The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, July 5, 1895, Page 1

VOLUME LXXVIIL—NO. 35 SAN FRANCISCO, FRIDAY MOR JULY 5, 1895 PRICE FIVE CENTS. SAN FRANCISCO’S MOST GLORIOUS FOURTH. CONTINENTALS, RED MEN AND CADETS IN THE PROCESSION. [Sketched by a “Call’ artist.] g 1 u see by thedawn’s it a good old-time, a ous Fourth? Some- of the star- r snapping to & jubilant y and the cnthusiasm of the nicated to the stars in a fiery a glorious, glorious Fourth, each of which beat away to the mea and the quick time of all the ongs. burit of old-fashioned pat jsm that called everybody to the 1o witness: and ‘cheer the demonstr save -those who were in the line bein cheered. The boom™ of cannon and snap of fire- crackers'that began with \ of the | ght before bave to this wri pounded I bing : air. without i prob: the sun marks the 5th 6f July ugh one d Wwas.t00 Narrow a in which to expres vas'a. great den the: bou een it ‘by .those who planned it, and it t of patriotism and a better time returned. e ly vhich even the | k to better. If would have given a | of course; it would the ‘bright blades of | and the High hool given a new sheen to Artillery and to’ the have added a | ng holocaust effect to the red shirts. | firemen- themselves, but it would | have blinded the eyes and ruined the com- n of all the Goddesses of Liberty, | , in dignified spiendor itherto unknown, and of ntatives of es of the be: = States of this n the exuber- ealed over prettiest Native | did well to draw a curtain for And, b es, if he had shone ave been too much | e weather was just the line and the ’ ition required tof work to get it into of distinction to its aids that the wor d at the hour | to move the order s preceding i the City, alive with prepara- ble of artillery. | ry, the rattle of | 100fs and the | mes that mark forever the | Then the floatsana | | | tic of the industries i of liberty the patriotic of -purple and gol all had to be mars For two hours every quarter of the ( the lower end of Marke dezvous enjoyed prelim of their own as these detac tated in the one division, bugles filled the air with atriotic music. Marshals ai their bright sashes and gold trappin horses performing with a con Fourth of July, dashed in iops carrying orders and gettin And at last they were d Marshal Foster gave the out of Drumm 'street into Market issy the head of the line. Fittingly a stand of National colors led v in charge of the color guard of the Fifth United States Artillery. Chief Crow- ley with his mounted officers followed and | the band setting the step for the great I to the cadence of the “‘Star-spangled B: ner.” | Marching beliind the band came the | | societies wit 3 e societ s | eadir et to th g toward ren- 1ments gravi- | hile drums and | comn | Hanks commanding. | tenant-Commandér F. H. Stahle commanding. Loop, marshal. Colonel Cass Post No. and his battalion of aids. | urned into Montgomery street, to | ornia, thence to Kearny and then out the wide thoroughfare of Market street, under the arch of triumph, to Van Ness aven As the rear of the first division passed M the second divison fell into line and so the third division from Davis the fourth division from Beale reet, the fifth from Front street, the sixth from Fremont, the seventh from the eighth and ninth from First nd the tenth from Sansome, in nd line in the following order. ADVANCE GUARD. ed by Color Guard, Fifth (mounted). police. street, olice armed with rifles. win L. Foster. lonel Edward Hunter, U, S. A. n , Fifth_ Artil- . Benjamin, First Infantry, rman Parade Committee. , Frank A, Tibbitts, | A. Burns, Charles 11, Charles_Fenn, George R. Meierdierks, W, apman, W. C. Ordwa P. Umbgen, William Chatham, J. J. Cord Pennycook, H. F. Marshall. Samuel First platoon—W Dr. H. Hunsacker, Spader, Joseph A. Cor: C . Wi gang. es P. ant A. de la Torre Jr. FIRST DIVISION. | ed States Infantry Band, ,. Colonel William Shafter. Lieutenan Tro camr snd saflors from the Philadelphia and Olympia. The Philadelphia’s marine band. Pioneers, Two companies of mariues from the crufsers. Five Companies of seamen from the craisers. val Hospital Corps. s containing naval ofticers. ental army. hington and staff. company. 