Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-11-11
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tude which blocked the sidewalks SOL
idly, and drove those who desired TO
reach especial points into the cen
tire OF the streets. Upon Main street,
from Tenth to Twelfth, and on Market
from Eleventh to Eighteenth, this
crowd was particularly dense and
demonstrative, and probably not less
than ten thousand people were lined
10 between Twelfth street and Six
teenth alone. These people began to
gather before seven o'clock, and thus
thousands had to wait for more than
two hours. standing In the cold and wet,
before the head of the column
made It's appearance. They put
in the time watching the displays
of colOred fires, In listening TO the
music OF numerous bands, in watching
the clubs which frequently passed on
their way to the place of rendezvous,
and in cheering anybody and every
body whose name happened TO be sug'
geSted, while feet were stamped and
hands clapped 10 keep up the circula-
ton Of the blood.
There was a marked and exasperattDg
delay In getting the long column moving,
due 10 a variety Of causes not en-
tlrely within control Of the management
Of the affair, and it was about twenty
minutes of nine before Marshal Sterl-
ing set the column in motion, and a
start up Main street TO Fifth was made.
The column countermarched on Main
street, returning down 10 Tenth, then,
took Market street, and at S:53 the
Chief Marshal and staff arrived at the
Mcclure House on the way down town.
When Fourteenth street was reached
Ia halt OF several minutes
threw the line into some confusion, but
IL was only temporary, aud thenceforth
the march was uninterrupted.
The scene on Market street, at the
time the head of the First Division
reached the creek was picturesque and
beautiful, despite the all-pervading
mud. The hundreds OF colored lights,
the haring torches, the sputting fire
works, the crash OF the bands,
cheering marchers aud spectators,
and the waving OF countless
hats, handkerchiefs, umbrellas, etc,
combined made the spectacle memoir
able one, not often duplicated here in
Wheeling. And what is best of all, 1t
was married by no unseemly conduct on
the part of any member of the tempo
rarily minority party. Everybody en-
tered into the spirit OF the occasion
with heartiness, and it had thus many
of the characteristics Of popular
demonstration.
Along Market street the enthusiastic
greeting accorded the Pittsburg and
Cleveland organizations was redOubled
wheu the long line OF carriages contain
ing the Republican leaders came in
Sighl, and cheers and yells greeted such
weli-known faces as those OF Elkins,
Dovener, Atkinson, DantOrd, Hubbard,
John W. Mason, and others. Hon. A.
Il. Dayton, the successful Congressional
candidate in the Second district, was
early recognized, and as he stood up in
dis carriage and bowed his acknowl-
edgements TO the right and left, he was
the recipient of a continuous ovation.
Many flowers were tossed or handed
into the carriages as they slowly passed
between the two solid lines Of specta-
tors.
The chief visiting organizations-the
TippeC9noe Club OF Cleveland, the
Americas Club of PittsbUrg, the c. l..
MCGEE Guards of Pttsburg, and the
Young Mems Republican Club, of Pitts
burg-were fine bodies Of men, and
marched to the music OF very excellent
bands, but these crack political or
carnations from abroad were not quite
equal 10 the Young Mems Republican
Club of Wheeling, which, headed by
the Opera House band, turned out
twenty-five platoons OF eight each, and
marched with great precision.
The last of the column passed this
Office at 9:9l on the way down town,
and although thousands of the tired and
chilled spectators at once went home,
thousands were still left to greet the
return OF the procession when 1t wheeled
into Market street from Fourteenth, at
1915, after having completed the line
OF march. The entire column crowded
into Market street, the Americas Club
made its way into the Mcclure House
rotunda, and the remainder OF the pro-
cession then disbauded, and as many of
those 10 the first division as
possibly could do so, jammed into
the saloons in search of some
thing liquid and strong to restore the
circulation OF their almost CONCEALED
blood. 1t was a quarter OF eleven be-
fore the last Of the Third Division
reached the square on Market street
between Twelfth and Fourteenth
streets, and those composing it found
that every possible chance Of getting a
drink In that part Of the city had van