The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-09-07
SCENES, IN NEW YORK.
Crowds Watched Newspaper BuIIe-
tins in Silence.


NEW YORK, Sept. 6.-This city was
stunned when the news came that Presi-
dent Mckinley had been shot. AS rule
the people on the streets evidently were
feeling more deeply than they had the
power to express. AS consequence there
was a dearth of the demonstrations
which accompanied the receipt Of the
news that President Garfield had been
shot, or the wonderful outbreak of wrath
and deep sorrow which was a feature at
the time Of the assassination of Presi-
dent Lincoln
That the mass OF the people was Keen
~ interested became manifest during the
evening when the bulletin boards became
the center OF interest for thousands on
upper Broadway IN Harlem and at the
newspaper offices in Park Row. The
crowds which gathered about these news
centefs were in some cases numerous, as
are the crowds on the occasion of ma
ttonal elections. But they We're not the
cheering masses which the New Yorker
expects to see at those times. They were
almost stofcal in their interest At one
OF the boards, when a bulletin announc-
ing that the physicians at the presidents
bedside had held a consultation and be-
feved the sufferer would live, the news
was received in dead silence
Almost all of New York was at work
when the first news of the happening
at Buffalo was sent over the wires With
In an incredibly short time the streets
were full of newSboyS crying the startling
fact The sale of extra editions was I'M
precedented. Business was almost sus-
pended. In Wall street, where the work
Of the day had been done and broker and
banker, clerk and coStemer were. leay-
ing or preparing to leave, there were COM
PdfatlNely few to feel the shock of the
lrteflgenee. But in spite of this, Wall
street and the adjoining thoroughfares
were hled with anxious groups Of men
ana boys clustered about the readers OF
the extra editions, and anxious inquiries
were mace OF everyone for anything that
was not already public knowledge.
1t was in the clubs and hotels that the
heenest interest was manifest during the
aller-olnner hours. When it was report
ca lhat the president would probably re-
cover ana there We're no contradictfue
reports, 1t seemed to be taken for grant
ca that the event would not become an
ms torlcal tragedy. At the big hotels the
possible effect on the financial situation
was chiefly discussed
All sorts of rurnors were a abroad IF
was said that ]. P. Morgan had sum-
mohed the chief bankers and capitalists
on board his yacht and was holding a
ways and means conference and it was
Wildly stated that the presidents of all
bAe DlS BANKS were In session in the
metropolitan club. The truth is that Mr..
Morgan, after short conference with
James r. Keene, boarded his yacht ana
went to Great Neck, L. 1.
At the Fifth Avenue hotel Senator
Platt sat in the corridor and was the
center OF gathering of men who sat or
stood about him with genuine sorrow
WiLtteh on theIr faces They listened
with respect to the senator as he told of
the gentIeness and kindness of the man
VINO mad been stricken and said that it
was such cases as these that Justified
Iynch1ng, and added that he regretted
that the penalty in this state for the
crime, should the president not die. was
only ten years in the penitentiary.
At the Democratic club and in the Hoff.
man house were congregated the men
whose political sympathies were not with
the chief executive, politics were forgot
ten In the sorrow which was evident on
purely personal grounds. 80
The first resolutions of sorrow passed in
this city were by joint meeting Of a
district Democratic organization and a
district Tammany committee
Capt. Titus, chief of the detective
bureau, after comforting by telephone,
with Sergeant Valley, in charge of the
police bureau at the exposition in Buff
falo, examined the records of anarchists
and dangerous characters contained in
his office and said he failed to find that
Niemau Is known in New York by the
police.