Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-11-03
Was Ever Seen in This Great
Nation.
THE BIGGEST ON REcoRp.
One Hundred and Ten Thousand Cleveland
Voters in Line Cheering
for Hours.
CONKLING A SPECTATOR.

puDHcans tnat u tney paraueu III nonof oi
Blaine the Cleveland business men would
afterward turn eut in such numbers as 10
utterly overshadow any thing here that
Blaine's friends might do. They also said
that in their parade no one should march
who was not connected with some Of the va.
rious exchanges in the lower part Of the
city or with the various trades in the metrop-
oils, and that all should be citizens Of New
York and qualified to vote on election day.
That promise was more than fulfilled.
The size Of the procession was only
limited by the capacity of the streets,
The Line of March.
The line of march was from the Produce
Exchange, near the Battery up Broadway,
through Twelfth street 20 Fifth avenue,
thence through that thoroughfare past the
reviewing stand at Twentyffth street,
where Governor Cleveland stood, TO Thir-
tieth street, where the men were dismissed.
The buildings along the entire length of
the march were profusely decorated.
As early as noon throngs commenced to
pour in the direction of Broadway. Before
two clock the entire thoroughtare from
Madison Square to the Battery, a distance
Of over three miles, was packed with a
surging crowd of humanity and ocomoiion
was impossible.
In the parade every exchange and every
trade in the city was represented. The pro.
cession was divided into two grand divisions.
Each grand division was subdivided into
minor divisions and each minor division
was composed Of clubs and business orsani-
zations AS early as , O'Clock the various
organizations began 10 form. The right of
the First Division was held by the wholesale
dry goods men. Sixteen hundred badges
and bamboo canes were bought
for this division, aud there were not
enough to go around. The dry goods men
were followed in turn by the car man and
porera. From there down to :he City Hall
Park all the streets we're occupied by the
various clubs, comprising the lla,ters As
sociation, the Wholesale Straw Goods Club,
the retail dry goods men, the hardware
men, and the wholesale brush trade the
whc 'esale grocers. Wholesale Druggists
Association, the Pottery and Glassware As.
sociution, &c According to the schedule
of the Grand Marshal there were 27,6s0
men in the first division, aud every one Of
them were voters, and according to calcu-
!ation, GO per cent Of whom were Rcpubli.
cans who voted for Garfield in 1880.
The Numbers.
The right OF the Second Division was
held by the Stock Exchange people. They
were be ween four hundred and five hun
dred strong. and we're headed BY a section
of the Seventh Regiment band. Many Of
them we're decorated with huge envelopes
inscribed in broad, black characters. Barn
this letter" and as their wellknown red
silk banner with its gold fringe and
lettering was recognized the air
vas rent with cheers The Stock Exchange
clerks, nine hundred in number, followed
next, headed by the Ninth Regiment band,
and many Of the canes they carried we're
tipped with Cleveland aud Hendricks
brooms. The Cotton Exchange people
swuur into line next, with the Eighth Reg
,ment band. There were 700 men in the
incs. and the Cotton Samples who followed,
we're 200 in number. Then came the Ex.
change Brokers, $50 and the Produce and
Ma.iime Exchange clubs, over 5000 in
nun bcr and three bands
Aud Yet More.
Tie representative Of the two Petroleum
Boards, and the Mining Stock Exchange
:orn.sd on the wesi side OF Bowling Green
aud in Exchange Place, and marched next
in line over one thousand in number.
Thea came the Columbia College students,
and the students in the School OF Mines, the
College oe Physicians and Surgeons aad the
School Of Medicine followed, and were en-
thusiastic aa characteristic IN their dem.
onstrations There were some seYcn
huudred Of them, ard they were
beoded hy the Sedgwiek Post, &. A. r.,
Band. The Distillers' Wine and Spirit hr-
chaDge Cleveland and Hendricks Clubs
came next. over two thousand in number.
Tie Lawyers Insurance Representatives,
the Coal Trade and the Steamship Trans
porlation Clubs, The Coffee Exchange.
jewelers. and merchants and tradas and
building materials organizations, the print
ers, publishers and kindred trades, and
lithegraphers and papers trade clubs fol
flowed in turn as the procession reached the
streets where they were standing in waiting.
March:
The order to march was given at exactly
seventeen minutes after three O'Clock, and
the heads Of both divisions moved simnlta-
reousiy. AS the procession passed up
Broadway the organizations in waiting in
the side streets swung into line. Although
the head Of the procession started from
Worth street at seventeen minutes after
three ocloek. il Was ten minutes of seven
o'clock before the last section OF the second
division get under way. A, TwentJ-hfsh
Nreet and Broadway the reYiezibg stand
vas located. Opposite this stand vas a
small but elegantly draped stant from xtieh
Governor Cleveland reviewed the parade.
Beside him were some Of The most dstin-
guisked men IN the country.
At three clock Msdisos Square was
vas, sea Of people. The crowd aroDsd the
stands was practically impenetrable and at
hseyast three O'Clock. when Governor
Cleveland started from the Hoffman House.
accompanied By members Of his staa and
Senator A. P GorlzaH. the police had greai
| diacclty in CLEARING way to ,ks, veyieuing
stand. II took twenty minutes 70 pass from
The hotel to the stand, although the dis
tauce is not more than focr hundred feet
The Governor reached the stand just as ~
head Of the procession appeared. IN
Governor Immediately took bii
plaee. and with uncovered head hoEet
IN response be the salEte Of Gran.
Marshal Woodward. This was exactly a
ten minutes before four fosr O'Clock. an
ard the Governor stood there. boving a
division after division passe3 with VII
cheers. until ten minutes Of eight oeloel
when the procession ended.
The entire procession sung numSeriss
mo,toes IL marching time. Among tser
were. Fisher. Fisher burn tbs letter;
Leo left. jim Blaine's left: abiairi
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