The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-10-01

tVhhue along tno elue OF the PARK hooVe IWon-
D-nfth street. Twenty-fourth street was
cleared between Fifth and Sixth avenues 80
that tho carriages OF the distinguished guests
might remain there during tho review. The
police knew that II the street was not cleared
early they would md II q fsrcsly contested
battle ground later In the day.
BROADWAY CARS STOP RUNNING.
The Broadway and Twenty-third street
street cars were not INTERRUPTED until less
than two hours bstore the parade reached the
stand Many amateur strategists lacking the
yellow tags. which the police had distributed
among those who had business within the
lines. thought to gain access to tho cleared
space BY climbing aboard Broadway car and.
BY the m Oldest expenditure Of i've cents. gain
aplace nearly rs good as that to be occupied by
the Admiral himself Whom these willy
ones tried to drop OF the car platforms
to tho street In front OF the Filth
Avenue Hotel. they found themselves showed
back into the cars with no great consideration.
A ROY Of unteelinR Broadway policemen lined
the tracks at intervals OF ten or fifteen feet
from Twenty-hith street TO Twenty-thlrd
street to defeat just such tricks. They were
ably assisted BY . number OF Metropolitan
Railway inspectors. Gripmen had orders TO
stop for nothing in the reservation.
HUMAN WHIRLPOOL AT THE oRiD1noN.
By 8 O'Clock tho folks coming up Fifth
avenue and Broadway. coming west through
Broadway and Madison Square Park and east
through Broadway. created q great human
whirlpool at tho Twenty-third street grid
iron" The mass OF people ground around and
around. m aking no real headway and crushing
one another Ia fright and panic. A squad OF
thirty Broadway policemen was thrown into
the crush to break It up. For quite awhile
they seemed to be as helpless az 40 many chill
dren. One OF them. who was whirsd out Of
the PRESS leaned against one Of the big white
pillars and groaned.
And me q Broadway copper" he said. Il
feel like football" But he shouldered hack
into tho crowd. In time the work Of the police
men told and the whirlpool was so split up that
the people really began to move In tho direction
thoy wanted to 60. The police had more or
less difficulty at timer at the Twenty!third
street and Twenty-aith street ends. but there
was no serious difficulty again until word came
to clear Fifth avenue below Twenty third street
and stop people from crossing the avenue
there. The police had to use their elbows
and fists and they were called brutal thugs for
awhile. A reserve force was kept behind the
front line OF police. and when the holder OF q
seat on one Of the atands, or Of q yellow police
line tag. lifted 1t over the heads Of the crowd.
the reserves would sally In after him. after the
style OF a football nying wedge. and drag him
through. The Worth Monument atand and
The big stand for State officials across the way
filled very slowly. The holders Of tickets for
those stands had started early enough. hut 1t
took them hours to work their way through
tho crowds
PIANO WIRE BARRIERS.
The pressure around tho reviewing stands
increased steadily. The sidewalk from the
northern end OF tho Worth Monument stand to
Twenty-sixth street, under the windows Of the
old Delmo nlco's. was left open. plano wire had
been strung from tree to lamp post along there.
Tho space was full at 10 O'Clock. but at IL
the number OF people had doubled. Twenty
fifth street. from Broadway to Fifth avenue,
was open. The pressure from the Broadway
end forced the people who were at the Fifth
avenue end against the piano wire. which was
po< at all pleasant.
Two column that was being pushed for ward
was narrow and the crowd In Broadway that
was Soina the pushing was big and wildly
anxtouc to get through. 1t couldn't understand
why Il did not get through. Now and then wild
screams from the middle Of the street told
what the misunderstanding was doing. The
people at tn at end Of the big reviewing stand
were made faint by what they saw going on
eneath then. group Of men on tho stand
OF whom Borough President Grout OF Brook
lyn was one. n ade themselves an i'm prom tu
rescue eorps. They reached down into the
crowd and lifted up women and children into
the stand until There were few II any left In the
crush.
One girl was not lifted out In time. She was
Nellie Barth Of 81 West Elsvs nth street. Bhe
tainted and was lifted out over the piano wire
barrier to the street. Four policemen carried
her to the ambulsnAe station near the arch.
The great crowds on the stands stood up and
exclaimed in pity. LatAr the elatter OF am bu-
lances was 30 frequent that nobody paid any
attention to them.
POLICE LINES BRoKHH.
The crowd coming out from the park at
Twonty-slxth street broke the police lines
there again aud again. The policy there was to
give before them until they reached
tho middle OF the avenue and then
to turn them north and leave the
police up the avenue to pack them into the
sidewalks as best they could. There were. of
course. those who thought to try diplomacy
and strategy with the police instead Of force.
People In the crowd learned very soon that
people who bslongsdlin the FifthAvenus Hotel.
the Albemarle and the Hoffman House were
obliged to 20 In. After this was once UNDER
stood nearly every one who had an opportunity
to parey with q policeman said that he lived
In ono or the other OF those hotels. Collarisss.
low browed men with unwashed faces I'M
blushingly asserted that they had lived at the
Albomare for the past three months and that
II was an unconstitutional outrage to prevent
them from going there.
Receive your mail there7" many Of these
were asked: they always replied with great In
dignation that they did. But when they were
asked to exhibit an envelope addressed to them
ut tho hotel they retired with moro or less pro-
family. The police at Twenty-third street had
Just one anRwer TOR the people who said that
they belonged In tho Fifth Avenue Hotel. It
was: Twenty street entranee." It was
lots Of fun to see the faces fall when this way
70 entering the hotel WAS suggested.
Between the State stand and the municipal
stand on the east aide Of the avenue was an
open space. thirty feet or more wide. II had
been reserved for the FIRE patrol and for extra
squads OF policemen. There were no extra
squads Of policemen and tho fire patrol never
reached 1t. The space was open on the avenue
In front. At the back. Q single strand OF
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