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Jake Intro-Outro:
[0:04] Welcome to Hub history, where we go far beyond the Freedom Trail to share our favorite stories from the history of Boston. The Hub of the universe.
This is Episode 204 peace in Boston after the Civil War.
Hi, I’m Jake since I talked about Boston’s 18 51 Railroad Jubilee last week, which was an enormous celebration at a time when the nation seemed to be in the midst of a rush towards civil war.
I thought this week it might be fun to talk about another enormous jubilee in Boston.
The Grand Peace Jubilee was held in Boston in 18 69 when the Civil War was still a raw wound on the American psyche.

[0:44] Through a musical spectacular unlike anything the world had ever seen, composer Patrick Gilmore hoped to bind the country together and help it heal.
And if he just so happened to get rich in the process, well, that would just be icing on the cake.

[0:59] After the Peace Jubilee, I’ll take a look at another peacetime memory of the Civil War in Boston,
in 1903 after the pain of the Civil War dulled somewhat, Boston gathered at what’s now the General Hooker entrance to the State House to dedicate a statue to the highest ranking general to come from Massachusetts during the Civil War.

[1:19] But before we talk about celebrations of peace in Boston, it’s time for this week’s Boston Book Club selection and our upcoming historical event.

Boston Book Club

[1:29] My pick for the Boston Book Club this week is a series of articles about the history of Syrian Americans and Syrian restaurants in Boston from the 18 eighties to the present day.
You may remember that almost exactly a year ago we featured an excellent series of articles by the passionate foodie, a k a.
Richard Auffrey, about the history of Chinatown and Chinese restaurants in Boston.

[1:52] Offerings back this month with another series of three at least so far. Articles.
The series starts with the wave of Syrian immigration to Boston in the 18 eighties, with the new Little Syria springing up around what’s now Ping on Alley off Essex Street in Chinatown.
From the first mentions of a Syrian restaurant in the press in 18 99 offering walks through the menu offerings of 1/19 century Syrian American restaurant from Cube, too. Yeah, Brock toe ice cream.

[2:24] He uses the rise of Syrian restaurants to follow the growth of the local Syrian American population and the size of Little Syria.

[2:32] After discussing the Syrian restaurant scene through the 19 twenties, the next article dives into the history of one specific restaurant,
the long shuttered Sahara Restaurant in the South End, originally opened in 1965 and for somewhat murky reasons, closed again in 1972.

[2:52] Amazingly, the sign has remained up over the door ever since, and the same family has owned the building since at least the early 19 seventies, and maybe since the restaurant originally open.

[3:04] Finally, the third article discusses Ah Hudson Street restaurant called the Nile.
When it was open from the late 19 thirties through the late 19 sixties, it was referred to as the most famous Syrian restaurant this side of the pyramids, at least in their own marketing materials.

[3:23] As offering points out in the article, it’s a bit odd that they chose to name their restaurant after the Nile River and to refer to the pyramids in their marketing because neither of those things existed in Syria.
However, during the era when the restaurant opened, Egypt was about the closest reference most Americans had for the Middle East.
So the Salam family who owned the joint just rolled with it.

[3:45] At first, they catered to the 16,000 or so Syrian immigrants who lived in Boston in the 19 thirties and forties, but the business expanded his word of their delicious lamb skewers and Libya stew spread among Yankee Boston,
head chef Deeb George Salam was an expert pastry chef, and he may have been responsible for introducing Buck Levada the Boston palette.

[4:08] Using his typical style of mining newspaper databases examining old menus.
Richard Offer traces the rising popularity of the restaurant through its increasing nightly capacity as well as the string of celebrity guests, including movie stars, the Kennedys and the Saudi royal family.
He also weaves in details of how the Arab Israeli conflict affected staff of the restaurant, how urban renewal in Boston impacted the location of the restaurant and it’s eventual decline in bankruptcy.
It’s been a few weeks, so I’m not really sure if there are any more installments of the Siri’s forthcoming Check out the show notes for links to read all three.
And I’ll let you know there if he writes anymore.

Upcoming Event(S)

[4:50] And for the upcoming event this week, I’m featuring a lunchtime talk in October 1st from the Mass Historical Society that’s related to one of our past episodes.

[4:59] You may recall that in episode 1 32 we described how, in 17 45 a volunteer army of Massachusetts militia,
through good leadership, gallant conduct and sheer dumb luck, managed to defeat the French fortress Lewis Borg, the strongest fortress in North America at the time.
While our show talked a bit about the thought process behind Royal Governor Williams Shirley’s decision to besiege the fortress we focused more on the tactics of the battlefield and the results of the victory in the talk rule Britannia Imperial Patriots.
In the siege of Louis Board of 17 45 Amy Watson of USC will focus on the men who joined the siege and their political motivations.
Here’s how the MHS describes the event. In 17 45 a group of New England volunteers who call themselves Patriots launched an expedition against the French fortress of Louisbourg in present day Nova Scotia.
Who were these patriots? What did they want with Lewisburg?
And what could this incident tell us about British Imperial politics in the mid 18th century, This expedition reveals that the British Empire was dividing on sharp partisan lines in the 17 forties, laying the groundwork for the revolutionary decades to come.

[6:18] If you’ll allow me some shameless self promotion. I also have a couple of events coming up in the next few weeks.
First of all, you can see me give a talk about the lost tunnels of the North End for the Old North Church Historic Site on Wednesday, October 7th at 7 p.m.

[6:35] It will be a lot like the podcast, except you’ll be able to see me and see my slides, and you won’t have to consult the show notes for the visual aids I want to share,
and I won’t be able to edit out of my embarrassing ums and ahhs and awkward pauses.
Here’s how Old North describes the event.
If you’ve ever taken a walking tour of Boston’s North End, or if you’ve talked to the old timers in the neighborhood,
you’ve probably heard stories about the network of so called secret pirate tunnels or smugglers tunnels that connects the wars to the basements of houses, Old North church and even Crips and cops. Tilbury in ground.
Sometimes the tunnels are attributed to a captain grew she who’s often called a pirate or a smuggler and who’s portrayed is a shadowy figure.

[7:22] The legends of pirate tunnels in the North End were inspired by a few subterranean discoveries in the late 18 hundreds.
But the fantastic details and stories told by tour guides and popular authors air just that fantasy.
However, there is truth underlying the legends, and there are tunnels underlying the streets of the North End.

[7:45] And finally, I want to promote the Boston Preservation Awards, which are coming up on October 15th.
One of the few bright spots in this pandemic season is that the Boston Preservation Alliance will hold their awards ceremony online this year, and it will be open to everyone.
That means that you can hang out and watches. Hub History wins a preservation award in the advocacy project category.
Here’s what the alliance said about us Boston has always been a city built on history.
Museums, iconic buildings and monuments are an essential part of the city’s self definition and tourism draw.
Today, more than ever, that history spreads beyond physical places.
The Hub History podcast tells the stories of Boston’s history through a medium that has surged in popularity.
The talented duo that produces the podcast brings Boston history alive by making the past accessible and relevant to a wide audience far beyond the balance of familiar sights.

[8:43] The means to engage people with the history of Boston have grown dramatically, and the Hub history podcast is a wonderful way to expand the connection of the broader public. Tow our past, says Greg Gayer, executive director of the Boston Preservation Alliance.
The more people who are informed, unenthusiastically, connected to the stories of the places and people of Boston, the more engagement we have.
The desire to preserve these places for future generations toe understand the historic place in the events that happened there is to recognize its value and its connections toe lessons valuable to us today.

