The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1902-11-28
YAMPS REOCCUpY BROADWAY.
WON'T nj NE ron ANYTHING
so NEW As ELECTRIC CARS.
Parade 10 tity Hall ami Drstrc! = Bushe'
Of Beef and" NJ Dollars ~ They
lscd 10 do sixty Years Ago
Through the uurraiiinE bOwcr!.

Through the IiurraiiinK Bower,
Headed 10y a military Land and HE New
York Letter carriers Fife, Drum and Bugle
Corps. tho members Of the uniformed cCil-
pany Uf the kNeinp, firc,utn's ASsocla-
ton paradsd down Broadway yes, erday
afternoon and after Icing photographed
Oh the steps Of ;le ity Hall had "a bean
banquet at Dolan'. restaurant on PaIa
row. oihey lien went Ia,i, to their head
quarters IN the jefferson Market building,
where they had a concert. They feiI some
what disappointed over the fact that a
moving picture machine man failed TO keep
an appointment TO | hotORray h them While
they were marching through ihc Washing
ton Arch
The youngest man in tie line WAS over
G3 Years Of age. The others ranged
all the way from that toH But nOtwilh-
standing their advanced ages hey all
marched in true military style, and not
a man dropped from lhe line until the
march came to an end,
The old fireinen assembled al 10 o clock
IN the morning at their headquarters and
then marched over to Washington 5 luare
prth, where they halted on Fifth avenue
and waited for the moving pict ure machine
man until almost O'Clock. Then the
grand marshal gave the signal 10 start.
and crossing to Waverley place to the
tune Of We've HANDLED" the hremen
swung into Broadway Some Of the motor
men on tho Broadway electric cars were
III hurry 10 get past the paradcrs, but the
vets held their ground and compelled the
mot ofmen to .lacken speed. Twice when
green motornan tried to press his car
through the line the vets treated him to
view. Of old New York. The vaInps spat
tobacco juice on the car tracks and squinted
aside at the grecnhorns, wiped their gray
boards and Strengthened up their shoulders.
II them ere cars git rear to Tim Doro-
van Tim'll boost EN- right of the rail"
remarked Peter Hickey, the Washington
Market butcher. Tim was a fighter in
his day. and although he's dong in the
70 he can lick any motornan in New
urk. Since he got into real estate ard
made half million he hasn't dore much
lighting, but those motornen better be
careful Tim uscd TO run with Is Hose aIG
les as strong as a lion yet
Al Bieecker street ex-Alderman Thomas
Clesry, who was III the line, stopped to
shake hands with an old friend who re-
menbered him when he was an engineer
IN rh" volunteer dcpar r1cnt fifty years ago.
Big Simon Steiner, the Washington
Market man who II often mist ken for AN
actor. was referred 10 along the line as
The Silver King. One Of the most re-
markabie men in line was George Cook
who is - years old and who priCes him
self on the fact that he has no gray hairs
and not a wrinkle in his face Fireman
Cook was ore of the vets who ob iered 10
getting gu, of tie way of anything 80 new
a. an electric car.
Darn , then, IN IN. carr he %, said they got to
Broadway on Oct. "a. 1872 with the
other boys Of IS Hose to celebrate Croton
water there was none Of them things on
Broadway. We always had Broadway
sixty years ago II only seems like YES
,erday. What is sixty years. There are
lots If ,ls still alive and in good health
who paraded through Broadway seventy
years ago. Pshaw!'
Another of the oldtimers frequently
greeted along the line was John SidalI sec
rotary Of the Second New York Fire Zouaves.
Sidell marched side by side with Capt Mat
Stewart TO battle IN the 'eOs when the
tremen formed regiment to help quell the
Rebellion.
John Il Plat. glass manufacturer. who
has not missed a parade of his CINE COM
panv in over fifty years. was also there,
Mullen.
LARRY Dalton. with his famous trumpet,
ma rched al the head Of the line, and though
bent with age, sidestepped and backed like
a boy of twenty when marshalling the men
around a street corner. James Dunphey,
whose son has been To Congress. was in line
with those famous vets, Jim Money and
Robert Mooney
The drum major of the Letter Carriers
Fife, Drum and Bugle Corps. o. F. Green,
Won much applause by throwing his baton
in the air and catching it again lille parad-
letter carrier a,tached to the Madison Square
station.
After marching down around the Post
Office ard into Park row the fire laddies
crossed into City Hall Park, where they left
their old machine and assembled in a
group on III" steps Of tho City Hall Here
they waited while a committee went after
Johnny Meehan, whose uncle. Patrick Dolan,
established the custom of blowing the fire.
men of" to beef and beans on every parade
Mr.. Mcehan was escorted to the top Of the
City Hall steps and posed with the men In
uniform for half dozen photographers who
had their cameras ready
When the fremen had been photographed
they formed in line again and, headed by
the fife and drum corps. crossed the sub
way by wooden footbridge, which the
contractors had built especially, opposite
the Pos, Office
Then while the musicians played popular
melodies the vets, among whom were sew
eral mllionaires. piled into Dolan's restau-
ran, and dried on beef and" In the res
taurant Mr. Hickey made a speech In re-
Spouse to one made by Mr. Ncehan. After
leans the musicians played popular airs,
while crowd Of 5000 men and women
blocked Park row trying to find out what
was the matter
Again the fircmcn formed in lire and pa
radod back To their headquarters On
their return they marched through the
Bowery. which hurrahed for them all along
the line. They took Meehan back to their
headquarters a. their special guest and there
were more spccchmaking, storytelling, music
ard liquid refreshments.
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