Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1900-10-17
THOUSANDS GREETED
Mr.. BRYAN UPON HIS
ARRIVAL IN NEW YORK.
POLICE LINES BROKEN DOWN BY
THE CHEERING LINES OF AD-
MIXERS.
THE RECEPTION COMMITTEE
WAS ALMOST BLOCKED OUT,
so DENSE WAS THE CROWD AND SO
ANXIOUS TO SEE THE NEXT
PRESIDENT.
BETwEEN CHEERING LINES
HE VAS DRIVEN TO HOFF-
MAN HOUSE, HIS HAT CON-
STANTLY IN THE AIR.

NEW YORK, October 16.-William J.
Bryan arrived in this city ait 2:55 O'Clock
to-day.
The reception was an emphatic ova-
ton
AS the train steamed into Inc annex
of the Grand Central depot, that part
of the immense 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.
Fonty-second street presented an an
imated scene. From Lexington ave-
nue., on one side, to Sixth avenue, on
the other, the sidewalks were lined with
the populace.
About 2 O'Clock Captain Price, of the
Grand Central station, began to take
active measures to open a ~passageway
for THE Tammany Hall reception com
mGttee TO the depot. A squad of twenty
mounted policemen cleared Forty-sec-
ond street, and about sixty more mount
ed policemen, under Captain Price,
marched to the annex and established
police lines, beyond which the curious
could not go.
up and the open carriages containing
lie Tammany Hall reception COMMIT
tee rode to the annex. William R. Hearst
led the way, followed by Richard Gro
ker, 0. H. P. Belmont, president of the
borough; James Coogan, James Shev-
lin, Lewis Nixon, Lawrence Delmour
and about a dozen others. Three cheers
for Croker were given.
AS the time approached for the ar
rival of the train the reception COM
mittee started in to 10Y further, and
further alongside the track. At this
point the police lines were made inef-
fectual By
A a.enlar Football Rush.
While the reception committee was
waiting, every possible inch of space,
on stairs, at windows, platforms and
on the big bridges crossing the depot
was occupied. The narrow passage
way along the tracks was a mass of
people when the engine of the Bryan
train blew its warning whistle. Then
came the mad scramble to reach the
rear car of the train, in which Col.
Bryan was supposed to be. Mr.. Gro
ker, Mr.. Hearst, and the other mem
bers Of the reception committee tried
to walk in a dignifed manner 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 Col. Bryan greeting.
Meanwhile the crowd had worked it
self up to what it considered a proper
degree Of enthusiasm. 1t cheered and
hallooed a Mr.. Bryan stepped out on
the platform. Then escorted by Rich
ard Croker and the committee, he be-
a the journey toward the street. A
number of people grasped Col. Bryan's
hands, the candidate smiled good
naturally through it all, in spite of the
fact that both he and Mr.. Croker were
being rather roughly jostled about. AS
he entered the open carriage and took
his seat, Col. Bryan took off his hat
and smiled and bowed on every side.
Richard Croker sat next to him, while
Mr.. Hearst and Mr.. Shevlin occupied
the other two seats in the carriage. 1t
took some time
To Clear a Passage Way
to Forty-second street. but it was final
ly managed, and then the carriages in
which were the reception committee
members started for the Hoffman
House.
The party drove through Forty-sec-
ond street to Fifth avenue, and then
down to the Hoffman House.
Col. Bryan reached the Hoffman
House at. 800 p. m. All the way down
Fifth avenue he was cheered by the
crowds that lined the thoroughfare.
The demonstration as Col. Bryan left
his carriage and entered the Twenty
sixth street entrance of the hotel. was
a repetition of that along the line.
Col. Bryan at once went to his rooms.
A few minutes later he received a dele
cation from st. Matthews Lutheran
church, North Fifth street, Brooklyn.
Rev. Augustus Sommers, the pastor,
presented him(with a gold headed cane
which had been won by Col. Bryan in