The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-09-03
YESTERDAYS ARRIVALS.
Big SOund-MOney Marching Clubs
from Chicago and Peru.


Extra, coaches were attached to many of
the trains that arrived at the Union Sta
ton Yesterday and nearly all the in
bound trains carried large crowds of pas
sengers The gatemen had great trouble IN
handling the crowds, and, to make mat
tiers worse, many people were await
ing the arrival of friends, or had come
there out of curiosity, and these, at times,
made it almost impossible for the passen-
gers to get through and away from the
station.
A special train, consisting of six sleep
ing cars and two day coaches, arrived over
the Monon, from Chicago, at 7:15 O'Clock
Yesterday morning, bringing with 1t the
Chicago Sound-money Marching Club, 456
strong The club consists of the sound
money portion of the old Cook County
Democratic Club, who have been rein
forced by new members and reorgan1zed
into a permanent club, with sound
money name They formed in the station
four abreast, making a line, as closely as
they could form, nearly as long as the
train she'd They marched around jack
son place to Illinois street and up Illinois
street and along several Of the other prin-
cipal streets of the city and hnally as
banded at the corner of Monument place
and Meridian street and adjourned to their
Headquarters at Nos. IS and 20 North Me-
ridian street. The De Baugh American
Union Band of thirty pieces, under the
leadership of w. De Baugh and M Lebes
as major, accompanied the CLUB Inc
bands uniform consisted of a. blue sack
coat trimmed in black braid, white duck
trousers and caps of the same material
the trousers being protected from the art
Nv patent leather leggingS. The club carried
two American flags and two white banners
bearing the name of the club IN gold: All
the members wore SILK nats, a SUIT 81, %
black clothes, white bow ties ana on tne
coat of each was fastened a blue ribbon
badge with the clubs name in gold, ana
each member carried an umbrella The
club was marshaled by Col. John S: Coop
er, who is also it's president, and who fur,
nished transportation free to this city and
return for the members. me panu was
also furnished by Colonel Cooper.
The l.. E. & w. train which arrived at
1920, with four extra coaches, prought III
about five hundred passengers, Two nun
dred of whom were members OF the Hon
est-morey Club of Miami county the ma
jorty of whose members hail from Peru.
The Peru Band, with T. G.. Stewart as
band master accompanied the club, and
the members of the band wore a uniform
of dark green CLOTH with caps of the same
material. The members of the CLUB wore
no distinguishing uniform, but each car
ried a badge fastened upon his coat, ana
the larger part of them carried cane or
umbrella. Two members marching at the
head of the club carried a large baSket OF
golden rod and each member had sihdlI
spray of the same flower fastened above
his badge. A committee of deputies from
Sergeant-at-arms Kessler's staff met the
clnb at the station and instructed Mr.. Eli
Jamison marshal of the club, as to the
streets on which to march. They LETT the
depot and marched two abreast up limos
street. -,
The train from Decatur, ILL.,. which ar
rived at 10:45, brought in crowd OF De-
tween three hundred and four hundred pas
sengers among whom was a character in
the person of a Dunkard with bicycle
The Big Four train from Cincinnati, when
arrived at II To- including sleeping cars ana
day coaches, consisted of eight cars, and
between two hundred and three hundred
Of1i a
several delegates from Ohio. The Big Four
rain from Cleveland was over an hour
late the time of its arrival being 1880, and
II carried three extra sleepers six III all,
and three day coaches. There were about
three hundred passengers on this train,
among whom was one or two late arrivals
train out of Pittsburg was over an hour
and a half late, and did not arrive until 2
o'clock and discharged about 1oO passen-
GERS among whom was one delegate from
Now Jersey