The New York herald., 1873-11-05
AT THE HOTELS.

Soon after dark little knot OF seekers after
truth gathered round the printing telegraph in the
rotunda OF the Astor House to watch the election
returns. The Instrument said ''T1ck, tick, tick, I"
like q buchu bank; but there was q lack OF
fabrication, and for half hour the
patient watchers looked at the strip OF
paper, which refused to reel on the desired
intelligence. So, like sensible men, the
watchers adjourned to the open air and joined the
dense tnrong which watched this bulletin o.
the HERALD, Illuminated by light bright as day,
which from moment to moment published the re-
turns as they were brought from all parts Of the
city, State and Union by the lightning messenger
From that time till into the small hours OF tie
morning thousands read the news on the Broad
way 'front.' OF the HERALD Building, and after the
balky machine IN the Astor House concluded its
work it was consulted by twos and threes
AT THE FlFxH AVENUE HOTEL.
There was chance for loneliness at or about the
Fifth Avenue Hotel last night Early in the even
ing, as soon as returns began to be sent in, the
of1ice and public rooms OF the hotel were thronged
with eager partisans who waited for the message
of the wires. Republicans and democrats were
alike at home in those wide halls, and both sides
joyously over the turning tide which revived
nope ior the old-fashloned pickings perhaps,
while discounted repnoncans iaugnea IN SPITE OF
look manly to weep nor sound decorous to curse.
AS the fateful records were handed to the public
by the telegraphers ana made 1t apparent that
Tammany had carried the city by a fair majority,
that Hunter, the democratic candidate, was chosen
Mayor OF Brooklyn and that the State had been
even the Legislature had changed Its political
complexion there was decided sensation and the
bar did lively retail trade.
VARIETIES OF MIRTH.
Democrats laughed heartily punched their re-
publican irends orqoy N e saes s ana tTog 10 urer
and took ii with lemon. Hilarity was irresistible.
Everybody smiled. But there were varieties in
the kinds and degrees OF mirth exhibited on the
faces Of the loungers who told and received the
news which made curious studies for the physi-
Istr relative Of Hamilton FISH, did not admit that he
saw much OF interest IN the returns. Brother
Mudget5 who was ,os deputy ,s,S collector in in
Murpny's term, had heard all about it. and
enjoyed the Joke immensely He had Just con.
doled with the assembled brethren at the Union
League, and proposed to go into mourning over
the republican reverses.
FINANCIAL VIEW.
Henry Ciews, lately pet moneyed representative
OF C9sarisIn, did not talk loud. he looked like
fiscal agent on the retired list. His friends con-
soed him with the confidential assurance that
s.Grant and Richardson are a couple OF fools who
can't understand that men IN the street know how
the cat is jumping. They had better have thrown
they could see nothing until II was too late
Knots on all hands joked over the scraps OF ret
6rayely Jolly They could not reverse sre fesuit'
and doubtless believed IT'S better % laugh than
be cryingn
Broadway hotels enough the evening 1t would
have been dfhicult to infer from anything
| they sSw that an election had just
cloSSau. At none Of these popular resorts were
J there q half dozen news seekers. Several
/ telexraphc machines were quietly ticking the
returns of the canvass out none OF them attracted
| more than half dozen readers one wanted to
| know how YonKers had voted, and another was
inquir,ng about Tammanyis success; but no crowds
congregated, and apparently few cared whether
Iimmy Patterson was struck or that the Caesar ad
ministratlon had received stern rebuke from the
people at the polls