Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-03-05
MORE THAN
PROCESSION; GREAT
PATRIOTIC DISPLAY

guardsmen fresh from the border,
cadet schools under arms and other
militia units. They came from many
States, some in their full dress uni
form, others in the olive drab of field
service, all showing the hardening
months of service. Notable in the line
were the First Brigade of the Mary
land Guard; the District of Columbia
Guardsmen, newly returned from the
border; cadets from Virginia Military
Institute, Virginia Polytechnic Insti-
tute, Culver Military Academy, DON
aldson Military School of Fayetteville,
n. c.; Washington High School, the
cadet corps of the Maryland Agricul-
tural College and cadet organizations
or troops from Ohio, South Carolina,
Louisiana, Georgia, and other States.
More than 10000 men, it was csti-
mated, were in the first two divisions.
Five companies of cadets from the
Carlisle Indian School, accompanied
by an Indian band of forty pieces and
thirty-five Indian girls of the school,
marched next.
Two independent military organiza-
tionS having places in the line were
the Washington Infantry, of Pitts
burgh, one of the oldest organizations
in the country, 100 strong; and the
Motor Defense Association of Baiti-
more. The latter brought with them
five motor cycles, two side car ma
chimes armed with machine guns, two
siGe-car caissons and one truck, all
manned by about twenty men.
In the third division were veterans
of the Civil War and the war with
Spain, and patriotic societies. Head
ing this division were the Grand
Army men, corporars guard by
comparison with the thousands of
their fellows who have marched over
the way in years gone by. They
echoed their service in the words on
the banner behind which they
marched, Ready Again for Any
Duty"
The fourth division, composed of
civic and political organizations, was
pro obably the most numerous and di-
verse of all. Among the Indian
marchers was a delegation from the
reservation at ST. Francis, S. D., head
ed by Henry Hollow Horn Bear, son
of the chief whose likeness adorns
the most recent issue of five-dollar
treasury notes. Eight hundred
women employees of the Bureau of
Engraving and Printing, in distinctive
garb; women afoot,. on horseback, in
automobiles; women bands, women
on floats; Democratic women work
ers; western, southern and eastern
women, marching, as one leader said,
warriors" all were In the long line.
A feature of this division was the
mounted squadron of Virginia women
who escorted Mrs. James II. Boggs,
of the Wilson Women's Union. a
member of the inaugural committee.
Tammany Hall sent 1000 braves
and a delegation of. real Indians"
the former in distinctive dress, the
latter in full tribal regalia. The Es-
sex County Democratic Club came in
full dress" 400 strong, from New
Jersey, the Presidents home State.
Other notable organizations in line
were the Moses Green Club, of Louis
vile and the Duclkworth Club, of Gin
cinnati
OF the many governors who rode in
the procession, some were with the
military organizations of their States
and others, with their staffs. were in
the fourth division. In this division
also were the mayors of numerous
towns and cities, dozens of political
clubs from smaller cities near and
far.
From the Court of Honor, at the
White House, the President reviewed
the line. The musical censor had
seen to it that the bands played varied
airs as they marched past, eliminat-
ing their tendency at other inaugura-
tions when passing the reviewing
stand to confine their selections TO
one of three airs, Hail to the Chief"
Dixie" and Marching Through
Georgia" Past the President. the
marchers continued a few blocks and
there disbanded.