The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1884-11-04
GREAT CLEVELAND MEETING
10000 Men In Line.
Proc ss!On Several Hours Passing the
Reviewing Stand
Ntw York Safe for Cleveland.
b. q D Special to the Cairo Bulletin.

NV York, Nov. "a week ag
when the business men paraded i
honor of Gov. Cleveland they no
titled the republicans thar if they psrade'
in honor OF Blaine, the Cleveland bushes
men would afterwards turn out in sue
num'"rS as to utterly 0vcrshadow anything
that Blaine's friends might do. They also
said that in their parade NO one shoul,
march who WAS not connected with som
OF the various exchanges 10 the lower par
Of the city, or with the various trades in tn
metropolis, and that all should be citizen
OF New York and qualified 10 vote on cleo
ton day. That promise was more thar
fulfilled Saturday. No scene like tina
which occurred Saturday af ernoon anc
evening has ever been witnessed IN thi
country and it never can be exceeded
The size of the procession was only limited
by the capacity of the street.
Toe buildings along the entire length OF
the march were pr0fusely decorated with
few or no exceptions. In the parade S4tur-
day every exchange and every trade in the
city was represented. 1880 badges and
bamboo canes were bought for the division
of wholesale dry goods men and then there
were not enough to 60 around. According
to the schedule of the grand marshal there
were $1,000 men in the first division and
every one of them were voters, and accord
ing to the calculation 60 percent of whom
were republicans who voted for Garfield in
1880.
The order to march was given at exactly
2:l7 o'clock and the heads of both divlsi-
ons moved simultaneously; as the procession
passed up Broadway the organizations in
waiting on the side streets swung into line.
Although the head of the procession
started from Worth street at 3l7 o'clock
it was ten minutes Of 7 o'clock before the
last section of the second division got under
way. At Twenty-ifth street and Broadway
the reviewing stand was located. There
was a grand stand on the right of Broad.
way at this point for the guests of the citi-
zens committee. Opposite this stand was
small but elegantly draped stand from
which Gov. Cleveland reviewed the parade.
He stood upon small projection in the
front of the stand with uncovered head
during the entire time the parade WIS pass
ing. Beside him were some of the most
distinguished men in the country. Among
them were Henry Ward Beecher, Gen. Han
cock, Senator Jones, H. B. Clahin, A. ].
Drexil, Dewitt seligmap, George William
Curtss, and special representatives from
the various business exchanges.
AT o'clock Madison Square was vast
sea OF people. Around the stands was
practically impenetrable, and at $3.50
o'clock when Gov. Cleveland started from
the Hoffman House accompanied by men,
bers of his staff and Senator A. p. German.
the police had great difficulty in clearing
way TO the reviewing stand. 1t took 20
minutes to pass from the hotel to the stand
although the distance is not more than 400
feet. The governor reached the stand lust
as the head the procession appeared. The
governor Immediately took his place and
with uncovered head bowed IN response to
the salute of Grand Marshal Woodward.
This was exactly at ten minutes before a
o'clock, aud the governor stood there bow.
ing es division after division passed with
wild cheers until ten minutes after 8
o'clock, when the procession ended
Gov Cleveland left the reviewing stand
at o minutes of s, went Immediately to the
Hoffman House, eat hasty lunch, TAX
ing only ten minutes, when he returned to
the reviewing stand to witness the night
parade. He arrived there Just as the head
Of the procession reached there. AT that
time Broadway and Fifth avenues were a
blaze Of red fire and hundreds of sky rock
cts and bombs filed the air. As far as the
eye could reach there was vast mass of
men bearing torches marching in close Or
der with file front of twenty men. At
midnight the procession was still passing
the reviewing point and 1t was 2 o'clock in
the morning before the last division went
by. This makes a continuous parade up
Fifth avenue, with break of only 95 min
utes, for 10 hours, no man passing the re.
viewing stand twice. A careful estimate
shows that in the afternoon and evening
parades there were fully 10000 men in
line.
NEW YORK SAFE FOR CLEVELAND.