Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-09-28
BOYS IN BLUE
MARCH AGAIN;
ONE SUCCUMbS
G.. A. r. Veteran Falls
While in Line and
Dies in IS Minutes.
Commander Review s
Thinning Ranks of
Civil War Heroes.

Des Moines, Ia, Sept. 27.--(By The
Associated Press.)-One of the Civil
war veterans in the annual Grand Army
of the Republic parade dropped from
fatigue at noon Wednesday in the line
of march. as it peared the capitol ex-
tension grounds, and died within 10
minutes. He is known to be a veteran
from Minnesota and believed to be Nj.
j. Makenhausen of White Bear Lake,
MINI.
Bowed in body and thinned in ranks,
but stalwart in the spirit that sent them
marching through history from Fort
Sumter to Appomattox Courthouse.
$4,000 surviving veterans of the Grand
Army of the Republic marched tri-
umphantly through the streets of Des
Moines and passed in review before
their commander-in-chief Wednesday.
To the familiar role of their battle
drums and the shrill call of the fife.
they stepped off a brisk pace behind
the colors they bore to victory more
than half a century ago.
As the command. Forward. March,!
rang out, the platoon of police stepped
off ahead of Marshal II. II. Polk and
his staff of mounted officers and the
American Legion Argonne Post band
blared out a military march.
Lieutenant Colonel Casper Schenk,
chief of the first division, with a body
Of aides. marched at the head of the
first battalion of the 168th infantry,
Iowa national guard, the regiment
which grew up after the war from
Iowa's famous fighting portion of the
Rainbow division. Two cavalry units,
the Fourteenth from Fort Des Moines,
regular army men. and the first squad
ron of the 18th cavalry, Iowa national
guard, preceded the marching hundreds
of Sons of Veterans, many of them to
be followed by their warrior fathers.
Side by side III the first automobile
of the parade, General Lewis $. Pitcher
of Brooklyn. commander-in-chie of the
Grand Army of the Republic, and Han
ford MacNider of Mason City, Ia, ma
tional commander of the American Lee
gion, occupied the position of honor at
the head of the marching host of vet
Grams. Six automobiles carried the
other national officers of the Grand
Army.
AS the column arrived at West
Eighth and Locust streets, it passed
through the double ranks of Spanish
American war veterans and in the next
block entered the passageway formed
by the ranks of the world war vet
rams, many of them in uniform.
Myriad flags fluttered and showers
Of autumn flowers fell in the paths OF
the marchers and strewed the laps of
the officers riding in ears as the pro-
cession crossed the Locust street
bridge, where hundreds of school chill
dren greeted it.
The marchers passed through the
! civic center at the river front, ira
versed the business district of East
Des Moines, and, reaching the west
ern slope of the capitol extension
grounds, swept around the base of the
hill in full view of the thousands who
filled the natural a~mpitheater of the
state house grounds.
As the following veterans arrived
each department flag was dipped in
salute and marchers executed ''eyes
right" the cOmmander-in-chiet re-
spending to each salute.
Colonel Guy S. Brewer, with his
! aides. acted as chief of the second di-
vision and preceded the famous u. s
Grant drum corps, behind which fol
lowed the Illinois department, Grand
Army of the Republic, honored with
the front position among its cOmrade
| departments by reason Of seniority in
| the date of its charter. Pennsylvania
with a surprisingly large attendance
followed Illinois. The Wisconsin vet
eran drum corps led the Wisconsin de-
partment. In the ranks of the Ohio
department. in~conspicuOus among his
comrades, marched the father of the
president, DR.. George 7. Harding OF
Marion, Ohio.