The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1905-11-11
LORD OF MlsRuLE WAS IN su.
PREME' POWER.

Stark, staring mad, 1t seemed, in
their enthusiasm for one candidate or
another, hundreds of thousands of
New Workers and scores OF thousands
form other cities took possession of
Broadway and Park row last night and
held high carnival from dusk to mid
night and beyond. The excited wo.
men and men-yes, and thousands of
chfidren--turned the evening into a
monster merry-making, beside which
the widest riots OF Joy in rome or
Nice or Paris or our own New Orleans
must dwindle to dwarfishness. New
York-their own New York-was
theirs twixt twilight and the nights
high noon, says the New York Press.
Picture 100000 frenzied funmakers
parading the only way between the
boundaries long known as the dead
line and the picket sign. Stretch
another fair canvas on imagination's
easel and paint 100000 jammed in the
big blaze between Tryon row and Beck
man street and reaching from Nassau
street back to Broadway. Sketch the
Brooklyn bridge, black with humanity,
hurrying Manhattanward from all sec.
lions OF Kings county and the utter
most parts of Long Island. Conjure
the biare of horns, the grating whirr
Of watchmen's rattles, the clang OF
cowbeIls. the din of tin and iron boxes
filed with shot and shaken ficndishly,
shriIl shrieks from futtered and fiut-
tering feminity and hoarse cries from
femininty robust enough to stagger a
horse. Add to that swirl of sounds
the shouts of men and boys, the pip
ing yells Of gamins darting through
the throngs. the college cries of every
educational institution from the old
est universities to the newest fresh
weter learning foundries. Imagine
the hullabaloo all that made-strain
ycur imagination trying to fancy it.
Then multiply the best effort of your
mental grasp thousandfold and still
you have only whisper of the uproar
chat dashed like an aaral Gotham and
hurled its might in endless echoes
against the star-fecked sky.
Stars? Perhaps they glimnered mil
lions Of miles above. Inferenda1Iy,
every planet and faraway SIN doing
basiness at the old stand. But the
whole glittering firmaent might have
been plotted out without being missed
The white lights, the bright lights,
We're blazing along Broadway, Oak
Nley's arc lights were earning dividends
! for the lighting trust as usual, and
even IL all the artificial illumination
lnown TO metropolitan civilization
and installed by paternal Tammany
lad nickered out, there were eyes
caucily sparkling to more than make
up the deficit. New York girls always
have their eyes open, and last night
4 they opened their starry orbs so wide
1t was wonder agents OF the Edison
monopoly weren't trying to buy up the
patents.
Talk about pretty girls--brt what's
tie use talking about them when no
sooner would the appreciativc observ.
err concentrate his attention on the
one than she would be whisked away
in; the crowd, only to be supplanted by
sister also bewilderingly beautiful,
but generally OF confusingly contrast
Ing type? Big girls. little girls. slen.
der girls and plump: blond. girls, bru.
net girls, dark-haired blends, and blue.
eyed brunets: hazel-eyed, gray-eyed,
bleckeyed; huggable girls and girls
magnificently unapproachable as god
desses; coolies and coolies OF the cud-
dlesome kind; Amazonic regiments of
the statuesque; Hebes, Aphrodites.
Jnuo and-yes. Minervas. for the
close observer saw a good many I'm.
dergrades in the vast procession-in
short full assortment of the incom-
parable heart-breakers New York-and
little old New York alone-can show.
They were all there-all. II per.
chance, In a quiet street disconso.
late Cinderella covered over the
aehes-or, to be modern, huddled over
the gas range-she must have been
y a lassfe newly come from distant
cline. All the wicked sisters from
now till kingdom come couldn't keep