The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1928-11-02
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CHEER AL IN
GOTHAM RIDE
Hundreds of frenzied, Mill
ing Thousands See
Nominee.
CROWDS BRAVE RAIN
Streets Are Packed by
AppIauding Humanity
for Parade.
CROWDS BRAVE RAIN
BY PAUL r. MALLON
United Press staff Correspondent

NEW YORK, Nov. New York
cheered, screamed and fought today
over the man that had made its
sidewalks" a legend in a presi-
dental campaign.
1t turned out by hundreds of
frenzied, milling thousands to greet
as only New York can-Alfred E.
Smith in a noon-hour parade up
Broadway and Fifth Avenue.
Men, women and children forgot
lunch. They jammed the sidewalks
that Smith made famous.
They hailed the Governor us
president AL" They showered tape.
They sang.
And they battered a little group
sent out by the national woman's
party to talk anti-Smith talk in the
midst of the Smith delirium.
Something New in New York
Perhaps nothing like it had ever
been seen before.
Through it all, from the Battery
to city hall, and thence to Fifth
avenue and Fifty-ninth street.
Smith rode, sitting on the folded
back top of an automobile smiling
and waving his brown derby.
The Governor was preceded by a
band and mounted police. He was
followed by other cars bearing not
ables and by thousands that broke
through police lines to cheer him on
From the Battery to Twenty-third
street to Fifty-ninth street, along
Fifth avenue, the sidewalks held
cheering humanity packed from
buildings to beyond curbings.
All these people braved a slight
drizzle and chill air to pay their
tribute.
Others hung fro mskyscraper win
dows, hurting ticker tape and con-
fetti down upon the open car.
Thousands Cheer Governor
Smith half sat, half stood, waving
his brown derby this way and that
to his "neighbors." ;"
Literally thousands sought van
tage points on copings.
For more than an hour before the
parade left the Battery, the crowds
gathered to glimpse the Governor.
When his car swung along West
street into Broadway at the start,
steamship whistles shrieked\a well
come.
Beside the Governor sat Mrs.
Smith, smiling and occasionally
waving.
A band, perched on two double
deck buses, headed the procession.
Then followed a truck with pho
tographers.
Then came the Governors car,
followed by perhaps thirty more, all
filed with Democratic leaders, state
candidates and friends of the Gov
ernor.
Dence Mass of Humans
AS far as the eye could see Broad
way was a dense mass of yelling
humans. There hardly was room
for the Smith car to push through
Ticker tape dropped, festooned, and
hung, entangled with other tape
thrown from opposite buildings.
When the procession passed city
hall, where a plaza allows more
standing room, thousands were
gathered, waving arms, yelling and
singing. The brown derby, waved at
arms length, was Smiths reply at
Fifth avenue and Fifty-Ninth street
There Smith was gretted by thou
sands who had stood waiting more
than an hour in drizzle and rain
They cheered and blew horns. Scores
waved and yelled from windows Of
the Plaza hotel.
The band drew up at one side OF
the street and played Sidewalks
while Smiths car turned off into
Central park. The crowd started
to follow the car.
AS a ruSe, a machine bearing
Franklin d. Roosevelt, Democratic
nominee for Governor, shot along
side ard took another route to di-
vert the following.
The crowd, pursuing Roosevelt,
was not long in discovering its err
ror. 1t stopped short, cheered Roose-
velt, and then ran after Smith
again.
At this juncture police motor
cycle escort appeared and with this
on either side Smiths car sped to
the Biltmore hotel, where the Gov
ernOr resides while in New York.