[9:18] The funny thing about these awards that were being honored alongside mostly buildings and the architects and developers of those buildings.
However, some of our fellow honorees or sites we’ve podcast is about in the past.
For example, graves light in the Outer Harbor is being honored for its innovative conversion into a weekend home.
We talked about Graves lighting our episodes about the zoo shipwreck, which sank after hitting an uncharted rock near graves.
Light, as well as the wreck of the Mary O Hara, which also sank nearby North Square, is being honored for a complex renovation to make it more accessible and informative for locals and tourists alike.
And, of course, we talk about North Square whenever it’s famous. Residents Cotton Mather, Thomas Hutchinson or Paul Revere come up on the show in our show about the sack of the Ursuline convent.
We even talked about the Cathedral of the Holy Cross, which will be honored for a subtle renovation to modernize the church without changing its character.

[10:18] One thing that we have that the other honorees don’t have is a fan base.
We’re asking all our listeners to vote for us is the preservation awards fan favorite.
Just go to Boston. Preservation org’s slash fan dash favorite or look for the Lincoln, This week’s show notes and, of course, each unique email address.
Convert once each day, so please vote early and often and help us take home a second award.

[10:47] We’ll have the links you need to register for any of this week’s upcoming events, self, promotional or otherwise.
In the show, Notes will also link to Richard Offers three part Siris on Syrian immigration and Syrian restaurants in Boston.
For details, just Goto Hub history dot com slash 204 Before I move on with the show, I just want to take a moment to thank everyone who supports Hub history on Patryan.
These are the folks who contribute $2.5 dollars or even $10 a month to help us offset the cost of making the podcast.

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After I edited last week’s show about the Railroad Jubilee and I tried to export the final MP three to upload door media host, I couldn’t because my laptops drive was entirely full.
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[12:14] And now it’s time for this week’s main topic. First up this week is the story of an eccentric entrepreneur and musical visionary who built one of the largest buildings in 19th century Boston.

Main Topic: Peace After The Civil War

[12:25] Indeed one of the largest buildings in the world at the time, it was a concert hall with twice the capacity of the modern TD Garden, and it was built to house the largest musical spectacular that the world had ever seen.
Up to that time, it was the Boston Coliseum, built to house the Grand National Peace Jubilee celebrating the end of America’s civil war.
This segment originally aired as Episode 102 in October 2018.

Jake And Nikki:
[12:54] In the 18 fifties and sixties, Boston undertook an unprecedented infrastructure project.
We first created an industrial lagoon out of the title Back Bay, then decided to fill in the increasingly polluted lagoon and create a new residential neighborhood.
As the tidy street grid was laid out, the streets were filled with sand and gravel to a level of 18 ft above low tide in Boston Harbor.
Since the homes that would be built between these streets would all need sellers, the building lots were left at a lower level filled to 12 ft above the low tide line.

[13:31] When we used to give tours of the Back Bay, we’d pause at one of the few spots in the neighborhood where you can still see the difference between the level of the streets and the house lots,
to illustrate what it would have looked like at the time we used a picture that was taken just outside Copley Square.
In 18 69 or 70 it shows the high streets and low building lots in a waffle pattern.
Every once in a while, one of our guests would point to the giant building in the background of the photo and ask what it waas.
So what was it? It was the Boston Coliseum, otherwise known as Jubilee Hall or the Temple of Peace.
When it was built in 18 69 it was one of the largest buildings in the world.
The Coliseum was enormous, a wooden building with plentiful windows.
From a distance, it would have looked like a long, low rectangular building with a gently pitched roof up close, you would realize that the scale of the building prevents it from being considered low.

[14:35] It was over a football field wide and almost two football fields long, 350 by 550 ft.
Within its walls, 4.5 acres of land were enclosed.
That low, gently sloping roof actually soared to a peak of 120 ft above the ground.
Depending on which source you believe, construction took somewhere between two and three million board feet of lumber, between 28 40 tons of nails and 25,000 ft of gas pipe.
There were 144 windows, 48 water closets, 12 grand stairways, and the whole thing was topped off by £7500 of paint.

[15:21] The end product was a vast concert hall that could seat up to 50,000 people.
For comparison, the concert capacity of the TD Garden is just under 20,000.
This enormous edifice stood on land that was newly filled in the Back Bay and not yet auctioned off his building lots.
It was built for a Grand National Peace Jubilee held in June of 18 69.
The organizer and conductor of the Jubilee, the Projector, as he called himself, recalls what it was like the moment that huge hall burst forth in song from the mouths and instruments oven, unprecedented musical assemblage.
The first peel of the organ was the signal to the chorus and orchestra to prepare.
The 10,000 singers arose, and the 1000 musicians placed their instruments in position.
All eyes were now directed to the uplifted baton chorus. Organ and orchestra were to come in fortissimo, its very first move.
For a moment, all seemed hushed into breathless silence. Then, in the name of God, the wand came down, and the grandest volume of song that ever filled human ear rolled like a sea of sound through the immense building,
grander and grander came wave after wave Now loud is the roar of the ocean Now soft is the murmuring stream Oh, how beautiful!
Help your how heavenly What sublime cords, what ravishing harmonies.

[16:49] That’s right for the first piece, which was the him we now know as a mighty fortress is our God.
The projector was conducting a 10,000 voice choir backed by an orchestra of 1000 instruments.
The overture from the Wagner or for a listener, Peter Sake Wagner Opera Thanh Hoyzer followed, backed by a mere 600 musicians,
then came to pieces by Mozart before 2500 bases sang The Star Spangled Banner, with the full course of 10,000 singing the final notes together.
After a brief intermission, things got even more dramatic.
The second act opened with a hymn of piece written for the occasion by Oliver Wendell Holmes, then the William Tell Overture, which you might better remember as the Lone Ranger theme.
Sometimes in modern performances, the William tell is punctuated by cannon fire in the performance of the Jubilee.
No such theatrics were added.
Yet after pieces by Rossini and Meyer beer, the climax was planned for a peace commonly known as the Anvil chorus by Verdi’s.

[18:09] That’s how dramatic it sounds when performed by the Berlin Philharmonic.
A normal orchestra Imagine how it must have sounded when played by 1000 instrumentalists sung by 10,000 vocalist and backed by a battery of cannons.
A convocation of church bells, a custom made bass drum 8 ft in diameter, the world’s largest pipe organ in a company of 100 Boston firefighters carrying sledgehammers pounding anvils in unison.
A contemporary account describes the effect.

[18:45] Filing in two by two, 100 helmeted, red shirted Boston fireman strode to the stage, each shouldering a blacksmith’s hammer.
Then, in two rows facing the auditors, they struck on cue, right, left right, left the cannon in two batteries ignited On the first beat of every measure.
Electric signals sent from a small table on the stage ensured flawless synchronization.
The enthusiasm of the crowd was frantic. Fans, hats, parasols, even babies were waved aloft.
The fireman marched out and back in again to encore the entire number.

