THE GREAT PARADE

A STILL AIR AND CLOUDLESS SKY.

Scenes and Incidents Along the Route.

Special Features: The Coach, the Mott Haven Cup. The Crimson.

THE FIREWORKS ON HOLMES; NO RUSH.

HE procession is over, and it has been a decided success,- a fitting climax to the stirring events of the day. To the many people who feared that it would not be a success, it was a pleasant disappointment; to every one it was a source of interest and amusement.

The order of the parade was as follows:

Senior Class, ('87.)

Marshals: H. W. Keyes, W. A. Brooks, F. Coolidge.

Johnnie Harvard's Pa's.

First Printing Press in the Colony.

Harvard CRIMSON.

Lampoon and Advocate.

Dray with Fireworks.

Company of Puritans, 1836. Washington Corps.

A CRIMSON EDITOR. "Junior Class," ('88.)

Marshals: C. F. Adams, 3rd, J. W. Appleton, C. A. Porter.

College Benefactors. Salem Cadet Band and Drum Corps. Flambeau Corps.

"Sophomore Class," ('89.)

Commencement Day Police, 1812. Navy Club; Rear Admiral, J. B.

Blake, '87.

1st Regiment Band and Drum Corps. Dray with Fireworks. Dray of Graduates.

"Freshman Class," ('90.)

Colonial Coach. Ye Commencement Day Constables. The Mott Haven Cup. Suite of Captives. Graduates in Hacks.

"Law School."

Law School Drum Corps, J. A. Frye commanding. Dray with Fireworks.

When the parade was postponed on Saturday night, many thought it would not take place at all, and many more expected it would be a failure; everyone, however, kept his weather-eye open. Sunday dawned mild and clear, but with a strong wind blowing; the evening was cold, and the streets, which had been deep with mud from Saturday's rain, dried up and became smooth and hard. Monday morning came, and the weather still held good; the high wind, which, as before, lasted during the day, fell at the approach of night, and the elements were at last propitious.

By 7.30 the esplanade in front of the gymnasium was a glare of torchlight and a blare of horns. Drays loaded with special features were placed along the sidewalk, while mounted officials galopped hither and thither pushing and driving the restless crowd into shape. Much merriment was caused at this time by the freshmen lighting their torches long before the parade began, and thrusting them into each other's callow faces, and under the spectators' noses with childish glee. The veterans from '87 and '88 stood indifferent and unmoved while this pandemonium was going on about them, and greatly facilitated proceedings by the extreme promptness and order in which they formed in line.

The procession was unusually prompt in getting off, the marshals and committee of arrangements deserving all credit for the smoothness with which things ran. At 8 o'clock the word was given to start, and the march began.

'87 led the van. Her representatives wore long red togas and black mortar-boards - the "toga virilis" of 1825. The men marched in order and decorum, and presented a fine appearance. The marshals led the procession on horseback, then followed the large body of the senior class, and then, on a dray, a special feature, very well gotten up, representing "Johnnie Harvard's Pa's." The basis for this display lay in the fact that the revered founder of our university boasted of three fathers - one bona fide father and two step-fathers; a butcher, a grocer and a cooper. In the centre of the dray, was seated our statue on the Delta, clad in the exact ancient vestments; the chair in which he sat was made of oak, in exact imitation of the bronze chair of the original, and like the original, the simulated Harvard was wreathed with ivy and held and open book in his lap. The butcher had a long white apron upon him, a square cap on his head, and stood upright at one corner of the dray leaning on an immense meat-axe. The grocer-parent sported a leather apron and sat upon a barrel of spices on an opposite corner, while the cooper, dressed in small clothes and a buff jerkin, was hammering upon a second cask. The whole was lighted up by flambeaux, and was repeatedly cheered along the route.

At the head of the '87 column was borne a transparency bearing the legend - "We are John Harvard; take your pick." A second bore two verses from Holmes' celebrated poem about "the freshman class of one," while the third, and most amusing, read as follows: "We are the oldest living undergraduates; We entered in 1657 and expect to graduate in 1887; Disfigured, but still in the ring; We live in hope."

Following '87 came "The oldest printing press in the colony," loaned by the Boston Globe. It was in charge of Messrs. Storrow and Elgutter, '87, the former representing a primitive Hollander with a long clay pipe, and the latter, a regulation Indian. Two men dressed from head to foot in red and adorned with long tails - printer's devils - kept the old press in operation, and from time to time distributed to the crowd fac-simile copies of the title page of Eliot's Indian Bible, with two little verses on the back, said to have been composed for the occasion by Rev. E. E. Hale.

