The Dandy Fifth, New York Dewey Parade 1899

Filmed Sept. 30, 1899. American Mutoscope and Biograph Company Dewey Fifth Regiment of Baltimore homecoming land parade in New York City Camera: Frederick S. Armitage The admiral was still somewhat breathless as he summed up the event year later in his autobiography, ''Dewey arches, Dewey flags, and ''Welcome Dewey'' in electric lights on the span of the Brooklyn Bridge! The great city of New York made holiday,'' he wrote. ''Its crowds banked the piers, the roofs, and Riverside Drive when the Olympia, leading the North Atlantic Squadron, which was Santiago, proceeded up the North River, and they packed the streets for the land parade in token of public emotion. . . . In the presence of the spectacle, which was without equal, my emotion was indiscernible.'' 5th Maryland, nicknamed ''The Dandy Fifth'' was formed in 1867. This 5th Maryland (there are several) traces its lineage back to the American Revolution. From the Biograph picture catalogue: Taken during the land parade in honor of Admiral Dewey, just before the turn into 72nd Street, with Grant's tomb and decorated residences in the background. This entire series of pictures [of the Dewey land parade] has a very high photographic quality, and the various organizations appear at their best. New York Times, Wednesday, September 15, 1899 THE DEWEY PARADE ROUTE; Protest of Citizens May Kill the Broadway Plan. SOUSA'S OFFER OF HIS BAND Frank Damrosch Wants Space for a Chorus of 2,500 Children -- More Military Commands Coming. The Committee on Plan and Scope of the Dewey Executive Committee will meet today and decide, once for all, what shall be the route of the land parade on Sept. 30. New York Times, Wednesday, September 16, 1899 NEW DEWEY PARADE ROUTE; Procession to Follow Undeviating Course Down Fifth Avenue. THE NUMBER IN LINE 34,000 Arrangements for the Pageants on the Water Complete -- Gen. Carroll Explains President's Attitude. The Committee on Plan and Scope of the Dewey Executive Committee again changed the route of the land parade to be held on Sept. 30, so that now the column, instead of branching off from Fifth Avenue at Twenty-third Street and making its way to the point of dismissal will continue on in a straight line to the Washington Arch. As finally decided upon the route is as follows: Down Riverside Drive from One Hundred and Twenty-second Street to Seventy-second Street, to Eighth Avenue, to Fifty-ninth Street, to Fifth Avenue, to the south side of Washington Square. New York City in 1902: January 8 Collision in the tunnel of the Grand Central, in Manhattan, in the morning, results in death of 40 persons, and injuries to 40 / January 24 Denmark sells Virgin Islands to U.S. / January 27 Dynamite in the Rapid Transit tunnel at Park Ave. and 41st. Manhattan, exploded, killing five men and damaging houses for blocks / February 6 Young Women's Hebrew Association organizes in New York City / March 18 Enrico Caruso becomes first well-known performer to make a record / May 2nd George Méliés releases 'A Trip To The Moon,' the first science fiction movie (available online) / The Flatiron Building, or Fuller Building is completed / May 5 Buffalo Bill is in town with his 'Wild West' show: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuQjO6xLnOQ