100 strong, General Warren nding. representing Continentals &t the be- z of the war. id_company, representing the Continentals o svar. company, representing the ragged army of First ginni Se ile £ ndians, ravresen! “alifornia Pionee ornia Society g the original States. Sons of the American Rev- | SECOND DIVISION. Brigadier-General Warfield and staf?, command- ing the Second Brigade, N. G. C. Second Brigade, Signal Corps, Captaln A. A. Second Artille Regiment, eight batteries. 150 men, Colonel Willlam Macdonald and staff com- manding. Third Infantry Regiment, seven companies, 500 men, Colonel T. F. Barry and staff commanding. 7 Regiment, eight companies, 600 “olonel H. P. Bush and staff commanding. Naval Battalion, three companies, 150 men, Lien- Battery A. Light Artillery, Captain Sine com- manding. First Troop Cavalry (unattached), Waller commanding. _ Captain THIRD DIVISION. Marshal G. H. Stevens. 3 . Knowles. i ames Kid, James H. Riley. | Newberg's band, elghteen pieces. Veteran Guard, fifty men in command of J. B. Lanck. Veterans of the Mexican War, thirty men, W. G. | Lincoin Post No.11, G. A. R., 100 men, Joseph ele, commander. Thomas Post No. 2, G. A. R., seventy- 3 eler. commander. . Garfield Post No. 84, G. A.R., fitty W. Millstead. commander. No. 48, G. A. R., W. and members of George five Meade Post Moore, senior vice-comman 46, forty mi AR, . 114, C. H. Tinsley, en. Liverty Post No, 18 fifty men, senior arriages containing Mayor Sutro and John slor Rodgers, President of the Day C. J. King, D. Gilbert Dexter, orator of the day: Rev. A. C. Tirst, chaplain; W. H. Davis, chairman oi the executive committee: Rev. Anna H. Shaw, Susan B. Anthony. Mrs. Sarah B. Cooper and Miss Cooper. Carriages containing members of the G. A. R. Independent band, Joseph Biacaccl, leader, fif- teen pieces. ¥ife and drum corps, First Regiment. Sixty Exempt, Firemen in uniform drawing the ngine 449,” George T. Bohen, president; I, Jessup, foreman; W. Larkin and H. D. on the tongue. engine Exempt, drawn by four white h s, J. Drexel driver. Chemical engine, Captain J. E. Carriages with G. A. R. vete men Barber driver. s and exempt fire- FOURTH DIVISION. Marshal, William A. Deane. Chief aid, H. C. Schroeder. A’«:;‘; Willlam McIntyre, Frank Handley, James . Dockery. P. Veteran Firemen's band, twenty pieces, J. Her- nandez leader. One hundred and twenty veteran firemen, draw- ing engine, J. H. Mahoney foreman. fembers of the California Society of the Sons of ity County officials in carriages. Columbia Theater float, ““The Stage." Morosco's float, ““Revolutionary Scenes.” Orpheum foat, “Orpheus and Kurydice.’ Floats representing “The Thirteen Original Present Forty-five States of the Pitcher at the Batue of Mon- ‘he Ship of State.” Union,” ¢ Moll moutb,” and +T) FIFTH DIVISION. Marshal, Frank W. Marston. * ef ald, J. O. ntner. Aids—-Thomas A. Lané, A, T. Barnett, N. Nathan. Precita Band. -154, N.8.G. W. Alcalde Drill Corps and Parlor, Minerva Parlor, No. D. California Parlor, N Alta Parlor, Precita Parlor, N Buena Vista Parlor, Rincon Parlor, No. 7! Las Lomas Parlor, No. Stanford Parlor, Yosemite Parlor, Bay City Parlor, National Parlor, Hesperian Parlor, Aleazar Parlor, Presidio Parlor, No. 19: SIXTIH DIVISION. Marshal, A. Jay Washburne, Chief Aid, W. F. Irving. Aids—F. C. Wyck Wood, J. H. Hilton. Jr. 0. U. A. M. in order as follows: | ‘Two United States Flags. Abraham Lincoln Council Ni with banner. Captaip Dan Harrington. Pork butchers, uniformed. States of the Union float. School-children In decorated wagons. James Lick School float. James McDermott's employes in wagons. School-chiidren in wagons. School-boys in wagon. John Hellbron’s cattle and beet {ndustry float. Stall-fed beet-steers in float. NINTH DIVISION. Marshal. E. P. Clayburgh, Atas, W. T. Siever and Louls Katz. Zew's band. Beef. pork and sheep butchers, uniformed. eat American hog float. \0l-girls in floats. South San Francisco Packing and Provision Com- specialties. er ham float. anners and furriers’ float. mploves of Legallet & Hellwig's tannery, on