Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1899-05-14

vicinity last night thoroughly demon
strated their entire sympathy with the
striking street railway employees
! The affair was a success from every
point of view, and those-and they were
many-who, for several days past fear
ed that some disorder might possibly
grow out of the affair, were entirely
disappointed, for no more orderly col
umn ever paraded the streets of Wheel
! ing upon any occasion, and none ever
met with a more satisfactory welcome
or was viewed with greater interest.
| Not only was very large proportion Of
the population of the city proper upon
! the streets, but the surrounding towns
sent in thousands of men, women and
children to swell the crowd, until the
streets in the central portion of the
city were absolutely impossible, SO far
as the sidewalks were concerned.
The hour set fer the start had been
fixed at eight o'clock, but it was about
twenty minutes past that time when
Chief Marshal Tighe, President Of the
Trades Assembly, who only arrived in
| the city yesterday from attendance up
on the wage conference at Pittsburg,
gave the~word of command, and the
mounted street car employees who head
ed that organization, with Police Lieu
! tenant Michaels, led the column from
Chapline street into Fourteenth and
thence to Market and north. Imme-
diately behind came Mayor Sweeney
and Labor Commissioner |. V. Barton,
| in carriage, then Chief Marshal Tighe
and his staff, Police Chief Clemans and
platoon of eight men, and then the
| big consolidated band of from eighty
/ to one hundred pieces, leading the strik-
ing street car men, and these were fol-
lowed by the first division, under COM
mand of William Wagner.
There were thousands OF people on
Chapline street and the various side
streets about and south ofthe City Hall,
where the parade formed, and also on
Fourteenth street, but the real crowd was
not struck until the column swung into
Market street for the march northward.
Between Fourteenth and Twelfth
! streets alone there were certainly four
or five thousand spectators, and the
lthoroughfare looked very gay with its
waving flags and suffering colored
fires. Almost every house was deco
rated with the national colors, some of
them profusely, and the sight was a
notable one until the column passed
out Of sight on its way to the upper end
CT the city.
Another picturesque scene was af-
| forded on Main street, north of
Twelfth, where the parade turned
east to Market street, on its
way south. The entire face of the
hill" was densely crowded with spec
tators, only leaving room for the
! column to squeeze along, and as the
street was made almost as light as
day by the illuminations from the
store fronts and the great quantity of
red fire burned the parade was here
seen, perhaps, to better advantage than
elsewhere. On Market street, south
from Twelfth to the creek, there was
repetition of the spectacle when the
parade passed north, and at times much
enthusiasm. Everything was very or
derby, however, the men in the column
combining themselves to occasional
cheers and to imitation college cries
of their sympathy for the strikers. 1t
was about nine o'clock when the
parade crossed the creek on it's way to
the South Side, and long after ten be-
fore it had covered the long route and
was disbanded at Trades Assembly hall
amid much cheering and mutual con-
graduation over the success achieved
Between a quarter and half past
nine, after the parade had gone south,
Market street, in the central portion of
! the city, presented a sight worth see
ing, the slowly moving multitude On
the sidewalks having been seldom if
ever, equalled, in point of numbers.
The people rapidly dispersed, however,
and by ten o'clock the streets had re-
sumed their usual Saturday night as
pect.
nc hallway NOAIpduy IdH cars
steadily. except while the parade was
actually passing.
FORMATION OF COLUMN.
The different trades unions began to
arrive as early as 1880 o'clock on Chap
line and intersecting streets, where
they reported to the chief marshal, and
were assigned to their proper positions
by the division marshals. 1t was about
500 o'clockuwhen Chief Marshal Tighe
gave the Oh. to march, and the
parade movedfn the following order:
Chief Marshal NJ r Tighe. Aides Thos j.
PaGden and n J. Duffy: AIDES l..
". Selvey. w c. Fading. P. l..
Mercer, ari Division Marshal
VIM Wagner. Mounted
Platoon of Police.
Union Bands.
FIRST DIVISION
Local Division No. 10S. Street
Car Workers.
Local Division No. 102, Street