Evening star., 1896-10-29
THOUSANDS ASK TO MARCH
Many More Requests for Place in the Big
Parade.
Companies Already Assigned to Posi-
tiOns Want Room for Thousands
of Additional Men.
From the New York Sun.

From the New York Sum-
If the sound money parade on Saturday
doesn't prove to be the greatest show of
the kind the eye Of man ever beheld in any
age and in any land, then all signs fail. Ii
the enthusiasm continues to increase as it
has done in the last two days, it will take
two days for all the men who want places
in line to march. About the first thing
Gen. Porter had to do yesterday morning
when he reached his headquarters on the
fifth floor Of the Mills building was to make
provision for increases in the quotas of
men Of three divisions, already assigned to
places in line. The Drug, Paint, Oil and
Chemical Trades Club sent word that they
would have 1900 more men than they at
first reported. The Machinery, Railway
Supplies and Metal Association asked to
have provision made for 100 more men in
their division than they first calculated
upon, and the marshal of the real estate
division sent word that he would have 800
more paraders under him than he had at
first reported. When these reports came
in, one after the other, Gen. Porter sighed,
and remarked:
We'll, let the good work go on. i don't
see how you can stop them, but the island
is only ten miles long"
He had hardly made this remark when
the application for place in line came in
Right on the heels of this came eight other
applications for positions in line from the
following: The Boot and Shoe Sound Money
Association, the Wholesale Fish Dealers
Sound Money Club, the Cloak and Suit In
duStry. the Cloak and Suit Trades, the Stu
dents of the New York Homeopathic Med
ical College, the John Stephenson Company
and the Photographers Sound Money Asso-
cfation Late yesterday afternoon the Car
rfage Trade Sound Money League sent
word that they would send division. $40
strong. under the command of Col. ID. L.
Wilson, with W. II. Irwin as chief of stan.
Add to Gen. Porter's original estimate of
125,00O the number Of accessons received
yesterday, and, even if no more organiza-
tionS come in, there will be nearly lI0N Np
men in line, If not more
1t has been found that this desire to
parade on Saturday has spread, during the
last two days, through every branch of
metropolitan trade. 1t is like an epidemic
which seems almost impossible to check
So great is this desire, on the part of em-
ployer and employed, to show their colors
that the grand marshal has expressed a
Tear that some persons may get the idea
that there will be SO many in line that they
will not, after all, turn out. He wishes tn
remind such persons, if any there be- that
every business man is needed in line on
Saturday. 1t is question of patriotism
not convenience, and one of the principal
ideas of this parade is to have its effect
felt over the whole country. To produce
that effect every man who has already sig
Hllleu MS lHteItlOn Oh paradlng should
carry out that intention. Gen Porter
would like to be able to send the news
ringing over the country on Sa Aurday night
that by actual count 10000 business men
of New York marched over Manhattan
Island for the sake of home and country
and the flag.
Some of the members of the organiza-
tions which have not been ordered to move
until late in the afternoon have offered
some little objection to parading on the
ground that it will be after dark before
their organizations take up the march. and
that there will be no opportunity for them
to see and be seen. In this they are very
much mistaken. Mayor Strong has invited
the owners and tenants of business places
and residences along the line of march to
illuminate as soon as the sun goes down.
The mayor has received many personal
responses to this invitation, assuring him
that 5th avenue and lower Broadway will
be ablaze with light from dusk until after
the last division in the parade has been
dismissed. The mayor is Of the opinion
that New Workers have never seen any
think like such an illumination as they win
see on Saturday night.