toot, uniformed. California Tallow Works, wagon. Norton Tannery float. Pastoral float. Pastoral float. Anti-monopoly float. Private carriages. TENTH DIVISION, Marshal, S, Joseph Theisen. Chief Ald, Ed. G. Haight. Alds to Marshal, William Klinger, George T. Sil- M. M. McGrath. Waicott's Band, sixteen pieces. League of the Cross Cadets, Colonel W. C. Ma- honey commanding. plompany A of Bt Mary’s Cathedral, Captain rady. pCompany G, St. Bridget's Church, Captain McMa- ou. Company D, St. Mary’s Cathedral, Captain Drady. Colri‘\}wnny C, St. Patrick’s Church, Captain Fitz- gerald Company B, St. Charles Church, Captain Ken- nedy. line going up marched in narrow space, the infantry by fours and kept well to the right giving ample room for the display on the countermarch, even the carriages mov- ing here two and three abreast. The whole width of the avenue was thus occupied for more than two hours with a solid mass of moving foot and horéemen, with all the shifting colors and combina- tions of the great procession. It wasa magnificent spectacle. When the grand marshal and his aids had passed the reviewing stand and made their salute they returned and took a po- sition as reviewing officers, When the marshals of the several divisions passed and saluted they too took positions at the reviewing stand until their divisions had passed and then they rode on. It was a few minutes of 11 _o’clock when the head of the line turned into Van Ness avenue, and it was half-past 1when the last of it passed out, and the greatest Fourth of July demonstration of the Pa- cific Coast was over. The demonstration at the pavilion called out a multitude who responded in true Fourth of July spirit to the patriotic ad- dresses, and the spectacle at night on Fol- som street was a fitting finish to it all. g et WHEELING INTO LINE. Soldiers, Goddesses, Butchers and All in the Great Big Line. Promptly at 10:30 o’clock the signal gun was fired from the flagship Philadelphia, the grand marshal waved his hand, a trumpet blared, the bands struck up and THE BARGES LEAVING THE WARSHIPS, [Sketched for the “Call” by Coulter.] Float—Emblems of the Order, Two United States Flags. U. 8. Grant Council No. 19, with banner. G . 21. Americun schoolhouse, United States Flags. Starr King Council No. 6. California Council No. 1, Martha Washington Coun- cil No. 2, Daughters of Liberty, on floats. Patriotic American citizens en masse, carrying United States flags and escorting floats “Liberty: Bell” and “Signing the Declaration or Independ- wnce,” saluting float of Captain Spear. Wilson Brothers’ Band, SEVENTH DIVISION. Marshal, T. F. Judge. Chief Aid to Marshal, Peter Tautphaus. Alds—Frederick Martens, George Him melman, Charles Johnson, Frederick Winters, J. E. Ferin- lis. stone, Joseph E Silver Band, 15 pieces. Independent Rifles, Captain Louis Schnelder com- manding. Members Butchers’ Bourd of Trade in carriages. Decorated retail wagons and carts. “Star-spangled Banner” fioat, with Francis Scott Key monument, and young_ladies with patriotic Songs, @nd Miss Mianle "Poweli as dess of usic. Decorated wholesale and retail wagons. Butchers’ Board of Trade, float, “California as It Isand as It Should Be.” Decorated wagons with symbolical decorations and mottoes. Hoftman & Woenne’s Montgomery market float, manufacturing and distributing hot Frankforter sausages to the spectators. Numerous trade wagons highly embowered with floral pieces and carrying prize livestock. Many decorated vehicles from prominent retai markets. EIGHTH DIVISION. Marshal. John Livingston. Chief aid to marshal, L. yburgh. Alds—Albert Blum, Fred Squires, Peter Stumpf, Louis Katz, Charles' Robinson, William Seiber, Mannie Clayburgh. Thirty mounted vagueros under Captain G. Pyle. California State Military band. Beef butchers, uniformed. Sheep butchers. uniformed. Company I, St. Peter's Church, Captain Hag- ert; Company H, St. Seully. Juarez Guard, Captain de la Torre commanding. The Japanese Band. Chase's Bakery floats. Advertising floats unattached and citizens on foot and horseback. Long before the tenth division had been given the command to move, the