The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-11-04
BUSINESS MEN TURN OUT
REPUBLICANS TRYING TO KEEP
UP WITH THE DEMOCRATS.

Twenty Thousand Brave the Mud and
Rain in an Effor. to Bolster Up Their
Party's Courage - A Club from
Poughkeepsie Makes the Hit of the
Day.
NEW YORK, Nov. 3--The republican bust
ness mems parade started from the battery
at l o'clock this afternoon on its way up
Broadway. As the bankers, and brokers,
division passed up town the other divisions
fell in from the side streets At $50 o'clock
these streets had been cleared as far up as
Liberty street, and about 10000 men had
by that time fallen into line.
The rain of the morning continued, but
the marchers did not seem to mind it. Many
of the paraders were ON horseback, men
whom nobody ever saw astride a horse
before.
At the head of the procession
was lins of policemen who
served to keep the crowd back from
the street and permit the parade to march
without being impeded.
JOHN RoACH's DOLPHIN.
Immediately behind the police came a
string of twelve horses in a double line
drawing truck bearing a model of steam
ship The vessel was intended to represent
the Dolphin. which was at first declared to
be unacceptable to the government, but is
now considered one of the best vessels in
the navy for coast defense. Alongside the
model were seventy-tive men in seamen's
uniform. They came from the docks of the
Wards line of Havana steamships and car
ried banner inscribed: "The democrats
killed John Roach, but his spirit goes
marching on"
PALPABLE HIT.
One of the most striking and unique fea-
lures of the parade was presented by the
Americus Club of Poughkeepsie. They
had 275 men in line, headed by the Grand
Army of the Republic band of thirty pieces
OF that city, and each man paid his own
expenses. The men wore tweed suits and
white hats, and each carried an umbrella,
around the outside of which were stars,
while the ribs were alternately red, white
and blue, thus making the national flag.
When they wheeled out of Liberty
street TO take their place in the
parade behind the Philadelphia clubs
they were preceded by standard in
scribed, pennsylvania is at your back. y
At given signal the umbrellas were raised
and opened, creating n decided sensation.
The strangers were cheered inceSsantly as
they passed along Broadway
WALL STREETS CONTINGENT.
When the Wall street business men swung
into Broadway from that street, headed by
the Seventh Regiment band, there was a
big shout from the crowd that lined either
side Of the street. First came the coffee
exchange, followed by the tobacco men
Every man of the latter had leaf OF
tobacco plant fastened to the lapel of his
coat or a mammoth plug of the popular
weed suspended from his neck.
The Brokers' Club was one of the features
Of the parade. Each man carried cane,
flag. When they wheeled from Wall street
into Broadway, with perfect stop. they were
loudly cheered. They we're evidently favor
ties at that point, for as they passed I'D the
| street they were greeted with cheers at all
points.
Shortly after 8 o'clock, William j. Os-
bourne, while marching up Fifth avenue In
the parade, dropped dead at Twenty-fourth
street.
PASSING THE REVIEWING STAND.
It was after o'clock when the last Of the
parade passed the reviewing stand. There
were two stands at the square, and these
we're crowded with invited guests Among
the reviewers were Levi p. Morton, Warner
Miller, s. V. Cruger, Fred Douglass, Joseph
B. Erhardt, Chauncey M. Depew, Walker
Blaine, Senator j. Sloate Fassett, Gen.
Horace Porter, Cornelius NJ Bliss, Gen.
John c. Fremont, Joseph II. Choate, John
w. Jacobus and ex-Judge Noah Davis.
James G. Blaine reviewed the procession
from a window of the Fifth Avenue hotel.