The sun., 1896-10-31
HONOR'S MIGHTY HOST.
$4,000 Men Will March in
To-day's Parade.
new YORK'S REPLY To BRYAN.
Business Mems Unheard of Dem.
Onstration for Sound Money.

Manhattan Isiand win Resound with
the Tread OF Marching Feet-An Detail,
orPropnrntion Con,pIeted-Fair Weather
tho Prospect-Tho City Covered with
Flngs-Tremendous Enthusin.m-Poi,eo
and Fire ArrnnEemcnts-A List OF Firms
and ORGANIZATIONS That VIII Parade.
Realizing that three or four million people
besides 10000 paraSers, would hold him
strictly accountable for the kind of weather he
furnished to-day, Farmer Dunn spent an anx-
ious time Of II yesterday in his roost up in the
tower OF the Manhattan Life building No
reports OF weather in any part of the country
escaped him. and he studied the sky over Man.
haitian Island as he never studied 1t before. At
the end OF the day Mr.. Dunn heaved o sigh Of
relief and sent out this forecast:
For twenty-four hours ending at 8 P. NJ.
Saturday. New York and vicinity. showers to-
night, clearing Saturday morning; fair and
cooler Saturday afternoon; southwest Winds"
Gen. Porter was even more interested than
Sergeant Dunn in the kind OF weather that
might be expected, and he kept the telephone
wires hot between his headquarters and the
Manhattan Life tower from noon until O'Clock,
when Mr., Dunn reported as follows:
i can promise you good weather from the
time the right of the line moves at 10 o'clock
until O'Clock in the evening at any rate. 1t 10
quite possible that 1t will be pleasant until after
midnight to- morrow night"
AL right sergeant; much obliged. When
Mckinley is inaugurated I'll recommend you to
q place in the Cabinet as Secretary Of tho Do
partment Of Weather"
The week ending Oct. 81, 1896. will be re-
membered in the history of Manhattan Island
as week in which. for New York business
men. there were really only four working daya
There yvould ba haep L. CO.
any way. since business will be generally sus.
pended.to-day. But there was practically no bus.
iness done in the lower part of tho city yester-
day. No one could do anything but talk about The
monster demonstration of the morrow. Enthu-
siasm over the parade swept everything before
1t. Thoughts OF business. pleasure and all else.
save the demonstration for sound money, went
tho way Of the winds, and therefore business
was practically at standstiLl.
From Fourteenth street to the Battery moth
ing was talked OF save tho things that would be
seen and the things that would be done to-day.
In the dry goods district old merchants and
young merchants, clerks and errand boys sim
ply abandoned counting and ware rooms. gatH.
cred in knots In the streets, talked of tho
political campaigns and political parades
OF other years, and then were at .
loss for words to compare those campaigns and
demonstrations with even the preliminary ar
fuhkoihoubo Aoi tho oho AL tuo DuSI.
ness in the dry goods district was done in tho
street. and it consisted of swapping political
yarns and the voiclng of patriotic expressions.
In Wall street the oldest broker could not
rem en- Der such day. In the first place. there
never was any such attempt made at decora.
ton. Never was there such q wonderful dis
play of Old Glory. On the Stock Exchange
enthusiasm and patriotism ran riot paradoxical
as such an expression may seem. just after the
market opened tho brokers began the work of
buying and selling as usual. One broker would
rush up to another and exclaim:
Buy me 500 shares of such and such Q
stock"
"All right. old man." would come the answer.
" But say, did you ever sec anything like itP
tell you, tho very atmosphere makes your
blood tngle. What did you say about that
stockT'
Then some one on the floor would start MP
patriotic song. go bar or two alone, and tho
whole Exchange. in q mighty chorus, would
join in. and orders TO buy to soil would be Ut
terly forgotten. Brokers sent up town. out in
Jersey. and over in Brooklyn for their children,
that the little folks might look upon tho display
Of bunting and the enthusiastic demonstrations.
and learn o lesson In patriotism that they would
as long as they live.
Just before leaving his head uarters last night
Gen. Porter said that he could think OF nothing
more to be done in the way OF perfecting details.
even had he q week moro TO work ia. He said
that tho limo scheduled 10 move at 10
oclock, and at O'Clock It would move II there
was one at the corner OF Worth street and
but the Grand Marshal and staff.
Asked when he thought the last company in
line would be dismissed. Gen. Porter said II was
hardly possible to tell. but he thought that It
would not be earlier than IL p. NJ.
The grand marshal has taken tho precaution
to have all tho streets over which the procession
will march sanded. This is always done in
Paris when largo bodies Of cavalry have to be
moved in case OF riot or other disturb bance and
Sen. Porter remembered the French custom.
He also remembered that after several thou
.and men have marched over pavements the
Lrampng feet polish the stones as smooth as
glass. Therefore. to prevent the possibility Of
accident from slipping by either horse or man
The streets over the entire line OF march will DO
,nnded early this morning.
Besides this. tho Grand Marshal has provided
Tor any emergency that may arise from the
blocking Of streets at the point where the parade
will be dismissed. II 1t happens that block
occurs below Fortieth street. tho line undis-
missed will be ordered to continue the march 70
Forty first street, where the limo will wheel 70
he east and to Forty-second street, where Il
will divide to the east and west Then, II .
block occurs In torteth street or IN Lexington
,r Park avenue. the line will be turned into
and Thirty-ninth streets and sent
iown Madison avenue At the corners OF
thirty first and Thirty fourth streets aud Fifth
lvenue and the same streets and Madison ave-
hue great searchights will be set up, which
will light the streets and avenues In all direc-
ions.
Chief Conlin summoned all Inspectors, acting
inspectors. Captains, and acting Captains to
adauarters yesterday morning, and read to
hem his final instructions. With other things
he Chief said:
IF We are to Judge from the published re-
ports and from various other indications the
parade that 10 10 take place tomorrow will be.
I not the largest, one OF the largest that has
.ver taken place within this city. In view Of
he fact that large crowds OF people will as
embls at different points along the route and
n view OF the fact that the police assigned to
inc the route will be Kept constantly on duty.
rom tho time they report to tho time that the
parade is all over and regular trAfio 10 resumed.
he resources OF this department will be