far greater part of the line had passed the reviewing stand, had been dismissed and the men and women who made it up were scattered, and probably eating their Fourth of July dinner. While the whole route of the march was lined with spectators and every window and point of vantage occupied, Van Ness avenue was the special point of attraction, for there was not only the reviewing stand, before which the procession was to counter- march and look its very best, but to this was added the spectacle of the long line of tribunes filled with children from the kindergartens and orphanages. ‘When the flying flags at the head of the line turned into the wide avenue, every inch of space from which a human bein; could command a view of it was occu lexf and as the flags and the horsemen and the music advanced they wereaccompanied by a great cheer that broke away and ran the length of the tribunes ahead of the pro- cession. Admiral Beardsley and his_officers were in their places on the reviewing stand at Fulton street. The line moved on up to Geary street and then counter-marching, returned on the west $ide of the street, coming down company front and, at the reviewing stand, making the salute. The Brendan’s Chuch, Captain the grandest Fourth of July parade the Pacific Coast has ever known started off on time. Market street for its entire length was thronged with people, and the surging crowds had seriously hampered the efforts of the marshals to form their divisions. The little color-guard in the van had, how- ever, no difficulty in making a passage, and the mounted police who followed thrust back the throng and left a broad avenue behind. Chief Crowley, an active man in spite of his gray hairs, made a fine display of horsemanship. His mettled steed turned and twisted rapidly, and the Chief seemea to be here, there and every- where almost at once. His presence was needed, too, for so closely packed was the crotd that clearing a way for the troops to follow was no easy task. The two companies of police riflemen marched with the steadiness of veterans and shifted their pieces with all the snap and vigor of a crack military organization. Their white belts stood ont in bold relief against the blue uniforms and added greatly to their fine appearance. 'The veteran Captain Douglass, his shoulders squared and head erect, marched proudly on in front like an old warhorse who again scents the smoke of battle. . Grand Marshal Foster and his immediate staff were roundly applauded as they rode along. The grand marshal wore ordinary citizens’ clothing, but his purple sas trimmed with goid and the long white plume in his hat made him an easily dis- tinguished figure, and he apparently re- ceived more attention than did the regular T army chief of staff in his resplendent col- | onel’s uniform. Behind in two long rows rode the aids, their blue silk sashes lending to ordinary | | ap{‘warel the effect of uniforms. he regular army—what a hush came over the crowd as it came into view. It had formed on Drumm street with the | quickness and certainty which comes from long experience, and Colonel Shafter' and his staff rode at the head as unmindful of | the curious and admiring glances they received as though the parade were a_long | march to the Yosemite Valley and the | hundreds of people standing by merely the | trunks of redwood trees. There was that | in the men—a prouder carriage, a springier | step—which showed that they understood the occasion and were interested as no or- dinary routine change of station could in- | terest them. | The marines and sailors, too, from the cruisers marched with the rolling gait peculiar to those who go down 1nto the sea | in ships. Four pioneers, with pickaxes, led the way, and caused the often-repeated | but unanswered question, ‘““What on earth | do sailors want with those things?’ The | men-o-wars men returned the curious glances of the crowd with interest, and | evidenced the fact that this trip on shore | was for them a pleasant experience. But the Continental army was the feat- ure of the first division, which caught and | held the crowd’s attention. Drill Master | Florence had conceived and successfully | carried out a novel idea. Wigged and powdered men rode at the head and | marched in the procession. Washington | and his generals were there, the very face of the Father of His Country being repro- duced on his living representative by the skill of the make-up artist. The quaint, long-skirted coats, the knickerbockers, even the curious fashion of dressing the hair, were faithfully reproduced, and the effect was as though an old painting had been endowed with life for San Francisco’s celebration. Mr. Florence, in the character of Gen- eral Warren. commanded the army. A Yankee-Doodle squad of three followed, t?etfiiper with his head bound in a bloody cloth. The Continentals before the war, or at its beginning, were a Eicturesquc set of men. Those who had been through one campaign looked sterner and their uni- forms were not so bright. The ragged arml‘; of Valley Forge told well the story of the sufferings of those who fought for | America’s freedom. | The second division of the parade was composed, exclusively of organizations of the National Guard. The State soldiery assembled at the various armories and, marching down Market, New Montgomery | and Howard streets, took its appointed | station on Main street. When the procession started it fell into line at the proper interval, with Brigadier- General Warfield in the lead. Along Mont- gomery, California and Kearny streets it marched in that order, but near the arch on Market street the crowd was so dense and pressed so closely on the soldier boys | that further advance was impossible. The | police were of but little assistance, there being too few of them to make any per- | ceptible impression on the throng.” Fin- ally, the cavalry was summoned from the rear of the division and set to work clear- ing a passage _through the streets. From that point to Van Ness avenue the advance was a slow one, the horsemen having almost to fight back the spectators at every | step. Asa result, the first division got a lead of seven blocks on its successor in | position and a balt of nearly half an_hour was made to enable the following divisions to close up. The third division was a little late in forming. The men who were to march in | the line, however, had not been late in an- | swering to their country’s call in the | stormy days of '61, and they jocularly ex- cused themselves for the harmless tardi- ness by humorous references to the tide of years that had swept onward to whiten their locks and stiffen their steps. And the Exempt Firemen—the boys who were boys when the Twin Peaks were holes in the ground and who ran with the hose when fire-fighting was aided only by cour- age and water, and very little of the lat- ter—appeared on the scene in slower time than had been their wont in days gone by. There were over fifty of them, and although President George T. Bohen was too ill to march in the line, he smiled on his com- rades from one of the carriages, while An- drew J. Jessup managed the foreman’s trumpet. George H. Thomas Post G. A. R. seventy-five strong, T. K. Stateler com- mander, with drums beating and flags flying, marched down Market and swung grandly into Davis street, where Marshal Stevens and his ‘aids saluted and recerved them. Following quickly after came Lincoln Post, with 100 veterans, Jos- seph Steele commander, making a very pretty display. Then came the members of Garfield Post, fifty old soldiers, J. W. Melstead commander; George G. Meade Post, W. Moore, senior vice-commander, with members of Colonel Cass Post, fifty men all told, and Liberty Post, fifty wen, Senior Vice-Commander Broomai. The red plumesof Captain J. B. Lauck’s Veteran Guard of California, forty strong, were soon nodding .in the now crowded srllluare, Newberg’s band setting the feet of all going ‘“hay-foot, ' straw-foot,” while away in the rear the Independent band of the Exempt Firemen struck up a popu- lar air as Mayor Sutro, seated In a beautifully - beflowered carnage, was driven past. Following his Honor came the carriages containing Miss Susan B. Anthony, - Miss Shaw and Mrs: