The sun., 1883-11-27
RESPLENDENT In TIE RAIN.
ET1HT MILES or PIRfDERS, FOUR
MILES or STEIMBOi AND
A CITY LOOKING ON.


Town Outdoors-P'ciurcs OF tho Ginnt
Land Proces.ion-3O,OOO Mcn. Wet hat
PIucLy, hRrch Down to Bowling Green-
Cheering the Ftremcn, Butler, nnd Harry
Hownrd-Tnmmany Disnppcnrs-ikc Co-
Ios,al Marine Parade Wrapped In Fog,
but D,.iinctiy Audible -. Mas WHEN it
was Visible Only In spats-snIutinr the
Prrs,dcnt with British Powder - ISIS
speech at tho Unvs,iinx or wnssinKt"n's
statue-Mnking Evacuation Day Notable.
Overhead, q leadcn sky of the peculiar cast
suggestive OF snow. Under foot. damp pave
ments and cold northeast wind. All around.
people hurrying hither and thither. some
carrying muskets some with clanking swords.
some dragging cannon. hauling fire engines.
blowing brass Instruments. some on horse
back. some in carriages. the majority on foot.
These wore the main features OF the scene
throughout the city at o'clock yesterday
morning. Here and there closed umbrellas
we're to be seen but they seemed to be few.
The general prediction was that the day would
be cold and cloudy, tho best sort Of n day for
marching and the worst for looking on.
The ferryboats kept cmptying troops. fire.
men. veterans. flags cnnnons. engines. ban
ners and bands into tho streets The depots
poured out streams OF men in uniform with
drums and guns music and flags. to mingle
with other files issuing from hotels and
srmorics until the uptown streets and avenues
wers gay with colored costumes and clogged
with people In plain attire.
A9 o'clock Broadway from Fftleth street to
the Battery appeared to be almost solidly
packed with sightseers. When the police
pushed dubbed and cufred this vast assem-
blage into compact lines from curb to house
line on either side of tho way. they formed
double line OF humanity each half OF which was
ten feet wide and four and half miles long.
4, t,tJ Jn pf nj n N nra
wcro 100. 900 people and nearly as many were
on the west and south of Union square. There
must have been in the side streets Just off
the croat thoroughfare n thousand trucks fitted
with panks for seats for spectators. Tho big
trucks held thirty-two people. four in row, eight
rows deep, at n quarter head. Tho cunning
drivers in many cases picked up their loads
while standing in Broadway. though they must
have known tho police would drive them away.
For once early rising did no; pay tho country
people. They were in Broadway before the
New Workers We're out of bed. but when the
police rushed at them with upraised clubs tho
strangers fed in terror and tho city mon fell
back Just so far and then stood STILL The
street vendors made pocketfuls OF coin selling
medals. pictures. flags programmes. books.
ten-ccnt gold dollars. and. later on. umbrellas.
AMONG THE WAITING THOUSANDS
But it was not until the police followed out n
canal down Broadway that the scene was i'm
pressivo. Then it became grand. Fifth avenue.
for instance. as seen from the observation
stand in Madison square. was so crowded that
the people were banked up to the top Of the
high stoop line on either side. the windows
we're crowded the roofs were dotted with others.
and yet others clung in tho trees. on the lamp
posts. on the window and door lodges. the bal
comics and the church railinGs. 1t was Just SO
down Broadway. except that there wera no
stoops there TO give the crowd the form OF
waves surging against the buildings. The po-
lice had great fun shaking the trees in the
squares and tumbing the men and boys down
lamps opposite the Fifth Avenue Hotel to load
up with half dozen men at once at least half q
dozen times. and then hauled them down by
In the clearing in Fifth avenue there was n
% %sen1TnG and
but the President had been on hand an hour.
The Federal troops. were first Oh hand. The
waited, for the, President. 1t was 945 O'clock
the shining forests of arms, the crimson lines
o. oi,h fremen the gMisiennG M tubes % Of the mus. M
men waiting in every side street at oi, her hand
from IRON Twenty eighth to Fifty-seventh street,
The The n nnoptnace t had got past 4 being indignant an
Rain was pattcring. down as II It was uncertain
whether 70 come with will or blow away.
piS 'hiH6 W SIaie ooooV ihoh oh'u
~ "'Pshaw the blast Of a. bugle will start
6Oo ;opp soldiers ton minutes after it is sounded.
-" Begorral' said a policeman. Il can bate
boiler On "a and ID get 5000 people pDo out tot o
When Counsellor James Oliver felt the rain
to the british. II they had evncuated the cits
yesterday or tomorrow, i would have snid
nothng; but Tor them to have chosen this: the
nSanoot day in the year. this is too much."
a1nI,s Ine crowT poured into Union SQUARE before
In lal, larger parties. part and swarmed from every dl.
wSo d & n6 ha pf1 Sp it G hs sw for
was tho sou h side Of tho street. between Broad
VIZ VIZ am, ho1nI Unversi,y place p9r y serxs9n
U,, UGGH 10, To the curb. Every time women. some
sa,ai WIN babies in their arms, pushed into the va
The mounted police had u way OF their OWL
Hossesp nm inc tn mr. ne r@y hshed their nd r"1H, M
the human kind They trod on nobody nm,
Srs AND ev to tho or
ksnt'y ksnt put irLesistibly. compelled the mel
Az the windows we're full of women. Ever
With tiers of chairs or benches had been erect
60; Iruckmen had filed the boxes of thei
trucks with chairs and were letting ont seat
sus. sust around the corner in University place Oh
''''' gus lamp and telegraph pole hung boys
MILES or UMBRELLAS.
M tti'th avenue experienced q mighty change
,hn,. hns people disappeared, and umbrellas tool
thelr places on tho sidewalks the stoops, tn
sedges and the roofs. At last the four blacl
horses that dragged tho Presidents half-opei
SHrrlage clattered up Fifty-seventh street from
- aiad,son Sdnsl, avenue. There was a moment NOR
Ole, =, oo,rssc,hirryng aides and Gathering commanders
sa.ln sna then Gen. Cochrane. under a white three
ScrneI ScrnereI hat, and with n bright ycllow sasl
stSSaoss his coat front. galoped up, and CAV
Iae ia1s next Ial,to, to the final order The regl
thns hhfs lowered their flags and presente
SSiI SSeiI arms as salute to the PreSi
StIhatt SSetIht while the band Of the Engineer Corp
MED Tnthed the air with the melody OF Hail to tn
Ethnlei thnlei Gen. Gochrane's steed cantered befor
te sa ihe oi stan officers, and the General shrek
soa;, 90; Forward For more than thre
nv Uuis nIai aitor that the various bodies drawn II
Sn u. either side Of the avenue continued one al
Son1s % 1ae other, to swing into the line. For tou
Saele ic watched platoon after platoon march b
untIi , ,puring all the time the rain poured dow
uan man II should be said. He was Grand Arm
oiapplause, '''N N N W." '>
.oraeere mnere was bright little girl on the Unlo
uaIe Enn reviewing stand. She clapped her hand