New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-10-26
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
PLANS FOR THE BIG SOUND MONEY DEM
oNSTRATIoN NEARING COMPLETION.

General Arson G. McCook. grand marshal of
the great Sound Money parade. which takes
| place a week from tomorrow, has received APP
plications from thirty-three clubs representing
one hundred and thirty thousand marchers. 1t
| is thought that this number will reach one hun
dred and fifty thousand when seven more clubs
shall have reported. An expert on such affairs
! predicted that one hundred and sixty thousand
men would take part in the mighty procession.
At Republican headquarters, in the Fifth Ave-
ssnue Hotel, meeting of the Executive Commit
Pee will be held this evening. Final adjustment
of club places in the line will be made and final
orders will be sent out on Monday Edward A.
Drake secretary of the Business Mems Republi-
can and Sound Money Association. had quiet
day yesterday. Only one organization the Build
ing Materials Manufacturing Club, with a
marching number of five hundred, applied for
permission to parade.
Governor Roosevelt is to arrive at Jersey City
from his tour through the Eastern States at
O'Clock on the morning of the day of the parade.
A committee viii meet him at the train and
escort him to the Lawyers Club, at No. 12O
Broadway, for breakfast At $50 o'clock the
Governors carriage is to be met at Bowling
Green by Arson g. McCook, the grand marshal
of the parade; Colonel A. Noel Brakeman, chief
of staff and Major George DeForest Barton
chief of aids This mounted escort which will
be drawn UP between Morris-st. and Battery
Place. will number fifty men.
The escort will start from Bowling Green
passing up Broadway to Worth-st.. where the
parade proper will start The line of march
from Worth-st. will be through the Washington
Arch to the reviewing stand, where the Gov
ernor will leave his carriage. The parade will
continue up Fifth-ave to Fortieth-st. There the
clubs will disband.
1t has been estimated that with 1890 men
passing the stand every hour, 1t will take eight
hours or more for the whole procession to pass
a given point If the Governor becomes fatigued
he may rest at the Republican headquarters,
which are opposite the reviewing stand
Over two hundred bands have been engaged,
in addition to many fife and drum corps. The
22d Regiment band will head the parade
The drygoods men will take first place in the
line. Their marshal, William Z. Webb will
command forty thousand men, in five divisions
central division of the club comprising fifteen
thousand men. The drygoods men will carry
canes with silk flags attached.
r. The Coffee Exchange and Lower Wall Street
Business Mems Sound Money Club will turn out
three thousand men. A handsome banner of silk
and gold foil, costing $500, will be carried. They
Will march behind the 47th and 23d Regiment
bands.
The Lawyers Sound Money Campaign Club
will have three thousand in a line of ten bat
talions John G. Carlisle is president of the club.
The Leaf Tobacco Trade Sound Money Asso-
citation, under Darius Ferry as marshal Will
have twenty five hundred men in line The
Mckinley and Roosevelt Telegraph League will
not he strongly represented 1t was said at the
Leagues Headquarters, at No. 30 Broadway,
that the small number to be in line is due to the
parade itself, a large. force of telegraphers
Will be necessary to send the news of the big
Representation throughout the country.