Midnight
He placed himself at the head and called out `` Forward . '' Hurstwood moved with the line . Across Fifth Avenue , through Madison Square by the winding paths , east on Twenty-third Street , and down Third Avenue wound the long , serpentine company . Midnight pedestrians and loiterers stopped and stared as the company passed . Chatting policemen , at various corners , stared indifferently or nodded to the leader , whom they had seen before . On Third Avenue they marched , a seemingly weary way , to Eighth Street , where there was a lodging-house , closed , apparently , for the night . They were expected , however .