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Show VETERANS IN PARADE One hundred Steps to a Minute Was the Limit of Speed Atlantic City, Sept. 21. Once again , the "Buys In Ui.ie" ha.e passed in j review i f ihtlr o:nii!:: nd-r-ln-chlef . They v.;-vo n r rpi'-'iitlv they I were once, but ihe old spirit was j manifest as thtv mtivhed ihe broad avenues of th!.. rliv by the sea today I nnd were acclaiiucil Tiy. gr-nt crowds i of people who C'lM" In HO the big feature of the forty- r . ;r;h annual encampment en-campment of the (Jrru, Arm; of tho Republic. M-al September weather. I tutored the o'd sold.'eis. ' Fi.rly-fiur states In the Union Union helped I:) the parade anil wore represented. While the parade was not is large as- tint m other years, there was no em! of enthus.am as the aging veteran i marched past. The spectacle wp.s a siirrlng one. Every bulbing along the line of march was literally hMdeu by the national na-tional colors. Near the end of the march, the hat'le-scarrcd rani s of a once great array was rS.cwod by Commander-in-Chief Samuel R. Van Sant. On one sice of him on the reviewing review-ing stand si.M d the vice president of tho United States and on the other , was Lieuteuani General Nelson A. 1 Miles, U. S. A., retired. They weie I in the position of honor on n grand stand at the park place, rear the ! board walk, so placed that the.v could j get a splen lld view of the parade coming and ring. The par.td. 1 for m td at North Carolina and l'-acific I avenues. The ruitto was r-iiuparatlve- ly short, h having been deemed tin- i wise to subject the old soldiers to un- j due fatigue. The orders vere one j hundred steps to the m.ir.:ie. j Silas Towkr, chief of sta.T to the ' commander-in-ehief. was marshal of : 1 the paiv.de, wirh Walter E!g2 of At- ' 1 laniic City as bis chief of staff. j ; The first trorps in line wro thr ; city cot-airy of Atlant.c City ur I the advance g.ard was made up f a provisional pro-visional re;;in.ent from Sens of .eter-I .eter-I ars under command of Co!enel Henry Stewart. Then came the commander-in-chif and his staff under the personal per-sonal escort of the famous U. S. Grant post of Brooklyn. Following these came tho I. tig line of boys In blue, headed by the department of Illinois because of the sen o-t of Its organization. organ-ization. Th- old soldb rs marched In their respective department.; in the following order: Pennsylvania. Ohio. New York, Con-nortlrui. Con-nortlrui. Massachusetts, Ma'nn, California. Cali-fornia. Nevada. Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Vermont, Department .f the Potomac. Virginia, North Cafo-' Una, Maryland. Nebraska, Michigan. Iowa. Indiana, Colorado! Wyoming. Kansas. Delaware, Minnesota. .Missouri, .Mis-souri, Oregon, Kentucky. West Virginia, Vir-ginia, South D.ikota. Washington, Alaska, Arkansjs, Utah, Tennessee, Louisiana, Texas, Florida. .Montana, Idaho. Arizona. Georgia, South Carolina. Caro-lina. Alabama, N'r.rth Dakota, Oklahoma Okla-homa and New Mt o. Then came the Nationnl Association' of K-Union Prisoners r War. The department of New Jersey, the host of the occasion, brought up the I rear lino of the old soldiers. Following Follow-ing these came the Third rrginient of the New Jersey National Guard |