New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-10-16
BRYAN ARRIVES TO-DAY.
CROKER PLANS A GRAND
POPOCRATTC HURRAH
DEVERTs GENTLENIANLY POLICE OR.
DERED OUT IN FORCE. AND THEY
MUST BE OH. so POLITE

Hlcnard Croker has arranged a welcome for
william Jennings Bryan in this citv TO-DAY
that VIII doubtless be remembered bv tba Darr-
Ocratc candidate as long as he lives Long
aIter ne mas retired to private life he win have
the satisfaction OF remembering the noisa N.
cheering, the red fire. the rockets the hundreds
OF mounted police. the banners and all the in
cidental hurrah and clamor OF the night % a.
tober l6. 1900 when he wanted 10 be President
Mr. Croker has caused to be ordered ont for
special duty for Bryan night 2,417 policemen
AS announced in The Tribune yesterday. the
whole affair Is dominated by one man and that
man is Richard Croker. II is Croker who will
meet Mr.. Bryan at the Grand Central Station
and share with him the honOrs and aDnIarsa
OF the ride to the Hoffman House Mr. croker
VIII sit at Mr.. Bryan's side at the magnificent
Ieast IN the Moorish Room at the Hoffman for
"hich the chef Of that hostIery has been d.
rected 10 spare no expense It viii be Mr
Croker. doubtless. who will propose the can1f-
oates health In wine that costs Sc bottle. and
II VIII be Mr.. Croker again who will take charge
OF Mr.. Bryan and see that he is properly es-
corted to Madison Square Garden. An in
qulries concerning the management OF the din
her and the meeting are referred to Mr. Croker
the same Mr. Croker who in 1898 talked and
worked for expansion. one Of the things which
Mr. Bryan will denounce tonight in hts
speeches
ELABORATE POLICE ARRANGEMENTS
Chief of Police Devery yesterday gave out the
ponce arrangements for tonight They exceed
IN elaborateness anything in police annals with
the sole exception Of the arraneements so- en-
Dewey parade
The police have been informed bv Mr. r,rot,a,
that Mr.. Bryan will arrive at the Grand Central
station at 200 O'Clock in the afternoon He win
De met there by Mr. Croker and a committee
which Will include among others Mavor Van
Wyck, W. r. Hearst. Coroner yucca sbar,ep
Grell Cord Meyer, President Cuggenheiner OF
the city Council. o. H. P. Belmont the Free
SILVER candidate for Congress in the XIIIth Dis
rrlst' Dr' John H Girdner. Hugh Mclaughlin
whose heutenants are under instructions 70 work
for Gold Democratic candidates. 9-as,s...t
Coogan OF Manhattan Borough: AdIai stava--
son. candidate for Vice-President and Webster
Davis. AT the Hoffman House Mr. BRYAN will
meet Edward NJ. Shepard. counsel for the Sugar
Irtst; Ex-Governor Stone Of Missouri Colonel
Moses Wetmore. Colonel "Joe" Rickev ard
others, who will be at the dinner. At the Hofg-
man House it is said that the dinner. at which
mayor Van Wyck will preside. will cost $50 a
plate. but Mr.. Croker denies this.
While Mr.. Bryan and Mr. Croker and ,hs,-
friends are dining twenty-six mounted patrol
men Will ride up and down In front OF the Hoeg
man House and around the side streets. This
Len wager Is quoted as saying yesterday. will
convince all the actresses out on parade ar that
time that they arc not the only pebbles on the
beach,
After Mr. Bryan leaves the Hoffman Houza
his progress around town may easily be traced
by the mounted and unmounted police, who have
been ordered TO wear new white gloves.
THE PROCESSION TO THE GARDEN
About p. m it is expected that Mr.. Brvan
and Mr.. Croker, with an escort Of civilians. in
eight carriages, will leave the Hoffman House
for Madison Square Garden. The mounted police
viii escort them. They will go up Fifth-ave to
Twenty-seventh-st and to the Twenty-seventh-
st. door Of the Garden. Both Twenty-seventh-
st. and Twentysixth-st. in front Of the Garden
will be kept clear by the police in order to allow
the noted guests to gain admission without
trouble. Those who have the box seats, which
are reserved viii also enter this way. The re-
served seats are only kept reserved until 4
p. m, and Mr.. Croker wishes il understood that
any one is entitled TO a seat after that hour
Deputy Chief Cortright will have charge OF
the police at the Garden. assisted by Inspector
Brooks. He will have under his command 10
captains. Is sergeants. 1S roundsmen and $50
patrOlmen About two hundred OF these men
will be In the Garden preserving order and as
slSlAH8 lile uSAeTS IN various ways
On the outside on reserve duty win be a
squad of mounted men. commanded BY 3
sergeants and IL roundsmen comprising
10 men. As 1t is expected that many viii
'ome to the Garden In cabs the mounted men
will keep the streets clear, ard as soon as pas
engers have alighted the cabmen will be com
,elled to drive away
In the Garden will be four telephone booths.
direct with Police Headquarters.
There VIII also be telephone booths at Tam
many Hall. Cooper Union and at the overflow
Meeting at Tventy-so -sourth-st. and Madison-ave
On each side of the Garden Will be a patrol
wagon and an ambulance ready for emergencies.
n the basement Of the Garden will be an emer-
;ency hospital ready TO treat all cases OF III
less. fainting, etc.
WILL BE COMPELLED TO LISTEN
Mr.. Croker says that no one will be allowed
o leave the Garden during Mr. Bryans speech.
he police will not allow II. II any man is silly
nough to want to go out he will doubtless have
number Of stats broken to use Tammany
xpression He will then he taken downstairs
o the emergency hospital. Mr.. Croker wants
understood that people who have their heads
roken will receive free treatment in the emer-
ency hospital
At Twenty-fourth-st. and Madison-ave. there
ill be a large stand erected for an overflow
leetng after Mr. Bryan mas spoken in the
arden. Mr. Bryan will be escorted to this
land by the mounted police and at the stand
lspector Thompson viii command five cap
.ins six sergeants. nine rOundsmen and $50
atrolmen There will be an ambulance and a
atroI wagon stationed there
When Mr.. Bryan has spoken there he viii
art for Tammany Hall. and viii go down
TO Fourth-ave. down Fourth
e. 10 Fourteenth-st. and so 10 the hall The