The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1901-09-15
New YOrk's Public and Private Sor-
row and Expressions by Upton,
Croker and Mayor Van Wyck.
CITIES ARE DRAPED IN BLACK
CHICAGO. PHILADELPHIA AND BOS-
Ton CARRIED IN WOE.
The south Swift md Feeling in It's
Expressions of sympathy-Expres-
sions from All the Country.

NEW YORK, Sept 1.-the tolling of
bells about o'clock this morning appraised
the people of this city of the death of
President Mckinley. The crowds had left
the bulletin boards and hotel corridors and
other places where the news OF the Presi-
dents condition was to be had and the
streets had taken their usual appear
ance at that hour of the night, when the
announcement of the Presidents death was
received. Within a quarter of an hour the
church bells had taken up the message and
in solemn tones spread the sad tidings.
With the dawning OF day flags were run up
to half-staff on Office buildings and hotels
and on all the public buildings and schools.
and by o'clock black drapings were being
hung from many of the buildings.
Sir Thomas Upton to-day sent the fol-
lowing message from Sandy Hook:
II am very much panied and grieved In
the sad news regarding the Presidents
death, all the as L had a most
cheering telegram from his brother on the
10TH saying he was happy to inform me
that the doctors looked for speedy re-
covery His death is a loss to the whole
world and it will be felt nowhere more
than among the British people"
Mayor Van Wyck this afternoon sent
telegram to Secretary Hay. requesting that
the arrangements for the obsequies of the
dead President include a public funeral
in this city The mayor also sent this dis
patch 10 Mrs. Mckinley:
The people of the city of New York in
deepest grief over the death of your we'll
beloved and er-to-be-lamented husband,
beg to present their coincidence and to ex-
hXyf n N
overwhelming anguish and sorrow"
In a proclamation issued to-day Mayor
Van Wyck calls upon the people of the city
to drape their residences and places of
business in mourning and to keep the ma
tional flag at half-staff, during this period
of sorrow" He directs that the City Hall
be draped in mourning and the flags upon
the municipal building and schoohouses be
displayed at half-staff.
Several of the foreign consuls located in
this city called on Mayor Van Wyck dur
ing the day and expressed their sympathy
with the American people in the national
bereavement. So great was the demand for
large decorative work in the draping of
large buildings in this city, that, in spite
of the fact that the President has been in
danger for a week. the market for black
was found insufficiently supplied.
Richard Croker was a passenger on the
steamship Lucania which arrived to-day
He would not discuss politics when the
whole American Nation is filled with sor-
row at the untimely death of our chief mag
istrate it is no time to talk politics." he
said Under the great affection that has
befallen us, Democrats and Republicans
stand side by side as American citizens
with uncovered heads, shocked and grief
stricken at the bier of our dead President"
When Richard Croker reached the Dem
ocratic Club he found number of leaders
waiting for him. He Immediately gave or
ders TO have the Democratic Club, Tam
tiers in each assembly district draped in
memory of President Mckinley. He
dered that the words, Gods way. His will
be done, not ours, be put in white letters
across the portals of all Democratic head
quarters. Mr.. Croker also ordered that
Democratic picnics, scheduled for Monday,
be abandoned.
To-day being the Jewish New Years day,
there were special services at all syna-
gOgues, and at each and every one special
prayers were offered for Mr.. Mckinley.
and reference made by the rabbis to the
terrible calamity that has befallen the Ma
ton in the death of the President.
Flags on the shipping in the harbor were
also placed at half-mast.
The closing of the various exchanges was
a Ioregohe conclusion hXed by precedent at
the time OF the deaths of President Lin
coin and President Garfield. AS soon as a
quorum could be assembled of the govern
Ors of the Stock Exchange it was therefore
decided to announce from the rostrum at
10 o'clock, the hour of assembling that the
exchange would remain closed to-day as a
mark of respect to the memory of the late
President. In order to comply with legal
obligations II was decided to have q loan
market from 10 to IL o'clock
Bankers and financiers were present in
large force in the financial district this
morning, but no formal action relative to
monetary affairs was taken and none was
contemplated. The measures adopted last
Saturday morning after the shooting of
the President. were designed to cover the
contingency of the Presidents death and
were still in force. The policy of the COM
mittee, outlined, will be to lend the large
amounts placed in their hands for the pur-
pose by the combined action of the bank
ers acceptable collateral, and at the
ruling market rate.
At oyster Bay, L. l.. the home Of Pres
ident Roosevelt. a mass meeting was held
to-day, at which resolutions were adopted,
expressive of sympathy for Mrs. McKin-
ley. and also extending sympathy to our
hOnored feIlow-tOwnsman. President Roose-
welt, in this great emergency. and invoking
for him strength and wisdom to meet the
great responsibilities suddenly thrust upon
him..
An Anarchist picnic which was to have
been held at West HobOken n. j. has been
abandoned. because the police gave notice
that any person who participated in any
public demonstration made by the An
archists should be promptly arrested.