As was appropriate, the representatives of the College Press followed this symbol of their handicraft. The CRIMSON led the van in the following order:-

1st Marshal, F. E. E. Hamilton, '87; 2nd Marshal, W. Barnes, Jr., '88; 3rd Marshal, J. Loeb, '88. 1st Lieutenant, L. McK. Garrison, '88; 2nd Lieutenant, J, G. King, '89; 3rd Lieutenant, R. T. Paine, Jr., '88. Sergeant, S. B. Stanton, '87; Adjutant, H. H. Furness, Jr., '88; Corporal, H. G. Perkins, '87. Corporal's Aids, J. H. Sears, '90; W. D. Clark, '89; E. J. Rich, '87.

The CRIMSON was represented by no distinct costume, but by the respective class uniforms of the editors, with the added distinction of a white sash over the shoulder, and a few insignia of the trade as shown in our initial letter above.

The following transparency was prepared with infinite labor by Messrs. Brewer, Garrison, Cogswell, Furness and Paine, and was borne through the entire parade unharmed, on the stalwart shoulders of two sable Africans. The transparency stood seven feet high, and was a correct copy of the chapel, the part representing the building made of pasteboard with the stone work sketched in, and the windows in stained glass,- formed a pretty sight. Below was a large transparency bearing the legends as seen in our cut; and, in addition, on the opposite side, a specimen sumons-card under the old regime, labelled, "The good old chestnut; " and on the end, comparative statistics showing the inroads of the diseases in question made during the compulsory system. The opposite side of the roof bore the motto - "College Cooler; Usual Term. 15 Minutes."

Mr. Loeb also carried a huge transparency in the shape of an ink bottle, with a pen protruding from the neck. It bore the legends, "Watch for the joke on the other side," and "CRIMSON Ink."

The beautiful marching order of the CRIMSON delegates and their inspiriting cheer, awoke boundless enthusiasm along the route.

Our sister paper, the Lampoon, followed the CRIMSON.

Her representatives wore the regulation Jester's uniform with terra-cotta noses to match. The marshals were Messrs. N - bl - and L - nt, '88. Some delay was caused by Mr. Gr - v - r's suggestion that all the officers should be reduced - to the ranks. This was happily smoothed over, and the jolly jesters bounded along, awakening many a merry laugh along the wayside.

The newspaper delegates were followed by a delegation of Puritans - a very well gotten up and correct costume: - gray knee-breeches, short coat and sugar-loaf hat, and a huge belt with a bright buckle. There were about thirty in all in the body, and they had a curious cheer, which woke the echoes.

These passed on before the "Washington Corps" - about a dozen men in blue swallow-tail coats and white small-clothes, and hose. They were supposed to represent a student organization of that name existing here in the early part of this century.

The Junior Class held next place in the parade. Their costume was the most effective of the class uniforms: a red coat with blue facings, buff vest crossed by a blue belt, buff knee-breeches and black hose, and a black and buff cocked-hat.

A special feature in '88 was a collection of benefactors of the college, each dressed in characteristic costume: some of these were Sam Adams, Count Rumford, Boylston, Gore, Hollis, Stoughton, Holworthy, Flint, Josiah Quincy, and the Indian freshman with the unpronounceable name.

The Salem Cadet Band and Drum Corps furnished lively music behind the famous benefactors, and they were immediately followed by the flambeau corps which preceded the Sophomore Class.

The illustrious sons of '89 wore a nondescript costume of grey cut-away plug hat, white vest, buff trousers and white gaiters, which a transparency explained was that of a "dude of 1833."

A unique transparency bore this motto:

"Our Fathers turned blue pale;

Her face New Haven hid;

And we have wallopped Yale

Just as our Fathers did."

Another, with a cartoon of a boy of tender years in pantalettes, was representative of "Hopeful' '90," and its reverse bore some slighting allusions to "J. W. Bind, and Champlin's Liquid Pearl." Still another alluded to the freshman meeting as a "Matinee for Children."

The Commencement Day Police, in blue, with false beards, clubs and plug hats, made a brief sensation. They were an honorary body existing at the early part of this century.

