The evening world., 1908-10-31
$4,000 MARCH IN
BUSINESS MEMS
TAFT PARADE
No Crowds Line the Streets
to Augment Their Own
Enthusiasm.
WEATHER COOLSARDOR
Few Cheers For Sherman and
Root as They Review the
Procession.
COOLSA RDOR

Between 5000 and GO.coo men, mer-
chants, clerks and statesmen. with a
small sprinklng of industrial workers
paraded up Broadway and Fifth avenue
to-day in a great Taft and sherman
demonstration. It was thoroughly
business-like campaign showing, admir-
ably handed. but it came far from
euualllng IN imp-cssiveness and size the
great Sound Money parade of 1876.
The estimate OF the number OF men in
line is made from the time taken' by
the paraders IN passing the reviewing
stand in Madison Square and the period
allotted by the managers OF the demon
stration for its continuance. In COM
men the marchers went by the review
Ing stand at the RAE or $500 an hour
Rear-Admiral Coghlan and the other
experts who arranged the details said
n the beginning OF the parade that 1t
would move for probably seven hours.
The cold. biting. westerly wind had a
shrinking effect upon the crowds. Ex-
cept at the grand stand at Madison
Square and at Fifth avenue and FortIeth
street, wher the parade turned west
ward to disperse. there was no conges-
ton Of spectators. All along other parts
OF Fifth avenue there was no difficulty
in passing along the sidewalks back Of
the spectators lined along the curb
Few were hardy enough to stand long
and look at the men marching by.
Furnish Own Enthusiasm.
The paraders furnished their own en-
thusiasm. There was none in the
crowds. Vice Presidential Candidate
Sherman and Secretary of State Root,
the representatives of the Administra-
ton in the reviewing stand, did not get
half n dozen cheers. Senator Chauncey
NJ. Depew was frequently recognized
and greeted by the marching thousands.
State Chairman Woodruff, muffed up
in big overcoat, was lost in the shuttle,
but got some recognition when the
Brooklyn delegation passed. s<.ional
Chairman Hitchcock reviewed the pa
rade from n window in his headquarters
The arrangements for the parade and
the gathering of the marchers were
perfect. The various divisions formed
in line In the side streets running into
Broadway from Worth street down to
the Battery. They fell into line and
marched uptown with military pre-
cision and according to a timetable
that was rigidly adhered to from the
time the first band struck out until the
Turkish bath rubbers closed up at the
end, they comprising the forty-third
division.
Some 5000 marched from Brooklyn
over the Brooklyn Bridge in the morn
ing and made brave showing with flags
waving and bands playing. They waited
in City Hall Park until their turn came
TO fall in line and kept warm with the
able aid OF numerous dspensaries OF
warmth and cheer In the neighborhood.
Accident Delays Root.
Secretary Root did not reach the re-
viewing stand until nearly O'Clock. lie
wrenched his right knee three weeks
ago and aggravated the injury this
morning by slipping on marble stair
way as he was leaving the Manhattan
Hotel. The services OF a surgeon were
necessary before he could take his place
with Mr.. Sherman and Cornelius N.
Bliss in the place of honor In the re-
viewing stand.
The parade. In itself, was a spectacle
of interest. Most of the men In line
were verging on middle age. \ majority
carried small American flags and wore
OF artificial sunfiowers
pinned to their coats. The younger men
carried horns and ratiles and made
plenty OF noise. One division OF the
wholesale dry goods delegation carried
papier mache big sticks" In the mill-
merry division there were a few women.
There were two reviewing stands be-
sids the big one in Madison Square. One
was erected In front of the Union League
Club. In Thirty ninth street. for the use
of members. the other In front OF the
Republican Club In Fortieth street. The
Union League Club stand was nearly
three times too large to accommodate
the fur-coated clubmen who utilized Il,
but the Republican Club stand was well
filed.
Stretched across Fifth avenue over the