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

America The rear Brought up BY the 'oo'c'
| Tlonccr Corps. who went b. the siaHd with military
b,aiins and ,pr!shty step At j:l5 o'clock. just hvo
hour, and twenty-five minutes after tie head OF 'ho
| line had made It, salute to the officials
immediately the odd Guard wheeled into line agaih
and came to q helt before the reviewing stand. Two
| carriages were brought up. Governor Flower ana
General Porter stepped into one and I'll" ola "uaru
escorted thcm mp the aycnuc rs FAR rs Iwehy-SAth'
ST. when they gave parting salute, ahc couh'cr'
| marched TO the stand with rs erect bearing ana
cg!ci Il step ~ they hal displayed six hours before.
Vice President Morton, Mayor Grant ana Howard Gar
| roll were I'm the o;i"r carriage awaiting them. Thc
driver refined Iii, into the nollov square formcl
| for the uu.pOsc, the toopa marched away down inc
| avenue and the parade was over The thousands OF
people who had waited 20 the end rushed INTO the
street car hack and truck drivers started up thcir
horse, and in three minutes Fifth-a"c. ana broadway
ri their intersection with Twenty thiTst. were more
completely blocked and tangled up il mass OF
ionIty car. carriages, trucks. delivery wagons AMI
all kind, boxes and barrels than Wcst't. or West
| Eroadway ever WIS on the most busy days. solid
line of car, reached down Broadway to Grace Church
| Il. Tcnth-st, and mp IT rs far These were quickly
filled with people til every strap was occupied, ana
thouch the block was soon raised before single car
vu,. started The free seats I'm the stands at Union
| >otare were nearly filled with other sight wait
| ing for the Brilliant pageant cf the evening.
UNION SQUARE BLACK WITH PEOPLE.
The crowd at Union square wonderful thing
| 10 .rr. 1t va, something to be- remembered for II
| lifetime. There was not inch Of space anywhere
| from rhayc. and Fourtcenthat. up to the square
or any WhcF" the square, that was not occupied
and hot only were the street, jammcd and packed
Soiidy. bul oyer, one Of thc many hundred windows
# the buildings which surround the square, ciCh
viud,v I,.o and each roof were black with heads.
The .quaic looked H. II it huge living ma
did ia" crowd e:thcr and grow that It wa, hard 70
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boring ,rccts hch holiday crowds but they were no;
inc nrforiably MED. Al . II. N. the throng was
seat In the eand stands. and then suddenly the place
was packed amt nothing cyu4 De seen except men
ana women wherever one might turn. IL VIZ
easier 10 form conception Of the size of the crowd
w"ri,in when the street. were deserted. it SEEMED
lmp,~-iDc riat any city could muster crowd bls
The -quarc there had been erected grand stands
which >lr'ch"d in an almost HnDr"hen m d'ot ~
I.roadway. 81 these the cottage stand In four'h-aV'
80 g. had seating capacity Of lpo' 80 = w STILL
tccnth-st also 1000; stand 40. .. 400 the .tnih
along Fourtcrnth-t. about 1000. lh'a' s'ahu, W.
all - crowded that there not room enough for
"mothcr human b,ins anywhere. Around IN" statue
Of abraham Lincoln anoth"r stand hGld about 600
people They were w,ds'd In 30 tightly that II
'.,i,d a. II there were not enough spac" lett Tor
them TO breathe.
CLINGING To THE FNrll'E OF THEIR 'oUNI"'
The ,emicircuhr stand which Wa erected around
the equestrian statue Of G'oig" Washington was
crowded I j., seemed n somebody would be- 'ru'"'''
About 4 dozen boy, iad oambcr'i on the statue. SOM
Of them Las under the hoof- 81 ih" h'i' hIHnS i'
IN ~, Is. Others >t thc horse ana h"lu lHHl 10
the great mans waist ana ole wa, III
tp ,i.Nb ou Do, Should ana 'ihii' ni'n, 'lln,
,r,n rrnuud fi placid ifcr. Tn" pedestal Wa h"''
nA. rock covered hy ne ih''nlhs ~ ~. d,n..iv
Inst one might hIy, climbed ou their h'Fn' I" '''
Very top. ,.,,i. .too, |
Shoulder 10 Shoulder seven and EIGHT dc"p 80 tightly
w'fE'd -'N'f tAi hn, --n'., ,,.ir' crowd |
How h" police ever managed to pr'""rNe ~, nn', ),
my,'cry. husr Va. Oh" thr, tn%, u ,,",'u ~
icrin to move. y fhr rising 80 >urs"' on io'A,;
80 ilnt imnen-" tht'nr surs'd ar'nni irh pom, oI
t ,, iii. NH, r.ir or,, s,orio, hidden iy tho
ou 90 r"i OF iA''-.
