military
pageant car stir in the humankind
| AS they drew nearer we were struck
with the elastic step of The young
soldiers as in contrast with those
old masonic fellows most of whom
we're civil war veterans. The old
boys had the maneuvers down but
the stiffness of age in their joints
told out in comparison with these
knatty stepping Youngsters in khaki
who strobe SO jauntlIy along, their
liue rising and falling over their
heads tops with the regularity of
the swell of the sea. The old fellows
made Their head gear jostle, though
they kept step we'll but their bodies
could not sway to the march like
their younger confrerees. THIS was
the feature of the spectacle that
touched us to tears and reminded OF
the certain processes of age as we'll
as the inevitable bouyancy of youth.
The parade scarcely exceeded in size
the confederate veterans parade we
saw IN Mobile several years ago; butt
that crowd was mostly old soldiers
while here we had the two in init
mate comparison.