Omaha daily bee., 1896-11-01
NEW YORK'S MONSTER PARADE
hundred Thousand Sound Money Advocates
March in Line.
RAISE ONE MIGHTY VOICE FOR M'KlNLEY
Gotham EnthusinsticniIy Pledges 1t
self TO the Cause of Patriotism aud
National Honor-Busincss Sus-
pended for ~ Day.

NEW YORK, Oct. 3l.-A mighty host
tramped up Broadway today. The tramp OF
the tens Of thousands OF feet will echo
through history. Republicans and gold
standard democrats lined up to form the
greatest procession that has ever been wit
messed in the city OF New York. There was
mo glitter OF FURNISHED helmets. no flashing
of bayonets; no clank OF swords, its only
arms were a hundred thousands nags-the
stars and stripes; the red white and blue.
on its banners were Sound Money" me
Kinley and Hobart" The great army Of
voters, variously estimated from $4,000 to
130 600 was composed OF men In almost
every walk Of life. The procession began
TO move somewhere in the vicinity Of 10
O'Clock a. m, and without halt or break
of any kind, marching at a rapid pace, 1t
was not until about eight hours later that
tbs end hai passed the reviewing
stand. That army marched past
hundreds OF thousands Of persons
who gathered on the sidewalks, stairways
at back windows, on stands-everywhe
they could get which commanded a view.
The paraders were filled with earnest en-
thuslasm. Their banners proclaimed their
principles. The sound money army in
cluded men who are known from one end
of the country to the other. Lawyers who
are the leaders in their profession marched
with the porters in the buildings where
their offices are. The merchant tprince
tramped with his truckman The great bank
ers and their messengers were in the same
rank. II was truly a business mems parade.
II moved with that precision which Is the
great law OF business. II was fOrwed with
out confusion. 1t moved on time and with
out interruption. II disbanded without dis
order. The procession moved forward at
Nil hN,,N
The head OF the procession passed
tho reviewing stand on which were Vice
Presidential Candidate Garret a. Hobart
ard Governor Morton, at 1885. II was eX-
ar : seven hours and thirty minutes In
passing that point. In point OF numbers
the Wholesale Dry Goods Republican club
was far in the lead having 2l,000 men in
line. The Central Dry Goods Mckinley and
Hobart association had 5000, and the Paper
and Associated trades 1000 more The coll
leEcs were represented by some 5000 stu
dents, while fully as many as thirty-hye
or forty Industries were each represented
by thousands OF men.
Tonight the town is illuminated and the
streets crowded with the tens OF thou
sands whose enthusiasm was not checked
by their efforts OF the day.
BUSINESS is SUSPENDED.
Practically no business was done in the
mercantile establishments the interest In
inc lldnUOln OeinOUSlIillOi ObllBluE AHNot
who are not in sympathy with the repub-
lican cause to suspend operations for the
day. The parade was to have begun at 9:3O
a. m, but owing to the great number com
prisng 1t there was considerable delay in
getting under way. 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
march were scarcely passabc.
At the points where the reviewing stands
had been erected. people congregated in
ever widening circles. Street cars were
stopped early. and drivers OF wagons found
that they had to MAKE lengthy detours TO
reach their destinations But II was down
town along Broadway and the streets that
stretch east and west from It. that the press
was greatest. II was in this section where
the l25 900 paraders gathered that the first
realization came OF how gigantic the gather
ing was.
Just before the start the confusion was
supreme. Thousands In the buildings
wondered how the paraders and spectators
could ever be separated. The multitude that
jammed Broadway from wall to wall was
like sea which moved from side to side
swept down obstacles and obliterated the
familiar sight OF show Window. Whenever
Il mounted officer OF the parade attempted Ia
force his horse through those who looked on
animal and man were swallowed up as
though they had plunged into water instead
OF humanity And above all the motion
there arose the thunder OF voices and the
- blare OF musical Instruments that made the
scene more bewildering, moro wonderful
more real than the city has seen in many q
day.
SOME OF THE DECORATIONS.
Along the route OF the big parade from
the Battery TO FOrtieth street there was a
lavish display Of flags and bunting. The
spectacle presented on Broadway and Fifth
avenue exceeded anything of the kind ever
wi in this pity Myria1S Of Ampripa n
flags of all sizes and thousands OF yards OF
bunting tastefully arrayed fluttered in the
breeze from the roofs windows and door
ways OF the buildings on the line of march
At short intervals, huge flags bearing the
names of Mckinley and Hobart, and in some
instances. appropriate campaign flags
stretched across the street. Each of these
big flags represented an organization Of
business men, and some OF the legends We're
Law and Order" For Honor and Pros
perity;" "The National Honor Must be
Proserved;" "a Nations Credit is a Nations
Life" and "One Hundred Cents in the Dol,
lar"
noticeable feature OF the decoration.
was an absence of the pictorial poltica
banners and transparencies which formed
so conspicuous a part of the decorations il
former campaigns Only occasionally wa
picture OF one or both OF the republican
candidates exhibited, and then it was in
Variably framed in flags.
The resources OF the flag and BUNTING
makers in this and neighhoring cities wer,
taxed to the utmost to supply the orders
that poured in. one large dealer estimated
that not less than 100000 had been spen
by the business men OF New York in dec
Grating their establishments.
Broadway was vista of flags Tn,
draperes on the big office buildings in tn,
lower part of Broadway, were in many in
stances very elaborate and expensive. som
of the decorations costing as much as 81 900
At least one church on the line of marcl
was decorated. This was the Marble Col
legiate church at the corner OF Fifth avenu,
and Twenty-rinth street over the main en-
trance OF which We're draped two silk flags
Speaking OF the profuson OF flags, a dealer
.-a go F-z 40. ua,.-