[19:30] That was the first night of the five day run of the Grand Peace Jubilee, which was intended to celebrate the peace and reunification of the United States after the terrible toll taken by the Civil War.
After President Grant and his entire Cabinet took in the show on the second day of the jubilee, reporters asked him what his favorite part of the concert had been.
Grant replied in a loud tone that suggested that his ears were more attuned to the chaos of the battlefield than the subtleties of the concert hall, saying, I like the cannons.

[20:05] The presence of Grant and other members of the Republican Party, as well as the seemingly overt celebration of the victory of the Union in the Civil War, made the Peace jubilee more politically controversial than you might guess.

[20:18] With the White South undergoing reconstruction and being forced for just a few short years to share power with African Americans, things apparently didn’t feel so peaceful below the Mason Dixon line.
Here’s how a Democratic Party newspaper in Ohio, with strong Southern sympathies, put it Peace Jubilee.

[20:37] The mongrel party has had what they call a peace jubilee. At Boston, the hub of the universe, over 100,000 people were called there to hear and see.
It is said that there was no limit to the attractions Grant was there and eat fish with his imperial friends.
Hundreds of thousands of dollars were squandered in getting up the notorious humbug.
The Peace Jubilee, they shouted, sang and made huge noises with anvils, cannon and musical instruments, all in a mockery of the woes of the nation at this time.
Boston, during their peace jubilee, spit upon the miseries of the people of the south and upon those of other parts of this once happy country,
get up a peace jubilee when there is no peace, a peace jubilee when the nation is smarting under the most unrelenting war upon its best interests, which wicked rulers ever perpetrated in the history of despotism since the world began.
Yes, a peace jubilee in New England. Who’s hell is today on the neck of the south, trying to crush out its manhood and endeavoring to degrade it by foisting its own Negroes upon the white people as equals nine.
Millions of white, impoverished into starvation, their political rights wrested from them and their own ignorant slaves made rulers over them.

[21:52] As a side note. If you think that was crude, just know that we cleaned up the worst of the racist language that appeared in this front page editorial.

[22:01] But just who was this mysterious projector who had dreamed up the largest musical spectacular the world had ever seen?
Patrick SARS Field. Gilmore was born in Ireland on Christmas Day in 18 29.
By the age of 16 he was playing coordinate part time in a band while working in a brewery in Athlone.
At 18 he joined the military and served in Canada for a year, performing with the military band.
When his service was over, he emigrated to Boston, which was known as one of the centers of musical life in the U. S. A.
That time, he led a series of increasingly prestigious concert bands before volunteering with the 24th Massachusetts Regiment for service in the Civil War.
Before the war was over, he’d have a chance to put on a musical spectacular that gives us a taste of what was yet to come.
He was summoned to New Orleans, where the leader of the occupying union forces asked him to lead the festivities as an unpopular anti slavery Republican governor, was installed, as described by Dr Steven L. Roads in a History of the Wind band.

[23:07] On March 4th, 18 64 at the request of general banks, Gilmore oversaw the music, celebrating the inauguration of Governor Michael Han.
For the event, Gilmore created a Grand National band consisting of 500 Army band Zeman, plus additional drum and bugle players.
He also organized a course of 5000 Children, in addition to many other patriotic tunes.
During the last number, Hail Columbia, Gilmore shot off 36 cannon by electric buttons from the podium as the cannon fired methodically in time with the beat.
The bells from the churches and cathedrals throughout the city chimed to create a most spectacular effect.
It was a sensational event on the order of something Julian would have conceived and undoubtedly wedded Gilmore’s appetite for similar events in the future.
Patrick Gilmore seems to have had a taste for excess in literature to rival his desire for excess in music.
His book Ah History of the National Peace Jubilee, in which he describes the planning and execution of the 18 69 Jubilee, runs toe over 700 pages.
On page two, he describes how he was struck by the concept of the Jubilee seemingly out of the clear blue sky.

[24:23] In June of 18 67 Mr. P. S Gilmore was passing a few days in the city of New York.
And it was at this time that the first thought of a national jubilee to commemorate the restoration of peace throughout the land flashed upon his mind,
that carrying out of the idea he well knew would afford an opportunity for the grandest musical festival the world had ever known.

[24:50] The scenes with which he was then surrounded immediately lost their interest, and he became absorbed by the grandeur of his conception.
The general plan of the scheme, as afterwards adopted, seemed at once to unfold itself.
Indeed, had the scenes of Broadway been instantly changed by the want of a magician, they could not have been transformed into a Siris of more enchanting, dissolving views.
Then were they vividly portrayed to him like a panorama of the coming event.
A vast structure rose up before him, filled with the loyal of the land through whose lofty arches, a chorus of 10,000 voices and the harmony of 1000 instruments rolled their C of sound,
accompanied by the chime ing of bells and the booming of cannon, all pouring forth their praise and graduation in loud hosannas with all the majesty and grandeur of which music seemed capable.

[25:50] As his imagination reveled in the scenes, his thought pictured,
every nerve quivered with the intensity of his delight, and he was impressed with all the fervor of religious belief that it was his a special mission to carry out the sublime conception.

[26:08] With almost prophetic instinct.
He felt at the time that it would take two years to realize the full development of this inspiring vision.
And in some degree, the final success of the Jubilee may be attributed to the fact that he kept secret thes first impressions of the project.
By 18 69 Gilmore was already known for putting on large scale concerts every year on Boston Common for the Fourth of July.
In an early version of the Jubilee Plan, he meant to build the venue for his 18 69 extravaganza right there on the common as well.
Those rumors inspired this March 18 69 letter.
Sir, we have read with surprise and awe your proposal toe Hold a peace festival on Boston Common and forward you this hour protest.
We place our objections on the following grounds. First, in building a Coliseum such as you describe by building a board fence 11 ft high entirely around the common, you would be confining the common to a very limited space.
It would naturally chafe under this restraint as it has been accustomed to roaming around it. It’s will second, the four ladies and gentlemen who now occupy the position of watchers at the base of the brewer Felton should be considered.
It is not using them with gentlemanly consideration to the US to bar them from their view of Park and Tremont streets, which is the only recreation they enjoy this your board fence would do.

[27:37] We started to have some doubts about the letter with this next paragraph.
Third, Serious Fears Air now entertained that the fountain on the frog pond would overflow with indignation at this act of tyranny.
And it is very evident that the frogs would suffer no small inconvenience from the danger of being bailed out with Jeff Davis.
They’re not generally crackers, but we think their objections in this respect are very laudable.

[28:02] Fourth. Not only would it make baldheaded places on the grass, wear out the seats, rub the paint off the fences and crowd the Flagstaff.
But such a large number of persons must necessarily carry off large quantities of gravel upon the soles of their boots.
These our valid reasons do we thus lay before you feeling sure that they carry conviction with, um, we consider the common holy ground.
And the time is most assuredly coming when no one shall be allowed within its hallowed precincts.
It pains our hearts core to see the thoughtless deers as they frisk and gamble over its surface.
And we considered it a just retribution that the bear who temporarily there to dwell destroyed one of these wicked creatures in the midst of its sin.
No. Oh, no, not the common anywhere else. But do not insist upon the common.
We objected to new thoroughfares, free churches, horse cars, constituent water, the widening of streets.
But the rash and impetuous free boaters who composed the rising generation would not listen to us.
But the time is coming. The time is coming.

