The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-07
BROADWAYWAS PACKED FULL.
III you GOT IN THE RIGHT EDDY
YOU GOT SOMEWHERE.
But Nobody Cared Much Tho Elevator
Yell Cav way 20 . Hughes Ditty--A
Jam AZ Restaurant oors -Theatre
Crowd Made Things Even More Lively.

Somehow or other the notion still OBJ
tains that the election In New York Us over
at S o'clock In the evening. when ass matter
, OF fact 1t doesn't really begin. n..tl about
an hour after that. BY this time the Smiths
of East New York and the Smyths OF Brook
Ign Heights and the Joneses OF Brownsy lille
and the Schmidts OF Hoboken have arrived
in tow and Broadway begins TO perk up.
When they all begin to gather between
Madison Square and Forty-second street,
one appre ciates the wisdom Of the pioneers
who selected as a site for the metropolis
q town with a solid rock foundation.
Up And down the Great Tight Way surged
the ladies and gentlemen with horns, a
feather face ticker and a souse TO the
steady groan Of composite racket. The
game was to button NJ your coat in front
OF the Flatiron and wade in. by beginning
early and with a steady resolve to get some
place further north you could bat and
shove and jam yourself along. yelling.
lodging fetfuls Of confetti and being
trampled upon, and at the end Of ten minutes
you would find that your industry had
! landed you bach at the Flatiron.
You could try il again, however, and some
time later you would find yourself up at
Forty-second street. Then turned
! around and worked back again to theF Flat
iron. How many times this could be ac-
coinplisl 4 depended entirely upon your
luck in striking eddies that we're headed
your way. In the beginning Of the evening
the good old Hearst yell that runs:
Elevate tho Elevator,
Elevate tho Elevator
Ele, alto the Elevator
Hoist! Hoist, Hoist
was heard even above the nondescript roar
that il Broadway OH election night. But
il was scattered and as the evening pro-
9ressed and the bulletins told the Hearst
ties that they were in bad and the search
lights insisted upon pointing steadily north
the Elevator yell was not heard so mich
as was u little 'Florodora" ditty hat rum
on. tell ne. pretty maiden.
Are there any more at home IKE Hughesf
This demand for information some
times led to further discussions bel ween
bold young mel and indignant girls who
thought the young men were just too fresh
for anything. They stopped IN groups
amid the swirling crowds to talk it over
with the result that they went awav arm
in arm, the bold young men and TIE m
dig1aut girls, TO c1ntinue the di'cus sion.
The Tenderloln restaurant crowds tegan
out on the curb in front Of the restaurants.
IL you waited a long time on the SIDE Walk
/ your patience would be rewarded finally
by finding that you had worked right up
TO the restaurant door. Then you could
see at a glance that there were no unocCu-
pied tai les left in the restaurant and you
could seek another place and begin all
over again. If you were a Hearst man th.s
tai 10 hunting had lis advantages. 10 kept
your mind of other things.
Through it all rode the mounte police,
who opened a wsy-or tried to-for the
surface cars. In Madison Square, how
ever, there was no one 10 open a way for the
mounted cops and so nobody had occasion
to complain that the conductor went righe
by without stopping. A. the cars moved
I along through them obs that filled the street
from " all to " all it was considered a rare
iest TO reach out Of the open car windows
and snatch the hats Of pedesJrians. The
hatless then got back their property by
climbing into the cars by way Of the doors
or windows-wi1dows preferred-and
wrestling good naturedly with the bandit
amid a tan2le of s%hrieking girls. feather
face tickle :, tin horns and conf csti.
But thin-s didn't liven up till the mid
night whistle announced that the worl ing
girls who slave in musical comedies and
baby blue tights had quit laborinG for the
evening and were now on the election job,
This was also the ST. nal for 20 ening wine.
although it is said that several bottles had
been o1ened earlier in the evening. Their
also the live broiled took on his scarlet coat
and CABS began to core along with gentle
men hailinR from every ! oint from here u
Pittsburg hanging in festoons and yelling
undecidedly.
".Raysh FIR Pazazazh zhum la-la zshizl-
and a number OF other ideas on the same
strain.
The theatre crowds Joined the thousand
that had been hooting n footing and
the result was even more so. BY this time
the walters down at Martins, ever the
centre OF high pressure on election night,
were telling the diners that they never
served peaches Melba in a wheelbsrrow
a,I % a. la .-..-N.I ,.-,n ha -, NhAw,
served that way and no other she would
have to 60 elsewhere. And in the mean
time would the lady kindly take her feet
OF the candeiabra2
Tn at Columbus Circle. where a few
thousands Of the faithful gathered TO hope
against hope. there were efforts at enthu-
siasm that we're dampened by the search
lights further down town which lust would
shine porthward. Their favorite Elevators
picture was on display and bulletins Of so
encouraging a nature were flashed from
time to time that the faithful were often on
The point Of getting up real enthusiasm.
But one glance aloft showed that white
shaf of light cleaning steadily northwa ard
al, he cheers we're disheartened. There
rea " she d he a canopy stretched ovey
Co lun vi Square on election night, manr
I ought.
Far of on the cross streets, looking east
and west from Broadway, bOntires shot
high in air while the small boys looted the
backwards Of their neighborhoods for fuel,
The boys danced around the flames re-
gardless Of who had won. The spirit OF the
Broadway was much the same. Here the
crowds danced around the irewater and
enjoyed the rOughhouse quite regardless OF
the result.
The last heard from the storm centre was
that the girl who wanted the reaches Melba
served in & wheclbarrow had given mp this
idea and WIS insisting that the waiter WASH
her face with Nesselrode pudding instead.
The cabs with the human festoops hanging
from the windows were waltzing around
and ar ound and the confetti had settled 10
the derth Of a snowstorm in a Third avenue
melodrama.
SOCIALIST VOTE INCREASED