New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1901-09-14
NEW Y0RK'S GRIEF GREAT.
FINANCIAL INTERESTS FIRMLY IN7RENCHED TO WITH.
STAND THE SHOCK
HOW THE CITY MOURNED
rr.r BLOW CAME WHEN HOPE HAD
TTTRNED TO CONFIDENCE-GRIE
DEEP AND SILENT

THAT the people Of New-York were more deep
= noved Yesterday than they were week ago.
-, tbey first heard of the attempt on the life
. tho President. must have been clear to any
.ne who walked in the streets or watched the
.-ouss in public places The fact may seem
-,-eter,ous. but fact it undoubtedly is. The
.nvistv was wider more absorbing. more acute
:, manifest yesterday than it when the
e., reports came that the President had been
shot
Perhaps it may be explained. The first emo
,,,s q week ago We're horror and incredulity
rbese had to pass away to some extent before
.,sv could be replaced by deep sorrow And
.hsrs was not time for these feelings to change
!. all before messages of hope began to arrive
c,,cs then hope had grown into confidence, and
.A.n came the ending of the hope. sadder than
=. end would have been If the hope had never
existed.
THOUGHT FOR TKINLEY, THE MAN.
Aud in the last week not only hope. but SYM
,,rv was growing President Mckinley was
. slac.ed 10 HIS office by the largest majority
r.- given 10 a Presidential candidate, because
.hs u,hole people had learned TO trust him
men in whose hands the government Of the
country was safe. All knew that no harm would
corre 10 the ship while he was at the helm.
pr, Il was the statesman whom they were
trusting. and to whom they were giving the re-
rerd due TO a captain who had earned their
conddeuce. In this week just passed there has
teen change, and the first thought OF the peo-
ME had come 10 be Of the man. as a man, whom
tbev had chosen 10 be their head. Confidence
had been changed 10 sympathy, or, rather. SYM
uathv had been added TO confidence.
The brave fight which the President had made
against death; his patience in all his suffering;
his constant thoughtfulness for others. even
while he was himself justly the object OF all the
thoughts Of others; the absence Of any vengeful
resentment toward his assailant-an these and
more Of the traits of the man who lay stricken
under the eyes Of all the world-had brought to
all the thought that his loss would be more than
the loss Of a wise and prudent Chief Magistrate
that there would be something personal
about il.
Again. there had been time for the people to
revise their estimate of his value to his country
The little party prejudices and the little haolts
Of earning criticism of one whose every act was
known and was the subject Of public comment
were put aside in the presence of the great
calamity. and all thoughts were turned rather
toward what he had tried and what he had ac-
compished how much his prudence had ad-
ranced the nation. and how much Of the esteem
IN which il is held at home and abroad was due
20 him So the greatness Of the calamity or ms
fet And all this time the hope Of his recovery
Tas growing till II was accepted hope no
,mger but a certainty, and then the feeling
tespened that his death would be too great
calamity 10 be true and that ii could not be.
SILENT CROWDS WATCH THE BULLETINS
Therefore, the blow the heavier when the
news came that there was hope no longer. And
soyesterday about the city the rage and the dis
may which were seen at first had well nigh dis
cf7n Cyfi yr1Q MI
tested in their place.
Yesterday and last night there were more peo-
pie in the streets than there were a week ago
double the number, il seemed. And there was
q hush over them. There was not so much loud
taking; not much talk about the assassin
and what should be done with him and with his
kind. The talk end the thought were all for his
victim. The crowds about the bulletins were
lsrser, and the people were more anxious and
eager for the news. They struggled with one
another for places where they could read; they
tried TO push nearer and almost climbed upon
one enother's shoulders when il was seen that
new bulletin had been posted.
And everywhere there was perfect order. The
Aew-fork crowd was quite itself in that. The
Aew-York crowd is stoical in its outward de-
neanor. II feels deeply, whether the feeling be
u JOY or sorrow but it is not demonstrative or
watches. but. as crowds in cities go. the meet
lngs Of the people in the streets here Won
oeriuly staid and dignihed bodies.
AN AwED QUIET OVER ALL.
II was not alone in the streets that these feel
hgs were manifested. In the hotels in the
ouns. in the restaurants, not TO speak OF the
homes-yes. even IN the theatres-there was the
feeling that great anxiety and a shadow were
efer all About the hotel lobbies there was an
Expression Of awed quiet. Quiet, indeed, was
1,s deepest manifestation of the feeling every
"hefe Wherever. there was a ticker there
suoNo about il. and some one who stood near
81 read the news TO the others IL appeared
"g PRESIDENT and the same quiet prevailed.
I. me most of the theatres were half deserted.
= = nae not been for the sales of seats in ad-
.saaee they would all have been Up to the
s 80 ior beginning the performances the man
49, sfs We're all ready to close the houses. and,
.eea' ~, the most Of them would have done so at
D.. Iine IN the evening If the news of the
s.esiaents death had come Late in the even
D. rumor spread about uptown that the
~ ,t,ssloenr had been dead for hour, and that
- news mad been kept hack. At one theatre
-s manager was on the point of dropping the
49, lam and dismissing the audience but de-
~ -'- 70 wait till the end of the act which was
~ minutes on BY that time contradiction
the rumor had come.
RUMoRs OF DEATH SPREAD.
prominent theatrical manager who hap
'.''eo 10 be attending a performance at a the
iOl MS own asked a reporter whom he met
sHe lobby between the acts for news. When
rec,sa as loid that the Presidents death was
iAAOiiitilI ne Sdlu, Ieei out OF
~ m theatre myself tonight" There were
-.-'ehuy many who felt so
p,..sS had eeen another rumor that the
osssl1eht osen1' was dead. a few minutes after 6
Emu. ~ was contradicted not more than ten
rs,sSts idtef, but IL spread with wonderful
sssr a. was marvellous how far and how
nssa very report which seemed to be important
buls,. way: Nobody who had not seen a new
else a., within ten minutes could tell anybody
| rss.I,s news. What one knew all knew in
be rootea lp - yer almost everybody seemed TO
/ gsndai 10 MS place. There were groups which
| slxavs u up and down the street, as there
/ those st, are, put those about the bulletins and
CATS sat noout the uekers in the hotels and the
stoos seemed never TO move at all They simply
| deier,ns. Ll'eiF places with anxious looks as il
When e's,neo ,hn not TO give up their hopes, even
gaise e'hNction that every minute Of life had