The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-10-23

Through Maryiand-Men, Women,
Through the Dense Throngs to
Grasp HIS Hauds-The Police Swept
Away by Enthusiastic Admirers.
William J. Bryan candidate of the peo-
pie of the United States for the office of
President of the United States, arrived In
Washington at 1856 o'clock this morning
and left at o'clock this morning. He was
greeted as he entered the Capital and sa-
luted as he left il by surging. struggling,
shrieking, crushing crowds.
In the great and deep emotion that
swayed the throng there were many in
stances where the enthusiasm Of men and
women seemed to take the form of almost
hysteria, ecstasy, or frenzy. Men and
women in the human jam begged and
pleaded for chance to see the Democratic
nominee. Women and short men were lift
ed from the ground that they might see
Mr. Bryan Children were held aloft that
in the after years they might tell of what
they saw. People pushed and pressed and
almost fought to get near their leader
actually struggled that they might but
touch his hand or coat. Many wild scenes,
very strange in Washington, were pre-
sented.
Mr.. Bryan ate breakfast with Judge Will
liam NJ. Springer an Representative in
Congress from Illinois, at his home, As
utes at the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
station.
The Chesapeake and Ohio train from the
West, to which Mr.. Brvan's private car
was coupled, was due to arrive at the
Pennsylvania Station a few minutes be-
fore o'clock. Earlier than this hour
little knots of people were moving through
the quiet streets toward the station. A
conspicuous feature of the early morning
was bright and perfect rainbow which
arched over the city to the west It was
visible from o'clock to about 6:30 A
few minutes after O'Clock squads OF po-
lice from all the precincts in the Police
Department began to arrive at the rail-
road station, reporting to Acting Lieuten-
ant Byrnes.
His Train Late.
The first information obtained by the
early-comers at the station that Mr. Bry-
ans train was an hour behind time, but
would probably make up of this about
ten minutes, and would reach the city at
ESQ. AS the station clock counted the
seconds, the crowd grew. Bryan badges,
Bryan buttons and various Democratic
campaign insignia made little patches of
light everywhere about the station ard
the nearby streets.
The question was asked hundreds of
times, When will Bryan be here?'' and the
answer was as often made He is an hour
late" From the steadily growing crowd
and out of the bHzz and hum of voices the
only words that were distinctly audible
were, When will Bryan be here?' and
He is an hour late
AS early local trains rolled into the sta
ticn, the crowd pressed hard against the
tall iron railing which cuts a vestibule at
the north end of the train shed, in expec-
tation that the man they waited for might
be on board. Then squads of bluecoats
would dig their way into the mass of hu-
mankind and burrow lane through it
that incoming passengers might pass out
Representatives of the various varieties
of Democracy in the District appeared on
time. Murray Vandiyer, Chairman of the
State Central Democratic Committee of
Maryland, and delegation from Baltimore
were at the station. Local Democrats of
prominence and Marylanders commfngled
and brought pressure TO bear upon Station
master Pushaw to admit them to the plat
form of the train shed. This impromptu
reception committee then went to the
south end of the station to await the COM
ing of the train.
Among the BaItimoreans on the platform
were Murray Vandiver, s 6 Fields, W. c.
Peake, W. F. Porter, and DR.. NJ. G. Elzey.
Among the Washingtontans were George
NJ Jesse, Assistant Secretary of the Demo-
cratic Congressional Committee; William
Dickson, ]. C. Newman, Charles ". Slater,
John G. Slater, and Ike Hill.
1t was nearly o'clock when some one
saw locomotive and a string of yellow
cars grinding around the curve at Mary
land Avenue and Sixth Street Some one
cried, Here he comes," This cry was
taken up by others and it swelled into a
roar that drowned the sound Of the puff
ing, painting, sizzling engine.
Througs and TumuItuous Cheers.
Men were running in the direction of the
track down which the train was coming
Railroad employees seemed as wildly agi-
tated as the rest. They, in their blue jean
suits, could be seen running here and
there, all yelling that Bryan was coming
Many men leaped the fence that divides
the railroad tracks from the bed of Sixth
Street.
By the time the Chesapeake and Ohio
engine 129 ran under the south end, OF the
shed great crowd had collected The
engine steamed past. then an Adams Ex-
press car. postal car combination car.
day coach 5S7, and sieepers Rappahannock,
Mario, and Blenheim rolled slowly by. The
crowd was rushing, running, to the rear of
the train. The end car was decorated with
wind-torn, rain-stained, and grimy bunt-
ing. The crowd ran madly to the rear Of