The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-07
THRONG WATCHED
JOURNAL RETURNS
Election Show at Auditorium
the Center of Attraction
Last Night.

IL g y y u ! IL al uetu dfTduScu 10 gave
an election night entertainment in the
Auditorium last night, for weather con-
ditions made an out.of-doors method Of
getting the election returns almost i'm
possible and The Journals was
the only indoors entertainment given
for the especial purpose of bringing
the returns before the public in the
shortest lapse Of time.
There were the usual methods of
flashing the returns on screens along
Fourth street, but this sometime popu.
lar method Of getting the first Of good
or bad campaign news degenerated into
O'Clock and only the very faithful
chung to the curb until the trend of the
voter g mind had been made reason
The various theaters and clubs also
paid attention to the happenings at
the political front, the amusement
places having the returns read from
the stage and the latter having some
sort of special news service for the
evening. But The Journals cleo
ton night entertainment at the Audi
rousing election night get-together
meeting, with plenty Of good amuse-
ment features sandwiched in between
the bulletins and everybody comfort
a able and haPPpy in spite of the steady
Stream of People.
About the time Fourth street s be-
gan to take on the surface appearance
of field Of black mushrooms, the
doors of the Auditorium were opened
to a crowd pounding for admission,
and from O'Clock until late in the
evening stream Of people passed the
ticket-taker with the purpose of profit
| ing by the opportunity. given by h
Journal.
1t was meeting Of marked liveli-
Rev. G. L. Morrill, appeared at the key
| board Of the big pipe organ until the
last flash on the immense screen which
final words /" good night The crowd
which fairly >filled the biggest music
hall in the northwest was alive to
everything going on and looking for
action. The program presented, there.
fore, thoroly pleased the two thousand
or more present.
There WASH It slow moment during
and his organ selection came the popu,
lar Swanee quartet, which scored heav.
lily and repeatedly during the evening,
| while the marvellous auxetophone was
first heard from behind the curtain
| and gave such an excellent imitation
Of full military band in heavy &C.
ton that there was a general expires.
sion of surprise when the raising Of
the curtain revealed an improved and
voice like young thunder.
Miss Eulalie Chenevert, whose pipe
organ selections were the musical feat
ures OF the evening, was the recipient
OF enthusiastic applause upon each of
the several appearances she made,
while the motion pictures were also
given the glad hand more than once.
The Journal Newsboys.
:, From the standpoint of pleasure civ.
ing, The Journal newsboys, for whose
benefit the entertainment was given,
were the real heroes of the evening.
Their tug of war was test of strength
entered into with fierce determination
and gave the audience five minutes Of
the hottest kind Of test of strength.
The pie-eating contest called upon the
5 dozen as Of T tSe as the ENDURANCE ne Of
they lined up, with hands tied behind
their backs, and waded into the dozen
pumpkin pies placed at their disposal
was good for any one threatened with
dyspepsia. The four-round sparring
SFopmer Mayor Ha syoe '0 %ss ab anf
as lively bout as one ever sees from
youthful students of the science of the
gloves.
The evening was rather eventful,
tEoo' because OF the appearance in pub:
Journal band Of thirty-fve pieces. The
boys played during the first part Of
the evening down in the orchestra pit
ana finished their part of the program
from the vantage point of the stage.
IN each situation and at all times the
boys were literally applauded for the
stirring marches they played.
Never Hitch.
- 1t was the way in which the show
'run,' however, that did the most
to make it the most successful election
night entertainment ever given in the
city. Thru system Of telephone and
other signals It was possible to run the
snow thru without moment g break
from the opening number to the clos
Ing. AS fast as the returns came in
they were given to the audience thru
the medium Of the stereopticon ma
chine and the curtain On which the
returns were flashed, and whenever
there was brief hiatus, which. in its
turn, made way for more election news
and caused the evening to pass rapidly
to. the acute phase Of the situation
when first Jones and then HAYNES
would be in the lead and the adherents
OF, one Sor the other would yell them
selves hoarse in their excitement. IT
The Sunshine society furnished
luncheon during the evening and j. A.
Fillmore & Son made the Auditorium
unusually interesting by their decora-
There was something doing all the
time at The Journal,s election
night entertainment and It was the one
pig indoor entertainment Of the even
t ing at which everyone appeared to
IholUIy enjoy, themselves, no matter
side. =