Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-09-02
THE LABOR PARADE.
Twenty Thousand WOrkmen in
Line.
THE FIRST FALL ELECTION.
Tire Oriental war---The River Operations
Concluded---k Letter From Cor
don---Rioters Arrested.
AMERICAN CATTLE IN CANADA.

NEw IoRk, September l.-Broadway
was lined this morning from City Hall to
Fourteenth street with people assembled to
witness the labor parade. The first division Of
the parade was composed of printers. the
building trades unions and the bricklayers
unions. The second division was made up
of cigar makers and workmen from the
furniture and clothing trades. The third
division was composed Of butchers, coopers
and other trades unions. The fourth divis-
ion vas made up Of number of working
men not attached to any organization, who
had asked permission to join the procession.
Preparations.
For weeks the various trades unions had
been making untiring efforts to make the
parade successful, and the labor has not
been wasted 1t had been anticipated that
twenty thousand men would form into the
lines and this number was fully reached il
not succeeded. Both. those who paraded
and the thousands Of spectators were dressed
in holiday attire, and each body of men in
the procession wore some distinctive badge
cap apron, or other symbol Of their trade,
to give them a uniform appearance. Many
trades gave illustrations OF their occupation.
The butchers intended TO illustrate their
trade by killing innumerable cattle as they
went along the streets, but Henry Bergh
with squad Of police, intertered with tina;
portion Of the programme.
Noticeable Feature.
A noticeable feature of the parade was
the prominence given to the boycottlng ban
nerS, the name of a daily paper and severaI
of It's advertising patrons being blazoned
forth conspiculously. The Typographical
Unions were led by a wagon,in which were
stands, cases and printing press, repre-
senting one hundred years ago, and from
the press circulars were struck off and
thrown broadcast as the procession ad'
varced. The hosting hod-carriers had an
engine at work all the time, the clothing
cutters had wagon on which were mum
Der Of men at work at their trade: the cigar
makers had vehicle in which mel
were engaged at making cigars, and
great many wagons carried banners
soaring suggestive notices. Every division
was furnished ether with brass band or
drum corps. The bricklayers all wore
aprons. and each organization was distin-
guished by some peculiar piece OF wearing
apparel, either hat, shirt or inmper. The
head of the column reached Union Square
at ll:2O o'clock. Robert Rlissert, John
Swinton, Henry GeoIge, Patrick Ford, Alex
hnlN,,.a y Post IlP
Steibling, Henry o. Cole, DR.. Donia, Victor
Drum, Sergeant6 Blair and Westervelt, and
halt dozen officers, besides artists from
pictorial journals, reporters, and a number
of ladies, filled the grand stand. From
the stand il made no difference
which way one looked, their gaze
onlv encountered sea Of heals.
Broadway impossible.
Broadway was impassable during the
march. When the head of the procession
reached Union Square, it filed right and
passed up the East side to Seventeenth
street, and thence turned passing as men.
toned. and from thence up Broadway 10
Fifth avenue and Twenty-ffth street where
it dispersed. All the windows and house
tops were occupied during the passage, and
in every way il was made a mammoth occa
sion. The printers probably attracted more
attention than any other body in the proces
sion. Probably 1000 Of them turned out
Harry Davis, an oid printer who bears re
markable resemblance to Horace Greely, in
rhe act of setting type interested the crowd
of on-lookers In she line were delegation,
of printers from Albany, Philadelphia, New.
ark. New Haven, Hartford Brooklyn and
jersey City. The butchers turned oui
about 900 strong. The society Of colored
men. Wendell Philips Union No. ,, over
400 men in line, were frequently applauded
along the route. The bricklayers had
representation of nearly 1000.
After the parade had been dismissed the
men finished their holiday at the Empire
Coliseum and Washington Park, where
there were games for prizes, dancing and
other amusements.