The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1896-07-10
HUNDREDS WILL BE
IN MARCHING COLUMN
Preparations for Mckinley and Hobart
Ratification Demonstration. o..
REPORTS HEARD LAST NIGHT
They Indicate That Tuesday Nights
Parade Will BE an Immense Affair.
Another Meeting Monday Night,
When Caps and Torches for the
Marchers Will Be Distributed.
Committee Reports Heard.

the Central Republican club last night
pretigure a grand demonstration next
Tuesday night i'm honor of Mckinley
and Hobart. Clubs have been organ
lied in several wards of the city. and no
less than 1,50O men are expected to be
in line. The Central Republican club
invites all Republicans not attached to
clubs to join with them in the process
| sion.
Colonel L. II. Ripple, the chairman.
Informed his fellow members that about
15O Republicans unattached will march
with them. The membership of the
| Central club is close to 175. The Polish
Republican club of the South Side will
| be out IS strong; the Ezra II. Ripple
club of the Twentieth ward will be rep
resented i'm line by not fewer than l25;
the Mckinley club of Green Ridge. of
which George Geary is president, will
have so men: the Mckinley club of the
Thirteenth ward will have 100 men; and
| the bicyclists under tho command of
Captain d. b. Atherton will form a di-
vision numbering 500
The Nineteenth Ward Mckinley club,
organized last night, will have 100 men
out; the Mckinley club of Olyphant will
come down with 100 members, and a
club comprising the Republicans of the
| First. Second and Third wards of the
North End will be in line.
FROM THE WEST SIDE.
Attorney Charles L. Oliver reported
that the West Side Central Republican
club, comprising 100 men, and the West
Side Republican League, another 100,
| will come across the river behind
Crumps band. He said that q general
| invitation had been sent out to Repub-
licans not allied with either organiza
ton to fall in line. The Seventeenth
| ward Republican club will be out in
body. a club is in process of formation
in the Eleventh ward; the Sixteenth
ward club, of which DR.. b. II. Throop
| Is president, will come out with 125 men; /;
the William Connell club, colored, will
| have IS members.
Colonel +. l.. Hitchcock, grand mar
| shall, has decided to give the word of
march not later than o'clock. 1t will
| be necessary to start on time, as there
| is a. mass meeting afterward, and the
march will be a mile long. Franklin
avenue has been selected as the place
of formation. The clubs will be ar
ranged on Spruce, Linden, Mulberry
and Vine streets, on the easterly side
of Franklin and the division on Vine
will have right of line and will move
out first to Lackawanna avenue, fol-
| lowed in succession by the divisions as
Mulberry, Linden and Spruce streets
are passed.
While Colonel Hitchcock has not de-
| finitely arranged the line of march yet
| 1t Is quite certain that the route travel
| ed will be from Franklin to Lacka-
wanna, to Adams avenue, to Spruce
| street, to Jefferson avenue, to Olive
| street, to Washington avenue, to Null
berry street, to Penn avenue, to Spruce
street, to Adams avenue, to Linden
| street, to about opposite the entrance
to the court house, at which the plat
| form for the speakers will be erected.
EARLY REPROTS WANTED.
1t is essential that reports from the
| various clubs be sent to the grand mar
shal as early as possible to enable him
| to assign them positions. And the
| clubs are likewise requested to send
delegations to the Central Republican
club rooms next Monday night to get
caps and torches. Captain Thompson.
chairman of the committee on caps, has
ordered 1000, and they will be on hand
for distribution Monday night. Colonel
c. l.. Pryor. chairman of the committee
on torches, stated that 1,600 lights have
been ordered. These will be given out
| Monday night, too. Colonel Pryor; for
the finance committee, reported that
$3.50 have been collected. but there will
be a necessity of getting 800 more to
defray all expenses.
Four bands, Bauer's, the Lawrence,
Crumps. and one from the South Side.
and the p. o. s. of A. drum corps will
furnish music. They will be assigned to
positions relatively far enough apart
SO that all the music will not be in one
part of the procession and none in the
other. Frank W. Martin, chairman OF
the fireworks committee, reported that
there will be plenty of red fire. Roman
candles and skyrockets to testify to the
exuberance of the marchers. Harry
Hopewell, chairman of the committee
on transparencies, has been invested
| with power to provide sufficient num-
Der of these articles.
MEET MONDAY NIGHT.
The meeting adjourned until next
Monday night and a report will be heard
from H. +. Paine, who was absent last
night. on the speakers who will be
heard at the mass meeting. Mahlon
Chance of Philadelphia is one speaker
already engaged
The Republicans Of the Nineteenth
ward assembled last night at Nicholas
Sossong's hotel on Prospect avenue,
and organized Mckinley club. Charles
! w. Westpfahl was chosen president;
County Auditor John Z. Rink. vice.
president; a. G. Englehardt, secretary,
and John Hartman. treasurer. The
next meeting will be held Monday even
ing at Sossong's hotel, when the caps
and lanterns will be distributed to the
members. On Tuesday evening they
will meet at Westpfahrs store at seven
| o'clock to march to the central city and
take their places in the formation of the
parade. The club comprises 100 sturdy