People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1894 — UNDER ESCORT. [ARTICLE]

UNDER ESCORT.

Toilers Wclcom. Cox.y’s Array to Allegheny, Pa. Pittsburgh, Pa., April s.—Coxey’s army reached here Tuesday afternoon. It was met by 1,000 men of the Iron Workers’, Cornice Workers’ and Bakers’ unions, who escorted it into town. All of the other receptions pale into insignificance beside this one. So great was the crush that it was only by sending Jesse Coxey and his plunging stallion on ahead that the army was able to force a passage. The police could do nothing. Every officer in Pittsburgh, from Chief O’Mara down, was on duty Tuesday, but they were swept away and lost in the crush When the camping ground at the Allegheny ball park was reached the crowd of sight Seers began to swarm into the inclosure and the actual army was being lost sight of in the crowd. By main force Police Captain Murphy managed to shut the gate upon onehalf of the commonweal, then snatching a club from one of his men he rallied his demoralized force and led a charge. After ten minutes «"»ce was cleared to allow the rest of tr- u nny to pass in. No sooner had th last man entered than the crowd made another rush and shut out the commissary wagons. It took thirty minutes to get the last army vehicle inside the gates. The march from Sewickley to Allegheny was a good deal longer than the army schedule: It was put down for 11 miles, but the route taken made it over 10. All the way from Sewickley the streets were lined with crowds. Every schoolhouse on the route was flying its flag. As a rule the scholars lined the sidewalk and cheered the army. Many of the houses were decorated. The friendly feeling existing towards the army was shown by continual gifts of provisions. As a rule these were in small amounts, but they helped out a good deal at lunch time. The army is steadily growing in size. None of those big crowds of recruits have materialized, but from seventyeight men a week ago the commonweal has swelled to nearly 500. St. Louis, April s. —Gen. Frye’s army of unemployed workmen arrived at Jefferson barracks from Poplar Bluff at 7 o’clock Tuesday morning and is now camped at the railroad yards at Ivory station. The army presented a picturesque sight as the train pulled into the Jefferson barracks station. The commonwealers were all out on the tops of the box cars, many of them dressed in blankets to ward off the cold, for which they were unprepared. There, were eighteen cars on the train, some of them loaded with cattle. Over the car in which was Gen. Frye’s headquarters was floated the American flag. Old glory was saluted by a company of U nited States regulars as the train came to a stand before the barracks platform. These regulars had orders to prevent Frye’s men from getting off their train and their orders were carried out. There were 600 men in Frye’s army and they appeared to be well disciplined and respectable. The train was sidetracked under direction of Police Captain Boyd, who was present with a squad of twenty men. The army expects to remain here two days, when it will go to Cincinnati