Four hours later the Kennedy House, led by Toots Cortell and his famous Confederate bugle, defiled and formed the head of the procession. Each member carried a pole attached to which was some article that had been wholly or partly shot to pieces. The Dickinson contingent, led by Doc Macnooder, marched in a square, supporting four posts around which ran a clothesline decked out with the dreadful debris of the house laundry.
The Woodhull proudly bore as its battle flag a few strings of linen floating from a rake, with this inscription underneath:
The Grand Old Shirt of the Woodhull!
Washed 16 Times and Still in the Game!
Several poles, adorned with single hosing in the fashion of liberty caps, were labeled:
Where is My Wandering Sock To-night?
The Davis House was headed by Moses Moseby in a tattered nightshirt, backed up by an irreverent placard:
But the premier exhibit of the parade was admitted by all to be the Kennedy float, conceived and executed by the Honorable Dink Stover.
On a platform carried by eight hilarious members, was displayed Dennis de Brian de Boru Finnegan, clothed in a suit of dark gymnasium tights, over which were superimposed a mangled set of upper and lower unmentionables, whose rents and cavities stood admirably out against the dark background, while the Irishman sat on a chair and alternately stuck a white foot through the bottomless socks that were fed him.
Above the platform was the flaring ensign: