The sun., 1900-11-07
WILD BROADWAY SCENES.
NO ELECTJON crowd LIKE IHiN
ONE EVER SEEN BEfORf.
Broadway In the Tendc,ioin damned WIN
People Out to Get the Returns {" e''
bratc the Victory or sin'piy to Wake
No,,e-It Was a Isood.Natured Crowd 100

night how!ins horn-bloNIhs' si""p-"i''h'hS
crowd of men, women aud cfiudfeh s"'p' NY
and down Broadway from Fourteenth To "''E-
second street. mixing night hideous with the
hundred and one different devices ioO ho'sc
making offered for salc by sinai arm! Oh
faIirs Election night crowds have always
been large in New York. but tho crowd In upper
broadway last night surpassed anything pre-
vously seen.
For hour- the streets were practically I'M
passable and TO travel even one block IL was
necessary TO Nght ones way out TO the car
tracks and jump on board one OF the long ihe
OF cars that crept slowly along between the
human wall, Il was wide open town Tor
every body. too la, might The police. VINO are
H. the habit If Norpius citizens within cctt'h
bounds when they urn ut in pu)l!o rl'c IN
larrr numbers, evidently had order, olei folkS
DO ji.t what thrv wanted TO last night There
were lnt- Of policemen out. but they made no
effort to prevent people from letting Them
selves loose Men and women walked w
aud down Bro1dway, on tie -id"Wak, and IN
the ROADWAY, blowing horns. whirng buyers
and crickptS and yelling Al tho top of 'heir
voices
Thc-" vern larG" crowds In front ~ IN"
bylirtin4 Of which there were many nll Il 70 way
from | mon mar" to I"rtv-.coond street
bit the lar,.,-t crowd Of an Kept prp""ntdmE
W ard down lH"r, Wis mighty huI", II any
partisan fo.l.uG in hi, crowd When il heard
.uyhpdy cheer. WHY i, iu-t chr"rcd to" II
VT, out fer iIu. not :" s'r what IN" result of
a." election W., although thutit wts somewhat
Interested in that, too, WIS Shr wn b. ~" mIsitF
roar which ve',t up ard d"Rn Br"adw1v when
treuows was l'l,'.cd along thlt % WAS MrkIhl"y
sIrn and 'u1' BryHu wa- h"''vu ont "t hi" boots
For u big crowd At was an exceptionally
gpod-uauIrcd crowd Nou could shove pun'l'
in fact de- almost ANYTHING except Kick man
and all he would de- IN rc'urE would bc 20 look
around at you for n moment aui then blow
horn in your cIr You could speak 10 girls
,l,t van Ind never SOL before and their
escort would roi get ail-Iy il was the com
nun"-t slsnt il lh" ""Id '9 see MN 'thlmS
flower, from gIrl- CudI- lni ddurniug lh"W-
selves with them, or taking but"uu"le Dpu-
puct~ from their own coats ana tNlus 'h'iu
10 gIrl- Iv"rNbudE did inst about a. he
Ioi,"l and the freedom ol M"rdi Gra> was III
th" ur .,. ,..,, ,...,t ti,,
M broadway from south - Fourteenth s'Icet
and down Broadway from north ~ l"r'N-etr-
% %nd drc T"yh IT.. .tc tSgG Ir and "on All ,hc rG"a
on RroHdNav between these two streets " hiCh
mark the. .uIthc'u and 'h" northern houndarl"-
Of the r"ndrrloln pre- mot VA, aiken up by the
nIerrymakcr-. The Nrst bulletins for those
going uptown v"r" ~ ni,n square and there
Va, q gnod--iled crowd IN front OF them early.
By O'Clock people going uptown ran against /
go,in Madison SuIare II they got so tar. thcv ,
f,uud Tho street, in pa--ahlc and the only way
trey could get tlrtacr Wa either to ret on a
car or q follow in the wake o'o
Iher" were iu.!E a u"i"u bulletins IN and |
around Madison square, and most of them !
v ore 40 cnusp.cuou-lv placed that they could |
ra-, this point il took Broadway cars all the |
way from ten TO fifteen mluute- Will" il took |
from five 10 ten minutes for the I"enty-ihrd |
way from Twenrv-tlird To- Thrtv-'hird streets |
the crowd vas gtenle,t Tas imp"',ihle 10 !
sat near the eutrnrC" of a." FIFTH ANcuu" :
Hotel from Broadway and all the stores which |
were open for business in this vicinity, and |
There were QUIT" few that Kept oren in an; |
have been closed. for II" one could yet near
Tho antics of ito crowd we're amusing. II !
seemed IA though ever man and woman had
horn Some hal littl" horns that squeaked. .
whistle Of n steamer m = 'ng There were Two .
or three nartie' Of men who marched along /
in single nle, those ahead carving long horn F.
on their shoulders, VIM" one man in ~" rear /
blew sonorou~ blasts from II. one Of these |
horns must have been fully eight feet long
and there we're several from three to five feet /
The people seemed 10 he ont in parties and ,
smonS them Ner" many mad" NJ %! 'ouns |
women. we'll dro-srd, who might have thought ,
Il great breach Of Il" prnn To hc out in such |
WAY and 60 do such things at an, other time ,
than .lr"uon night ll.t night though, !
thav romr"t a L treg d INT raro who saw !
them aud the' certainly seemed To be having
The dlns from the horns and other noise pro-
dIcers was d"aicutnC a. lur-. bat aSey"ryhodv |
~
might hav" at another tim" II parties Of uaople /
60 up Broadway tp-ulghi duirs the things they
first policeman thcv encounter Last night |
they were not intrrf"r"i with There were
many parties Of young men Uur who had lot |
oliu rather inugh WY ! nov would form
long lines. each man with hl~ h' Id- On he ,houl-
der of IN" man ahead "t i M and then they
would start !" Mind ~ and "u' Of IN" crowd.
regtldl"~- of ia" feeling of other people
1hn~o Who got in their way had tu r"' ont of il
~ b" huit \ulu' ."rlr~- UroiI" We're kroctcd
down hv Young mon cutting up In thi, fashion
rn' nobody v,~ hurt much. and hose who We're
tlmhled over rather "uIoN cI the experience
othcr plrii"- marched along he .'ro.j carry /
irr coupiul ''- on their shoulder, ligil IN the :
air all ~huuring ~ M" top of thcIr voices sin
others went up and down in iir~ous and as {
. l6t Of time for ,hrr 'n rh n trJ ',gc III
tho people ou the street. uf- rf them VoId
reach oul and irN 20 draC ulu"r fellows Girls !
into their carriages, aud llor" than one" tLnv
"ir- lhi !" nv" ui ih'U 'dr'lv" "' urno. Hs
there was no chance to g"t av Hy and the cap
uve'' friends wcr" GENERALLY around and ready
20 rescue her
And So things went mcrrily along on Broad
way. Before ia" bulletin boards IN Grc"lry
Square thcr" was "a tremendous crowd. ana it
was an enthusiastic crowd Il was ont 10 crt
the returns rs we'll ~ tu have fun and "ycrr
tim" u bulletin wls rur NJ the hlrl Of iOnpi
voices rendir. it could ~ hoard above ihn din
of N" horns. AnuWh"r I won NJ n"iorr these
bulletins ard some oth"r, in Madison square
h"camc alarmed a. IA" crush and were hl,tcr-
ical. There W"r" several scene, OF this hind
end Whenever on" occurred ii" rGii"", would
,VNt IiEl 'N.H ,NdN .'lltN-N ana ldhe lhH !
women ont Ia rlac" OF safety
At u u.rip'N, wLen u was definitely known
that Mckinley had been rc"Nr'cd and that
there was no chanr" for Prvnn there was a
romarkabc ~Cono along Rroa1wpv. Men and
women ran shouting up and ,wn the street
while others Drove around Iu cabs and upou
carriages, yelling their Huproval until tho
'ouldnf veil any more. lho-o was hugying
on street corners. tho hilggrrs meeting for
Two FIRST tim" and NOT ALWAYS being mon either !
bt ers took their CI'" uut o. thi' wearing
Hpparo'. They smashed their hats from purc
he lnl .air ,t.,II II.,. |
hats. Thev threw umbrellas and canes i'm ~.
ul- and whom they didn't rct 'hern back th~v
didn't conn lain because thav felt 50 good
that tho wouldn't have Cornrla alned NJ anr- |
thing. u was rernarkahe domonstration
~ enthusiasm. Long u''ar midnight thu |
inornur Rron1wlv am rang with ~. horns
aud the shouts anl 'here was st,ll hig crowd
- enthusiasts ou' colohratirc the victory
and having mighty Cooi time doing IT, too