The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-09-29
STORES JAMMED WITH TIsIToRS'
Big Demand on the Photographic supphes
Market-some Provisions Go Up.

B,e D.m,nd on the Photographic Supplies
Market-some Provisions Go Up.
The crowd began to make It's presence ieit IN
a mum Der OF ways yesterday. Especially In tne
shopping district was the recent ADDITION 70
the city's population noticed and residents VINO
started out yesterday on what they supposeo
would be quiet shopping tour were sur
prised by having to night their way
through the big stores as In the ohrist-
mas holidays. That 1t wasn't the
same kind OF a crowd was easily noticed. Tor
most OF the people who elbowed and jostled
were plainly strangers and for the most part
siehtseers rather Than purchasers.
The big department stores were unpre-
pared for such a throng as fought to get IN
their doors. The sidewalks In front OF wanna
makers in tho middle OF the afternoon was
struggling mass Of humanity and inside
the store 1t was worse. The extra
bands taken on during the Christmas hohdays
were missing. and for this reason In every
store shopping had to be dome amia
the greatest confusion. The crowd became 70
largo toward the close OF the day In
Wananaker's that foorwalkers were
stationed In the most congested parts OF
tho store to keep the people NOV
ing and instruct them whore TO mud exits.
All through the shopping district the condi-
lions were the Same. for nearly all the stores
had been taken by surprise. 1t was next to an
impossibility to get near the souvenir counters
in many OF the stores. The visiting soldiery were
much In evidence and were as much oo)ects OF
curiosity az the stores seemed to be TO them.
In one store 1t seemed as though hall the
h0r'a th. o si.rnoon fes~ee Captain
to get the men through the erow a. sufn
that they GROUND IN man sns sopped to
look at anything the whole line waited fer him
and thus they went through the Place. followed "a
While lot OF the visitors didn't appear to be
store. which was petronizsd So freely a.
almost to be put out OF business: THESE were
6sr.ps Stores .up Ths.' wsao sod anf
dtlop to being Dewey mad. the crowd
which has come here to give HIN ,ans, we.eo OF
ever been seen before; according % t,t the
ssSes Yesterday Sei9 in their eorts to buy new
cameras or get supplies for cid ones sc and be-
I9Is shen t sSme Tho S dealers along rosd
way had almost sold out in plates. One man
said about 0eof tia; S had
The dealers made desperate efforts in the
for they expected the rush would end Last
night and II probably has DONE People on wh9
with them a picture OF Admiral Dewey taken
by themselves. western man went INTO y
camera store with his camera broken.
home" he told the dealer. and he got about
the last the man had In stodk. salesman IN
one OF the largest stores. in speaking about the
! aThls should no. be taken as evidence of an
increase In the popularity OF amateur photoR-
raphy. for think very little OF II arises from
that. 1t 10 only another sign o. the popu-
ably have more cameras pointed at
hin, In the next two days than there are people
In the state he comes from and lot OF the
cameras will never be used again. man who
was from Chicago told me when he
bought a camera to-day that IL he could
get Just one good snap at Dewey
with it. he would consider his trip here and
the show and photography has been pressed
into service in this instance for patriotic pur-
poses"
There has been a small rise In the price OF
some provisions In consequence OF tho in
crease in the hotel and boardin house popua.
ton. but. according to all accounts. no food
famine Is threatened prices will not go up
no difference, at all. Some one tried to, get
when the influx OF visitors began and when the
market closed that night prices were up rs
per cent, and hotel keepers were gaspinR for
breat. Tuesday morning. however, there was
q drop. and now the price Of poultry
Is even below what 1t has been for
some time: The game market. according to
provision dealers is still very short because all
refriRerators. whore 1t has been kept since last
season. The prices since Monday have ad-
vanced % per cent. and may still 60 up. as the
supply shows signs OF becoming exhausted.