Posted on 03/07/2025 6:59:13 AM PST by Homer_J_Simpson
As if to make up in full for Saturday's inhospitable weather, yesterday was an absolutely perfect day for a great rejoicing. The rain had done much to clear the streets, and the civic carts and brooms had labored efficiently, too. And the sunshine and breezes that followed brought the ground beneath and heavens above to a capital condition for travel.
The delay had, moreover, given time for revisions and adjustments, which brought all the preliminaries of the procession to an excellent state of organization. And last, but not least, the news of SHERIDAN's victory over EARLY put sunshine into every bosom, in complete harmony with the bright sky and bracing air.
Under such auspices the splendid and gigantic ceremonial of yesterday passed off with an unbroken unity, in character and effect hardly to be paralleled in scenic history.
THE WHOLE
of the vast pageant extended nearly seven miles, and was in motion during about six hours. Yet a view such as a balloon would afford, would have enabled a spectator to see the whole in motion at once for even a moment; for while the two great elephants and the two camels which brought up the rear, were still on Sixth-avenue, where they were drawn up, the head of the column had absolutely passed around the whole of its great circuit, and the infantry and cavalry of the leading regiments were being dismissed to their armories.
THE DIVISIONS
of the processions were made six in number for tactical convenience, but the divisions which it assumed beneath the spectator's eye were three, viz.:
1. Military.
2. Civic and Industrial.
3. Fire Department.
And these had each its predominant distinguishing costume-color, the soldiers blue, the civilians black, the firemen red.
THE START
was promptly "on time,"
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