The sun., 1896-08-11
BRYAN ONE DAY NEARER.
THE nor ORATOR REACHES PITTS
BURGH ON ms zRIP.

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PITTsBURaH, Aug. 10.-Billy Bryan, the Boy
Orator of the Platte, made the trip from Chi
cngo to Pittsburgh to-day in seventeen hours
| of unccasinR wind, wind that was, hot and dry
and did not cool off the temperature. which at
the start was above 90 degrees. and which con-
| tinued throughout tho journey. 1t was
most enjoyable affair despite the heat. just
picture to yourself q railroad train shooting
| along stopping every few minutes at a hamlet
| or a town. On the back platform of the car of
| this train fancy crowd of mon aud one woman.
| In tho middle of tho crowd on the platform are
| two men. one the Boy Orator and the other the
enthusiastic "Silver Dick" Bland. Down on
the bottom step ono sdo OF the car stands u
| youth with mobile face holding n handkerchief
in his hands. Every time n village is approached
this youth dances up and down and shrieks at
the top of his voice:
Here he is. Come down here. you fellows;
this way. this way. Get around back there"
Tho face OF the Boy Orator you can then SEQ
wreathed In smiles. The railing that keeps him
from falling of the back of the just reaches
his middle, and he bends In two there. the head
ana body waving In the air and the two
hands grasped by the crowd on the ground.
Finally you SEQ him straighten up. His face
takes on n set appearance. He lifts both his
hands. and holding them with palms toward the
crowd. he commands silence.
Silence never fails tocome Without a change
of countenance the Boy Orator throws off sec
tion of his speech, while the crowd whoops and
howls and then yells for Silver Dick" Keep
on looking and picture that statesman lenping
up in the air, throwing his arms aud hands
about his head and ahouting in stentorian
tones Three cheers for silver"
Then the train moves on. The crowd shouts,
GOOD by, BILL" "Good-by, Willie" Good
luck" and things like that, and throws bou-
Quets after the train. The one woman. pleased.
In spite OF her loneliness. smiles sweetly on the
crowd
Now, II you just get this picture down In your
mino. particularly the young man with the
handkerchief, the Boy Orator with three hun
dred miles OF speech, Silver Dick" swinging
his hands and shouting FOR free silver, and the
sweet smile, you have got almost an exact pic
ture Of the greater part of the Boy Orators trip
from Chicago TO Pittsburgh. or course tho
monotony OF tho scene was occasionally varied,
but 1t was the Same In general from one end OF
the 46S miles to the other. 1t was not sn un-
profitable trip for tho Boy Orator. for while he
spilled his speech along the way there a re-
turn not only In enthusiasm. but in fruit, flow
| ers. glassware. and other merchandise brought
to him as tribute and laid at his feet.
| I iBryan's trip cannot be called q triumphal
one. for 1t was not In spots it was frost, but
| It must DO said that those spots were few and
far between. ihe crowds that gathered to SEQ
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