Evening star., 1896-10-31

MIND could scarcely grappie with 1t. Al
estimate OF The list follows. but the mum
Der was probably augmented by at leas
25OOO:
Wholesale Dry Goods Club, 10000.
Central Dry Goods Mckinley and Hobar
Association, 5000.
Merchant Tailors' Sound Money League
1000.
Railway and Steamboat Sound None,
Club, 1900.
Paper and Associate Trades, 5000.
Local Trade Sound Money Club, 600
Wine and Spirit Traders Society, 500.
Produce Exchange Sound Money Club
1900.
Architectural division, $50
Cotton Exchange Sound Money Club, 600
Coffee Exchange and Lower Wall Stree
Mckinley and Hobart Sound Money Club
Custom House Brokers Sound None,
Club, 500.
Leaf Tobacco Trades Sound Money Club
1000.
Bankers and Brokers' Republican Club
5000.
Lawyers Sound Money Campaign Club
$500.
Insurance Sound Money Club, $500.
Real Estate Sound Money League, 1900
New York Protective Machinery, Railway
and Metal Supply Association, 500.
Publishers and Advertisers Sound Mone Y
Club, 1000
jewelers. Mckinley and Hobart Club,
5000.
Drug, Chemical, Paint and OH Trades,
1900
Manufacturers and dealers in supplies for
steam, water and gas, 1860.
Wholesale Fish Dealers Sound Money
Club 300
Crockery Board of Trade Association,
LOO
Hide and Leather Sound Money Associa-
Boot and Shoe Sound Money Association,
LOCO.
West Side Sound Money Club. 1900
Sadd1ery ard harness trades, 500.
Millinery division, 5000.
Hardware Trade Sound Money League,
1900.
Clothiers' Legion, 1900.
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
300.
Wholesale Furniture Trades Sound
Money Club, 100.
American Authors Guild, 25.
New York Cycle Board Of Trade, 25O.
Students College City of New York, 300.
John Stephenson Company, 195. o.
Rubber Trades Sound Money Club, 800.
Students New York Homeopathic College,
100.
Cloak and Suit Trade Sound Money Club.
800.
Photographic section, 200.
Wool exchange, 400.
Jackson iron works, 600.
Roumanian American Sound Money
League, 40.
Total, ITO, TO.
Features of the Parade.
The mounted escort to Grand Marshal
General Horace K. Porter was imposing.
All were mounted on magnificent horses.
Deruyter Holirs was in command, and
among the escort were Rev. DIR. Greer,
Simon Drake, Rev. Abbott Brown, Freder-
ick r. James, Charles II. Flint, Theodore
II. Price, +. c. Hellins, Henry Swords,
William and H. c. Beadleston, Samuel c.
Blagden. ir.. DIR. Beach Emmett, VIM.
Lowe, Henry Bull, Richard Lawrence, Hen
ry w. McVickar. Frederick Bull H. B.
johnson. Albert Pease, Schuyler Shefelin,
r. H. Van Rensselaer,, Lawrence Robinson,
Edward Thomas, John Plummer, Walter
J. Peck, Samuel Walter, Taylor, VIM. A.
Jamison. r.. H. Barnes. E. w Little, Col.
T. 3. Parsons and Charles Struthers.
There were no distinctive Uniforms but
still those In charge of the various divis-
ions and associations had not been idle in
the matter of making their special COM
mandS attractive.
No club or body but what had its dis
tinctive mark, sometimes in hats, but
more frequently in badges and banners.
Flowers were worn by many Of the down.
town organizations, yellow chrysanthe-
Coffee Exchange Club wore silk hats and
yellow chryanthemums and carried silk
flags.
The Columbia College boys, numbering
about 800 wore white sweaters, on each of
which was light blue letter arranged so
that each line of the company spelled Co
lhmba University Sound Money Club"
One hundred students Of the University of
New York also paraded In their mortar
beard caps and college gowns
The Cotton Exchange Club carried cotton
balls in their buttonholes, while badges on
which appeared pictures of Mckinley and
Hobart and the club name in red and blue
Brokers Club. This division was led by
the Seventh Regiment Band.
The members Of the Iron Exchange and
the New York Protective Machinery, Rail-
way Supply and Metal Association wore
red badges.
White silk badges .surmounted by yellow
silk bows and bearing the club name and
pictures of the republican candidates were
worn by the members of the Drug, Chem
ical and Paint Club.
There were at least 20, 900 men dressed in
dark attire, all of whom carried small
American flags bearing portraits of McKin-
ley and Hobart. in line under the banner of
and the Central Dry Goods Mckinley and
Hobart Association. The plain attires of
these bodies of men, relieved with many
badges, flags and banners, and no division
in the parade, won more applause as they
marched along. The retail wine and liquor
dealers wore gold-colored silk hats and red,
white and blue badges. The merchant tai
blue badges and carried flags and canes,
while the Wholesale Fish Dealers Asso-
citation wore white badges, sustained by
small gold-plated fish,.