New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-10-13
THE CROWDS IN THE STREETS
A MILLION VISITORS COME TO TIE CITY TO
WITNESS TIE PARADE.
DISAPPOI NTMENT THE LOT OF THOUSANDS
MONEY MAKING DEVICES THAT WERE NOT
POPULAR-SCENES AND INCIDENTS
UPTOWN BIG TURMOIL
FROM MULBERRY-ST. on

M\DIs0N-AYE
The long-to-be remembered scenes that attended
the great military parade in this city in May.
1882 the enormous crowds in the streets and the
Jams and brushes of people at the many railroad
stations. the ferries and along the line Of Broad
way and Fifth-avc.. were all repeated yesterday
In the opinion of many persons the crowds along
the route of the parade were larger than they
were in 1889. II would be- hard t. eNa2gerlte
the numbers of the siyltScrS or the intensity OF
their desire 10 see the marching hosts. An e-ti
mate of ,o00,o00 strangers including the hOr les
Of Brooklyn people would he under rather than
over tn" correct figure.
The people BEGAN 10 come in in a steady and
constantly growing stream early on Tuesday even
ing. All the mcommlng trains on that evening
brought in thousands of visitors from distant
points most of whom rambed about the city all
night and were on hand early TO get good posi-
ton on the line of parade. Their foresight was
commendablc IN view of the difficulty encountered
Yesterday in getting nearer than several hundred
feet 10 the marchers and these early birds escaped
the disappointment that fell 10 hundreds of thou
sands who caught no more than distant glimpse
of differing bayonct points or the nodding plunes
aud pompons of tramping soldiery
THE RUSH BEGINS Is EARNEST.
With the early hours of yesterday the rush he
gan in earnest. Between 5 and 10 o'clock it had
reached It's height III these morning hours the
huge ferry boats that came across the North River
from the Jersey Central, Pennsylvania Eri'!
Lackawanna and all the other roais-bis trunk
lines and little hGckleherry routcs-that have
their terminals on the Yves bank of the river, were
hacked is closely as the people could stand on
them without danger of spiliins some of them
,l... tl.nt fnAK
nearly fifteen minutes for some Of the big new
boats 10 unload their cargoes. The trips were
made as fast as the boats could get in and out Of
their slips While these people were pouring
across the Hudson and banking up in heaps and
tiers and hills and mountains of humanity on tho
west side Of the line of march. on the east side
il looked as though ali of Brooklyn and Long
Island were being empticl into New-lork City.
The people filled the ears of the Bridge and the
stairwayS leading To the Brooklyn entranc" ana
overlooked into Sanlls-st for several hundred feet
waiting chance 10 ride across. Ihousand|
rather than wait for ride, hurried across Oh
foot. The Bridge ears emptied them INTO Printing
House Square ar die rate OF 1900 an hour all tie
morning. All the East River ferries carried As
many people as they could manage to crown
aboard their boats, and the Staten Island Terry
boats came in looking like huge floating Islands
of humanity.
Like water pouring out of vast spout after
some great rainfall, the people poured out OF the
Grand Central Station all the morning as tram
load after trainload came IN from the towns norlu
of this city crowded - their utmost limits WIZ"
people anxious to see the show. Ii seemed az IL
the populous New-Engand towns and these along
the lines of the Harlem and New-Nork Centrai
roads must be deserted, and all their Inhabitants
had come to New-lork As soon as they lanaco
they hurried for the route % the parade Few