Enya's Loxian Gate

The Loxian Gate: ENYA

Per the Library of Congress: "Shows policemen and men in top hats and formal riding attire carrying large bunches of flowers as they parade on horseback. Angle changes slightly as a marching band carrying a drum inscribed Bugle Corps, Lowell appears, followed by a uniformed military group carrying rifles and marching in formation. Angle changes to show carriages and the rest of the procession. Scene changes to a building, pans to the steps, and shows a clerical figure in robes exiting from the [Immaculate Conception] church and waving his hat in acknowledgement"--The George Kleine catalog.

"The parade began by St. Michael's Church down by the mills, hooking onto Suffolk to Broadway to City hall, to Merrimack, to Central, to Sacred Heart Church. There were over 1500 marchers. The city's fire alarm sounded once to let the citizens who thronged the streets know the marchers were on their way. The City police forces led the way many of them on horseback with the horses festooned with green carnations. It was also noted the numbers of bouquets that were carried by many of the marchers, the city had not seen so many flowers before. The officials of the parade rode in carriages. Three full divisions followed the marshals. Division after division of Hibernians from Nashua, Lawrence, Haverhill, and Chelmsford made up the first division. Bands and fife and drum corps played patriotic and Irish airs. "The Harp That Once Thru Tara's halls" was a favorite of the crowd. Drum majors threw their batons in the air stirring the crowd. Military and veteran groups marched in formation dressed in full uniforms and carrying rifles. Mr. McEvoy's jaunting cart, direct from Ireland, was a must see. The oldest Irish organization in the city, the Irish Benevolent Society, marched proudly as they had since the first parades in the 1840s"--LowellIrish weblog, The Grand St Patrick's Day Parade in Lowell--1904.

Sources:

Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/mp73117800/

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