The evening times., 1900-10-18
TO CLOSE THE CAMPAIGN.
Bryan Celebration From Sea to Sea
on OctGber ct.

Octeber 1T.
NEW YORK, Oct. 18.-Mr. Bryan, ex-
Senator Hill. and W. Bourke Cochran will
speak from the same platform in Madison
Square Garden on the night of October II.
Mr.. Bryan returns to this city on that date
from his tour of the State.
c'he presence Of the three foremost ora
tors in the Democratic ranks on the same
platform viii be one of the remarkable
features Of series of mass meetings which
promise to even eclipse the Bryan recep-
tion Of Tuesday night
1t will be the first time that the leaders
of the different divisions of the Democracy
have come together. Mr.. Hill as leader of
the old inc Democracy and Mr.. Cochran
representing the Gold Democrats have not
spoken in Manhattan during the campaign.
tlie meeting in Madison Square Garden
Will be one of six that will be held in the
city thaG night under the auspices OF the
National Association of Democratic Clubs
These meetings will be national In char
actei' and will be participated in by Demo-
cratic clubs from many States. Special
trains will bring the members of the clubs
to this city.
In all Of the large cities from the Allan
tic TO the Pacific mass meetings under the
direction of the National Association will
be held simultaneously with those in New
York There are between 10, 600 and L, 900
clubs in the association and about 1000, 600
members. Every little town In the eoun-
try has at least one of these clubs and
every one OF them viii have a meeting and
a pyrotechnical display that night.
AT TIE hour the meetings begin, 8 p m,
cannon salute will be fired in cities on
& line east and west between New York
and San Francisco, and the boom of the
detonations will be heard all the way
across the Continent.
AT the same instant illuminations will
be made high IN the heavens at intervals
close enough to make line of fire 5000
miles long from ocean to ocean.
Besides the meeting in Madison Square
Garden there VIII be two meetings in
Madison Square Park, one of the stands
being at the Worth monument and the
other the east side of the party at
Twentyfourth Street.
In Cooper Union there viii be fourth
meeting under the direction of the Ger
man branch of the Association of Demo-
cratic Clubs. This meeting will be ad-
dressed by several of the leading German
americans of the tcountry
Outside Of Cooper Union there will be
an overflow meeting, which will also be
addressed by German orators.
N the Broadway Athletic Club there
VIII be meeting for Italian Democrats.
TIE interior of the club VIII be arranged
to furnish seats for a crowd of 1900
Only Italians will be admitted at this
meeting.
Mr. Bryan will not only address the
Madison Square Garden meeting, but he
viii also speak to the Germans in Cooper
Union and to the Italians in the Broadway
Athletic Club.
A feature of the mass meetings will
be electrical and pyrotechItca1 displays.
Square ard from the tower and roof Of
the Garden viii be on a scale which his
never before been attempted in this
country.
The electrical display in and out Of
the Garden will also be made on an eI-
traordtnaTy scale. The two stands IN the
park will be illuminated by $500 vari-
coIored incandeseents. and the whole
square viii be made brilliant by laby-
rinthian festoons Of electric lights
AS d preliminary 10 the Events of Oc-
tober q, which are intended to make the
close of the national campaign in this
State the most memorable in The history
of the country, the tower of Madison
Square Garden was Illuminated from top
10 bottom last night. The illumination
will be continued every night until O5to-
Der 81 with the exception of the night OF
the 26th when the Roosevelt demonstra-
tion is to take place.
There will he many speakers of proIni-
nence aside from Bryan. Hill, and Cock
ran at the October 81 meeting One of
them viii be United States Senator We'll
ington, OF Maryland a Republican. who
is supporting Bryan. he will make his
first appearance in New York on that
night in this campaign. Webster Davis
viii be one Of the English-speaking ora
tors at the Cooper Union meeting.