The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1889-05-08
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were to take part in the great parade
generally sought to avail themselves of
the facilities afforded by these roads to
reach their destinations rapidly, and
consequently the crush was great. On
the East side the difficulty was added to
by the fact that the crowd was only ad-
mitted through a single door to pur-
chase tickets, and being compelled to
go in single file, their progress was
necessarily slow. This was also true, in
corresponding degree, of the Westside
stations. where, however, the crush was
not so great.
Up town in the side streets the scene
was busy one, though of course one
of endless confusion owing to the diff
Guilty of handling undrilled men.
THE CRUSH on THE BIG BRIDGE.
The crowd on the big bridge, too, was
greater than it was on Tuesday. Car
loads of passengers were, however,
cmptied at the New York terminus with
marvellous rapidity and kept moving to
the street or the elevated railroad with
out delay. Hundreds of mill
tiamen from other cities,
who participated in yesterdays
parade, visited the bridge on sight
seeing tour, thus adding to the crush.
The throng on the promenade was
swelled by thousands of people who had
never seen the structure before. and the
police had their hands full to keep the
passageways at the towers clear. Of
course the crush at the bridge aggravated
that at the City Hall station Of the ele
waited road but it was all taken good
naturedly by the people, and no serious
damage resulted.
THE CIVIC PARADE.
At $50 o'clock the parade started,
headed by Sergeant Baum. and sixteen
mounted policemen, Grand Marshal But
:erfeld and his staff of aides, number
ing 10, finely mounted and wearing
orange sash with silver bullion rosettes
and fringe. The Grand Marshal showed
considerable annoyance at the tardiness
with which the organizations which
should be among the first in line ar
rived. He and his aides were on HAND
at Fifty-seventh street and Fifth avenue
before 7:3O o'clock, and it was thought
that the grand civic parade could be
started at $50.
The telegraph station at the point
where he and his aides were stationed
brought knowledge of the slow move
ments that occasioned hours Of delay.
Inspector Williams was in charge of a
large squad of police about the starting
point, and everything went on smoothly.
All along the line of march, sidewalks,
stoops, stands and wagons found eager
occupants, and women passed in steady
streams to points of vantage, many car
rying wooden boxes and campstools and
nearly all having packages containing
lunches. The assemblage was an orderly
one and gave no trouble to anybody.
The various churches all had stands
for their parishoners. The stand at the
Roman Catholic Orphan. Asylum was
well crowded, the lower portion being
set apart for distinguished clergymen.
An arm chair set in the centre Of the
space and was occupied by Archbishop
Corrigan.
The stand of the "Four Hundred"
with one towering above it erected by
the Common Council, were filed when
the Grand Marshal reached that point,
at twenty minutes before 10 o'clock.
Just before the head of the parade
re ached this point sounds of fire bells
were heard, and a hook and ladder
truck came laundering along through
Forty second street. The street at this
point was choked with people many of
whom had been driven along down by
the mounted police. They and the regu-
lar patrolmen took in the situation at a
glance, and in most admirable man.
ner cleared a way for the fire truck
without occasioning any great confusion
or using undue force.
At the Stewart mansion, Fifth avenue
and Thirty-fourth street, the head of the
parade made its appearance just before
10 o'clock. AS already intimated, the
different trades and associations were so
late in arriving at the point of assembly
that they could not take the places as
signed them in the line by General But
terfeld. The boys from the various
charitable institutions and public
schools, being more used to discipline
than their elders in the parade, were the
first on the ground.
AT TIE REVIEWING STAND.
President Harrison, in his barouche,
drawn by FIVE horses and headed by q
squad of mounted police, accompanied
bv Vice President Morton, Col. Cruger
and Lieutenant Judson. U. S. A., drove
up to the Madison Square reviewing
stand at ten minutes past 10. E1-Presl-
dents Hayes and Cleveland, Secretaries
Proctor. Tracy. Window and Rusk,
Gen. Sherman and Russell B. Harrison
had previously arrived. Others on the
stand were ex-senator John A. King,
Col. S. Y. r. Cruger, Gen. J. L. Var
lum and John E. Brodsky, Park Com
missioner J. Hampen Rabb, ex-Comp-
troiler Loem, Col. Alex. Warner, Gov.
Burleigh and staff of eight officers, and
six aides. Brig. Gen. b. N. Sprague,
Brig. Gen. John Harper, Fred
Douglass. (who received cheer as
be entered the staud and Representa-
tive Gibson Of Maryland.
AS soon as the President had entered
the platform reserved for himself and
party, DR.. Bulzall, the Rev. Sylvester
Malone and the Rev. James Milan cf
Poushkeepsie were presented to him.
Mayor Grant, with a body OF aides, who
had been waiting at Twenty-fftk street,