The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1888-09-13
METROPOLITAN NEWS.
The sentinel's Weekly Letter from
New York.

New York.
New YORK, Sept. 1O.-Eot in 20
years has this city seen q political dem
oDstration at all comparable tt that
held on last Thursday night to greet
the Democratic candidate fur Vice.
President, Allen Grarbery Thurman.
Anticipating an immense crowd, the
managers had arranged for number
of open air meetings in the vicinity of
the vast Madison Square Garden,
where Judge Thurman was to speak
The Garden occupies q space rather
more than two acres, and before the
appointed time the streets on all of its
four sides were absolutely impossible
to vehicles Of any description and
street car lines were blocked for hours.
A man in the midst of that crowd, as
was your correspondent, completely
surrendered himself perforce to the
struggling thousands about him. Two
hundred policemen with ponderous
looking night sticks were as powerless
as so many craven images. They got
as completely ensnared and hemmed
in as ordinary citizens, but the great
multitude was extremely orderly, and
their services were fortunately in little
demand
W hen the doors were opened the
wild rush began, The crush was
something terrific. If you happened
to be in the nam channel the chances
were that you would be swept through
one Of the gates by the momentum of
converging masses Of people Oh either
side struggling 10 get into the track
Probably one in six in those i'm
mense throngs ultimately succeeded in
gaining admission to the garden The
seating capacity OF the building is nor
mally 10000. When hard pressed,
by means of benches in the ordinary
open space 10000 people may be seat
ed, but this leaves the haresb space fer
standing room. Thursday night if
there was one man within those walls
there were twenty thousand.
Probably 5000 Of those present had
brought with them red handanaS at
tached to canes, and unless one hap
pened to be in an elevated position
about all he could see OF the show was
lot of American flags around on the
upper walls, cross section Of the cen
trial platform, and bewildering spec
tacIe Of waving bandanas about him.
When Judge Thurman arrived on
the scene, the II Disc became uproar-
Gus. For five minutes everybody
seemed to engage in a competitive
lung testing exhibition, and there was
more shouting and more kinds of
shouting than your correspondent has
known in newspaper experience OF
good many years, Feeble white
haired men piped out their welcome
in shriil treble, while the more youth
ful und vigorous Democratic yeomen
lifted up their voices and hoF!ed and
screamed and yelled and shouted and
whirled and kicked and stamped and
danced like an army Of Bashi Bazouks
with the jim jams.
The old Roman bowed his head
reverently as he surveyed the vast
crowd, aud tears streamed from his
honest old eyes. Then he lifted his
hands. As by the waving Of a magic
and all sounds were husned. What
he said probably no one exactly knew.
He had not spoken moment before
it became painfully evident to those
near him, that he was i'll. In fact he
might have fallen had not some Of the
gentlemen near him come to his res
cue, and he was seized with violent
fit of vomiting before he could be re.
moved from the building. Universal
sympathy was expressed for the suffer
er, and the multitude, though painful
| ly disappointed, fourished their ban
danas Ersvely and cheered the grand
old sufferer again and again.
Ringing Democratic speeches were
made by Hop. Roswell p. Flower
who acted as chairman Of the meeting
Gov. Hill, Gov. Green, of New Jer
eey, Senator Blackburn and others
The most discussed local event OF
the week, barring the Thurman jubi
lee, has been the great Futurity stakes
race which was run at Sheepshead
Bay Monday. Fifty thousand people
crowded the race course and saw the
gallant Kentucky youngster, Proctor
Knott, earn for his owners $4,000
! by coming under the wire u short head
in advance Q1;lSalyater. How much
he won for them outside Of the rich
stakes is not known, but it was cur
rently reported about the track that
! they backed him to the extent Of $50,
0QG, The race was for the largest
stakes Of any ever run on Ameri-
can soil FRANK E. VAUGHAN.