One of the most unique features of the parade was now to be seen, and it awoke enthusiasm all along the route. which our artist has here faithfully depicted, was procured by Messrs. F. H. Sellers, G. B. Baker, Jr., and C. C. Carmalt, '87. It was a genuine old-fashioned coach with six horses fastened to its solid irons. Inside and out it was covered with the most tastefully, correctly and historically costumed men in the whole parade. The guard and coachmen were dressed in long surtouts of brown pleated stuff, and the former bore an immense horn which he blew at intervals. The passengers of the coach were students and gentlemen of the period, artisans, and a lady. The costumes, with their flowered brocades, powdered wigs and delicate ruffles, mingled with the quaint leather garb of the artisans, made a most pronounced hit. The coach was labeled "1750: Cambridge, Roxbury and Boston; fare 2 shillings; I 8th Century Elevator."

The freshman class, almost complete, enthusiastic and - fresh, - now made itself seen and heard. Its costume was the blue regimentals of a soldier of '61, and a rather effective uniform in the mass. A transparency at the head of the parade gave a cartoon of the "lone Indian freshman," of 1636," and on the other side, the fierce declaration - "Here we are, '90. Look out!" coupled with the calm assertion that "90 is the brightest class in many a year." A bulletin signed "C. J.," another proof of the extreme subtlety of freshman wit, warned all students from entering the yard during the celebration. Still another asserted that the college had been "waiting for '90, 250 years;" this was unaccompanied by any statistics showing the in corresponding depression of the college for the first two hundred and forty-nine years of its birth, till, now that '90 has come and is not so very much fresher than other freshman classes, she has felt relieved enough to celebrate in style. This transparency also pathetically inquired "Where was '89 on Bloody Monday Night?" And apparently answered it to their own satisfaction.

The Navy Club here broke the freshman ranks.

This was an organization of the first of this century, and consisted of the thirty laziest men in the class, of which the most supremely lazy was high admiral. About a dozen men dressed as sailors kept the memory of the club alive, and Mr. J. B. Blake '87, dressed in Admiral's uniform, lay on a red divan on a dray, - the laziest of the sluggards.

The 1st Regiment Band followed the Navy Club, and two drays with graduates followed the band.

The great feature of the parade, however, was the great Mott Haven Cup, which now appeared, drawn on a low cart by two horses. It was ten feet high, and nine broad, was a very fair fac-simile of the cup itself, being made all the more realistic by being covered with silver paper. Seated on the rich folds of red cloth which swathed the base of the cup, were Messrs. J. M. Hallowell, '88, and H. D. Hale, '88, its proprietors. Immediately after the cup came a most.

LUDICROUS FEATURE.A large blue rag doll bearing a transparency "Yale A. A. I can't run but I can talk," was pushed along behind the cup in a perambulator by a small gamin in the Wesleyan colors. And a small train of "muckers" bound to the first with a rope and clad respectively in the colors of Columbia, Princeton, University of Pennsylvania, and Lafayette, followed like captives behind a triumphal car. This was greeted with boundless enthusiasm along the whole route.

Some more hacks loaded with heavy graduates intervened between the Cup and the Law School. The drum corps of that body was excellently! drilled by that skilled tactician, Mr. J. A. Frye, and dressed in smart policemen's uniforms they formed a very pleasing feature of the show. Their leading transparency informed the public that they were "drumming for clients." Their other transparencies, though all based on legal catches were exceedingly clever. One represented "Circuity of Action," as exemplified by a corporal's arm and a trim maiden's waist; its reverse, by a diagram of a gentleman birching a boy, gave a good illustration of "Quarter Merited." A second displayed a picture of Austin Hall. A third had cartoons of a gory scalp, labeled, "The First Fee," a Puritan demolishing an Indian, thereby illustrating the "Ancient Action of Conversion;" a convict suit labeled "Livery of Seizer," and a bargain between a poco and an aborigine, representing the "Ancient Action for a Suit." A fourth showed a gentleman being killed vigorously in "Joint Action; "on the reverse an aged darkey was made to illustrate "Black-Male," and a pompous military man, a "Grand Sergeant." A fifth bore on one side two apple trees, a man standing beneath, and in the second scene the apple which hung prominent from the tree is gone. These touching scenes are labeled respectively 'Malum Prohibitum" and "Malum in Se." On the reverse of this ingenious transparency was a silhouette of a gentleman embracing a girl, with the two mottoes, "Inter armas leges et silentes," and "No law forbids the associated press."

The procession consumed about two hours in its march, going over the prescribed route with few delays. Quincy Street was aglow with lights and lanterns. In front of the President's house a platform had been built from which a large number of guests viewed the parade. Almost the whole of the line of march was illuminated by brilliantly lighted and decorated houses, bengal-lights and lanterns. The most beautiful scenes were at Beck Hall, Brattle Street and Garden Street near the old Elm. All the buildings along the route were lustily cheered, the CRIMSON cheer making itself more dear than ever to the public.