New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-10-13


Filth-ave. were like the sands on the seashore
Every cross street was blocked with people and
trucks.
COMING MONEY FROM THE S1GHT:EERS.
The masses of people were particularly dense
AZ Forty-second-st, Fiftieth-st., and Fiftyninth-
Il In all these streets and in all other cross
streets trucks, furniture wagons and vehicles OF
every description had been placed early by peo-
pe with a thrifty turn of mind, and they reaped
rich harvests selling seats in them to persons who
were willing to pay eXtortonate sums for a chance
70 see the paraders At Forty secOnd-st. Long
Island farmer had a vegetable wagon on which
no had seated, by actual count, twenty-five peo-
pie. who paid him from 81 to s. for the prlv-
lcce The trucks which were behind the iirst
lire of vehicles built rickety stands with several
rows Of seats rising in tiers one above another
IN enable their patrons u look over the heads OF
those seated on the trucks in front. The fragile
and totterng structures were regular gold mines
10 tie owners of the vehicles. The wonder Is
that scores of them did not break down and crush
and main the reckless persons who crowded upon
them-ncn, women and children.
OF course, with these huge distinctions to
viewing the show, people who We're the ground,
or even the vast number who came provided Win
lifts in the shape of soap boxes butter tubs, chairs
try TO get a favorable position and failing, would
gather I'D their butterflies and boxes and heap
Ing anath.mas on the heads of the mercenary truck
owners would 90 to another street and try TO
break the mass OF sghtscers at more comply
inc point Few of them were successful. 1t was
the same story at every pint-struggllng crowds
Of men and women, many of them with DaDes
in their arms fighting. pushing, squeezing, showing
and in,ploring for a chance to see the marchers
Thcee disappointed crowds eddied and flowed
in and ont of all the uptown cross streets on the
Last Side between Iwenty-siXth-st. and fllty-
rinth-et. as the tide PUSHES around the rocks OF
He'll Gate All the traffic crowded OF OF Fifth
ave mixed with these outlying mobs as they
surged back through Madson-avc Vt ST Patricks
Cathedral the people climbed up on the terraced
grass plat and trampled all the grass into dust, de-
spite the efforts of two or three Cathedral officers
10 stop them. Ncnturcsome mon and boys scaieo
the sides of the great. gray building and found
excellent views from projecting cornlccs, over
hanging lodges and the deep windows. They
swarmed like black flies all over the lower part
of the Cathedral Tho,c who first got on the
grass terrace reached down their hands for their
friends and pullcl the latter after them Scores
Of old women Of sixty and children of five, were
pulled and hostcd up in this manner from tie
street to this coienc Of vantage. At flfty-nlntn-
st. the tmOng of people was so great that II was
almos, impossible to fight ones way through from
Nadison-aVr halfway 10 the line of parade. The
great stand in front OF the Plaza Hotel was sur
rounded Ivy acres OF crowdinS people"
Fearful. OF BEING sMoTHEErp.
"Oh. MOTHER exclaimed young girl to her
rarcnt. don't 90 in there: You'll be smothered.
Ncndcr, Of peanuts, lemonade and bananas did
an immcnse business. Many uckless man. I'M
able to see the tramping host because OF the peo-
pic in front. invested heavily in bananas in order
Ia he able T. throw the skins at the hats OF the
people in front who were seeing it all Many
glossy tile wps thus ruined by banana peel
Some cntorrrising furniture dealers sent wagons
along the line of tic parade filed with chairs,
tho p,Irro,e being TO rent these chairS out for
pcople To stand on-l0 cents for half an ho"r
being the rate The lofty, huilt-up truck-st1nd
intcrierred with this little scheme person
nrencl height of fully twenty-five feet To look
over them and So" tho marchcrp
Ono of the features of the throngs in the uptown
streets was the great number Of Italians especially
Italian women. This representation from the
Pend of Mulhcny-st. by no means the least
consricuoGs ;oaturc Of the show. either Inc
women with their eiudy head -lear .1i farmg
IA nIcnt cIt col I To the shifting FpWos 'hat
ia or a ''a~;ITrncs~ ali lis own |iin!h'- WIN
tie lie cquipa-ea Ct the rich and ire m'tneE
a
over the asphalt pavement OF MdJson-t\c were
? great numlcr oi pcddicra wagons, sWa'hcd IN
rod. white and blu" bunting AMI loaded down win
Ita lians-men. women and bablcs-sonctimcs as
many rs two dozen in wagon. In fact Italy was
enphatiCalv deck on this occasion \
What has been said Of the Nlst side OF the line
Of ,narch * couaIly trro Of the t,cst side Every
where the people were packed In the cross s'rcets
like herring in a toX. II impossible 10 cross
swept by ali thoa' w.o were vest OF Broadway
and Fifth-avc remained ON that side. and all
those on the cast side stayed on the east side.
ELEVATED TRAINS PACKED.
Many persons did not even attempt to boprl
the elevated trains after the breakup OF the pa
rado. hut walked up or down town, preierrlng
tramp of miles to running the risk OF being
crushed to pulp in the Jams At the stations The
trains ran as close together possible consistent
with safety The schedule of four minutes head
way was not strictly observed. hut the man op-
iect being to carry away the people, probably no
Great objection should be had il the trains ran
closer together than the timc-t1ble allowed. me
people OF this city arc pretty wen 3'Gurione ~
mi. sion hours but all former crnSh"s ana Jams
SINK into nothing beside the experience OF yes
tcrlay. ..
FEEDING TIE MULTITUDE.
The quick-lunch7 restaurants on PARK Row did
rushing business yesterday and far into the hlght'
bnt in the larger downtown restaurants trade was
dnn at midday The masses Of spectators were
from Brooklyn and the nearby suburbs. or De
lonecd in this CIV, and those who had not pro
vide0 Themselves in advance with luncheons could
MT tr fLelnsclyc, away from the glitcrlnI spec
tacle on Broadway Tor Il moment l0hEcI li'ih Wa
absolutely necessary. Hence IT was llat .hc VANS
OF tho rapid catiqg-hOuocs rc-ochoed WIN cV|'-
less cries of Brown the bucks, Draw oh' III
the shell" Ham and" and the Ike. I.'ef III
dinner hour bcre near. and J; lacking scVeIa.
hours OF the time set for the starting Of INC hi.ho
pageant steady streams OF the hun1rv am 81;
better class One Of the largest if thcs,, house
h0uld name in all the suburbs OF Ncw-i DIX, wa,
"a nmeG before u o'clock, ana man stat0icd 40
Tho ,ioor turned many PERSONS away. IN all III >