The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-10-09
THE NEWS IN THE CITY.
II ow the People Watched and Waited for Elec.
ton Returns-The Feeling at the Hotels
and on the streets-About the
Newspaper Offices.

An interest or very intense order, in n0wise par.
taking of the nature OF enthusiasm pervaded almost
all classes of citizens in New York yesterday regard
ing the result Of the elections In Pennsylvania,
Ohio and Indiana. or course, the great anxiety
was centred In the Keystone state as being the
index which most definitely pointed to the fateful
ides OF November. All day long the question was
passed from lip to lip, "Well! what is the news
from Pennsylvania" and this Notwithstanding the
fact that years of experience must have taughc
almost everybody that no definite or even fairly
approximate results can be obtained regarding any
election until after shutdown. But the query was
mooted, nevertheless, because 1t the uppermost
question IN the minds Of men, and their interest
concerning 1t was so deep that
EVEN A CARELESS OPINION,
for lack OF positive news, was handed around as
something upon which to hang an idea. The after
noon editions of the newspapers were bought mp
greedy on street corners and in the cars, In spite
of the fact that about the only information they
could possibly contain was the usual commonplace,
Everything is very quiet at the polls, and the In
dcations are that heavy vote will be cast" Red
dy the Blacksmith was intensely interested ON
learning the fact that he was arrested in Philadel-
pha about noon for having voted illegally three
times in one ward OF the Quaker City. Mr.. varley
was In the Fourteenth ward OF New York Just about
that time but the information was not OF more
startling nature than was most OF that which is
extraordinary doings OF those extraordinary men.
New York "repeaters"
AT THE HOTELS
There was no excitement visible about the hotels
until after six O'Clock, when merchants, brokers'
and politicians began to look for actual news from
the scene of operations, and when the days bust
ness was so disposed OF that they might pay more
attention to the returns. Then the vestibules Of
the Fifth Avenue Hotel, the Grand Central and the
AstOr House began to assume an air OF hustle, and
for an hour or two the telegraph operators were
besieged for information when there was none to
give.
As early as seven O'Clock, when 1t was absolutely
impossible that even reasonable idea could be
Fifth Avenue Hotel that Hartranft had carried
Pennsylyania BY eight or ten thousand majority;
S a U ss
advantage in the way Of gambling little. At ten
O'Clock the feeling was still buoyant that the radical
star was in the ascendant, although Buckalew'H
chances, when the rural counties were heard from,
had tended greatly to diminish his opponents
loudly asserted majority.
IN THE ROTUNDA
OF the Asor House groups OF men sauntered about
Gator, which had been pressed into the service TO
allay the popular anxiety for news. - @""' ""-'~
the news that Hartranft's majority
blackbearded man from the West sc
"I'll bet 500 to $780," he remarked E1sb ..s.
confident air, "that there Is not m
vania at this hour who can assert tina aSatl
Why don't they send on news, nOta Hg
politicians guesses and c0nundrums.
But it was the same story at all
Fragmentary dispatches came owe t ifeH ~
vollcys, mere opinions Of men who tiatI-
selves experts in the science OF est 4tts
ties and at midnight men retired r. test ~ ali
IN their hearts about the actual re tiaN
to bet that their favOr1tes had been aaes
THE RACE BEFORE THE r. ffH
This morning men will rise anxious from their
beds to learn whether the facts they had proclaimed
with the air OF absolute certainty last night were
phantases or realities, and even this morning they
may fail OF certainty, and close count may De re-
CURED to settle the question.
AROUND TIE NEWSPAPER OFFICES
the crowds of anxious ones waiting Tor the returns
s1np that LOO wnrl
awaiting returns Of home contest instead OF
results rom other and distant States. And It was
Just in this respect that the deep seated popular In
terest in the termination OF yesterdays struggle
made most manifest. These crowds varied the
evenings round Of watchiui duty by stroing IN
another, intently scanning and ultimately
laughing the From widely d EyRsD p oce
ILLUMINATED BULLETINS
to those of other journals in Printing House square
there the U a inc
being, at niue o'clock 10000 majority for Pennsyl-
yania's radical candidate, and the highest 40 coo:
One bulletin said --latest reports give Hartranft
$4,000 majority In Philadelphia; the liberals can
stand that and still win in the State another Another
said :-"Addition, Division and silence (Kemble)
gives 40, 900 majority to Hartranit"
Fifteen minutes later the HERALD bulletin an
nounced --latest despatch rom pnan , ma
liberals claim the state for Buckalew by 5000 ma
jority." When this bulletin was posted the crowd,
which extended across Broadway almost 10 the
Aston House. gave gave no,,s,.e cuvr,s
for Horace Greeley. little before eleven O'Clock
despatch was posted on the HERALD bulletin an
nouncing liberal gain In Cincinnati OF 1000 COM
pletey overcoming The republican majority in that
county OF 1863 This was the ''nrst gum from Ohio,
and three round cheers and ''tiger" were given
for the Old White Hat.
And so the crowd waited and wavered until mid
night in the glare OF the calcium lights, greedily
gcrging themselves with the fragmentary returns
that were vOuchsafed them, and anxious only for
the morning that they might know actual results