The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1900-10-19

NAONh hOodgs Ills IcCSplIOH WdS
an emphatic ovation. AS the train
steamed into the annex of the Grand
Central depot that part of the i'm
mense building was packed with a
waiting multitude.
Colonel Bryan was driven to the
Hoffman house in an open carriage in
which he sat next to Richard Croker
and with uncovered head bowed and
smiled to the thousands who cheered
him. FOrty-Second street presented
an animated scene. From Lexington
avenue to Sixth avenue the sidewalks
were lined with the populace.
At 2:35 o'clock a loud cheer went up
and the ope carriages containing the
Tammany hall reception committee
rode to the annex. Three cheers for
Croker were given.
AS the time approached for the ar
rival of the train the reception COM
mittee started in to move further and
further alongside the track. Al this
point the police lines were made inef-
fectual by a regular football rush
While the reception committee was
waiting every possible inch of space
on the stair, at windows, platforms
and on the big bridges crossing the
depot were occupied. The narrow pas
sage way along the track was a mass
OF people when the engine of the Bry-
an train blew it's warning whistle.
Then came the mad scramble to reach
the rear car of the train in which Colo
mel Bryan was supposed to be. Mr..
Croker. Mr.. Hearst and the other MEM
beers of the reception committee tried
tn yra in a Identified r1annar toward
the train to greet the presidential can
didate, but the crowd was too great.
They were pushed and showed and
hustled along until they had almost to
break into a run before they could
swing themselves on to the rear plat
form and give Colonel Bryan greeting.
Meanwhile the crowd had worked
itself up to what it considered a proper
degree of enthusiasm. 1t cheered and
haIlooed, as Colonel Bryan stepped out
on the platform. Then, escorted by
Richard Croker and the committee he
began the journey toward the street.
A number of people grasped Colonel
Bryan'S hands, and the candidate
smiled good naturally through it all,
in spite of the fact that both he and
Mr.. Croker were being rather roughly
iOStIed about. AS he entered the open
carriage and took his seat Colonel
Bryan took his hat off and smiled and
bowed on every side.
Richard Croker sat next to him, while
Mr.. Hearst and Mr. Sheevln coupled
- the other two seats in the carriage.
1T took some time to clear a passage
way to FOrty-Second street. but it was
finally managed and then the carriages
in which the reception
embers were seated, started for the
Hoffman house.
Colonel Bryan ach the Hoffman
house. at 800 o'clock p m. All the
way down Fifth avenue, he was cheer
by the crowds that lined the thor
Oughfare. The demonstration as Colo
mel Bryan left his carriage and entered
the Twenty-siXth street entrance OF
the hotel was a repetition OF that al
all along the line. Colonel Bryan a
once went to his rooms.
4 few minutes later he received {
delegation from ST. Matthews Luther
an church., North Fifth street. BROOK
Iyn. Rev. Augustus Sommers, tn
pastor. presented him with a gold head
ed cane which had been won by Colo
mel Bryan in receiving the larges
number of votes at a fair held by IN
church. He made a speech of thanks
and then retired to rest before the ban
quet.
At MADISON SQUARE GARDEN
For hours before the time set for tn
opening of the doors. $50 O'CLOCK
Madison Square Garden, where Colone
Bryan and the ead of the state dem
ocratic ticket. John B. Stanchfield
spoke, was besieged by crowds
ThrOngS gathered and masSed befor
the two main entrances to the Dulld
ing on Fourth and Madison avenue
as early as , o'clock hoping to get L
when the doors were first opened
AT $50 o'clock to the minute tn
sound of exploding bombs outside Tn
garden announced the opening OF IN
doors. Instantly there was a grea
49, &hn ndfS
avenue hallway and from the Twenty
sixth street entrance, which, accord1n
to police arrangements, was to be keI
clear for ticket holders In the nrS
rush there were a few women VINO &c
seats near the speakers stand. In les
than ten minutes every seat on the noe
was taken and the crowd which ma
begun to pour in. from all sides, al
tacked the galleries. i n laue
saw the balcony and a part OF the ga
leries black with people. The rush wa
then over, but there came a stead
stream through the principal door
and all empty seats were soon filled
The crowd did not appear at first
be demOnstrative. When the hgh1
were all turned on there came a brit
cheer. The big semi-circular electr
cal display over the speakers stan
bore the portraits of the two dem,
cratic candidates, the Democratic en-
bIem and the democratic watchwor
credited to Mr.. Croker, w Wish
Remain Free People" in great lette
of light
Then the band struck up a nation
air, n as the people recognized va
kee Doodle they got up in their sea
with uncovered heads and as IN
waved thousands of small Amerlc'
flags shouted out the words of hes or
The garden was decorated in the n
tional colors only. Streamers radlat
from the center of the roof, undernea
the skylight to the heads OF the IT
pillars over the galleries and festoo
of flags with the colors of the diff
emit states lined the galleries. L
speakers stand was draped WI
American flags and red, white a
blue bunting.
As z o'clock approached, the nc
A when Colonel Bryan was expected
arrive, the crowd began to warm
The garden was damned. The pol
kept the aisles fairly we'll cleared a
pack of the gallery seats there was ]