[29:14] Let us hear from you at an early day and that you will exceed to our request is the prayer of this petition.
Yours respectfully signed a fossil.
You will be cussed.
You are a wretch. Oh, fogey.
Oh, are you saying a moldy pate and 49 others?
If you ever listen to car talk on W B, you are that list of signatories could be taken straight out of the car talk credits If you hadn’t already figured it out, those names make it clear the letter is satire.
It was addressed to Moe’s Skinner in a publication That’s kind of 1/19 century version of the Onion.
That letter, maybe a phony. But there were similar editorials in Boston’s Riel Newspapers,
one, from the Boston Daily Advertiser on January 19th 18 69 reads just like more recent objections to the plan to build an arena for beach volleyball on the common.
If Boston had been forced to host the 2024 Olympic Games.

[30:20] Earnestly concurring as we do in the general hope that the project for a national peace festival next June may move steadily and prosperously onto a complete success.
We must endorse with emphasis the suggestion already made in our columns that the common is not the proper place for the contemplated Coliseum.
The common is an inheritance needing to be guarded with the most constant and the most jealous care improvement assaulted on one side.
Well, enterprises, intrinsically worthy of the heartiest support, threatened it on the other.

[30:59] The citizen who appreciates the full value of the treasure, which the wisdom of our fathers left us a treasure for which New York or Chicago would give million’s word attainable,
has to be constantly in arms against the insidious attacks of projects like these.
And now that the integrity of the common as a common is menaced by an enterprise which,
otherwise demands all his public spirited assistance, he must redouble his wariness and fortify his conservatism with new resolution.
We need hardly urge any further argument than that the rule against the admission of structures of any kind to the common is inflexible and cannot be waived even upon an occasion. So extraordinary is this.
It may be claimed that the building proposed is only temporary.
Time must be employed to build and to destroy,
and the portion of the comments so unlucky as to be selected will thus be taken from its public uses for an indefinite period and left in no condition to be immediately available again.

[32:10] But we trust no such step will be hastily taken.
And we have sufficient faith in the elastic ingenuity of the manager of the national concert to know that he will find a way to carry out his plans to victory, even if the use of the common is denied him.
For good or ill. Gilmore was getting news coverage, but he had no funding and no venue for the spectacle he’d imagined.
1969 Article in American Heritage magazine describes the point at which Patrick Gilmore’s luck began to turn,
a number of $1000 pledges rolled in principally from hotel keepers, music publishers and others who stood to benefit directly.
The school board agreed tentatively to allow 20,000 Children to sing is a feature for one day only, and an iron monger offered to furnish 100 anvils free.
But this was hardly a drop in the financial bucket, and public interest remain low.
Gilmore pleaded with Boston’s builders to supply lumber and workmen and to wait for their pay from ticket sales. But the builders had little faith in that.
Three promoters set out to sell $50,000 worth of tickets in a month for a 5% commission but gave up in disgust after three days.

[33:27] Gilmore next tried to persuade each local lumber dealer to contribute a part of the building. No luck.
He campaigned through the state, asking each town to send a volunteer corps of Civil War veterans, too. Contribute one day’s work. Nothing doing.
But at this point, he got a big break. Boston’s leading merchant, Eben D.
Jordan, head of Jordan Martian company, have been watching Gilmore with mingled admiration, wonder and the realization that a successful jubilee would be mighty good for Boston business.
Early in March, Jordan agreed to help organize the National Peace Jubilee Association and to be its treasurer.
That did it. Top businessmen and bankers were quick to join the executive committee, and they agreed to underwrite expenses from their own pockets to be repaid from seat sales.
The site of the Jubilee was changed from the common to ST James Park to quiet the Back Bay set.

[34:26] As funding and construction began to come together, Gilmore was able to focus on the program.
There would be a prayer by Edward Everett Hale, and opening him of a mighty fortress is our god ah, ham of piece, to be written by Oliver Wendell Holmes, then a traditional repertoire of classical music.
The climax came with Verdi’s Anvil chorus, where we opened one account says that an audience member was so overwhelmed by the experience that he ran to the lobby and sent a cable to his wife, saying,
Come immediately will sacrifice anything to have you here, Nothing like it in a lifetime.

[35:06] The first day, the Coliseum was packed nearly to capacity for the curiosity of opening night.
On the second day, dignitaries like President Grant and Senator Charles Sumner attended.
On each of the three subsequent days, the crowd numbered near 20,000.
Perhaps the most amazing accomplishment of the Jubilee beyond the Anvil chorus of the enormous Coliseum was the fact that it made a profit.
The box office brought in about $290,000 with expenses running to $283,000.
The city of Boston was so grateful for the tourist business, the event brought in that it through a special benefit concert featuring performances by many of the musicians who have played the Jubilee.

[35:48] It brought in about $32,000. The benefit money and the profits from the Jubilee went to Patrick Gilmore, giving him the small fortune of $39,000 which would be over $700,000 today.
Because the Coliseum was designed as a temporary structure, it was supposed to be tourney down by November 1st 18 69.
But before that day came Ah, Great Gale blew through Boston on September 8th and severely damaged the building.
Photos show gaping holes in the walls and most of the roof blown away.
More debris fell down when Boston was shaken by a moderate earthquake on October 22nd, and it appears that the building may have been put up for auction a salvage.

[36:36] In the meantime, Patrick Gilmore took his family on an extended European vacation, using some small fraction of his Jubilee earnings.
They got there just in time for the outbreak of the Franco Prussian War.

[36:50] While the brief war didn’t have much of an effect on most Americans, Patrick Gilmore saw an opportunity and he seized it.
He came back to the U. S, proposing a new peace jubilee.
This time it would be more than a grand national peace jubilee.
It would be a world peace jubilee, and everything needs to be bigger for a world jubilee.
He proposed a chorus of 20,000 voices, an orchestra of 2000 instruments and a coliseum that would hold 100,000 people pretty much the 18 69 peace jubilee times, too.

[37:29] The new policy and was again built on unsold lots in the newly filled Back Bay.
It faced Dartmouth street near the corner of Yar meth, occupying nearly exactly the footprint of today’s Copley Place, which houses a Marriott hotel, an upscale shops like Neiman Marcus.
You may have noticed that we didn’t give an exact location for the 18 69 Coliseum.
There are a few accounts that say that the original policy and was in Copley Square, where Trinity Church is now.
However, most sources agree that the First Coliseum was also constructed on the same spot as the second.
In fact, they say, some of the remains of the original building were incorporated into the New Coliseum when plans had to be scaled back after a structural collapsed during construction.

[38:21] The World Peace Jubilee, debuted on June 15th, 18 72 and was planned to run for 18 days, along with the musical assault that Gilmore had planned.
Audiences were also treated to some of the best European concert bands.
London’s Grenadier Guards came dressed in red, gold and bear skins.
The band of Lagarde Republican came from Paris. The Prussian Kaiser sent the Kaiser Franz Regiment Band along with his household Cornett quartet.

[38:54] Along with the bands, the famous composer Johann Strauss was convinced to come to Boston to conduct a newly composed waltz.
It was probably the $20,000 fee that convinced him.
Strauss also reflected on the experience of conducting Gilmore spectacle of a musical assemblage.
And he sounds less sublime than Gilmore had three years earlier on the Musicians Tribune, there were 20,000 singers in front of them.
The 2000 members of the orchestra Ah 100 assistant conductors had been placed at my disposal.
I was face to face with the public of 40,000 Americans.
Suddenly, a cannon shot rang out a gentle hint for us to start playing.
This new jubilee was not the runaway success that the first one Waas as that 1969 American Heritage magazine article notes.

