Word: dray
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...first division, with Harvard second. Delegations also marched from Tufts, Technology, Boston College, Boston Dental College, and the Medical School. The second division was composed of various suburban Republican clubs. One of the unique features of the parade was John the Orangeman and his cart on a dray drawn by four horses...
Besides Harvard, Boston University, Tufts, Technology, and the suburban Republican clubs will take part in the parade. Brown will not participate, but Williams may enter. There will be many special features and some fancy marching. "Old John" will be carried on a dray in the Harvard division, and besides fireworks and transparencies there will be a drag of graduates...
...Sound Money Parade next Monday night will be particularly interesting as the only one in the campaign composed exclusively of college men. There will be transparencies expressive of allegiance to the cause of sound money and contempt for Bryanism. Other features will be Old John on a dray, the enormous machine manufactured by the Vim Tire Company, the bicycle brigade and a quantity of red fire. The same costumes used in the Republican parade will be worn. All who have not costumes for the parade tonight and who intend to wrlk Monday night must sing the bluebook in Leavitt...
...Harvard division, which will be the most prominent in the parade, will be under the marshalship of W. S. Garrison, Jr. Old John and Annex on a dray will be prominent features. The Glee Club will march in a body and sing popular airs along the route. Red lights, to be furnished by the club, will be distributed on Monday. Several bands have been engaged. The transparencies will be confined to opinions of Bryan and Sound Money, the non-partisan element in the parade not allowing the use of the names of either Palmer and Buckner or McKinley and Hobart...
...chief marshal and staff on review. Eight brass bands and as many fife and drum corps will accompany the parade, while an abundance of red fire, flambeaux, torches and megaphones will add to the success of the pageantry. "John the Orangeman" will ride with his cart on a dray...