IS ROOFS >ND IL wINpows.
ON iho ,,v,utocnth,t. side Of Union square about
200 window. far. th, street. B,hud six 81 fh">"
window there were scat, which held about 200 peopl"
Their, w,r. at l.., ,l-ht or ten and om"iime' fifteen
p,opl. 90 zach ~ ihc other window. mS H'N-','f
house at Fourth ave. and seventeenth ST. "h'h ma
V, long balconies along IT'S front, was converted l2
huge grand stand. ON ihc rof people Wrtr GtownCr
go closely together md ~ near the co. ''"i' ~ NM
,r. lllt To- look M them. All 'h- Windows. oil cour~
were also crpndi. and there mist nav" b''h III '"''
200 people There al"n'. D. rt c.,tury
Nn-Az!uc7 which NOR" pretty tlau thc Si-n'
presented ly the building II "a. ,omPihy yest"fuS
I'M the c.uir, were all crowded with spectators III INC
most brilliant Of attire. am over me .n'l" "'' VI
th. huidus th,rr nutt"rcd ic>ioou, 81 hhSs.
The MY widow, Of the Everett Hose we're also
crowded with guest. :, 49,. ,,i
.,ror,, Of gigantic size. Il the corner Of Fourth av"
ana -cyruic.uth.,t. two big wagons WIN siopinf
i hug huge Gd OF pnms. Hnd from. midst there
,m m rgrc inf hole T., which tlcrc chung three
mon sho urWitinsly formed figure which looked
f,um distance >rD'@ins'y HE the Diina WI" nIul
recently -lrmIiufri tnr Madison square Garden
i,V irrr,
GOOD WORK or THE POLICE.
Fortunately, the police arrangements were goo1'
ana almost perfect order was preserved There were
about 500 policemen on duty I'm and about Union
-alarc They we're from all precincts In Sixteenth
st. Ina front Of the cottage stand werc policemen from
court squads and detail, from ia" GN'htynlnth
Precinct. ON Broadway wer" men rom the Ihlr,y
rirc did daily along Fourth ave anl Fourteenth 81
The police arrangement were under clHr-c "i inc re-
and fierce a. old CurtcI himself. lie was ably
seconded by handsome haired captain Brooks Of
we're ainptci 10 do the really hcrculcan work assigned
to Them was shown 10y the way the STREETS were
rl,rr,i from curb.tonc to curb,onc when the tlinc
r,m, for doing this, At ten minutes before II
- clock tAc street, nil Of people. ~ II rach
Tho, were throneiug aud crowding md lo>ing III all
directions AMI >TrinE back ana for'h IN aP
- ho had been scattered throughout tn crowd In aP
parcnty almlcre confusion began 20 'mrrs, am iurm
and then another. Then slowly TIE throng became
pncsod ana dense the people wcr" pushed back, ana
like magic the middle streets were clear ami r'c from
emtter fo gutter \ wire was stretched from Broad
ynv and seventeenth II. along the north sid" ot
seventeenth tD Fourth ave, then down Fourtha ave.
to broadway ard mp again. II made = fence b"yonl
which no one va, allowed to pas. The po,t were
kindly supplied lu the >lap. Of big, brv policemen
but thcy were all invariably polite. an' must have
made a good impression on strangers, for they acted
like gentlemen almost every where.
MODEL AMERICAN CROWD.
The triumph 81 ia" arts Of peace over the arts
Il war was shown by the comparative ease with which
ordct was preserved despite the Tact That Inc lolc"
were not allowed 10 draw their clubs. The people
dM not object one ml much to being showed back
by a pair of big hand, they did at former parade,