Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-06-10

record base ball crowds pressed the record
foot ball crowds close. The biggest base
ball crowd ever assembled was that which
Witnessed the final game in last years
world championship series. Il numbered
about $4,000 and took complete possession
Of the Polo grounds
As Eeneral rule the American crowd Is
well behaved, giving little trouble to the
police and others advantageously placed
for emergency work Foreign visitors
have remarked on the good nature Of the
crowds gathered to watch the election re-
turnsi they have been astonished at tho
way in which supporters Of victorious
ana defeated candidates vie with each
other In making election night noises. The
oheerfulness Of the defeated is Indicative
OF American character
A Russian Catherine.
one OF the greatest crowds OF modern
times assembled on the Hodynsky Plain.
MOSCOW, on May 80, 1895, to participate
In the popular fetes incident to the nresent
cars coronation. It numbered half a
million, and when II was dispersed by
soldiers few hours after II had collected
II left dead behind variously estimated
from l'loo to 1880 and seriously wounded
to the number Of 1900.
All the night prior to the fsto day tina
FNNNtNt hAoHNA9 peasants from MOS
COW and the provinces, streamed to the
vast plain on which Napoleon had msssed
his army before marching into Moscow. Nv
o'clock In the morning they were packed
about the 500 booths from which free food
drink and souvenir mugs were to be dis-
ulputed TO one and all, Barriers had been
erected In front Of each booth to prevent
undue crowdinE
mere are various explanations as TO WHY
the fete was turned into a day OF rnournip1
one Is that the crowd was greater than an
ucipated, the crush In the rear pinioned
those in the van against the barriers. which
finally gave way, and the people, finding
themselves free, swept forward In a great
wave uampling under foot all who were
not strong enough to keep their feet.
thls was the first story. Later II was
saio tha' there had been much stealing
OF the FUNDS set aside by the car for gifts
10 the populace, and with the idea of COW
erins their guilt the officials in charge OF
the food distribution instructed the 900
attendants to throw gifts at the crowd.
Then when complaints were received that
the packages did not 60 round, the replv
would be that every effort was made 10
serve the crowd, but II was much larger
than any one had planned &c
IL fact that packages Of food ana
mugs were thrown at the people by men
In the booths, but this may have been done
In the hope that under such a lombard
ment the fearless press would cease. How
ever 1t served only to increase the horror.
those In the rear leaplng forward all the
more eagerly to get their share of the food
flying about
Ihere was hollow In the ground at tho
polnt OF the greatest crush, and this proved
veritable death trap for scores of mouths
30 FURIOUS was the rush Of feet that in
places the plain looked as II It had been
freshly turned with plows. Hundreds Of the
dead were never Identified. The car a.
frayed the funeral expenses OF the victims
and to each family that lost a rnennhar 4.
SUBSTANTIAL sum Of money was paid by
his direction.
In Picturesque Madagascar.
In the days before the French made a
colony Of Madagascar the capital Of that
island was the point OF assembla1a tor =
great crowd whenever the grand Kabary
was held
The last ruler to issue her commaSd. 70
ana receive the homage of the chfefs M
TINS ceremonial was Queen Ranovalonas III.
S"armlng around the dais on which aha
sat with her chief councillors, and th{
secondary platform holding the chiefs. was
the great crowd filing the spacious sacred
enclosure. half mile distant from The
royal palace. To swell the crowd on thasa
occasions thousands Of natives travelled
from all parts Of the island, and tho CAPITAL
turned out en- masse.
The grand Kabary crowd was one Of thu
most interesting that ever collected: 40
was the multitude that witnessed the
Duroar; while In this country the crowds
that took part in the peace Celebrations An
our large cities following the close OF the
war with Spain will be remembered FOR
many years for their size and patriotic an
thusiasm The crowd that assembled IN
New York to celebrate the centennial n,
the adoption OF the constitution was enor-
nous for that day.
excepting the two inaugural crowds that
nave assembled since then, the DEWEY
parade In New York in 1900 brought To-
sether our latest famous crowd. II was
even greater than the one that coIIAo,od
to take part in the celebration of Columbus
gay seven years before. And that was a
record breaker for the METROPOLIS. tens .,
thousands coming from near ana far %
gaze and cheer in unison with the natives
-Washington Star