The Saint Paul globe., 1900-06-19
WOKE THE OLD TOWN UP.
PhiIadeIphfans viewed Parade of
Clubs as They Would a Funeral.

PhiIadeIphians Viewed Parade of
Clubs as They Would a Funeral.
PHILADELPHIA, June 1S-Five miles
Of clubs, mounted on foot, by coach,
floats and in carriages, interspersed with
music, red fire and cakewalk, is the
shortest way of describing the turn out
OF the visiting and local political clubs in
this city tonight.
Those who have been complaining for
the past two days of the unusual quietude
preceding the meeting of a national con-
vention must have reflected tonight that
they criticised too soon. Those who have
attended previous demonstrations in con-
nection with similar occasions liken that
Of tonight to the great turn out of clubs
in Chicago that was reviewed by Blaine
and Logan preceding the election in 1884.
The police had prepared for the dem
onstration of tonight by roping Broad
street early in the afternoon, carrying out
the Washington idea of clearing Pennsyl-
vania avenue for parade purposes. 1t was
a wise forethought, for before dusk Phil
adelphia's appropriately named thorough
fare was mass of humanity, which
tugged at the cables like an ocean liner.
The entire line of march was q crash,
but that section of the street between
the city hall and the Hotel Walton was
conspicuously animated. 1t was in this
section that there was the greatest and
most artistic arrangement and display
of electric light. The south facade of
the city hall was outlined by strings of
tncandescent bulbs which looked like IL
Illuminated beads. Ropes Of similar lights
extended from either side aof the building
to the summit of the lofty DOME .termi-
mating at the base of thedPenn statue.
For an hour before the head of the
column came in view at the variant point
e H. 49, fH01N 49, no.
sands who lined either cside of Broad
street, and who occupied every window
from the ground line to the top, waited
good humOredly. In part this was due
to their control bysthe police. 1t has
been many years since the police of Phil
adelphia have been called eupon to handle
such banks of humanity as it confronted
tonight Before the column came in sight
the street cars on the various intersecu-
ing lines were permitted to- break through
the lines at intervals of fifteen minutes.
To do this the policeEhad to unfasten the
ropes at these intersecting points. In
opening the way the poPulace persisted
in holding the cable taut until the police
forced the grip upon it. When the way
was opened groups of humanity made
rushes to cross the street, and in some
instances succeeded. It was here that
the police showed their firmness, and, in
finally controlling the impatient crush,
they did 1t without hitting a head or
causing, except In isolated cases, any feel
ing of resentment. Visitors from cities
where the police have great crowds to
handle We're profuse in praise of Phil
adelphias police tonight
An amusing feature of the parade and,
by the way, an innovation, was an In
terlarded, cakewalk sin, the column. The
characters were colored men, women and
children, attired in costume made the
more attractive by torches of red fire. 80
In the pre-arrangement Of tonight's
parade 1t had been decided, in spite of an
expressed sentiment by many of the
clubs, to permit nothing in the line an
tagonistic to civil service. At one time
a determination by some of the clubs
to accentuate anti-civil service threaten
ed to breed bad feeling, and the commit
tee in charge succeeded in eliminating
what 1t considered an Objectionable fea-
ture. There were, however, two viola
ttons of the order On one transparency,
mounted on a wagon, was this motto:
The civil service law disqualifies all
over the age of forty-fve.'
On another, carried by club on foot,
was this:
1--WE are opposed to the civil service
law because it is un-American
The only demonstration in the line in
behalf of a vice presidential candidate
was the display by one club of twenty
streamers, on which "Dolliver'' was
painted in big letters.
The parade was divided into eight di-
visions, in which there were more than
eighty local clubs and about twenty Wis
iting political organizations. The out
of-town clubs were scattered through the
eight sections and were escorted by the
club which was assigned to entertain the
visiting clubmen. The. Unconditional
club, of Albany, N Y, was the only Wis
iting organization in the first division,
and was escorted by the Twenty-first
Ward association.
The famous Cook County Republican
Marching Club of Chicago, the Young
Mems Republican Tariff Club of Pitts
burg, the William j. Sewell Association.
of Camden, N. j., and the Atlantic City
On. j. Business Mems league occupied
positions in the second division.
The first visiting club in the third d.
vision was the Westchester Club of
Westchester, Pa. In this division also
was the Union League of Delaware Coun-
ty, Pa.
The William R. Leeds club, of this
city, escorted the Young Mems Blaine
Club Of Cincinnati, at the head of the
Young Mems Republican Club of Will
mington. Del, and the Afro-American
League of Delaware.
In the sixth division We're the Hamilton
Club of Chicago, escorted by the Young
Republican club, of this city; the NC
Kinley Neighbors,' from Canton, O.,
and the Louis P. Scott Third Ward Re
publican Club of Atlantic City, N. J.,
the Blaine Invincibles of Washington, D.
c., the w. Calvin Chase Club of Wash
ington, D. c., the M. L. Parker Club of
Washington, D. c., and the George H.
Harris Association of Atlantic City,
N. J.
The j. Edward Addicks Club of Will
mington, Del, the Cameron County Club
of Emporium, Pa, led the Seventh di-
vision. The well known Tippecanoe Club
of Cleveland, o., was also in this di-
vision.
In the eighth division was the Colora-
do-Philadelphia Club of Denver, headed
by the George w. Cook zouave Fife and
Drum corps. also of ffDenTer.
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