New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1897-11-03

GREAT CROWDS IN CITY HALL SQUARE
AND PARK'RO
ryrp TO READ THE FIRST NEWS
OF THE ELECTION REsULTs-A NOISY AMI
.ruoxsrP ALIVE THRONG

,vn. = GATHER TO READ THE FIRST NEWS
Of THE ELECTION REsULrs-A NOISY AND
pEMoNsrRATIvE THRoNG.
r,. mart OF the city variously known DIS
>,nsr Row. Printing House Square ana
49,. III, park was one Of the liveest spots IN
~. whole civ last night Old newspaper men
.,a that the crowd that gathered to watch the
.,ac.,on returns a. bulletined by INC n'"
n,ner. was one Of the largest ever sa'ne'eu
there eoualling II not SURPRISING the i"i'e
tbrong. that came in 1894 to see the oeiea' VI
Tammany chronicled. and again last !ea' ~
learn of the triumph OF Mckinney l" al '
..o,,d. that gather there year after year to get
the first news Of great happenings anu confess
,hsre I, invariably an element that Is vociier-
80 ho,.terous 70 a degree. 1t was this
element that. at the time of the Corpet'-r''N
s,ror,ons npht made itself most conspicuous
ord u was this self-same element again 'ha'
wa. the first and loudest to howl IN siee o'''
the Van Wyck majorties last night
III. view from the upper windows OF The
,r.,h,r. orace was wild and fantastic. Inc
lit. .ea of faces stretched solidly across PARK
Row. covered the wide pavements OF the CITY
Hall Square and flowed thicky toward inc
prtdee The faces were now In light ana now
IN shadow. for great searchlights were Kept
.weepine I'D and down and across the throng anu
AGAINST the face Of the tall buildings IN Broad
way Rude scaffoldings had been puiit near
Park Row. two stories or more IN height ana d.
the TOP Of these worked hurrying groups vi
dark figures throwing bulletin after bulletin on
tina huge canvasses that covered the fronts OF
the newspaper ofaces Through the shouting
mass and almost swallowed up IN II SLOWLY
crept the changing cable-cars. each one ap-
narently bringing from further uptown an IN
crease to the throng Now and then as the
evening wore on q company armed with oro Ty',
forced its way through the mass IN 'ne lily "a.
Park, and was followed WIN '"o 0Aee' A'O
Tammany threats. ..,o,,,
The crowd began to gather early Al O'CLOCK
there was q good scattering IN Park ROW. anu
by 7:3O D. m. It had gre wn to great throng,
BEFORE that time the newspapers had begun 70
amuse and instruct the inpatient walters WIN
cartoons portraits Of the candidates and cam
naien pleasaptries. All this display was thrown
erainst the great canvasses In characters 80 large
that one might read across the square. From the
first bulletin that went up to announce that an
Wyvk had received plurality IN ten e.eG' ION
districts of Manhattan and the Bronx, until the
..last gun was fred" the crowd kept up a con-
tinuous, fearful din. The most popular ana potens
form Of expression seemed to be the tin norm, OF
which instrument there must have been several
thousand, all backed up by sturdy pairs OF lungs.
When. however, some particularly signmSant
bulletin was thrown out. the great roaring snou'
that went up drowned out the horns completely
Van wick naturally came II. for the heaviest
cheering, for such crowd invariably cheers the
winning candidate Mr.. Low. however. came in
for great applause. and when his portrait was
shown his name was shouted wildly and en-
Enthusiastically.
II was perfectly plain that the chief interest
of the whole crowd lay in the fight for the
Mayoralty. for 60 soon as the figures had shown
practically the outcome Of that contest the
crowd began slowly to dwindle Far along into
the night, however, the cheering and the din
kept up and II was not until the newsboys were
crying the morning newspapers that Park Row
and the City Hall Square began again to take
on their wonted appearance.