Bryan morning eagle. [volume] (Bryan, Tex.) 1898-1909, 1903-09-09
LECIONS WERE in LINE
Greatest Observance of Labor Day
Ever Known.
THOUSANDS PARADE.
In Every Portion Of the Union the
Laborins People Had Process.
sions OF Greater Magni.
tude Than Ever.

New York. Sept. s-Never before Il
the history OF the United States hal
Labor day been more generally oh.
served than on Monday. From elite,
and towns throughout the length and
breadth OF the Union come reports OF
an almost total cessasion OF business
long lines OF trades unionists In pa.
rades and prominent men making ad.
dresses In several cities the process.
sions were extremely long and the
marchers In numerous instances uni.
formed.
President Roosevelt addressed fully
$4,000 people at Syracues. n. Y. There
were 5000 persons In the parade. In
the two parades at Boston about $4,000
persons took part.
Conditions were never better In THU
city than to-day FOR the celebration OF
Labor day. clear skies and cool breezes
giving idesi weather for parades. ex-
eursions and other outings and recrea-
lions.
Several large political outings were
arranged for the day and there were
many special events on the athletic
programme. The central feature of the
celebration In this city was the parade.
which took place In the morning. repre-
sentatives Of unions In the board OF
building trades marching under the
leadership OF Samuel Parks. walking
delegate of the Housesmlths' and
Bridgemen's union. Behind Parks and
his associates walking delegates came
an open carriage containing william
$. Devery, former chief OF police.
Parks u under conviction on charges
OF extorting $500 from a contractor for
calling on a strike. and was last week
released from Sing Sing pending APP
peal proceedings. His progress from
5sth street and Washington arch was
attended with cheering aud Kissing. APP
plause and jeers, insulting remarks
and plaudiis. At eight OF ten differ
ent points women standing al the curb
Kissed while Parks was passing and
then turned 20 cheering the rest OF the
parade. ON such occasions there was
cheering on one side u the avenue and
kissing ON the other
Al Chicago over 100000 people pa
raded Pittsburg turned out 10000. At
Cincinnati IL was the longest Labor dav
parade ever known there. At Cieve-
land. o.. the parade was a monster one
Three thousand turned out ut Little
Rock More than 5000 worklngmen
were in the Denver parade. Forty
thousand men were In the procession
al ST Louis and $1,000 at East st
Louis. Ten thousand men marched at
Milwaukee. birmingham. Ala. had the
longest parade IN the history Mobile,
Ala. had her greatest labor parade
Floats beautifully decorated and thou
sands OF uniformed men was the Labor
day feature az Louisville. Ky. Al In
dianapolls IL took two hours for the
procession to pass a given point Sam
uel Gompers spoke All departments
We're closed az Washington. Fully 80.
900 unionists were la line az New
Orleans. Five thousand men marched
at Atlanta. Ga. Every city In Penn
sylvania observed the day At Kan
sas City there were 10000 marchers
and AZ Detroit the parade was a long
one. The day az san Francisco was
celebrated with unprecedented enthus-
iasm. 90 600 people parading For the
first time Vicksburg Miss. had Labor
day parade.
Fifteen hundred men took part In
the parade az Fort Worth. At Dallas
II required a half hour FOR the process
sion 20 pass a given point. There were
about 1000 In line of march. At Gal
weston 1000 parnded
IN the parade nt TYLER there were
500 farmers and every labor union had
n large turnout
Thirty-scyen unions paraded M san
Antonio. there being over 5000 In line
Forty decorated floats were ln the Dem
ton parade. Houston celebrated the
day on a grand scale
All cities in Oklahoma aud the In
dian Territory duly observed tho day
Waco celebrated the day on an clab-
crate scale.