The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1872-01-07
EXCITEMENT rasoyaaour THE cry.


our the CIV Ia the street cas- ia The hotels, every
where throughout the entire city nothing was
talked OF but the attempted assassination. People
who never heard ot i'm Fisk before analytcaly
discussed his cMalac'er and found something 10
praise, on the principe
'NIL DE NoRTris sIsi BOSUM."
IN the same way the would-be assassin's char
acter was fully discussed. and Stokes soon DIS
covered TO have eXaihed, eveu st an early age the
most sangunarv tendencies Never that
memorable night there such excitement round
The hotels. The shooting occurred late IA the
afternoon mat iEOst of the business men hat
reached their homes before having chance Of
hearing OF II. The nrst lhiDg they heard OF course.
OIL entering their accustomed places OF resort was
that Mr.. risk
BEEN SHOT.
Every one. o? course. rushed 1t FOR the hotel TO
verify the report. Very lew people at hrst would
trust the rumor and treated 1t az newspaper
canard. Even some were found so incretuOus as
TO refuse to go a short distance to make themselves
certain ami II WAS not until the inevitable 'extra'
OF the evening Dapcrs appeared that the general
of people could be got believe in the report
As soon, however as II began TO be believed thae
Mr.; Fisk was really shot there was
GENERAL RUSH
for the hotels ana when the incredulous had made
themselves positively certain they hurried away IL
tell their friends VINO wouldn't be satisfied with
such report, bur came down themselves IN per-
son to test Its truth and swell the crowds in the
corridors OF the hotels
AT TUE FlFrH AVENUE HOTEL
the scene at the Fifth Avenue Hotel was simply
indescrioable AS soon as ever the news OF the
shooting reached the ciubs she members adjourned
to the hotel as To one common centre. Gentlemen
who had accidentally heard OF II aftar leaving their
own houses
mn NM 4 IL
LARS.
The brokers' above an. were first on the scene,
ana The Iall OF the FINN Avenue Hotel was Tor the
nonce converted into lively stock market on %
small scale. In i:lct everybody or any note at the
uptown side of Twenty-hird street put Ia AN ap
pcarance u; the hotel during the evening.
A. seven O'Clock che crowds began TO rocE into the
hallway. and by hallpasG seven there wa scarcely
standing room IN the lower floor OF the hotel The
crowd was multifarl0uS one On the outside, nv
the door, were Two three state senators sur
rounded by groups oil friends all eagerly
DISCUSSING THE DREADFUL OUOURRENCE
On the outskirts of thus group were knots OF
smalifry politicians, who divided their attention be-
tween the tragedy and tue republican, Quarre Ill the
Legislature. Inside Were the wall street people.
There was strange. contradictory feeling mani-
tested In the crowd winch filled the vast halfway.
There was
Tor the man VINO had been shot down III the prime
oil his life, IN cold blood and YET there seemed 10
uneXpres,ed opinion That fsk's death would prove
good riddance.
| To an outsider this feeling would seem strange.
and at first, unac aouutabic There were enough OK
! n,ppanr expressions 81 sympathy ~ he beard on
! every side, ana We, from the accompanying remarks
and from The tone IN which They were uttered QUE
LACKED SOMETHING OF syursY,n.
For instance, one heard every s,ie-- Pour
fellow l' s.'Is TOO b;ii; ..Iie Fellow dh give
hin q chance And yet, IN the same breath. one
neard~"Er1e is sure 10 60 up now, anyhow .This
! VIII be o big thing for The English stock hpderS:"
I'm
had evidently come prepared FOR speculanoD ana
yer somehow everybody seemed TO nave Difficulty
told over ami over agaIn win addenda and cor.
rections which would have
/ PUZZLED AN EYE WITNESS.
Some said that Fisk was snot through The mead.
ami. owing to ms extraordinary vitality VAS sui
through hls head" and TIA, the wound wonl1 heal
/ up tlme such wound often an during tue
cclvcd every known wound which 1t was possible
for him 10 nave received without getting
| Az nine O'Clock telegram was reserved AZ. me
! hotel which ran AS follows
| '.Iust left Fisks bedside. Vie has Deen shot
! through the stomach, in the right side. Que sur
geons are now searching for inc pail, nnt have
failed up 10 the present 10 discover It, Parker l. "
/ opinion that u the BAL bc nor round the wound VIII
prove mortal
arrested by Mr Powers. He Is now locked mp In
| the Fifteenth precinct station nouse."
When This telegram arrived tncrc i'm
mense rusD towards the operators desk. The ot
gentleman, who nad decided interest Ia '.Erie,n
'clEAD IT our"
..GIvc II 10 some QUO To- read ~ "Take It, Dick ~,
somenie we'll Known broEep nal Tie %er,n 'p pn
nand and read II aloud FOR The crowd. a. the last
paragraph which announced that stokes was locked
up IA thu Fifteenth precinct station house was read
THERE WAS SLIGHT CHEER.
barry 10 the evening ,nsre was , general rns, ~
OF Erie In wall street yesterday afternoon was
s55s This telegram WAS posted over The. luo,at.on.
and Tor q long time aftcrwarf IL was physically I'M
possible TO get near The indicator.
shortly after this the news came that the Coroner
had taken Fisk's ante morton statement. and the
excitement became most intense. About ten
O'Clock rumor spread through the hotel that
Fisk was dead. and II would be impossible 10 ex-
aggerate the effect which II produced on tine crowd
All Immense reaction al once set In iavor Of the
supposed 'dead,n ana the good qualities OF the
deceased were freely canvassed. Among all but
the Wall street people there was evident sympathy
every SHE, One heard, "Wei.
RE WAS A GOOD FELLOW ANY HOW.
ne had no hold on his money! Inc effect OF the
report on the brokers was diifcrent.
A man asked another. ''Iias FisS oally received
his quietusY' aud IN one group OF prominent Wall
the safe conclusion that "a can't 20 on
DARiNG EVERYBODY ALWAYS, -
ana quoted III sppor o, ms arsnlnens .na' trsst
prisoners confined at Jefferson Market tnat the
way OF the sransgressor Is hard' and, as tue gen
Notwithstanding all this religious and highly edi-
flying sympathy the groups did not remain very long
In one place and there was evidently an underly-
my desire TO hear how the news would affect tie
stock: Whatever business was done was done
strictly between individuals. There was nothing
even approaching TO an impromptu market 10 any
extent.
Our reporter was told that good deal Of business
was done IN this iLfOrina way, and q ruInor pre-
vailed through the hotel al ten O'Clock that Erie
stock was selling AZ 31that Is at an increase Of Is
since the afternoon quotation IN Wall street Ii is
safe TO state, however ina very little business was
done at this figure, though the general impression
seemed to he that Erie stock would 60 No IKE
! balloon should
ANYTHING SERIOUS OCCUR.
In PLAIN language. 10 was evident that though there
| was great deal OF sympathy expressed iGr FISK.
| anu though % decided reaction had set III IN MS
favor, there great desire 10 speculate on ms
death, and a general feeling thai thereby an IN
/ cubus would be raised from one OF the finest raj.
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