The sun., 1897-04-28

before sixty;,sixth street was reached, they
must certainly have been content with their lot
parIsons. On the elevated railroad there stood
were black. Tho engines were overrun, and
dozens OF passengers sat on the coal In the ten
form was jammed, and there were heads stick
ing up over the roofs between cars. Men were
hanging outside as well as in, inside % the & gates,
humanity. undoubtedly hopeless, unable TO get
out or in or off.
CoNTENTED WOMEN IN ASSORTED WRAPS.
The parade wheeled into Seventy second street
and went west to Riverside Drive. Here the
mSrchers got tho first full sweep Of the wind
buriSd It into their faces Here, too, tho crowd
became thick and impassable, and the continn;, ;
ne hsS might no
been able to hold them at all had they. not per.
mitted q barroado Of boxes to be laid along the
women, few Of them thinly clad and shiv-
orlng, but most of them wrapped up. And tho
quilts and old carpet and rugs. Many OF the
women wore hoods and worsted f9scinators;
Of h"a eor ali o em
pushed and mnuled. but SO far as could be seen
there wasn't one Of them who wasn't perfectly
happy and satisfied with her lot. They went into
rapturos when tho procession reached them, and
exclaimed: Lovely" Beautiful!' and Don't
ana lot of other things that women are given
to saying when they want to express approval.
HERE WAS TIE CROWD AT LAST.
As anybody who has been over Riverside
good place to see things, but it's mighty hard
place to march, over. and before half dozen
shall ordered halt. just to give tho horses
chance to rest. The parade stood for about ive
minutes, and the order to go ahead was given
n AZ
Eighty-thtrd street, were tho first of the big
stands were. and from Eighty-third street on
any time up to the top OF the hill at Nincty.frst
street, patient man might have counted the
measured them by acres. The road makes a
turn near tho top OF the bill, and It is
not possible to see the east side, where all the
stands were, until the top was reached, but on
the west side of the road. before the turn IL
reached. there is q great rock covering fully an
base to the top and on ali sides OF it. To be sure,
the folks on the river side could not see the land
the North River almost as full of gayly decked
boats as the Riverside Drive was of gayly uni
formed men en- The men.ofwar m If a that were to take
swarming around them were tugboats and ex-
cursion boats and barges of every description. to
skippers OF which had about all they could do to
manage their charges in the gale Of wind that
WAS blowing.
MARVELLOUS SIGHT IT WAS.
Once on top of the Ninety first street hill some
idea OF tho magnitude OF the crowd that had
turned out to see the parade was got. Stretch
in the hollow and up the hill again on the other
side OF Y, was q vast sea OF faces. A dozen
OF a tss tap Of
there could Just be seen. black with people.
the SRess 81 street h was Il
began when the white Mt plumesp u and the army army
and the music hoard. IL 0wept
down and over the hill beyond and back again.
It must have been pbs hos on the nE the
seemed % as Il the and acres % had riSsn rs
flags and hats and handkerchiefs, and yelling
and screcching as il their lungs would split,
They didn't quiet down until tho paraders were
Down the hollow and up the hill on the other
side and another stirring scene greeted the
grand stands, some OF them built so high that
the back seats were on "a level with the second
OF the Drive. There were no stands on the west
side Of the road. but there were trees. and every
their necks in these park trees. Tho small
boys got up In the top beyond the men below
them and the fat men on the bottom limbs. until
IL looked like the human pyramid in the circus.
1t seemed that every inch OF the east side OF tho
drive from tho first hill at Ninety-nrst street to
streets. was one great grand stand, fully seven
eights full of people who hadn't anything to do
save 10 Cnccr anu yen ana ENJOY LneulSelVeb.
PARADE TWENTY MINUTES AHEAD OF TIME
1t was twenty minutes before o'clock when
tho head OF the line started up tho last hill on
top of which is the tomb itself. An orderly
from the Grand Marshals staff galloped ahead
and then back again with orders TO halt, for the
President and party were at lunch and were not
ready to review the procession. 1t was twenty
minutes before tho order to march was given
again, and in the intervening time the wind was
blowing at tho rate of twenty FIVE or thirty miles
an hour and In spite of the sprinkling carts tho
dust was thick enough to cut with knife. 1t
was 30 thick that good deal of the time tho
people on the grand stand at the monument
could not see the paraders at all. Tho limo
OF march was to the west of tho tomb
and north to l27th street, thence around
the Presidents reviewing stand was. From tho
reviewing stand the paraders marched to 10th
street. and through there to the boulevard, and
down the Boulevard to lO9th street. At I17th
street was the Grand Marshal's reviewing
stand. and the Marshal and his staff drew out OF
the line there and backed their horses up along
tho roadway. The crowd was almost as great
at this point and on down to the end OF tho
march as 1t had been from Ninety-frst street.
1t was almost the longest march that any Now
York city paraders had ever taken, and they
were a mighty happy-looking lot OF individuals
when they got the word there that they might
disband and proceed homo.