The evening world., 1895-09-02
!CRAYCOATS
ON PARADE.
t,40O Of Uncle Sans Letter.
Carriers Show New Workers
Their Marching Ability,
EN- ROUTE FOR PHILADELPHIA,
Where They Will Form Part Of
the Great Procession to Pe
Made This Afternoon.
LOWER BROADWAY CROWDED.
From Astor Place to CortIandt Street
the Sidewalks We're One Vast
Reviewing Stand for Citizens.

Fourteen hundred gray-uniformed let
ter-carriers paraded In lower Broadway
to-day. They were bound for the Penn
sylvania Railroad depot to take passage
for Philadelphia. where they will par
ticipate in the great parade and demon
stration of the National Letter-Carriers'
Association this afternoon in the City
of Brotherly Love.
The sidewalks of Broadwya from AS
tor place to the Post-Offce were
thronged with people when the flare Of
the bands and the rat-tat of the drum
corps announced the moving of one of
the prettiest parades to which New
York was ever treated.
The parade formed in the streets
crossing Broadway. and stai;cl from
Astor Place. There are !.G55 lelter-car-
riers in the New York service, and 1,4OO
of them were in line. Pro csilent John
N. Parsons, of the New York Associa
ton. was the Grand Marshal with
Charles p. Kelly. NJ. j. Harvey, Ernest
Eckey. Charles Mccarthy, Thomas j.
Boncer and Robert Hamilton. jr. as
his aides.
The men were in twenty-one compan-
les, each being the force of a post-ofiice
station between the Battery and the
! Bronx. The superintendent of each
suh-station warched with his men under
command Of a carrier captain. The COM
panics were in three battalions, com
mandcd by Carriers stephen D. Walker.
of Station O., Thomas II. Cordery. Sta
ton r., and Robert Smith. Station F, re-
spectively. The companies marched in
sixteen-fle front and the twenty-one
/ captains had seventy-fve lieutenants.
! A platoon of police escorted the pa
rade with the seventy delegates OF the
New York branch to the National Con-
vent!on at the right of the line These
seventy wore no uniforms, and were
headed by f. NJ Morgan. superinten-
dent of the. city delivery, and Supts.
Elliott, of the money order division; /;
Nagle, of the registry division; Clark,
of mails; Gen. FitzjJhn Porter. cashier.
and r. NJ. Jardine. auditor of the Gen
q eral Post -Ofce The executive division
was headed by Assistant Supts. Camp
bell, Rooney. Filston. Roome, Chase and
Sussman, and Postmaster Dayton's prl-
vate secretary. McNab.
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vice uniform familiar to everybody.
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