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
SAW.
AS TT WAS OBSERVED ELSEWHERE
the Campaign by Liberal Dis
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presented a brighter or more ami
mated aspect than they wore today,
sthe occasion being the parade of the
republican organization in honor Of the
partys presidential nominees, Nc
Kinley and Hobart.
Practically no business was done IN
the mercantile establishments, the in
te~-s ST in the mammoth demonstration
obliging those, 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 WEI 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
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 a 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
lily. And above all the motion, there
arose the thunder Of voices and the
blare of musical instruments, that
made the scene more bewildering,
more 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, duttered
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"
''The National Honor Must be Preserv-
cd Sc &c No
Life" and zone Hundred Cents in the
Dollar"
A 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 pict-
ure Of one or both of the republican
candidates exhibited, and then it was
invariably framed in flags.
The resources Of the flag and bunt-
ing makers in this and neighboring
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 a vista of flags The
draperies on the big office buildings
In the lower part Of Broadway were,
in many instances, very elaborate and
expensive, some of the decorations
costing as much as 81 900.
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:
II 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 40XS0 feet, and cost
as much as $40 EACH There are not
less than 800 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 were 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
grappIe 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
S000 Merchant Tailors' Sound Money league,
LOCO; Railway and Steamship Sound Money
club, 5000; paper and associate trades. 5000;
Coal Trade Sound Money club, 600; Wine and
Spirits Traders society, 500 Produce Elk
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, 2000 Custom House Brokers' Sound
Money club 800; Leaf Tobacco Trades Sound
Money club, LOCO; Bankers and Brokers Re-
ampaign club $500 insurance SOUND Money
cab. 1900; Real Estate Sound Money league
y 1N00 New York Protective Machinery, Rail-
way and Metal Supply association, 5,1OO
Publishers and Advertisers Sound Money
club, 1000; Jewellers Mckinley and Hobart
club. 5000; Drug, Chemical Paint and OIL
trades, 1000; manufacturers and dealers in
Wholesale Fish Dealers Sound Money club
200; Crockery Board of Trade association
200: Hides and Leather Sound Money asso-
citation. 1900; Boot and Shoe Sound Money
association, 1000; West Side Sound Money
club, $500; saddlery and harness trade, 500
millinery division, 5000; Hardware Trade
Sound Money league, 1,500; Clothiers' legion
1000; 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, 800; Wholesale Furniture Trade
I Sound Money club. 700; American Authors
guild, 20; New York Cycle Board of Trade
$50; Students college, City of New York, 300
John Stephenson company, 1876; Rubber Trade
Homeopathic college, 100; Cloak and Sui
Trade Sound Money club, 500; Photographic
section, 200; wool exchange, 400; Jackson
IRON works, 600; Roumanian-American Sound
Lao