[39:50] Although Gilmour scored another personal triumph, this second festival, running from June 15th to July 4th, 18 72 was disappointing. Artistically and financially, the size of the crowds fell short of expectations.
So did some of the performances. Various disasters dog the enterprise. There were instrumental troubles. The giant bass drum, 21 ft in diameter, was so huge it’s head would not vibrate properly.
It was hung on the wall for show.
The immense organ required so much pressure that the engine powering the bellows gave out.
Apparently, the world Peace Jubilee was just too big to be practical, and it lacked the spontaneity and enthusiasm of the first.
Nevertheless, the European bands made a big hit. They created a splendid show each day by marching in uniformed formation into the Coliseum.
And they sounded. Many people thought I a lot better than the 26 American bands.

[40:50] Dr Steven L. Roads puts it more charitably, saying the superiority of the Europeans musicianship provided the Americans a standard for which to strive.
During the next decades, this second jubilee seems to have finally satisfied Gilmore’s drive to create grand musical spectacles.
In his later years, he focused on creating a touring band has described again by Dr Rhodes.
Eventually, Gilmore’s band was considered without peer in America, if not the world, and engagements were plentiful by 18 80 a typical years.
Engagements consisted of a summer concert series of Manhattan Beach winter concerts at Madison Square Garden, formerly Gilmore Garden, and tours during the fall in spring under the management of David Blakely,
through his nationwide tours, and he was essentially the only touring band of the time.
The general populace not only enjoyed the popular music of the day, but we’re exposed to the music of European masters.
Where else would they hear the music of Wagner List, Mendelson, Berlioz’s Rossini, Verdi and more?
Gilmore’s Library had amassed 10,000 pieces, and he employed two or three men to write new arrangements for the band.
It was said that the players were so accomplished that they could read many of the most difficult arrangements at site without the need for rehearsal.
The Peace Jubilee had one final hurrah in Boston.

[42:14] The first Grand National Jubilee was a moving tribute to peace after our Civil War and the later World Peace Jubilee was, at least on the surface, meant us a celebration of peace after the Franco Prussian War.
But the 18 89 grand anniversary Jubilee was a celebration of nothing but nostalgia marking the 20th anniversary of the first Jubilee.
Here’s how American music preservation describes it.
This festival was to celebrate the anniversary of the National Peace Jubilee 20 years earlier.
And like that one, this grand anniversary jubilee took place in June.
The dates were June 5th through 9th 18 89 at the Mechanics Building in Boston.
The performers included a 1000 voice chorus from Boston choral organizations, a re Union Jubilee chorus of 1000 voices and a Children’s chorus of 1000 voices from Boston public schools.
The opening concert on June 5th began with the overture to Richard Wagner’s opera Tom Hoyzer by Gilmore’s band and included Handel’s Hallelujah Chorus and closed with the patriotic song My Country Tis of thee.

[43:31] Patrick Gilmore’s own final hurrah came on September 23rd, 18 92.
The band was on tour in ST Louis, and after directing the concert that evening, Gilmore retired to his hotel room.
He died the next day as his coffin was carried to the train.
His band followed along, playing Handel’s Death March in a sort of classical version of a second line.

Jake Intro-Outro:
[43:59] Next up, we’re telling the story of Hooker Day in Boston, which was originally part of Episode 1 38 which aired last June.
Well, it might sound like this is going to be an X rated podcast. We’re not talking about that kind of hooker.
Instead, Hooker day was a one time holiday celebrated in Boston in 1903 toe honor.
The highest ranking Civil War general from the Bay State General, Joseph Fighting Joe Hooker was briefly the commander of the main union force, called the Army of the Potomac.
40 years after his command, he was immortalized with a massive statue in front of the State House in Boston.

[44:37] When the statue was dedicated, the entire city celebrated a holiday that was called Hooker Day in his honor.

Jake And Nikki:
[44:44] In March of 2018 representative Michele M. D Boys, the state rep for parts of Brockton, East, Bridgwater and West Bridgewater, was at the Massachusetts State House.
About a month after the deadly Parkland shooting, high school students from around the state gathered in the capital to advocate for stronger gun control.
Du Bois was with a group who are making what has to be one of the oldest jokes in the Commonwealth. She tweeted. Are you a general hooker? Of course, not yet the main entrance of the Mass statehouse says otherwise.
Me, too, is not all about rape and harassment, but also women’s dignity. Ah, funny double entendres misrepresented as respect for a long dead general.
Now I’ve usually heard this joke is some variant of If the general hooker entrances in the front, does that mean the specific hookers enter in the back?
Apparently, high schoolers haven’t developed that keen, refined sense of humor just yet.
Do boys said, I’ve seen teen boys tease teen girls about being General Hooker’s waiting in line at the entrance.
The name of a long dead union general just can’t compete with the more modern meaning of the word hooker Unfortunately, the Internet wasn’t kind to representative. Two boys.
She followed up her initial reaction to clarify that she wanted the state toe.
Add the generals first name to the signs saying Hubert, a historian or historical minded person, would connect this sign with a statue or historical figure.

[46:11] However, there was already blood in the water with the massive white supremacist protests in Charlottesville a few months before.
Ah, huge chunk of the mouth breathing political right somehow convinced itself that attempts to stop glorifying the cause of slavery meant that liberals intended to erase all history of the Civil War.
Online commenters misconstrued two boys initial statement thinking she was demanding that the statue be taken down after all that would fit with their muddle headed narrative of Civil War eraser.

[46:40] The General Hooker entrance is meant to honor Major General Joseph Hooker, who was the only Massachusetts officer to be placed in command of the Army of the Potomac, the main union force pursuing Robert E. Lee’s Army of Traders.
Hooker was born in Hadley, Massachusetts, attended the U. S Military Academy at West Point and moved to California after the Mexican American War.
There was family had resided here since the founding period. Hooker didn’t really have ties to Massachusetts. After childhood, however. He was the highest ranking officer to come out of the Commonwealth, so he’s the one who got the statue.
Though he had a reputation as an aggressive combat commander, Hooker earned the name Fighting Joe by accident.
A newspaper dispatch was sent for the battlefield to New York City. That was supposed to say Fighting Joe Hooker attacks rebels.
But in transmitting the report by Telegraph, the headline lost his punctuation instead. Reading Fighting Joe Hooker Attacks Rebels.

[47:39] Secessionist general Robert E. Lee seems to have had some fun with the mix up sarcastically calling the General Mr F. J. Hooker.
Before his command of the entire Army of the Potomac Fighting Joe earned a reputation as a wily tactician and an aggressive and inspiring battlefield leader during the 18 62 Peninsula campaign and at Antietam, where he fought Stonewall Jackson’s quarto, a stalemate,
after his command of the Army of the Potomac, he fought a legendary battle at Lookout Mountain near Chattanooga, Tennessee,
sometimes referred to as the battle above the clouds, Lookout Mountain saw Hooker lead three divisions to envelope a fortified secessionist mountaintop that it seemed impregnable, driving the enemy away and taking many prisoners while suffering light casualties in his command.
The victory helped open Chattanooga is a union stronghold in the South.

