Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-11-03

it as well and better than the thousands
who were to march in the parade.
AS the barouche started off, surrounded
by an escort and led by mounted police, the
governor stood up to acknowledge the ap-
plauSe of the crowd.
1T seems to take something worse than
an ordinary rain storm to dampen sound
money crowd" he said as the procession
started from the exchange at 9:35 o'clock
lust twenty-five minutes behind the Sched-
uled time.
Gov. Roosevelt Cheered.
When Governor Roosevelt arrived at the
Battery there was prolonged cheering. He
was accompanied by First Vice President
Charles F. Homer Second Vice President
Frank Brainard and Secretary E. A. Drake
of the committee which had arranged to-
days demonstration The governor seemed
to be in excellent spirits, and bowed repeat
edly in acknowledgment of the applause.
The number of patrolmen guarding the
line of march for todays parade was 2,o's
OF this number 5lj were around the re-
viewing stand. These men will be in COM
mand of six inspectors, and all the deputy
chiefs We're along the line of march.
The immense crowds which were expect
ed to gather in and around the reviewing
stand in Madison Square early in the morn
ing had not appeared at 9:3O o'clock The
driZZlng rain which had fallen for hours
had soaked the seats in the stand and gave
the decorations q bedrag aggled appearance.
The committee in charge of the arrange
ments, hopeful of fine weather, had made
no preparations for adverse conditions, and
in consequence there was no means at hand
of erecting a Sheltering canopy over the
seats
Women in Reviewing Stand.
Platoons of police. in charge of captains
and inspectors We're early on the scene.
The first persons to take seats in the re-
viewing stands were women. Half a dozen
well-dressed women braved east wind and
arrived shortly before o'clock and took
seats under the shelter of tree around
which the stand was constructed.
Within less than a block of the spot
where the governor was to take his place
as reviewing officer was stretched one of
the many strips of muslin put up by Tam
many Hall, and bearing the words:
They may make me parade, but they
can't axe me vote against Bryan
This was stretched across 9TH avenue at
Goth street and. like all the others, was
guarded by policeman instructed to keep
any one from damaging it or tearing 1t
down.
AT 1910 am. the sounds Of music were
heard at the reviewing stand and several
blocks down 9TH avenue the head Of the
column was visible.
AT that time the big stand designed to
hold 5000 persons, contained less than
third of that number. The rain continued
10 Kan III 1lne, cold QrlZZle.
In the space reserved for the governor
were Benjamin B. Odell, Senator Scott of
West Virginia, Franklin Murphy General
John H. Brooke. Oscar s: Strauss, Charles
s. Fairchild, John D. Crimmins Charles
A. Schieren. John A. Mccall, General Fran
els V. Greene and others.
big banner was stretched in front of the
stand from street across to 20S 9TH ave-
nue., bearing President McKinley's words
to the late eX-Mayor Strong:
we know no class distinction In this fair
land of ours Col. Roosevelt reached the
stand at exactly II O'clock Cheers went
up along the line when he appeared He
stood in his carriage and waved his hat
right and left to the shouting throngs on
the curbs The governor. with his escort
hurried to the place on the stand A big
bunch of roses was handed to the governor
Governors Daughter There.
The governors daughter arrived at this
time and took a seat near her father who
discarded the chairs provided for him and
the other reviewing officers and stood
BY this time the first band, playing an
inspiring air, reached the stand. Behind it
was the wholesale dry goods men. The
vacant seats in the stands had rapidly filled
up and the long review of the huge com
merciai army commenced.
The men who filed past the stand. in a
quick-step barred their heads despite the
dripping rain, and the governor, in compli-
ment, did the same.
Hello, Teddy" Three cheers for our
next Vice President" You're all right ;,
We're the shouts that greeted Governor
Roosevelt.
The continuous cheering mingled with the
music of the bands and made a din at the
reviewing stand that drowned all other
sounds. few of the paraders carried UNI
brelIas, and these were generally lowered
when the governors box was being passed
The comparatively narrow opening in the
Dewey arch dlsorganiZed many of the COM
panies, and some of the lines were thrown
out of alignment Each parader wore in
his buttonhole carnatiOn, out of compi-
ment to President Mckinley whose favorte
flower it is
Some Saluta tiOnS that greeted the gov
ernor amused him immensely and he in
variably rewarded the men in line with a
hearty response.
The Dry Goods Division.
1t was exactly II o'clock when the last
of the wholesale dry goods men-the larg-
est body of marchers in the parade-passed
the reviewing stand. The rain had evil
IDENTIFY kept many men from participating
in the big demonstration.
The central dry goods division, marshaled
by General Joseph w. Congdon, reached
the stand at 12:15 o'clock. after the Cloth
liers Legion and the Merchant Tailors'
Sound Money League had passed. The
marshal's aids carried handsome blue
streamers and won much applause. Like
the other divisions, this organization used
megaphones to emphasize the cheers
"Hurrah for Roosevelt. First in Peace,
First in War and First in the Hearts of
his countrymen,' was the slogan of the
| central dry goods men.
One of the bands in this division played
the Star Spanged Banner" 1t was the
| first patriotic air to be played at this
| point of the parade, and it was loudly
cheered by the crowd.