One of the most notable demonstrations of Saturday's parade, from the patriotic and historic point of view, occurred when the battalion of veterans of the Grand Army of the Republic marched up. Tremont street and approached the densely-packed stand at the corner of Boylston street. As soon as the old Boys in Blue came in sight (they were led by a drummer who was also a veteran of the Civil War), every person in the stand stood and shouted, while the men who fought for the flag and liberty more than fifty years ago paraded proudly, with eyes to the front and heads held high. Cheer upon cheer greeted the old soldiers, the women joining their voices, waving their hand-kerchiefs and giving the veterans the "Chatauqua salute." From start to finish of the parade, indeed, the battalion was in perfect step and alignment, and the proud standards were borne aloft without a hitch by three stalwart Grand Army men.

It was a splendid proof and token of the perpetuity of the fighting spirit of the American people, and a token and promise of glorious days to come, when the young soldiers now in France, themselves looking back upon fifty years of honorable citizenship, their days lengthened in the light of their country's gratitude, will bear aloft on our Boston streets the same untiring standard of liberty. --Boston Transcript.