[48:31] Unfortunately, between those two strings of victories, Hooker was blamed for one of the most catastrophic federal defeats of the war.
As the army of the Potomac was marching toward Richmond, the secessionists turned them back.
Then Lee split his army and attacked hookers. Forces at Chancellorsville, the much smaller secessionist force, managed to completely route and humiliate hookers. Grand Army.
Then it marched north toward Pennsylvania.
When Hooker then wanted to continue on toward Richmond, President Lincoln ordered him to pursue Lee. Instead, the two argued, and Hooker resigned in protest, probably narrowly avoiding being fired.
Lee marched on to Gettysburg, and Hooker would be remembered as having allowed it.

[49:16] Time eventually softened America’s memory of Fighting Joe. And when the 30th anniversary of the war rolled around in the 18 nineties, people were ready to see him in a more positive light.
There were commemorations of the war in its veterans throughout the anniversary period of 18 91 to 18 95 and more would soon follow the monument to Robert Gould Shaw in the 54th.
Massachusetts Volunteers was nearing completion in 18 96 and it would be dedicated the following year.
During this period of warm feelings, the state Legislature passed a law authorizing construction of a statue of General Joseph Hooker as Chapter 43 of the 18 96 acts and resolves of the General Court.
Resolve providing for erecting in the State House or on the Statehouse grounds and equestrian statue and bronze of the late Major General Joseph Hooker,
resolved that there be allowed and paid out of the treasury of the Commonwealth to be expended under the direction of the governor and council.
Ah, some not to exceed $50,000 for the purpose of erecting in Massachusetts and Equestrian Statue in bronze of the late Major General Joseph Hooker,
said Statue to be placed in or near the statehouse on such site as the governor and council made designate,
approved March 28th 18 96.

[50:33] The speech given by Lieutenant Governor Curtis Guild at the eventual dedication of the monument helps fill in the gaps and illustrates how the statue got created.

[50:44] The details of its construction and location were left by this resolved to the governor and council on January 5th, 18 98.
The council of that year selected Daniel See French and Edward C. Potter to prepare, respectively, the models of man and horse, which were later approved by the same council and by Governor Walcott.
In the same year, 18 98. The site for the monument was chosen and approved.

[51:10] The two sculptors, Daniel Chester French and Edward Clark Potter, were both Massachusetts residents, and they would both go on toe wide acclaim for later projects.
Edward Clark Potter was basically French, is assistant, but he was considered an expert on portraying animals in his own right.
A few years later, his most famous work would be the pair of pink marble lions that guard the entrance to the New York City Public Library, the ones that feature in the opening shot of Ghostbusters.
By the time he won the Hooker commission, Daniel Chester French had created a statue of a Minuteman for the town of Concord, John, Harvard and Cambridge and the heavy bronze doors of the Boston Public Library.
Ah, few years later, who had designed the metal that’s awarded for the Pulitzer Prize, But his most famous work is in Washington, D. C.
In 1920 French created the seated statue of Abraham Lincoln for the Lincoln Memorial.

[52:04] Seven years after its authorization, the Memorial of Fighting Joe Hooker was nearing completion.
And the Commonwealth in the city of Boston, We’re getting ready to dedicate it.
June 25th was chosen as the date of the unveiling, and a grand celebration was planned.
A new holiday was proclaimed in city. Employees were given a day off as the May 21st 1903 Proceedings of the Boston Common Council reveal.

[52:29] Mr McMahon of Ward Four offered in order that his honor the mayor instruct the various heads of departments to grant the employees in their respective departments.
Ah, Holiday on June 25th, 1903 hooker day without loss of pay as part of compensation for their services to the city.

[52:47] If representative Du Bois, teen boys and teen girls made jokes about the General hooker entrance.
Imagine how much fun they would have with the holiday called Hooker Day.
Of course, proclaiming a holiday for city workers didn’t mean that everyone would get hooker day off.
Governor John L. Bates issued a proclamation on June 22nd urging private employers to give their workers a holiday as well to the citizens of Boston on Thursday.
Next, the Commonwealth is to dedicate a statue to commemorate the services of Major General Joseph Hooker.
This monument is erected to indicate the appreciation that Massachusetts has not only for the great commander whose name it bears, but also for the brave men who represented Massachusetts and the cause of the union in the Civil War,
thousands of veterans or to visit the city on that day and to join in the dedication exercises and in the parade.
The State Department’s will be closed. His honor.
The mayor has directed that City Hall be closed, and I hereby suggest an earnestly recommend that similar action be taken by our citizens and that all places of business be closed,
and there are people emphasized their appreciation of the services of the union soldiers, the living and the dead,
by making the day in effect a holiday and by fitting decorations throughout the city and especially along the route of the procession.

[54:08] On Hooker Day Eve, the June 24th Boston Globe lays out how the people of Boston reacted to this request.
Yesterday throughout the city, representatives of various lines of business and trade held meetings to discuss the proclamation of Governor Bates, in which he requested that tomorrow be made, in effect, a public holiday,
going to the large number of visitors to be in the city and out of respect to the memory of the men in blue and an appreciation of the services they rendered the country.
There was only one result to such meetings, and that was a unanimous vote to fall in line with the request of the head of the Commonwealth.
So numerous were these meetings, and so general was the decision by private concerns to respect the request of the governor that it is safe to say that few, if any, business concerns in Boston will open their doors tomorrow.

[54:57] So hooker day would become a holiday for nearly everyone in Boston.
With so many people given the day off, and with tens of thousands of veterans expected to march in the parade and hundreds of thousands of citizens expected to spectate the city has some other preparations to make a swell.
On June 15th, the Boston Board of Aldermen took up the public safety and infrastructural concerns.
Offerman Bowen offered in order that the Board of Police be authorized to close to travel by vehicles except police, fire, hospital and mail wagons, the streets to be used for the hooker parade on June 25th.
And the city messenger is hereby requested to rope off, said Streets, Wherever necessary and the expense to be charged to the appropriation for City Messenger.
Department Chairman Doyle offered in order that his honor, the mayor be requested toe order City Hall and the other city buildings closed on Hooker Day, June 25th, 1903 and that he be further requested to have City Hall decorated on that day.

[55:56] There were also preparations to be made on the civilian side on June 24th, The Boston Post reported on the last scramble to get ready for the next day celebration.
Already, it is predicted that the crowd, which will gather in this city for tomorrow’s celebration, will outnumber even the immense gathering that Boston welcomed on Dewey Day a few years ago with the coming advent of Christian scientists as well as the Schoolteachers convention.
It is expected to be a very difficult proposition after today, to secure suitable accommodations in this city, every lodging house in Boston is sure to reap its harvest, and rates are accordingly bound amount suddenly skyward.
Meantime, the quarters of the hooker day committee at the Statehouse are besieged from morning until night by eager applicants for tomorrow’s tickets.
Early yesterday at large, Sign was placed without the door, stating that every seat for the Statehouse stand was long since taken.
This has had but little effect upon the seekers, most of whom, though our disabled veterans or their relatives for these a few tickets for the post Office Square stand are still held in reserve.
In addition to the holiday, the June 24th Boston Globe noted concerns about the weather.
All that is necessary now is for Colonel Smith of the Weather Bureau to turn off the water supply and give us a little sunshine to properly brighten up the now well washed city.
And it won’t take long for the cheerful raised to penetrate the spirits of Bostonians and make them is radiant and enthusiastic.
Tomorrow, as the veterans can desire.

