The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-09-07
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No Great Demonstration of
Sorrow Made.
MASS OF PEOPLE
DEEPLY INTERESTED
Crowds Gathered Around Bulle-
tin Boards.

New York. Sept. 6.-This city was
stunned when the news came that Presi-
dent Mckinley had been shot As a rule.
people on the streets were feeling more
deeply than they had the power to ex-
press. As a consequence, there was 4
dearth of the demonstrat tons which ac-
companied the receipt of the news that
President Garfield had been sho, or the
wonderful outbreak of wrath and deep
sorrow which was a feature OF the as
saSSlnatlon OF President Lincoln
The mass of the people was keenly in
tereSted and the bulletin boards became
a center OF interest from thousands on
upper Broadway, in Harlem and at the
newspaper offices in Park Row. The
crowds which gathered about these
news centers were IN some cases as
numerous as are the crowds on the oc-
casion OF a national election. But they
We're not cheering masses.
They We're almost stoical I'm their in
terest. At one of the boards, when the
bulletin announcing that physicians at
the presidents bedside had held a con-
sultation and believed the sufferer would
nXe, the news was received in dead
silence; Almost all of New York was
at work when the first news of the hap
pening at Buffalo was sent over the
wires
Business Was Suspended.
Within an Incredibly short time the
streets We're full OF newsboys crying the
starting tact. The sale of extra editions
was unprecedented. Business was almost
suspended On Wall street, where the
WOik OF the day n2Q been done
broker and banker, clerk and customer,
were leaving or preparing to leave, there
were lew 10 feel the shock of the intel
ngence- But in spite OF this, Wall street
and adjoining thoroughfares were filled
with anxious groups of men and boys,
clustering about readers of extra edi
tons and anxious inquiries were made
OF everyone tor anything which was not
already public knowledge.
1t was in clubs and hotels that the
keenest interest was manifest during az
Ter CInner hours. When II was reported
that the president would probably re-
cover and there was no contradicting re-
port, it seemed to be taken Tor granted
that the event would not become his
torical tragedy. At the big hotels the
possible effect on the financial situation
was chiefly discussed
All sorts of rumors were afloat. 1t was
said J. +. Morgan had summoned the
chief bankers and capitalists on board his
yacht and was holding a ways and means
in session in the Metropolitan club. The
truth Is that Mr.. Morgan, after a confer
ence with James R. keene, boarded his
yacht and went to Great Neck, L. 1. In
the Fifth Avenue hotel Senator Plat
stood in a corridor and was the center OF
a gathering. The men who sat or stood
about him had sorrow written on their
faces. They listened with respect to the
senator as he told of the gentleness and
kindness of the man who had been
stricken, and said that il was such cases
as these that justified lynching. He added
that he regretted that the penalty in this
state for the crime. should the president
not die, was only ten years in the peni-
tertiary.
Democrats Pass Resolutions.
At the Democratic club and in the Hoff-
man House. where were cOngregated men
whose political sympathies were not with
the chief executive. but politics were for
gotten in the sorrow which was evident.
The first resolutions of sorrow passed IN
this city were by a joint meeting of the
Democratic organization and Democratic
Tammany committee Captain Titus,
chief of the detective bureau. after con-
ferring by telephone with Sergeant Val
lely, in charge of the police bureau at
the exposition in Buffalo, examined the
records of anarchists and dangerous
characters contained in his office and
said he failed to lind that Nieman was
known in New York by the police