Evening star., 1898-11-09

I idtiittS dIIdStu dSdiESt
pretty well blinded the general public,
which chiefly constitutes election crowds,
| to the voting in other states. Naturally
there We're scores in the throngs who had
perso.-a interest in other states and the
congressional districts, and who even
| watched eagerly for bulletins announcing
votes in small towns. but the masses, if
| the constant chatter they kept up may be
taken as an indication, were oesirous only
| in ascertaininS how things We're going in
| New York.
The Dear Girls Wanted Teddy.
| The feminine constituency of the crowds
and it was a big slice of them, too-was
| Roosevelt to a ruchng. The men who in
clned to the Van Wyck side of the ques-
tfon were instantly smothered out with
| scornfu excamations if they happened to
be with their women folks and limited at
such leaning
The idea,' calculated a peach-cheeked
| girl, when her escort confidently expressed
| the opinion that Van Wyck would win.
why, I'm astonished at you. It's per-
fectly preposterous to think of such
grand man as Col. Roosevelt being beaten
| by such creature that odious Tam
many"
He Modified her with a hint at fried
oysters, and they were lost in the crowd.
The man who knew it all was almost a.
numerous as the women. He was on street
/ corners and in saloons, but his favorite
place was on the edge of bulletin screen
crowds moving from one TO another, and
changing his prophecy every time, he
could be an" f-told-you-so man today
with some persons at least
There wereH good big groups gathered at
all places where the returns were received
and displayGds but the great crowd, the
throng tren}er dous, watched the two huge
screens at The Evening Star office, upon
which the FerS latest news was thrown out
as soon L came hot over the wires from
every point of interest in the
Where tho big Crowds Came
AS usual. the arrangements for. conveying
the very --latest and most reliable information
TO the multitude were perfect at The Star
Office, and she appreciation ofnthis patent
fact was illustrated. by the several acres OF
! massed humanity which packed every part
of the space in the, vicinity within seeing or
hearing. DISTANCE. Of The Star building
T. The two manstfioth screens had been so ar
ranged that the news displayed upon them
could be read for, long distance up and
down the avenue, and the crowd extended
| from 10th to 18th street, banked into one
solid mass, filling up the broad eXpanse in
front of the new city post office until NOV
ing was next to impossible
The electric cars We're kept running. but
it was no easy task to engineer them
through the crush, and the constant clang-
ing of their big bells added to the uproar
and confusion .s'
Notwithstanding the fact that The Star
screens had been placed at such angles
that they could be seen from a distance of
hundreds of yards there We're still lots of
people on the edges of the crowd who could
not get satisfactory view of the screen.
For such as these the megaphone was an
unmiXed blessing. One of these was placed
on the balcony of The Star building in such
way as to command the thoroughfares to
the east and gave the people in that direc-
tion the news that had Just come in hot
over the wires 1t seemed remarkable that
the human voice could be heard so dis
tinctly above the conglomeration of sounds
that filled the streets, yet such was the
case. When the results from a distant
state We're spoken into the mouthpiece of
the huge contrivance they could be clearly
understood at a long distance.
News Matters and Attractions.
The bulletins came numerously and fast
and were thrown and megaphoned out as
soon as received from The Stars alert staff
of special correspondents at the points of in
terest the admirable service of the Asso-
ciated Press and the returns received by
the Western Union and Postal Telegraph
companies. Every now and then the news
was interspersed with portraits of we'll
known men, appropriate cartoons and other
pictorial attractions that We're received with
loud evidences of approval
1t WAS Interesting to one strong enough
to push through the crowds to hear the
comments on the returns. When it became
evident to every one, except those who hope
against hope, that Roosevelt was victorious
in New York. attention was given to other
localities where interesting happenings
were looked for. There was general salts
faction expressed that North Carolina had
passed through the critical day without
trouble. and there was very strong evil
dence that Senator German is a popular
man with Washingtonians when the screen
announced that Baltimore had given 10000
democratic majority.
They are sorry they beat Arthur Cor
man and are showing it that way" said
one man, and those near him uttered ap-
proVal of the idea.
- The stars Admirable Extra.
The extra edition of The Evening Star
was issued at 1915 p. m. and was eagerly
seized upon blythe crowds, while fieet-footed
newsboys carried copies in thousands
throughous; the city, where they were pc
rused with yfdfty.
The extna coHtained most comprehen-
sve report of the results as far ascer-
tanned in eyerYfstate where an election
held a fuH Paige being devoted to the alb
soute news ofythe night, while striking