Birmingham state herald., 1896-11-01
THE PARADE AT NEW YORK.
THERE WERE 100000 IN LINE. IT IS
 SAID.
Everybody Wore Yellow-Commodore Smith Marched Beside Wall Street
 Bootblack-A Few Accidents.

New York, Oct. S1.-What undoubtedly
 goes on record as the greatest political
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 parade In the history of this country was finished at 6:30 tonight, at which hour
 the last of the paraders in the great demonstration in honor of Mckinley and
 Hobart passed the reviewing stand at Madison square. One hundred thousand men marched in line. Vice Presidential 1 Candidate Hobart, Gov. Levi F. Morton, | members of the republican national com mittee and others looked upon the scene | from the reviewing stand all day, and | everybody, including nearly 100000 look | CTS, was unanimous in declaring that such a spectacle as was presented in to- | days parade had no parallel in American | history.
 It was 10:55 a. m. when the head of the | procession reached the reviewing stand and looking down Fifth avenue, in the d. rection from which the paraders came, the line of vision showed only vast sea of undulating American flags. As the divisions swept closer to the stand the cries of the men and the enlivening tunes or the band aroused the enthusiasm of | those gathered in the big square. This was redoubled by the shouts of the | paraders when they caught sight of an | immense sign on top of the stand read Ing: we Know no enemy'S country in this fair land of ourS.'
 | Every delegation had some device to | prove contempt for the white metal. The | men themselves were a well-dressed, prosperous looking set. They certainly | seemed to be the intelligent business men l they claimed to be. As a rule, their march, l ing was superior; not a hitch occurred | pafgn. fyxjinShgl (atw hrd mfw gk l during the entire progress of the parade. They marched over the route with mili- | tary precision, and were dismissed at | the end without the slightest confusion. | Gen. Horace Porter remarked at the con- clusion that the work was worthy of | trained soldiers. It was the result, he de- | clared, simply of intelligence. The men | passed the reviewing stand at rapid | gait, and had the marching order of | regular military company been main | tained 1t would have required twice the ! length of time for the parade to have | passed given point. It Is calculated | that on an average the paraders passed
 the reviewing stand at the rate of 13,000 an hour. General Porter had estimated that 1t would probably be 12,O00 At this | rate the number of men in line was 1OO,- 900.
 A remarkable thing about the parade
 was the display of colors. The red, white
 and blue foated above everything, but | nearly every man in line wore on his coat lapel big yellow chrysanthemum Many | added to his other colors which lent great
 
 | plumes were also numerous in the line, | and whole divisions wore gold colored l silk hats and alpines Perhaps the most | striking feature of the parade was thirty seven dirt begrmed, sallow-looking coal
 miners. They headed the coal division. | Surrounding them were the best dressed | men of New York.
 | The contrast was marked. The miners | looked as if they had just come up from | the bowels of the earth after a hard days l work TbaV the costume peculiar | to those workers and carried in their | hands wel-used picks, while from their hats the regular lamps gave out light.
 Next of interest were the Columbia | college men. They were picturesquely i dressed, and ended up with the freshmen
 class of 1900 gorgeously arrayed in Napo- | leon hats.
 The large number in the delegation of | lawyers attracted much notice. The | great jurists of the city marched side by | side with members of the bar. There | were grey-haired men, some almost at
 the tottering stage of feebleness, and
 with them youngsters who have yet to get their first brief.
 | Great also was the turnout of the in-
 surance men, headed by John A. Mccall | and H. B. Hyde. It is said that about | every man of prominence in this business | in the city was in line The bankers and | brokers were a demonstrative crowd, | with James B. Smith, ex-commodore of | the New York Yacht club, at their head, | and singulaly enough by his side a boot 1 black of Wall street.
 l Considering the great mass of people 1 participating as paraders and onlookers, the accidents were few. One man fell l from a stand and had his skull fractured. Another fell from his horse and was bad | ly injured. A musician dropped in the l ranks from overheat and a few minor &C., | cldents were reported.
 | It was very warm day and much ap- | prehension was consequently felt by the 1 police. The crowd lining throughout was | variously estimated at from 300 000 to | 100000. The city was filled with stran- | gers, andt hough 1t was over at 6:30 D. m., l the paraders filled the streets all evening | and it has been many a day since New l York has seen such gay night General Osborne, a cousin of Major l Mckinley, this afternoon sent the follow | ing telegram to MT. Mckinley at Can | ton, O: "The largest and most impress sive parade of the business men, clerks | and laborers connected with different l trades ever seen in the world is now being l witnessed here. You may well feel proud | of a parade, which is greater even than | the military pageant in Washington In | 1865 Mrs. Hanna and all the ladies have l viewed the parade MT. Hobart has re- l viewed the march of the men. I con- 1 gratulate you upon making the grea test | campaign of any presidential candidate. | We feelcertain of an overwhelming vic- | tory. put your electoral figures at from l 311 to 364. Such demonstration as is now going on was never seen"
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