seven o'clock
The fact that he will leave the city by train from the Union Depot is carefully suppressed , except in the two comparatively unimportant journals which advocate the election of the people 's candidate . But the managers of Trueman 's campaign have come to know what has to be combatted . Handbills are hurriedly printed and distributed in the late afternoon along State , Clark and Dearborn streets , and on the intersecting streets in the centre of the business locality . These hand-bills announce that Trueman will deliver his farewell speech to Chicagoans that night at seven o'clock at the Adams street Bridge . At six o'clock the crowds begin congregating ; they come from all sections of the city ; they are of every type , from the cowboy of the Stock Yards to the Street Railway Magnate . All are intent on hearing the captivating orator . Ten thousand people huddle in an area of five blocks .