Cooper, the president of the executive -committee, and the orator of the day. The gallant firemen greeted the Mayor and the ladies, as did- the old soldier boys, and there was a continued ovation tothem | up the line; Miss Anthony and Miss Shaw nodding right and left in delight, and the beautiful veronicas on the Mayor’s car- riage turning a deeper tinge in their joy. There was a rushing to and fro, a yelling of commands, the lines straightened out in proper form, and the . sky turned grayer as the last company of the second division passed Davis street on its way to the re- viewing stand. Marshal Stevens gave the command te march, ‘his aids repeated it, the bands struck up and’ the third division wheeled bravely in to swell the long col- umn of the greatest Fourth of July parade ever seen in San Francisco. All along the route, through the crowded streets of the City, over the cobbles, the asphalt and the car tracks, until ranks were broken, the third di ision came in for its full share of the applause from the thousands and thousands of spectators. The Grand Army posts passed through lines and lines of fluttering handkerchiefs, the emblems of good will and peace, and the old boys who ran with the ‘‘masheen’’ were ngplflflded to the echo as they tooled their diminutive engine, brought away around the Horn in 49, 1t gladdened the hearts of the old veterans of war and fire, and they nodded and’ blushed to the walls ‘of happy faces on either side of them. Mayor Sutro’s smile had become set from frequent repetition along the route when he reached the reviewing stand, and his neck bad a perceptible bend in it from repeated bowings to the people of San Francisco, who elected him. Miss Susan | B. Anthony and the Rev. Miss Anna Shaw were recognized and cheered as_the passed and were kept busy nodding all the way. Not a hitch occurred in the movement of this division, and it showed up at the end of the march in fine condition. Colonel William A. Deane, the marshal of the fourth division, in a red sash on a mettled charger, sat silently and alone at 9:30 o’clock on the corner; of Beale and Market streets, awaiting the gathering of the forces he was to lead. The vretty girls who had come over from Oakland and Alameda and Berkeley to see the big parade smiled sweetly on the deputy, and the candy peddler on the opposite corner threw a gumdrop or two at his martial figure. But he sat unmoved, chafing not, fear- ing not, for well he knew that he was to ride at the head of one of the swellest, most highly colored, most gorgeously set divisions in the big procession, and he was content within himself at the idea. It was after 10 o’clock that the first blaze of color made a vivid background for the red-sashed figure of the marshal on horse- back, the great float of the Columbia Theater turning in from Mission street to take its stand half way in the block. It represented ‘‘the stage.” It was highly decorated with the National colors in bunt- ing and flowers and flying ribbons, and seated upon it were seven beautiful young ladies, paraphrasing Shakespeare’s seven ages of man in that it was all women. Tt was beautiful—thé float, so were they—the women, and the heart of the red-sashed marshal bumped harder against the war- like wishbone. There was more color the next moment, and music and movement, when the Veter- an_Firemen, red-shirted and mostly gray- haired, marched past the marshal to take up their places. There were over 100 of them, with Senator Jerry Mahoney as the foreman, and they drew behind them their beautifully decorated engine. By the side of her father marched the pet of. the old firemen, little Marie Mahoney, who looked very prettyand very chic in her fireman's hat and natty red shirt. The City and County officials turned out in force in carriages, after toothpicks and artesian water at the Palace, the tall figure of County Clerk Curry looming above them all. The breezes from the bay toyed fit- fully with the whiskers of Judge Campbell, who sat in a carriage just abaft the beam " CAVALRY, ARTILLERY AND: MARINES PASSIVNG'_ THE GRAND STAND. [Sketehed by a “Call” artist.)