Parade honors hero Hooker at City Hall review
A large crowd packed City Hall for a parade honoring Fighting Joe Hooker. Mayor Collins led a three hour review with officials and veterans while crowd scenes featured dignitaries, press, and three young women atop a building watching from windows.
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Friends
Doyle
Board of Aldermen
Council Chamber
Dolan
Friends of the Department
Bates
Miles
Ninth Regiment
Boston School Regiment
The
Commonwealth
School Street
City Hall
Veterans Parade Draws Huge Crowds and Warm Welcomes
The procession past City Hall drew 50 000 to 100 000 on electric cars and nearly 75 000 via ferries The South and North stations reported record crowds with as many as 150 000 arrivals at peak times A Wilmington Delaware family attended and veterans received emotional recognition by Mayor Collins and others including Major G F H Murray and Major John J Sullivan
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Doyle
Board of Aldermen
Hugh Bresnahan
Nolan
Bowen
Slattery
Farwell
Lomasney
Frothingham
Curry
McGrady
Mencovitz
McDermott
Maynard
Conway
Bennett
Cauley
Crowley
McDonald
Newton
Ware
Sullivan
John H. Donovan
Karan J. Hart
Minton
William Dunn
Roger Scannell
Prince Albert
James A. Frye
Colnel Charles K. Darling
Lawrence N. Duchesney
Light Artillery
William A. Pew
Jnv
William H. Oakes
William H. Donovan
William A. Perrins
Cavalry
Thomas I*. Edmands
Corps of Cadets
William A. Bancroft
United States Volunteers
Hooker
Old Brigade
W. A. Smith
Union Veterans’ Union
Kearsarge Association of Naval Veterans
Andrew Houghton
Legion of Spanish War Veterans
New England Association of Veterans of the
Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company
Boston Fusilier
Collins
Charles Bartlett
Post 15
G. F. H. Murray
John J. Sullivan
Chelsea
East Boston
Revere Beach & Lynn Ferries
South
North Station
South Station
Boston
Wilmington
Del
Park Street
Crowds Pour Into Boston From Suburbs Despite Weather
Seen by a million and more, about 409000 people traveled to Boston from suburbs by trains electric cars and ferries from East Boston Chelsea Revere Beach Lynn, arriving from 8 o'clock onward as crowds gathered despite threatening skies.
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Boston
Chelsea
Revere Beach & Lynn
Unveiling of Massachusetts Statue for General Hooker
A grand ceremony on the State House lawn unveiled a bronze equestrian statue of Major General Joseph Hooker. Generals Miles Sickles Merritt Brooke and others attended with Governor Bates and Lt Governor Guild. Thousands watched the early event and a parade paid tribute to the Union hero.
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Hooker
State House Lawn
Nelson A. Miles
Army of the United States
Daniel E. Sickles
Wesley A. Merritt
John R. Brooke
Samuel Andrews
N. A. M. Dudley
P. P. Pope
Johnson
Dyer
Collins
General Sickles
Joseph Hooker Wood
State House
Bates
the Commonwealth
Wolcott
General Court of Massachusetts
General Court
Commonwealth
Massachusetts
Joseph Hooker
Joseph E. Woods
Bugles
Potomac
Cuild
Hooker Day Parade Route and Time Stated by Post
The Post's map of the Hooker Day parade proved accurate, with spectators using it as an information resource. The timetable at key points allowed crowds to follow the procession without delays, while rival diagrams showed significant errors and hour-long deviations from actual events.
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