The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-10-17
That Mammoth Meeting.

That Mammoth Meeting.
NEW York, Oct. l6.-The following is
from the Worlds report of the great
meeting of business men held last night:
GOV. Cleveland was in his room when
the committee of business men entered.
lie did not keep them long. Mr.. O'Don.
ahue linked arms with him, and the
procession began to move. I'm the long
career of the Fifth Avenue hotel, which
has contained many crowds, there never
was such a gathering. 1t was
literally packed black with people,
who waved hats and handkerchiefs.
The governor had scarcely made his ap-
pearance, when n series of deafening
cheers went up. 1t was grand ovation.
open passage sufiicien, for the process
SION to mako its way to tho door. The
men crowded upon each other, in vain
endeavor to catch a glimpse of
THEIR FAvoRITE CANDIDATE.
They touched his coat, placed their
hands upon his shoulder, then, with true
Democratic spirit, retired to give their
neighsors chance to do the same. At
ono time u seemed as though dozen
lives would be sacrificed. One man fell
in the crush, but he was fortunately
picked up In time to nvert calamity.
They sufged after, and until the street
was reached it was impossible to
breathe. The first cheer was the signal,
and everybody joined until
THE EARTH FAIRLY SHOOK.
The governor was hastily placed in q
carriage and the reception commit
tee followed in closed landaus.
From tho hotel to the Academy
OF music, the streets were lined
with sight-seers, who welcomed
the carriage as II passed bv. Scores of
enthusiasts grabbed the wheels and
axles, and ran with it. Union Square
Was second edition of Madison Square.
Fourteeth street was almost impossible,
and the word that GOV. Cleye,
land was coming, was enough to
set the people wild. The acres
of people in Madison Square scattered
after the departure of Gov. Cleveland
from the Fifth Avenue hotel, for the
academy, but about 5000 remained in and
about the square, awaiting his return.
The parade of uniformed Cleveland
and Hendricks campaign clubs and le-
gions, moving out Of Union square
through Fourth avenue, Eighteenth
street and Fifth avenue, divided in front
OF the Fifth Avenue hotel, marching up
town in the west and east sides Of the
thronged with people, who gradually
drifted back into the square again.
THE CROWD KEPT SWELLING
until upwards of $4,000 or 5000 people
were congregated. There was great
and continuous cheering along the
route of the procession, and notwith-
standing the wait Of an hour before The
return OF Gov. Cleveland to the hotel.
the crowd was bubbling over with en-,
thusiasm. SO densely packed in Fifth
avenue and Broadway were the people
that the services OF the police were
required to clear the way for stages and
street-oars, which were blocked at long
intervals. At 10 o'clock the governor
was escorted out OF the academy through
the crowd to his carriage. His appear
ance was the signal for repetition of the
demonstration of welcome accorded him
on his flrst appearance. Men and wo-
men struggled through tho crowd of
those more fortunate near the carriage,
to catch u glimpse of him. They. fol-
lowed the carriage for blocks, and their
repeated cheering was taken up by the
crowd along the route and re-echood. II
was like
oNE LONG AND CONTINUED CHEER
from the academy TO the Fifth Avenue
Motel. When his carriage drew up at
1 49, %...sohnOh oYNotO otlIuntt 10 Ino
hotel, there was spontaneous outburst
OF enthusiasin. Cheer on cheer went up
from the throats Of the thousands,
which, when heard in Union Square
and far up Broadway and fifth avenue
sounded like the rumbling of hoayy
railway trains, Shortly after the dis.
tinguished guest made his appearance
ON the balcony, and the cheering was
long cc ntinued, and II possible greater
feryor than before. As the procession
or uniformed people and the batterie,
bearing torches and lanterns passed. tht
Murphy battery made q short halt. AND
the salute from their field pieces wa,
blended with the popular acclaim. Gov
Cleveland was much touched by In,
visit from the delegation from the Co
lumbia college, Cleveland and Hen
dricks' campaign clubs.
THE BUSINESS CLuBs PARTICIPATING
IL was nearly Q o'clock when the re
ception committee Of busj
ness men, headed by j. j
Io'Donahue, of the Coffee Exchange
arrived. They all wore badges of thei,
respective associations on their Goa
lepeis. They vero frum tho Produo,
Exchange clubs, tho Stock Exchang,
club, the Coffee Exchange club, III,
Mercantile Exchange club, the Cottoi
Exchange club, the Dry Goods .elul
and the New York Petroleum Exchang,
club.