[57:25] As you might imagine, most of the news profiles of Fighting Joe during the lead up to the statue’s dedication focused on the battle above the clouds and hookers. Other glorious victories.
Just one tiny side bar at the bottom of an inside page on the June 21st Boston Globe raised the possibility that he had gotten in over his head.
It said Good corps Commander Army of the Potomac, however, was said to be too heavy for him to handle.
While General Hooker was very successful in handling armies of moderate size, the results of his having been placed in charge of the Army of the Potomac We’re not brilliant,
and it is a frequent comment of his military contemporaries that he was overweighted by such a large command,
though none seems to question the efficiency of that army and its confidence in him at the time he was deprived of the command of it.
He suffered a serious, defeated Chancellorsville in the winter of 18 63 and the consequent criticisms, together with personal grievances against the general in chief of Washington, Halak, with whom Hooker was never on good terms, caused him to resign.
His command a few days before Gettysburg, the critical state of affairs in the Middle West, about the time Hooker severed his connection with the Virginia campaign cause his dispatched to Tennessee with reinforcements known as the 20th Army Corps.
With this body, he continued the fine record for intelligence and gallantry that he had enjoyed before, up to the time that he had assumed the command of the Army of the Potomac.

[58:54] As hooker day approached, every hotel was booked solid, and many of the military units and veterans were camped out in public parks around the city.
Of course, with the rainy weather, camping out was less than comfortable, and one unit found an alternative.
The second Cavalry, based out of Fort Ethan Allen near Colchester, Vermont, decided they didn’t want to sleep in the mud in all Stones Dummy park.
Instead, they simply stayed on the rail cars that brought them into the train yard in East Watertown, betting down next to their horses.
The next morning, units streamed into downtown Boston from their various overnight accommodations.
Everyone rallied on the common before dispersing to their own assembly areas to wait on the parade to begin the state militia formed up on Commonwealth Avenue while active duty soldiers, sailors and Marines fell in on Newberry.
The first division of the Veterans Corps packed into Pemberton Square, just behind the Statehouse, while the 2nd, 3rd and 4th divisions waited on the common at about 9 a.m.
The governor, lieutenant governor and members of the executive council walked out of the State House toward the reviewing stand near the shrouded statue they were joined by, As the papers put it, Mrs Joseph Hooker Would and Master Joseph Hooker would.
They were the widow and son of Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Hooker would fighting Joe’s nephew, who was himself a veteran of the Civil War.

[1:00:15] A few minutes later, the veterans of Hookers Brigade, who had assembled at Pemberton Square, marched out and formed up in ranks on Beacon Street. Facing the Statehouse at their head, the color bearer carried the tattered battle flag of the 11th Pennsylvania Regiment.

[1:00:30] The unveiling ceremony was brief. By all accounts, lasting only about 15 minutes, Lieutenant Governor Curtis Guild officially presented the statue to the governor, who officially accepted it. And then it was unveiled.
The crowd sang America and the parade began.
The lieutenant governor recalled the legislative process that led to the commissioning of the statue, the process of choosing a sculptor and a site, and then said,
I have the honor to report to you the completion and direction of the statue on the site, selected and prepared by our predecessors in accordance with the action of the General Court.
It is further my high privilege on the part of the committee in charge now officially to transfer to you the chief magistrate of the Commonwealth, this monument,
erected by the people of Massachusetts in memory of the daring and devotion of the leader that Massachusetts gave to the armies of the union.
Major General Joseph Hooker.

[1:01:25] Governor John L. Bates’s speech was brief and to the point,
on behalf of the Commonwealth, I accept this monument and thank you, sir, the committee, the artists and all whose work is contributed to the perfection of this noble memorial.
Joseph hooker was a descendant of several generations of Massachusetts. Yeoman re here He was born, and here he spent his childhood in youth.
But the breadth of the continent was not too vast a sphere for the activities of his manhood.
Trained in the nation’s school of the soldier, he was ready to serve her whenever and wherever the nation needed him.
Early in the great contest for the perpetuity of the union, he attained distinction and through merit, advanced from command to command until he led a vast host, the army of the Potomac,
never in the rear but always leading his troops, sharing their dangers and beloved by them.
Always seeking the enemy, whether in the valley or on the mountain, beneath or above the clouds.
Self reliant, resourceful, intrepid, impetuous. He was a fighter with this sword, Always drawn, Ah, hero of battles, a soldier and a patriot.

[1:02:34] To his memory and to the memory of the 146,730 brave, true, irresistible men whom this state sent forth to engage in that greatest of all conflicts of arms.
Is this monument dedicated here, sitting in the saddle of bronze May the commander ever direct the attention of the world to the fact that Massachusetts does not forget her defenders,
and may he ordered to the front in all generations of our citizenship the best impulses, the Nobelist ideals, the highest traits of character.

[1:03:06] At the time, it was unusual that the formal speeches and unveiling took place before the parade commenced.
For example, when the memorial to Robert Gould, Shaw and the 54th Massachusetts volunteers was unveiled across the street from the Statehouse in 18 97 ceremony was held at Boston’s Music Hall.
Then the parade marched to the statue site on Beacon Street.
Ah, June 25th 1903 wire service story picked up by the Las Vegas Daily Optic Notes.
The program committee reversed the usual order of things and had the unveiling take place before the parade in order that everyone might have an opportunity of viewing the ladder.
The unveiling exercises were simple and occupied less than a quarter of an hour.
The only addresses were the presentation speech made by the chairman of the Statue Committee and the speech of Acceptance by Governor Bates.
At the conclusion of these addresses, the mammoth statue, which up to this time had been enveloped with the Stars and Stripes, was exposed amidst cheers from thousands of throats.
Another wire service story, this one carried in the Washington D. C Evening Star on June 26th, said Master Joseph Hooker would Grand nephew of General Hooker, pulled the cord, which released the veil.
And as the curtain fell battery, a station on the common fired a major general salute of 13 guns.

[1:04:25] Master Josephs Age isn’t given in the news coverage, but from the picture of him published in the program.
I guess he was about 10 years old, the Globe noted.
The little boy in the white duck sailor suit laughed in childish appreciation of the noise and enthusiasm which the act of his handed evoked.

[1:04:42] The Las Vegas optic tries to give a concise description of the statue for an audience that will likely never visit Boston and see it.
The statue is the work of Daniel See French. It is colossal, measuring nearly 15 ft high, while the pedestal on which it stands is of nearly equal height.
The horse stands with all four hooves on the ground. It’s head pulled in its tail pendant.
That General is equally quiet. He wears the soft Chapo, sits with straight knees, very erect and holds his head a little back, as if observing the movement of troops in the distance.

[1:05:16] We’ll include a photo of the General in the show notes. This particular picture was taken in 18 63 and it shows him relaxed, slouching slightly back in the saddle with his hat pushed up off his browse a bit.
While this photo might not have been the exact model for the sculpture, it’s clearly the same basic pose and posture that we see in bronze in Boston today, the article continues, describing the beginning of the parade.
Immediately after the conclusion of the exercises, the booming of Canon announced that the parade and started along the line of March.
Thousands of Spectators were thronged, and the various military organizations were loudly cheered on the reviewing stand with state and city officials, survivors of the army of the Potomac and a number of distinguished war veterans from various parts of the country.
The dedication of the monument today was made the occasion of a splendid military pageant,
25,000 soldiers of the United States Army National Guard of the State of Massachusetts and sailors and Marines from the Charlestown Navy Yard being in line and constituting the largest parade of armed men seen in Boston in a number of years.

