FIRST LIEUT. FRED 1. CLAYTON. CAFT. WILLIAM HATCH JONES. SECOND LIEUT. EMERY GROVER. BY REV. T. DEWITT TALMAGE, D. D., OF BROOKLYN, N. Y. BOSTON: ALFRED MUDGE & SON, PRINTERS, 24 FRANKLIN STREET. THE two hundred and fifty-third fall field day was celebrated by a short parade in Boston, Monday, Oct. 6, and by a trip to Philadelphia. This was the first visit of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company to a Pennsylvania city since it was chartered in 1638; but many of the members had passed through Pennsylvania as Massachusetts Volunteers in the days of the War of the Rebellion, and these and others found many acquaintances and friends there. Although the trip was a long one, involving more than six hundred miles of railroad and steamboat travel, for a stay in Philadelphia of little more than a day, the interest taken in it was extensive, and the company ranks were fuller than had been usual on similar occasions. Including ladies and the band, — and the two totalled forty-five persons, the party numbered nearly two hundred and fifty. Capt. William Hatch Jones, in General Orders, had named 1 P. M. as the hour for assembling at the Armory, and 2.30 P. M. as the hour at which the line would be formed. At the latter time, nine companies of infantry and three of artillery marched down the Faneuil Hall steps and out on to South Market Street, where Capt. Jones took command. Then an innovation, though a slight one, was made. Instead of marching directly to the depot, the battalion line broke to the right, and in columns of twos proceeded through the Quincy Market, as it is popularly known, or the Faneuil Hall Market, as it is officially styled, and into Commercial Street. Thence it marched through State, Washington, and Kneeland streets to the Old Colony Depot, reaching that point at 3.22 P. M. It was headed by the Salem Cadet Band, thirty-five pieces, Jean Missud, leader. In the market and on the streets the spectators were exceedingly numerous, and the applause was great. |