The Butte inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1901-1912, 1901-09-07
CAPITAL IS OAzED
RESIDENTS OF WASHINGTON
WEEP LIKE CHILDREN.
GREAT LOVE FOR M'KINLEY
Throngs Crowd tho Streets, Eagerly
Awaiting Hopeful News From
the Bedside Of the !,
President. ~
GREAT LOVE FOR M'KINLEY
BY W. w JERMA1N.

establish himself there and make q
record, and while he was shot down in
the Pennsylvania passenger depot here,
the people were not nearly so disturbed
as they are now.
The first word from Buffalo reached
Washington few minutes after the sew
eral department buildings had closed for
the day, and tine streets were therefore
crowded with people.
Before the first bulletin had been hung
out in front of the Post and Star build
ings mode than 1000 people were stand
ing around these buildings, anxiously in
curing for news.
At o'clock there were 5000 people
fronting the Post building, which stands
on Pennsylvania avenue, and they
stretched across the wide thoroughfare
entirely obstructing travel. At o'clock
the 5000 had grown to 10000.
Waiting for Extras.
AS large a crowd was in front of the
Star, waiting for the extra editions,
which came out in very few minutes.
Newsboys on bicycles. with large bun
dies of these extras under their arms,
visited all parts of the city, and their
cries We're eagerly listened for by men.
women and children in the resident sec-
lions. who bought papers by the tilous-
ands.
trated by the news. &c them President
Mckinley was more than president.
He was a kind and indulgent master.
The staff is more loyal to him as
whole thar j: has been to any president
within the memory of persons now liv
ing.
1t was after 5 o'clock in the afternoon
before any news reached the white
house, and it was after 6 before a direct
wire to the bedside Of the president was
established.
over this wire bulletins were arriving
every few minutes for Private Secretary
Cortelyou, and as they proved more
hopeful the Old white house walls al
most shook with the cheering.
1t was estimated that $4,000 people
were on the streets last night. and one
wondered where they all came from.
Streets Well Crowded.
When l came down town after binder
I was more than half an hour working
my way through the crowds into the
Post building. In addition to an elab-
crate system of bulletins, the Post, a
morning paper, had installed a mega
phone service from an upper window,
and every cheering telegram brought
shouts from two acres of threats at
once.
1t reminded one, in some Of the
features of the downtown crowds Oh
presidential night, save that they were
much larger and that women and Chn-
dren were freely mixed with the men,
and an air of solemnity prevailed every
where.
The earliest word was to the effect
that the injuries We're fatal, and the
bulletins did not take a more hopeful
turn until after I o'clock.
1t was a common thing to see people
weeping in the streets, men as well rs
women. Few made any effort to hide
their grief.
Washington had seldom witnessed
such sight. The entire police force was
on duty for the purpose of preserving
order and keeping the main streets open.
The principal crowds, of course, We're in
'front.' OF the newspaper OIIlceS.
High Compliment Paid.
1t is high compliment to the man
who lies so grievously wounded in Ruf-
falo that no person in all this city,
which is so distinctively southern and
democratic in sentiment, mentions him
| but to praise. ~
To everybody he is friend and well
wisher, and it is everywhere being said
that no president since Washington has
had such hold upon the love and good
will and confidence Of the people as he.
Lincoln occupies niche all to him.
self in the temple Of fame, but he ac-
quired it after his tragic death and after
subsequent events had demonstrated the
wisdom and patriotism of his great war
| policy.
But Mckinley came into the conf
| dence and love of the people, like Wash
ington, during his lifetime, and this fact
explains in large part the tender solicit
! tude of the Washington public.
Strange enough. not cabinet officer,
| save possibly the postmaster general,
was in the city last night All were away
| on vacations. No members of either
house of congress We're here. and no
! prominent public characters.
Correspondents Kept Busy.
The corps of Washington correspond
ents was busy since 4 O'Clock, when the
first word came, trying to find prom
inent man who would put into concrete
form the feeling of the local public and
of the nation, but no such man could be
! found.
The Associated Press dispatched three
! of it's best Washington men to Buffalo
last night and called for two others to
go there from New York.
was talking to well-known sub
ordinate official of the war department
last night.
II have never seen anything like it,
he said, land l have been in Washing
ton since the beginning of the civil
| war.
.There was no relatively as large
crowds on the streets when Lincoln was
assassinated, for the event happened