[1:06:23] In addition to the regular military organizations. The parade included members of the Loyal Legion, the Society of the Army of the Potomac, whose annual reunion is in progress here.
The Veterans of the Grand Army of the Republic, New England Association of Veterans of the Mexican War.
Naval and Military Order. Spanish American War Veterans, Ancient Honorable Artillery company.
Wester Continentals. Sons of Veterans and Society of California Pioneers.
The presence of the latter organization being in recognition of general hookers, work on the Pacific Coast before the Civil War.

[1:06:56] All these columns of current and former military men were following a route that was quite different from today’s ST Patrick’s Day parade or the Bunker Hill Day Parade or even this month’s Pride parade.
The Boston Globe outlined the route of the parade and the timetable that would follow if the column starts promptly.
At 11 he announced, Our and the weather holds good.
The head of the line will reach the entrance of Back Bay Station at 11 07 The corner of Dartmouth Street in Columbus, AV will be reached at 11 10 and at 11 15 the parade will turn into West Newton Street from Columbus AV,
allowing that the men will take their time while going along the unpaved ground on West Newton Street.
The head of the column will arrive at the corner of Tremont and West Newton streets at 11 20.

[1:07:42] The drinking fountain at the junction of Trauma in Montgomery streets. Short distance from Dover will be reached at 11 40 and Affiliate Street at noon.
The corner of trauma in winter streets at 12 15 and Washington and winter streets at 12 17.
Church Green, near Lincoln off Summer Street, will be reached at 12 20 Pearl and High Streets five minutes later, giving the paraders plenty of time without stops.
The head of the line ought to arrive at the reviewing stand in Post Office Square at 12 25 the corner of Washington and Water Streets at 12 27 City Hall at 12 34 and the State House at 12 40.

[1:08:25] We’ll include a map of the parade route in this week’s show notes, but here it is, in a nutshell and began in Park Square at the corner of Boylston and Charles ran straight out Columbus Avenue to West Newton Street in the South End.
It turned left on West Newton, left again on the Tremont and then followed Tremont all the way back to Boston Common.
The marchers then took a right to detour down Winter Street, made a big loop through the financial district and took School Street.
Past Old City Hall in King’s Chapel, continued on to Beacon Street and ended up in front of the hooker statue at the State House, along with men marching.
The hooker day parade would feature antique battle flags from the civil war that by 1903 were the next best thing. The holy relics.
The June 24th Boston Globe reports how some of these colors will be incorporated into the celebration.

[1:09:13] The committee has assurances from Colonel John L. Tiernan, a C Use a commanding the artillery district of Boston.
That General Hooker’s old colors of the first artillery, of which regiment he was agitated when the Mexican war began will be carried in the procession by the 77th company of Coast Artillery, First Lieutenant Richard H.
Williams from Fort Warren. Commanding thes flags have been in the Museum of the Fortress Monroe and will be lent by the secretary of war.
Especially for this occasion, Colonel Tiernan will detail a special color guard to carry the flags.

[1:09:47] The parade made national news, as you can see from a wire service story that was picked up by the Washington D.
C. Evening Star. The day after the event, scores of the most distinguished Military Men of America participated together with regular Army, cavalry and infantry, Marines and blue jackets from the Coast Division of the North Atlantic Squadron sent here for the day.
The state militia veterans who served with Hooker, members of the Massachusetts Department of the Grand Army of the Republic, Veterans of the Spanish American War and the Boston School Regiment.

[1:10:21] While it didn’t make headlines nationwide like the parade did, there was an additional ceremony that night at Mechanics Hall in Huntington AV.
The evening program included music from the first Corps of Cadets band, the Grand Army of the Republic, Veterans Chorus, Inspiration from a general of the G, A. R.
And an assembly of colors featuring the antique battle flags of various Massachusetts units.
The June 26th Boston Post describes one MAWR event that took place that evening as veterans sat watching a drummer during the post celebration at Mechanics Hall.
Governor Bates rose to speak at 7 20. The veterans applauded them heartily, the governor said.
Veterans and friends we have here this evening an old drum. It was beaten on Lookout Mountain.
We have with us one who was a drummer boy in Hookers brigade. The old drummer boy will now beat the assembly on the old drum.

[1:11:15] Cheers and applause greeted this announcement. Front came the command and a grizzled vet marched out to the front, accompanied by a younger man, a Fife player.
The sea of gray hairs and bald heads rose up, and blood mounted to their cheeks and temples. As the drum and Fife played the old summons, two old fellow sitting under the stage waved their chairs aloft, and the war fever it showed its fervent grip on all.
It was a scene appealing to the Comus mind. The old and the young man walked off, but the vets called out for just one more rattle of that old drum.
They applauded until the drummer came forward and played a Yankee doodle.
This delighted the old fellows, and they stood up and tap their feet. Reluctantly, he allowed the drummer boy to retire.

[1:12:01] As I prepared this episode, I was struck by the declining numbers of these old fellows.
I did the research and writing for this episode during the week of the 75th anniversary of D Day.
While I was too young to pay much attention to the 40th anniversary, I very distinctly remember the 50th anniversary of D Day with many stories about the waning ranks of the veterans of that fateful day.
My own grandfather, who was wounded during the landing at Utah Beach, had just passed away a few years before.
And, of course, during the anniversary this year, just a scant handful of D Day veterans are still alive from any of the Allied armies, almost all of whom are nearly centenarians by now.

[1:12:39] For the hooker day parade in 1903 there was already a growing sense of melancholy over this thinning of the ranks.
I was struck by a paragraph from the June 26th Boston Post, which describes the aging and disabled veterans who came out to watch the parade,
while they’re gritty comrades refusing to be classified in the category of disabled veterans held grimly on the fatiguing march over the muddy pavements, refusing to be accounted for until the procession was finished,
many limping, sad eyed veterans watch them pass by from their shelter and windows stands or on the edge of the crowd.
Unable to forego the old fascination of the music in the drum, thes for gotten, soldiers have donned their old uniforms,
eloquent, as was their silence and inaction as their comrades of other days filed by Mawr touching by far was there reverend tribute to the colors they had followed long ago,
forbidden by age or other infirmities, from taking their places with the men by whose side they had struggled for four long years, they stood singly or in groups, each raising his old felt hat in reference to the stained and battle scarred standards.

[1:13:45] From that passage, I couldn’t help but see a parallel to the waning of another generation to which our nation owes so great a debt.

Wrap-Up

Jake Intro-Outro:
[1:13:53] To learn more about how Boston celebrated peace after the Civil War.
Check out this week’s show notes at hub history dot com slash 204,
I’ll have plenty of pictures of both the Peace Jubilee and Hooker Day, along with lots of primary source materials and additional reading related to both stories.

[1:14:13] And, of course, I have links to information about our upcoming event and Richard Ofri Siris on Syrian restaurants.
This week’s Boston Book Club pick.

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Jake Intro-Outro:
[1:15:34] Stay safe out there, listeners.