New-York tribune., 1900-10-19
THE PASSING THRONG.

Il saw good. old-fashoned wedding party as
was leaving Washington last night" said Edward
Hazleton. of the capital city. at the
AN OLD Hotel Victoria yesterday. Il
FASHIONED standing in the railroad station
WEDDING waiting for the gate TO open TO so
PARTY. 20 my train. when I heard tre-
mendous blare OF tin horns. Think
ing II was football team something Of that
kind. l made my way toward the noise, but the
crowd too great Is It the Virginia team?'
asked a young at my elbow. Nav; it's de
bride an groom, he made answer. Say amt she
q peach? She was, my brief glimpse assured
ne buy Just then shower Of rice caught me fair
the time got back to earth the wedding party
tho newly married couple oame to New-York on my
train | was smoking cigar on the platform when
sG; dress suit crush nat and pair of light brown
spnte. led the procession Behind him came the
bridal couple, Ganked on either side and held re-
Of honor. In their rear the horn, eight feet in
!ens IN and borns on tho shoulders Of stalwart
blowing into II. II sounded like the foghorn a
That poor BRIDE and groom! He bore the exast
Expression OF q prisoner being led to execution.
Z the expression OF her face betrayed anything Of
heir, her thoughts IN some occult way she evidently
on He seemed TO he aware Of this. and it added
started. and, amid horn toots tears and cheers.
moved slowly out of the station. The platform
left behind looked as though It had been visited by
a snowstorm. 50 deeply was It covered with rice"
William T. Tully prominent lawyer and glass
manufacturer of Corning, n. Y. when seen the
Waldorf Astoria yesterday. said:
FROM Prosperity with in Corning and
BRYAN TO Western New-York continues un-
MKiNLEY. abated and the growth of busi
ness interests in the last four years
has been enormous. We have brick and terra
Gotta works in Corning that typical Of this.
In 1895 these works brick kilns.
Gotta ltilns and employed eishty-nine men, They
men Favored Brynn lia Now the works have eight
large brick kilns, eight large terra Gotta kns and
ployes or their payroIIs They held another meet,
g I raed e a @ f2F 4sd 1he h
fact that they were practically a unit for the Re
than four thousand majority for Mckinley in 1896.
Is al right 1t will do the proper thing this year
Western New-York be depended to give the
same me. Republican majority in 800 that 1t rolled up
Lafayette B. Gleason. who is IN charge of the
Republican speakers in the State campaign. when
seen at the Fifth Avenue Hotel
SPEAKERS yesterday said: 81 have been in
BUSY the speakers bureau since 1891
THROUGHOUT and during that time there have
THE STATE. never been IN any night
many speakers In New-York as
there are speaking tonight throughout the State
In this campaign the demand for speakers is simply
phenomenal and is twice what it was in 1896 We
week. They are speaking in the smaller towns and
IN nearly every city; They report without eNcep3
tlon that their meetings very largely attended
and that their audiences are uniformly euthusi-
a0tc. My judgment is that while Greater New
FORK will be carried at the polls by the Democrats
for Bryan, It viii be by greatly reduced majority
from that which Van Wyck secured over Roose-
welt IN the campaign for Governor in 1898. We shall
gain heavily in the Borough Of Manhattan and
viii carry Kings We viii also carry Erie. All our
reports from there most encoura ging. 1t is a
curious thing" commented Mr.. Gleason reflective
ly but the history of State campaigns shows that
Kings and Erie always vote alike. Mckinley and
Roosevelt will come to the Harlem Bridge with the
largest majority ever given in this State, with the
sole exception of that secured in 1896 and I
wouldn't be greatly surprised to that great
jority equalled State Committeeman McReynolds.
of Massachusetts,, here this afternoon and
predicted that his State would give practically
great majority for Mckinley and Roosevelt in
1900 as 1t did for Mckinley and Hobart in 1896. He
said that the Republicans would certainly gain one.
and possibly two. Congressman in Massachusetts