New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1900-10-27
SIXTEEN PARADE.S UNITE.
THEY MEET IN MADISON SQUARE AND
MARCH AROUND THE GARDEN.

Sixteen different parades marched to Madison
Square last night. and Joining forces swept around
the storm of colored fire which blazed from the
Gardens roof. The parades came from the re-
hottest parts of the great city, from Staten Island
the south and from the annexed district on the
north. AS the different divisions approached the
central at the Square along converging
streets, their columns easily distinguishable
by lines of Pickering torches and above the noise
of traffic the OF half hundred drums.
Though no eye could count the multitude, 1t is
estimated that not less than fifty thousand men
in line. The crowd the sidewalks facing
the Square greeted the paraders with various kinds
of welcome When transparency hove in sight
which especially trenchant in its wording.
some rebellious Democrat would fling back a
tort, which to be quickly drowned by
volIey OF cheers
A division which attracted great attention and
which was received with great enthusiasm all
along the route composed of seven thousand
Italian voters of the With Assembly District 1t
headed by Port Warden James March, the
Republican leader of the District This contingent
was viewed with especial by Tammany
lockers. because it had been recruited from the
very bed of CTokerism, where Tim Sullivan is
supposed TO the body and soul of every voter.
The Italians marched by irregular route from
their clubhouse at Spring and Marion SITS, to the
square.
The colored Republicans Of the xXVth Assembly
District approached the Garden along Fourth-ave.
This contingent headed by Sam" Moran on
a bay charger. The members Of the division were
in the height Of good spirit and sang and danced
with every big explosion OF fireworks. AS the
face of Governor Roosevelt blazed from a set
piece the Gardens walls. struck up the
song, Hello my baby" The melody ended in
more laughter than music
Perhaps the most picturesque part of the parade
was that taken by the divisions from The Bronx
which had come by train far the Grand Cen
trail station. then, marching down Fifth-ave..
had swung around through Twenty-third-st. into
Fourth-ave The column strung out nearly mile
The paraders carried transparencies, which
inscribed such legends as, Sink the Free
Silver Heresy Forever" Respect the Flag at
Home and Abroad" What is Croker? An English
except for his own pocket" Bryan lodges
Expansion in the West and Free Silver in the
East" Larger Foreign Trade Means Greater Pros
perity; EXPANSION Means Both" Vote for Patri-
Issue of the Democratic Party; All Others Are
Counterfeits,' mo Reputation; No So Cent Dol
The detachment from The Bronx was recruited
from from the X * and XXXVth Assembly dis
The group which was made up of the Richmond
districts marched up Broadway from Waveriey
at Of and the T Th V and
together. Republicans from the IXth and XIth
aRd Voters from the
H Setb XXth and Ky XVIII dIstTiGts marched to;
H 3aI DIST districts fGFWfd 2nStReT group GGn
districts marched down all the way from One-hun-
dred-an d-tenth-st; and Third-ave. From Fifty
Men from the X&3 2hd 1h and
Xxfs and XxIvth disfrict ' The Xth 'C %vth
gether. and the I'D WITH, With and XIIth formed
stu an, another group The Xxth District division
The whole management Of the different columns
by Il t,hiTtyithree aids The ability which the mar
universal praise