New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1901-09-14
CROWDS WATCH BULLETINS
HOTEL CORRIDORS THRONGED WITH
BORROWING MEN AND WOMEN
GROUPS AROUND TICKERS.

me halls and corridors OF the Waldorf Astoria
were thronged until after midnight with anxious
CROWDS OF stock brokers and with guests from all
paris OF the country that staying the hotel.
Srowas collected around the news tickers and
bulletin boards, and the brokerage office OF Nc
lntyre q Marshall filled with men, gathered
there TO receive the dispatches over the companys
private wire
me news OF the slow failing of the President
winch came out the tape internationally until
al'er midnight. when the final and fatal bulletin
was posted cast gloom over the usual splendor OF
the hostiery. which grew and more dark as
the hours advanced The front Corridors the wonl-
ems hallway and the Turkish room were lined
with. fashiOnably gowned women, but there was
little sound of nerriment and all talked in low
tones, as If fearing to awake one that was asleep
A aiscordant voice would and then be heard
ABOVE the general quiet, thoughtlessly
forgot that the shadow of death overhung the land
CROWDS BENDING OVER TICKER
Page boys ran to and fro from the tickers and
brought to those in waiting the latest dispatches
AT the end OF the big billiard room in the eastern
part of the building crowd hung over a ticker
with such weight that II broke the glass globe of
the machine. a dome put in place. and,
to prevent recurrence of the accident, of the
group stationed himself the ticker and read in
a iouo clear voice the words as fast as they were
imprinted on the slow unwinding tape.
The tension increased greatly after o'clock,
when word that the President again
rapidly sinking and that the end might come at
any moment.
The crowd increased in the billiard room and
those who had attempted affect air of
concern by playing a game of the tables
ceased their untimely recreation. Every time the
licked stopped and the at the glass globe
reading quiet fell on the crowd. Those who
spoke talked In undertone. Many those,
however, who were heard to depIore the great
calamity and TO denounce in bitter terms the
wretch who was its
LYNCHING FOR THE ASSASSIN.
When report came in that mob had overpow-
cred the guard around the Jail Buffalo said:
There will be innocent lives lost as the
result OF this anarchists deed If they could only
take him out and lynch him without any further
bloodshed, justice would be done"
You're right" echoed chorus
There was long pause, but appeared to
grow impatient. Many had stood for more than
an hour near the tape. but engrossed were they
in the final act of the terrible tragedy that they
though OF naught else. AT last the type wheel OF
the ticker began click, and all bent forward IL
hear the last fatal news. Instead. IL was a
port that the President might live for several hours.
Just before 10 o'clock a messenger running
in with the report that the President had died at
$40. The Older men around the room only shook
their heads, as If they had been duped often by
this report they would not believe it
FEARS FOR STOCK MARKET EXPRESSED.
In another long pause a group of brokers talked
again what effect the Presidents death
would have the stock market. Among some of
the things said the following
There will be a falling of of from five to
points at the opening"
Eyes. and then the market will close almost
even
Wall Street is prepared in part for the news
Most OF believed to-day that he wouldn't live
than thirty-s!x hours"
About everything has been discounted. and the
Clearing House will that get through safe
hers will he of
rnercial interests for a couple of weeks"
1T will only he temporary. for the people have
confidence in Mr.. Roosevelt"
WAITING IN BROKERS' OFFICES.
In the offices of Mcintyre & Marshall. adjoining
the billiard ROOM crowd had gathered around the
centre table, which lay file of all the dis
patches which had IN in the course of the
evening from the Mburn house over the company's
private wire
DOCTORS OPINION OF THE CASE
On table was seated Dr. l.. T Potter a physi-
clan In Chicago for tweuty-one years. and now a
broker and operator OF No II Broadway DR. Pot
ter was the centre of a crowd which listened 10 him
as he explained In detail the character Of the
wounds and the last symptoms of the dying Presi-
dent -
Potter Instead. it the great nervous shock.
strength has not been great enough to withstand
the first shock. We talk of solar pie%us and how
that the President was struck by the fatal bullet.
Could not the food have ruptured the wounds OF
the stomach asked.
Il do not think so. The lntestines and stomach
heal quickly. And wounds of these organs a
rule. grow together within seventy 10 one hundred
hours"
From what do you chiefly draw your deduc-
tions?'
From the high pulse beat. At no time has II
been below 100 that / can recall. This has been
explained by the fact that the Presidents pulse
has always been high. Even IL this Is the pulse
beat has been forty strokes too fast minute. At
such a rate ne could not stand the wear or his
heart fbres long.
Then the surgeons nowadays take particula.
pride In not knowing anything about medicine
and the surgeons have had chiaf charge of him.
THE PRESIDENTS CAREER PRAISED.
From the subject OF the Presidents wounds the
conversation shifted to a discussion OF hts noble
career. and many there who had had per-
sonal acquaintance with him.
When the news came in the early morning hours
that the President still lived the crowds left the