Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1898-10-20
THE jim WAS TREMENDOUS.
Such a Crowd as That Of Yesterday
Was Never Seen Before


IN THE CITY OF CHICAGO, EVEN
THE GREAT GATHERINGS AT THE
WORLDS FAIR FAILING TO
BRING INTO EXISTENCE SUCH A
CONGESTION OF HUMANITY-PO-
LICE, SOLDIERS AND MARINES
SWEPT ASIDE AND DISPERSED
BY THE THE AWFUL AVALANCHE
OF PEOPLE WHO PACKED THE
STREETS ABOUT THE PRESI-
DENTS REVIEWING STAND-BUT
FOR THE TIMELY THOUGHT
THAT THOSE IN FRONT MIGHT
BE LIFTED INTO THE STAND, A
FRIGHTFUL CALAMITY WOULD
SURELY HAVE OCCURRED.
Chicago, October 19.-One brief
CLEAN of sunshine and only one, has
been thrown upon the ceremonies OF
the peace jubilee. 1t was a feeting
ShOrt-lived burst of third-class sun
shine, but it fell upon the Presidents
reviewing stand and just as the head
of the great jubilee parade was ap-
preaching and the dense crowds which
lined the streets accepted it as an aug
ury of better things and cheered lus-
tily, but before they were half through
with their shouts the little shudder OF
light was gone, and the cold, dark,
dismal weather, that from the first has
dampened, fguratively and literally
the jubilee festivities was ON again in
full force.
Chicago has seen many parades
greater than that of to-day, but she
has never seen one that
Pleased its people better nor
has there ever been pa
rade in this city which has been wit
messed by so many people. The crowds
in the streets were larger than those
which witnessed the great parade at
the time of the dedication of the
Worlds Fair building, almost exactly
six years ago. There were more stands
and larger stands erected for sightseers
than has ever been seen here before.
All were filled and the number of peo-
pie in the streets were such as has never
been seen in this city before. Notwith-
standing the most elaborate arrange
mentS of the police department, the
banishing of every street car and We
hicle of every description from the
downtown streets, in order that the
crowd might have an unobstructed
way, there were times to-day when the
crowd was too great for the police to
handle and at many places the crush
at times was dangerous This was not
the fault of the police department or
anybody. 1t was simply that the
throng was greater than anybody ex-
pected and a demonstration of the
GEOMETRICAL PROPOSITION
that larger body cannot be crowded
into smaller space. After the parade
the jam in Jackson Boulevard in front
of the Union League club house was
frightful. Strong detachments CT
policemen, sailors and marines, While
attempting to arrest the the massing
of the crowd, were pushed back.
huddled together and finally broken up
and scattered by the sheer weight of
the throng. Long after the parade was
over the boulevard was a mass of
surging, struggling humanity, which
would not move and which could not
be moved until it pleased.
+, The greetings extended to President
Mckinley were enthusiastic in the ex-
IRENE, as were the plaudits showered
upon Gen. Miles and Gen. Shafter, as
they passed through the streets. The
President, in his carriage, was sur
rounded by members of the Chicago
Hussars formed in a square, and de-
tachments of the Grand Army and of
Confederate Veterans acting as an es-
cort. He lead the parade from the
starting point at Congress street and
Michigan avenue to the Union League
club house, where in company with all
other distinguished guests, he alighted
and reviewed the parade. Throughout
the entire march past the stand, which
lasted a trife over three hours. the
President remained standing. nor did
he take seat until after the platoon
of police, which formed the protecting
line for the rear of the parade had
passed down the boulevard.
Mrs. Mckinley arrived at the Union
League club somewhat in advance of
the presidential party, escorted by
Captain McWilliams. Two or three
hundred people waiting in the club
house for the beginning of the parade,
crowded about the entrance as the first
lady of the Republic walked to the
elevator. During the passage of the
procession Mrs. Mckinley remained at
an upstairs window of the club house.
THE PRESIDENTIAL PARTY
arrived at l O'Clock. AS the distin-
guished guests alighted from their car
riages they were welcomed by Secretary
Clark of the Union League Club. and
Immediately taken to the reviewing
stand. A mighty cheer went I'D from
the crowd as President Mckinley took
y1ano on Tho stand oSoNrfoJ b1 \Iox-