New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-07-06
EVENING SCENES AT THE HOTELS.
HOPEFUL CROWDS AT THE FIFTH AVENUE AND
WINDSOR.

HOPEFUL CROWDS At THE FIFTH AVENUE AND
WINDSOR.
The at the Fifth Avenue Hotel last evening
reflected in marked degree the change in the feel
ing of the people. The crowd was very much less
in number than any night since the attack on the
President and there cheerful look callers
faces which has been entirely lacking heretofore.
The kilograms from Washington were reassuring
instead of being gloomy in their nature. The pre-
vailing sentiment was one Of hope that the presi-
dent would be spared to the Nation, which hopes so
forvently for his recovery.
1t was learned last evening that Mr.. Conkling
went downtown in cab yesterday afternoon and
transacted some business, returning to the hotel
after comparatively bnof absence. The police
surveillance is still maintained. Commissioner
Nichols, Inspector Thornc, Captain Williams and
hall dozen detectives were in the corridor on the
main floor most of the evening There police
men in uniform within easy call of all the en-
frances to the ground floor of the hotel
George Watson, a well-known banker of Auburn
n. Y, said last evening that the feeling in and
about that place over the attack on the President
more intense than in this city. In all of the
churches on Sunday sermons were preached on the
event. The feeling against ex-senator Conkling
was very strong. 1t was felt that he to Ger
tain degree responsible for the attack on the Pres
dcnt for the that had he not made the
less fight against the Administration Guitcau
There was little dcmOnstrativ" intercS; shown at
the Windsor Hotel last evening. After day at the
Stock Exchange, brokers appeared to think that the
President had already passed the crisis and would
probably recover from his wounds Moreover, they
concluded that the stock market had sustained the
shoe with great fortilude and that. whatever the
final result might he. the effect prices would he
small. The attendance at the hotel last night was
not greater than that usual on n midsummer even
ing. Eagcrncss to see the latest dispatches from
Washington was manifested, but when these were
found to confirm those received during the day.
brokers united the hotel Tor their homes.
Among the other reports al the Fifth Avenue Hotel
yesterday one that the police were serking one
or two persons who, IL supposed had some
knowc of Gniteans intention To a,slssinate the
President. These persons were said To have been
| companions of his. and TO have gained their knoVl-
edge IN that way and not hccause of any conspiracy.
II was known positively that Government Oil 'ials
had word To keep lookout for Mt least man.
These officers in citizens clothes wcrc seen in the
hotel Yesterday.
Later in the day it asccrtained that ono of the
persons for whom the police looking had
shown clearly that he had nothing 10 do with any
1 conspiracy ana knew Of none This was the man Of
whom mention was made IN THE TRIBUNE on sun
day last lie had made the acquaintance of Gui-
tcau At the rooms of the Republican Central Cam
| paign Club last fall. In March. t1uitcan wrote
hm that he was to lac amounted Consul at one of
the Austrian ports, and offered him the post oe
secretary. \ few DAYS aflrrNard Guiteau wrote
that amount. The man wrote "A reply, declining to
make the loan and returning the due-h. This lctter
was not by Guijcauaud utimatev appcn red
in the Dead Letter Office at Washington This letter
was found after Gultcau's arrest and directed n
tcnti0n 10 he writer He cXplninei his connertion
ton of the authorities and the matter has been
| dropped