104. C. C. BRIGGS & Co. exhibited two (upright and square) pianos. 105. The S. W. BROWN FURNITURE Co. made an exhibit of carved chamber furniture.

106. JOHN ROESSLE had a big team of eight horses, on which rode a lager-beer cask of immense size, surmounted by King Gambrinus himself, and surrounded by characters representing all nations. There were placards on "Two hundred and fifty

the side of the wagon, one of which read in rhyme: years ago, there was no lager beer; but now the people better know, and love the German bier."

107. HERBERT H. HAM exhibited the aerial elevator and fire-escape, drawn by four gray horses.

108. THE BOSTON LEAD MANUFACTURING COMPANY made an interesting exhibit of its productions. Two large wagons, decorated with flags and bunting, were required. In one were melting-pots all ready for corroding the lead, and at one end were samples of lead after corroding, just as taken from the bed. There were the products of pure white lead, red lead, litharge, and pig lead. The other wagon was weighted with samples of lead pipe, tin-lined lead pipe, tin pipe, and sheet lead, all made up into different forms.

109. A. F. LEATHERBEE exhibited a load of handsome shingles.

110. SAMUEL D. HICKS & SON had three single teams, one of which carried a device displaying copper house-cornices, and the others copper bathboilers, Austin's expanding water-conductor, and Mihan's dome ventilator.

111. THE MAGEE FURNACE COMPANY made an extensive display of their latest patterns of stoves and furnaces on two of their largest vans. The whole exhibition was designed to represent their show-rooms. There were thirty-one different patterns of stoves exhibited, all blackened, polished, and in working order, as also were the furnaces. The front wagon was drawn by six horses, and bore the sign, "Magee furnaces, ranges, and stoves;" while the second, drawn by four horses, was marked, "Magee cooking and heating stoves, for every use and clime - all in illuminated letters.

112. SARGENT, GREENLEAF & Co. displayed, on a wagon decorated with bunting and flags and drawn by six horses, five safes of the Squaires & Pratt manufacture.

113. The wagon of the BOSTON ÆTNA RUBBER MILLS was drawn by four horses, and filled with employés, dressed in different costumes, made from India rubber, at their own factories, and distributing envelopes containing fabrics showing the perfection to which they had carried this industry. The

operatives, while passing, were inflating rubber pillows, air-beds, invalid cushions, life-preservers, and air-work generally. The rear of the wagon

was filled with cases of water-bottles, toys, combs, piano-covers, tarpaulins,

mats, etc.

114. CUMMINGS, KENNEY & Co. made a very handsome show of blackwalnut lumber in the log, etc.

115. EDWARD PAGE & Co. exhibited a monster leather belt, one hundred feet in length, and three feet in width. In addition a very pleasing display was made of smaller-size belting, etc.

116. MOSES POND & Co., stoves, furnaces, etc., contributed a mounted cloth-roof house, with ornamental iron cresting, showing the system of ventilation used by the firm. The various styles of stoves and furnaces dealt in by the firm were also shown.

117. The SUFFOLK BREWING CO. made a display of kegs of malt, sacks of hops and grain, etc.

118. E. B. BADGER & SON exhibited a large copper still, copper bathboilers, sugar-house coil-pipes, etc., and two men at work making small copper vessels.

119. CLARK & SMITH showed an immense hewed log of mahogany, measuring twenty-three feet long and three feet square, and weighing six tons, drawn by six horses in tandem.

120.

RUSSELL & BURKE exhibited various kinds of pumps in operation. 121. NEWTON, NORTON & CO. made a display of brick-making. There were two wagons, on the first of which was a brick press at work; on the second, workmen modelling fire-brick tiles, varying in size from nine inches long to eight feet square, and brick trays such as are used for preparing the pulp in paper manufactories. Fifty workmen in uniform followed on foot.

122. M. DURANT & SONS had two wagons, the first of which bore a cider-press, and the second a lot of apples. The manufacture of cider was shown.

123. RUETER & ALLEY'S wagon carried a big tank surrounded by hops and grain, representing the brewing business, over which was a sign with the lettering: "Last year the brewers paid twelve millions to the government." 124. GEORGE CURTIS showed a lot of pine planks and shingles. 125.

MORRIS & IRELAND had in the line a four-horse team, ornamented with plumes, bells, and elegant trappings, drawing a heavy load of safes of various sizes. There was shown one of the safes of fifty years ago, a wood

lined, rudely riveted contrivance, with massive key, and in contrast one of the heavy burglar-defying and fire-proof safes of modern make. The smaller styles of office safes were also shown.

126. THE BOSTON ELASTIC FABRIC COMPANY sent their team, drawn by four horses, wearing covers made of elastic thread, used for weaving purposes. In the centre of the wagon, and high above the other goods, was a large rubber belt, twenty inches wide, three hundred and sixty feet long, and weighing more than one thousand pounds. Tastefully arranged below and around this belt were all kinds of rubber hose, square and round steam packing, pure sheet packing, tubing, blankets for calico printing, and a large and handsome variety of all kinds of rubber goods used by manufacturers and mechanics. At the back of the wagon was a display of rubber thread for woven elastic goods. 127. THE WHITTIER MACHINE COMPANY contributed a large team, of six horses, drawing one of their elevator machines, a duplicate of that just placed in Hotel Vendome. It was a double-screw, double-rope hoisting-machine, which raises the elevator car. The whole turn-out was tastefully trimmed with bunting, flags, etc.

