, 1888-10-28
BUSINESS men PARADE.
Seventeen Thousand March
Through Rain and Mud
To Show Their Love for Cleve-
land and Reform.
President Cleveland Reviews
the Great Procession.
Cleveland in New York.

ney's distinguished visitors, President
and Mrs. Cleveland and Mrs. Folsom,
were astir early this morning. After
breakfast the president received a number
of callers. The rain prevented the ladies
from going out shopping. Some of those
who called on the president were Hon.
Roswell P. Flower, Hon. Hugh Nc
Laughlin, Senator Patrick Collins, Gen.
William H. Barnum and Col. Collin S.
Price. Alter reviewing the parade the
president will dine at Secretary Whitney's
and leave on the 7 d. m. train for Wash
ington.
The business mems parade this after
moor was begun and ended under a con-
tinuous rainfall, and the streets were very
disagreeable tor marching. The start was
made at l:30 from the Stevens house.
Behind mounted police rode Grand
Marshal Landers. Next came the 7tb
regiment band, leading 600 men from the
Produce and Maritime Exchange clubs,
all bearing floating handkerchiefs. Then
came the LAWYERS Cleveland and Thur
man club, $50 strong, headed by Freder-
lex B. Coudert and Gen. Barlow. The
sidewalks along Broadway on both sides
were almost impossible, Notwithstanding
the rain. The windows of buildings
along the route were filled with people.
The Young Mems Independent club, $50
Wine and Spirit Traders club turned
out 16O strong. They presented a novel
spectacle, as they all wore bandanas.
One company in the parade carried UNI
b%rellas, on each of which was mounted a
small stuffed rooster. The Cotton Ex-
change club, with music and $50 men
with bandanas, fell in line at Beaver
street. Other clubs in line were: The
Coal Dealers club, Stock Exchange club,
Auxiliary Stock club, Consolidated Stock
club, Exchange brokers, Law Students
club, Custom House brokers, Insurance
Mems club, Mechanics and Builders
club, jewelers. club, Hide and Leather
club, Boot and Shoe club, West Side
Business Men and Railroad Hardware
Supply club, bankers in carriages also
Joined the parade at Chambers street aud
completed the first division.
Then came the grand marshal Of the
second division with staff, followed by the
first and second divisions of the Dry
Goods Trade club from both sides of
Leonard street. Then followed the Rail
road Mems and Publishers clubs, Photo
g%raphers, Gasftters, Elevated Railroad
Mems, Independent Colored club, Whole
sale Drugmen and Consolidated Stock and
Petroleum exchanges. The exchange
numbered 2, 800 men, of whom 1,1S0 are
enrolled Democrats, and of these 4S0
paraded.
As the parade started the rain came
down with increased violence. More
umbrellas went up and the line was fully
pannpIa1 A luliaIo1g ro.,lt 20 A. -
was that instead of the usual command
forward, p" the leaders cried out swim"
and when the hating time came the order
stop swimming would go forth. Dele
cations massed in side streets further up
Broadway waited patiently their turn to
fall il and cheered, too. Everything
Democratic which the column ~encount.
cred was cheered and everything Republi-
can greeted with groans. There was a
general cessation of music and cheers
when the New York hotel, where Mrs.
James g. Blaine, Jr., lies dangerously
i'll, was reached.
The largest crowd below the reviewing
stand was at Fourteenth street and the
enthusiasm was intense. Two blocks
higher the banner of the National Repub-
lican headquarters, for which the moving
mass preserved its fund of rroans and
Kisses, foated to and fro. Republican
spectators were massed all along the block
and groans and cheers for Cleveland and
Harrison, cries of mo free trade" No
free whisky" and mo Chinese" rose
on every side and mingled in a common
roar.
Coming out upon the magnificent Mad
ison square the parading thousands saw
the reviewing stand, an deliberately trim
med structure. rising above the sea of
umbrellas. The presidents box was
covered by an awning. The crowd in the
square and converging streets bafled de-
scrlptlon. The president was escorted to
his box at 2:05 o'clock by Eugene Kelly.
Sheriff Grant, Tammany's mayoralty can
didate. Congressman Cochrane, Gen.
John Cochrane, Congressman Richardson
and Col. Isaac III. Reed awaited him
there. Mayor Hewitt came later. Pres
ident Cleveland, who had been talking
with others, turned and greeted him as
he entered. Mayor Hewitt advanced to
Mr.. Grant, his opponent, and said:
We'll have to shake hands, Mr.. Grant,
across the president, not across the bloody
chasm."
The head of the procession reached the
reviewing stand at 2:30 p. m. Mrs.
Cleveland is said to have witnessed the
affair from a window in the Fifth Avenue
hotel, opposite where the president stood.
The utmost enthusiasm prevailed in the
ranks. The Produce Exchange men
cried, Grover, Grover, he's got a walk
over" The Auxiliary Stock Exchange
club chanted, -Four. four, four years
more. Columbia college and university