Show IRON GRAY HOST IN LINE Surviving Veterans of War for Union in Parade OLD SOLDIERS MARCH AGAIN I Grariclost Procession and the Greatest Day the Grand Army of tile lie public Has Ever Seen Half Million I Mil-lion of People Witness a Seemingly Interminable Line of Blue aMag nificent Pageant in the Streets of Cleveland Column Wns Eight Miles Long Cleveland O Sept 11Time surviving veterans of the greatest struggle the work him over accn that Irongray host of dod iznown as thejGraml Army of the Republic have ngalii responded to the bugle call and today fell Inlollne as they were wont to do in the dark days of the Civil war They awoke this morning t6 tho sound of rcYcHlcraiid loiig before limo hour set for the tflnrtlng1 thoOP > rade timet lIned UiJibtr QtH and lavcnucaadja ccnt lo Euclid nnd Case avenues where the jiarauu wnsformed Wf4GNI Fl CENT PARADE Did veterans prominent In the affairs of U lmtm > GJ R jiald It was tho grandest parado and tho greatest day the organization organi-zation has ever seen In a seemingly In tormlimble lino of blue the various de partmeritK took up their march over the hard granite pavements Surging masseo of people numbering in the hundreds of thousands lined the streets nnd took advantage ad-vantage of every point of view along the entire length of the line of parade SEA OF PEOPLE In the downtown district the streets Intersecting and adjacent to the lino of march were one struggling mass of eager and cx i3claht humanliy It IH estimated that nearly half a million people were Hpctatora of time magnificent pageant Tho column was over eight miles in length and was splendidly handled the column moving aleadllj and with scarcely scarce-ly a halt or u break until the entire line had passed tho reviewing stand FEW DROP OUT Among the thousands of aged veterans who made up the gallant host there were scarcely a half dozen whom the fatigue of the march causedtox fall out before they passed through the living sea of faces In the court of honor and the reviewing stand PARADE MOVES ON TiME Promptly at the hour sot for the parade to move CommandcrlnChlef Gen LAO Rnsslour gave the algiial and the column moved forward The solid masses of humanity hu-manity which crowded the avenue from curb to curb gave way like the parting af the waves and the march began The Governors of several States marched In time line with tbjlr respective posts and were proud to go afoot with heir old comrades In the old way Senator Sena-tor Ilanan caught the Infection of the liour and left the reviewing stand to march down the line with Memorial post GIVING FLAG OF CHILDREN Every department as it passed tho ourt of honor and neared the living flag jf children formed upon time grand stand racing < tue long vista at time foot of Bond itreet was greeted with a patriotic 3horuH from the throats of thousands of school children composing time ling Mum led with the Inspiring strains of martial nuslc and patriotic choruses was the un itlnted applause of the people 17C THE REVIEWING STAND j With CommandcrlnChlef jftassieurin the reviewing stand were the following Mujor Toiu L Johnson Gen David It Hunt Gen Henry S Peck AdJtOen Bterrct M A Taylor SurgeonGeneral Wilkins George Stone Gen John C Black of Llllnols Gen Joe Long of Illinois Illi-nois Gen Sickles and Gen J VV Kolfer BANDS INNUMERABLE In addition to the regular line of veterans vete-rans ninety bands and 103 drum corps Incessantly poured forth patriotic and martial music A number of women and children were overcome In the crush Incident Inci-dent to the parade and the Red Cross and city ambulances were Ucpf buriy TC spending to calls but no serious casualty was reported WILL BE DUPLICATED THURSDAY It Js expected that the patriotic outburst out-burst of today will be duplicated on Thursday afternoon when a mass meetIng meet-Ing will be held in praise and thanksgiving thanksgiv-ing for the prospective recovery of President Presi-dent McKlnley Senator Ilnnna Gov Nash Mayor Johnson of Cleveland Com mandcrlnChlef Rassleur Judge VlllIam R Day of Canton Senator Fairbanks of Indiana Congressman Grosvenor and Rev Dr Manchester the Presidents pastor pas-tor will address the meeting j PLACE FOR NEXT ENCAMPMENT When the selection of the place for the next encampment comes up Den ers delegation will present a resolution lo the effect that If the National otllcerd decide to give time next encampment to Denver the Department of Colorado and Wyoming will do all In Its power to make it a complete success COMMANDERINCHIEF CONTEST On the choice for commandrlnchlofv the fight is very interesting and uncertain uncer-tain The friends of Gen Torrance of Minnesota tire hopeful that a deadlock may ensue between pens Stewart and Sickles and thus enable him to bo the successful candldnR cessful t The National Union of oxPrlsonora of War today elected these ofllccrs National Na-tional commander J D Walker Allv chtiiiy Pa national vjcccommander D G Nesbltt Cleveland chaplain Rev J F 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