128. THE RUTLAND MARBLE COMPANY exhibited a slab of Rutland (Vt.) marble, eleven and one-half feet long, also finished curbing, headstones, and building marble, surmounted by a monument of evergreen and flowers.

129. GEORGE L. DAMON was represented by a six-horse caravan, bearing his largest folding-door safe, with combination lock, which measures seven and one-half feet by six feet, and weighs five tons, on top of which was placed, by way of contrast, the smallest size safe manufactured at Mr. Damon's establishment, weighing only two hundred and fifty pounds. These safes were elaborately ornamented, and alongside them stood an old style "Bull's Eye" or "Knob" safe, fifty years old, and provided with a very large key. The wagon was decorated with flags and surmounted by an eagle, and the horses were decked with plumes and flags. Behind the caravan marched one hundred workmen, in columns of four, led by a drum corps. The men were in uniform, with caps and badges.

130. JOHN W. LEATHERBEE made a display of all kinds of manufactured lumber.

131. GEORGE W. & Franklin SMITH showed an immense iron column, handsomely finished, for the Boston Post Office and Sub-Treasury, weighing seven tons; also an ornamental pile of some twenty-five columns, all made at one casting, in green-sand mould.

132. JOHN HARRINGTON & CLARK made an elegant display of granite and marble work. A four-horse dray contained two highly polished and ornamented urns of Maine granite, valued at $1,000 each, designed for Forest Hills and other specimens of granite work, including an urn of Connecticut granite, and a tablet of polished black granite. In marble there was an ornamental tablet of Norman design, and another of the Gothic style, etc.

133. L. M. HAM & Co., iron-workers, contributed a team on which was a modern prison-cell door, seven by four feet, with improved lock.

134. HOWARD SNELLING & Co. showed three of their patent coal-wagons, by means of which they are able to discharge a load of coal quickly into a window or coal-hole across the widest sidewalks.

135. GEO. T. MCLAUTHLIN & Co., made an extensive machinery display. It consisted of five teams, showing a forty-five horse Hoadley portable-engine; an eighty and a six horse McLauthlin's patent drop-tube safety steam-boiler; an elevator exhibit, showing a passenger car, a freight elevator car and elevator machinery; mining machinery, especially a crushing and a milling machine, water-wheels, showing as built in 1852, and successive improvements; and last, a twelve-horse mounted Hoadley engine. The display was handsomely decorated.

136. THE PEARSON CORDAGE Co. showed an immense roll of large rope, together with samples of all sizes of rope and cord, oakum, etc.

137. THE BAY STATE IRON COMPANY's exhibit was headed by a regiment of five hundred men, the employés of the corporation, wearing blue blouses and caps lettered in gilt, inscribed "Bay State Iron Company." They carried a banner inscribed "Bay State Iron Company Workmen," with the State shield upon the front, and on the reverse, "Children of Tubal Cain, Masters of the Mightiest of Metals - Iron." The men marched in a solid column of files of eight. They escorted a carriage containing four of the veteran employés of the company. Then came a large, gayly decorated wagon, drawn by six handsome gray horses. It contained two immense plates of boiler-iron, forming two sides of an equilateral triangle. The plates measured 180 × 963 inches, and weighed eighteen hundred pounds each. Upon the wagon were also bundles of sheet-iron, which the company has just commenced to manufacture. They were inscribed, "The first sheet-iron made in Boston." Suspended from the apex of the two boiler-plates was a large sheet of iron of about the same thickness as newspaper. The whole display was most interesting.

138. WHITTEMORE BROTHERS' display of farm and garden tools and other agricultural implements, in a large team, attracted much attention. The machine known as Clark's traction-wheels steam-plough is designed for ploughing six or more parallel furrows at the same speed with which a team of horses or oxen will turn a single line of earth. The Oliver chilled-plough was the principal feature of the exhibit, which in variety included all modern laborsaving appliances for tilling the soil.

139. WHITELEY, FASSLER & KELLY exhibited one of their reapingmachines in motion.

140. JOHN H. LASKEY showed a self-levelling dining-table for vessels, a company of diners sitting about the table to illustrate its practicability.

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According to the consolidated reports there were fourteen thousand five hundred and six men, and three hundred and twenty-five vehicles in the procession.

The route was four and one-fifth miles in length, and the time occupied by the procession in passing a given point was three and onehalf hours.

The procession was reviewed at Arlington street by the Commander-in-Chief, and at Berkeley street by the Chief Marshal. The decorations along the route were numerous and beautiful. Columbus avenue, which was decorated by the concerted action of the residents, presented a particularly fine appearance. Every vacant lot on the streets through which the procession passed was utilized for the erection of an observation stand. Many of them contained chairs for fifteen hundred or more spectators, ranged in regular tiers one above another, from which the pageant could be viewed in comparative comfort. The seats sold readily, at good prices. Besides these many private residences had platforms erected in the front area, for the accommodation of the family and visitors. When some particularly attractive feature in the procession reached one of the great public stands, and the mass of spectators greeted it with cheers and waving of handkerchiefs, the scene was most inspiriting.