New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1884-10-21
DRY GOODS TRADE ASSOCIATION.

The immense wholesale stores in the dry goods
district underwent n sudden remarkable transform
alton Yesterday at p. IN. This part OF the after
noon H. under normal circumstances, tie season OK
heaviest business and hardest work But clrcuin-
stances were in an extremely abnormal condition
Yesterday. and the usual order OF things was mat
ter of little moment The dry goods men had pushed
the business mems ratification project win al the'r
might and they meant 10 do so'nethIng worthy OIL
the strength and dignity of their organization 30
at o'clock the last truck loads Of dry goods were
wheeled out of Worth-st., and the elevators made
their final trips. Gay young clerks and burly
porters filed the streets in holiday attire. Earnest-
hooking heads Of firms laid aside their air OF bnsl'
ness and took up a bouquet or a cane spry Young
salesmen sprang aloft TO roofs and windows ana
unfIrled the stars and stripes. The sound Oh inc
tackhammer filed the air. as the fronts oi gray o'u
vholesa e houses fairly blossomed out with por-
traits of Blaine and Logan.
Banners and strcamers Tapped to and fro in front
of the store of Wendell, Fay Co. The fashion
was catching, and one by one the following houses
proclaimed their Republican sentiment; forter
Brothers 4 Co.. Wheelwri.ht. Anderson Il Co., A.
d. Juilard 4 Co.. :. Bachman B. II. Smith 4 CO.
Kibbe. Chafee Shreve * Co., and then decoration,
became countless. and block after block blazed
forth with flag, "Closed on account of the Busi-
ness Mems Blaine and Logan Demonstration was
a familiar legend in Worth-st. shutters began TO
10 M with bang on the lower stores. and cellar
doors were locked as if for the en- OF time but out
in the street and high aoft roofs and ireescapes
o,d hanging ont of wiudw, in Leonard, Church and
Worth sts. and Broadway the crowds pressed and
! cbeered and struggled. The Broadway omnibuses,
! threa lin their WY slowly through the mass ot
| human beings. We're almost lifted from the ground
by the surgng multitude fhi, is tie biggest turn
! I, IL sftrf
sion .,ii Siqourney ". Fay Of the Executive
Committee bu-ily making preparations for the
march, AMI il certainly dd look full OF sgnlh-
eaner for when the Republican employees and
.al SIMON Lad douned theg badges and lett their
stores scarcely enough mon were leit To carry op
the business OF a country town.
Uood. of firms. wearing >llS hats and white
bad ses stood wedged twelve abreast ~ the number
of about 200. inst behind the druumers ~ the
Seventh Regiment panl. facing eastward toward
pr.,do,r Behind them. In companies Of from
twelve to fifteen. pressed the clerks and statesmen,
v.ori,, red badge. and armed with canes. Sud-
le,,i. ire continuous but underlined ioar of shont-
.ry and mueling men sharp"n'd and condensed
it.sll into three tremendous deep all arrest cheers
| rlo tonlarls had arrived. Canes wrie waved IN
| ,r,rtr settlement The mir was black Win heiby
| hats lhorr after cheer shook the iron vils that
! ,,r.rI annvp fhe drrsr sway'n mass The hlns
banner. with the vhi'e plunrs no1lne ahnte ~
| ,rhi.h cas to head ihc match ri Triumph slowly
rasa,l ip the funt lose behind n came hannet
! ns,,iupI Protection u Amr'ir'n Industry
! tbD, ihp standards t.irh- 'he inni anl tie baha
np.an W. piat s'lfiinr nin'rh' -" ri"rh t'rW
viii to ,eat el ,re.s esNi Boz heail ist 40
| uu,aiaaf. whnap siipaA ~ ,phllpa ahh hNt,flhs
t. a. 40 argosipi and thrown haph urNh llarlls Tue
yaitina eoiUiAn Was iibe 40 impatient hnf't rNhsi
tu4. "a hraab ionsp A. ast hlgh ahnFe ihh tanHit
ro,. the puroing strains at bugis the iine of no'
| heeuen wheeled into broadway the sea of spec
tator, rolled hack on the sidewalks the whta
| plumes caught the breeze, 1000 men Uampea
| brayely forth, and the march had begun
a finer body of men, said an enthusiastic ad-
mirer could not be put In line ~ any other country
| or in any other cause" Handsome faces wellkhlt
| frames springing steps, chara terned both iank
and nle The gray heads and iurrowed faces Of tho
| merchant princes who marched proudly In tho
shrink led street formed strong argunent tor fro-
| taction their presence was ldrlH documenti
| tLeir enthusiasm sylogism. Arm IN arm IN SOLO
ranks stretching from gutter To gutter tramped the
men who control the wholesale dry goods ana carpet
| lx.de Among others who marched IN the PROCESSION