The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-11-01
THOUSANDS WERE IN LINE.
PARADE FOR SOUND MONEY THE
& MOST IMPOSING GOTHAM EVER
Egs SAW
sAs TT WAS OBSERVED ELSEWHERE
tBOth Parties Marked the Close of
the Campaign by Liberal Dis
plays of Bunting.

cal campaigning IN JllS CITY
{have the streets of New York
presented a brighter or more ami
mated aspect than they wore today,
the occasion being the parade of the
republican organization in honor of the
party's presidential nominees, Nc
6 Kinley and Hobart
Practically no business was done in
the mercantile establishments, the in
test in the mammoth demonstration
obliging these, even who are not in
sympathy with the republican cause,
to suspend operations for the day.
The parade was to have begun at $50
a. M, but owing to the great number
comprising it, there was considerable
delay in getting underway. Hours and
hours before there was any chance of
the advance guard of the great parade
appearing, the sidewalks on either
side of the streets named in the line of
march we~n scarcely passable.
AT the points where the reviewing
stands had been erected, people con-
gregated in ever widening circles
street cars were stopped early and
drivers Of wagons found that they had
t. make lengthy detOurS to reach their
destination. But it was down town.
along Broadway and the streets that
stretch east and west from it that the
press was greatest. 1t was in this sec
ton, where the 125, 900 paraders gath
cred that the first realization came of
| Low gigantic the gathering was.
Just before the start everything
seemed confusion. The onlookers from
the thousands of buildings wondered
how the paraders and the spectators
could ever be separated. The multitude
that damned Broadway from the build
ing lines was like a sea, which moved
from side to side, swept down obsta-
cles and obliterated the familiar sight
of show windows. Whenever q mount
ed officer Of the parade attempted to
force his horse through the throng to
those who looked on, man and animal
were swallowed up as though they had
plunged into water instead Of human
ity. And above all the motion, there
arose the thunder of voices and the
blare of musical instruments, that
made the scene more bewildering
mere wonderful. more real than this
city has seen in many a day.
Along the route Of the big parade
from the Battery to Fortieth street,
there was lavish display of flags and
bunting. The spectacle presented on
Broadway and Fifth avenue exceeded
anything of the kind ever witnessed in
this city. Myriads Of American flags,
of all sizes, and thousands of yards of
bunting, tastefully arrayed, f1uttered
In the breeze from the roofs, windows
and doorways of the buildings on the
line of march. At short intervals hung
flags, bearing the names of Mckinley
and Hobart, and in some instances, ap-
propriate campaign banners on wires
were stretched across the street. Each
of these big flags represented an Or
ganization of business men, and some
of the legends were: Law and Or
DER" For Honor and Prosperity"
1.-THE National Honor Must be Preserv-
ed;'' "a Nations Credit is a Nations
Life;'' and "One Hundred Cents in the
Dollar"
noticeable feature of the decora-
tions was the absence of the political
pictorial banners and transparencies
Which formed so conspicuous a part
= of the decorations in former cam
paigns. Only occasionally was a pict-
ure of one or both of the republican
candidates exhibited, and then it was
Invariably framed in flags.
l The resources of the flag and bunt-
ing makers in this and neighboring
cities were taxed to the utmost to
supply the orders that poured in
One large dealer estimated that not
less than 100000 had been spent by
the business men of New York in
decorating their establishments.
VISTA OF FLAGS.
Broadway was vista of flags The
in the lower part of Broadway were,
in many instances, very elaborate and
expensive, some of the decorations
costing as much as $1,000
At least one church on the line Of
march was decorated. This was the
marble Collegiate church at the cor
ner of Fifth avenue and Twenty-ninth
street, over the main entrance of
which were draped two silk flags.
Speaking of the profusion of flags, a
dealer said
L have been forty years in the bust
ness OF making flags and bunting and
never saw so great a demand for my
goods as has existed within the past
few days. I should say that not less
than 100000 American flags are waving
In New York at this moment. Many
of these flags are 40X80 feet, and cost
as much as $40 each. There are not
less than 300 flag dealers in the city
and not one Of them has been able to
fill all of the orders that he has re-
ceived We have been APPLYING TO
one another for material and help, and
have drawn upon the resources of deal
ers in neighboring cities but in spite
of our efforts thousands of persons
who We're anxious to decorate have
been unable to obtain flags or bunt-
ing"
It was next to impossible to get any
thing like an accurate estimate of the
men In line. The multitude was SO
vast that the mind could scarcely
grapple with it. An estimate of the
list follows, but the number was prob
ably augmented by at least $4,000.
Wholesale Dry Goods club, 10000; Central
Dry Goods Mckinley and Hobart association,
5000; Merchant Tailors' Sound Money league,
1000; Railway and Steamship Sound Money
club, 1900; paper and associate trades 5000;
Coal Trade Sound Money club, 600; Wine and
Spirits Traders society, 500; Produce Ex-
change Sound Money club, 400; architectural
division, $50; Cotton Exchange Sound Money
club, 600: Coffee Exchange and Lower Wall
Street Mckinley. and Hobart Sound Money
club, 1000; Custom House Brokers' Sound
Money club, 300; Leaf Tobacco Trades Sound
Money club, 1000; Bankers and Brokers' Re
Campaign club, $500; Insurance Sound Money
club, 1900; Real Estate Sound Money league
1850; New York Protective Machinery, Rail-
way and Metal Supply association, 500;
Publishers and Advertisers Sound Money
club, 1900; Jewellers Mckinley and Hobart
club, 5000; Drug, Chemical Paint and Oil
trades, 1000; manufacturers and dealers in
supplies for steam. water and gas 1000;
Wholesale Fish Dealers Sound Money club,
200; Crockery Board of Trade association,
1200; Hides and Leather Sound Money asso-
citation, 1900; Boot and Shoe Sound Money
association, 1000; West Side Sound Money
Il club, $500; saddlery and harness trade 500:
millinery division, 5000; Hardware Trade
= Sound Money league, 1900; Clothiers' legion,
1900; Hatters' Sound Money club, 1000;
cloak and suit industry of New York, 1000;
West Side Retail Dealers Republican Sound
Money club, 500; United italian Business
Mems league, 300; Wholesale Furniture Trade
Sound Money club, 700; American Authors
ESQ; Students college, City of New York, 300;
John Stephenson company, 1876; Rubber Trade
Sound Money club, 300 Students New York
HOMEOPATHIC college, 100; Cloak and Suit