The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-07
GREAT JAM ALONG PARK ROW
BUT A LANE WAS MADE IN A
HURRY FOR FIRE ENGINES.
SlOunted Cops Charged and Room Was
FOund Where There Seemed 10 Ne None
Picture Machine Boot B~urned-Choers
FOR the Candidates and for Roosevelt.

Found where There Ne -
Picture Machine Booth Burned Cheers
FOR the Candidates and for Roosevelt.
Three futtering squares OF canvas,
across which shadoWy figures fitted, held
a great crowd on Park row and in City
| Hall Park last night from shortly after
dark until after midnight. They were
long hours, with "a new thrill each minute
as the returns flashed from the newspaper
Offices appeared for a brief instant on the
canvas screens and disappeared.
Hardly had the arc lights begun "a
sputter than the crowd began to gather.
BY 7 O'Clock the broad spaces were closely
packed. At s there was not foot space.
The fringe Of the crowd struggled back
TO the City Hall steps. The cars moved
through the surying, roaring throng like
a knife through a cheese, cutting it into
solid BLOCKS. which instantly melted to-
gether again behind the tall cards.
Every incoming train from Brooklyn
carried its hundreds. A steady stream
from the Bowery flowed into the packed
masses. Every one came and none went. Z
Shortly after o O'clock the returns began
to apIea- on the illuminated sheets. In
front OF the journal and Tribune Offices
rough booths ON stills sheltered the stere-
opticons. and from the dark gap in front Of
each strong beams Of white light jumped
across the heads Of the crowd onto the
canvas.
A third sheet tapped against the side of
the bridge station. Across the ifumined
front OF il moved a jointed spiders leg of
shadow. which left lines of script and figures
in its trail. This lie a t~elautograph," the
shadow stick spelled out time and again
in the breathing space bet ween bulletins.
The phantom pencil had a fascination
for the crowd. 1t would suddenly poise
at the upper left hand corner OF the sheet
then begin: -At5 Elect. D!sts. out of 1475
in Man. and Bronx; Hearst, Hughes"
Then the pencil would stop and waver
back to insert the figures, while the people
SatchinG it took in a QuiC: breath OF an
~ticipation. Inc figures would then be
scraf ched and a roar from the crowd would
M nctI ate the last stroke OF the rcochet-
ting boam Of black.
over in front OF the JoVrnOI building the
time between bulletins was filled in with
moving pictures and cnromOr In high color,
Priscilla dressed in Alice tlue and as red
checked as a country maiGen, would sit
at her SHINING wheel for two minutes o.,
end, then suddenly give place to a sCrawled
bulletin from GloveTsvilIe. There was one
series OF moving pictures that depicted a
1 5NF Ilo fpANCAA u "NhAR Ao@N ~
Indian. The Indian had the white man in
the bulrushes and was Just about TO STAY
him when a report from The Bronx stayed
his hand.
damsel in an imitation mink o
Hoist outtin' down Hughes's plurality
in BROOKLYN, answe cred her escort.
Or the Tribune sheet various photographs
were flashed: Every few minutes the visage
Of William X. Hearst would appear and a
roar would go up from one segment of the
crowd. Then Hughes's face " ould follow
and another section would try to outbt low
the first. Both factions united in long
ralIcous hurrahs for Pr sident Roosevt IL
whenever a ten years old likeness of him
was flashed.
The n an who manipulated the t~elauto-
graph " as a humOTist. At one time, when
things seemed to be getting dull. he " rote:
Tom ShRrkey challenges the WHINE r.
Hoo-ray!" The crowd was immensely
tickled. Then he sk etched len ons and
rocks and other Larapht rnalia OF the
campaign, all OF which maze an instant
Shortly after 30 o'clock there was an
alarm of fire. Down the street from Broad-
way sounded the chatter and rumble Of a
Are engine. Its whistle began to shrek
insanely.
A ripple passed over the dense mass,
choking the street from curb to curb. Four
mounted policemen charged at the pack
ahead Of the engine.
The crowd split right down the middle,
the edges crlmpiing and falling back upon
the block OF shadow ON either side. Still
~insanely shrieking, the fire engine pressed
through the crowd down the narrow lane
at a gallop. So close were the two lines oi
humanity TO the swaying mass OF copper
and steel that the sparks FELL on overcoats
and dresses.
Another spasm Of excitement seized tho
crowd when a few minutes after 10 o'clock
a fame jumped out OF the s~tereopticon box
in front Of the journal bulletin. A sharp
scream Of fear sounded from the block OF
humanity packed 1T the base OF the support
ing beams. People scattered hurriedlv
Then the operators Of the machines began
to scramble out OF the narrow box above.
Flames and smoke belched out from the
front of the elevated closet and soon the
whole upper part Of h structure was
Agan the fire engine ploughed through
the crowd, m~iracIlouRly without burt 70
any one. The Simsy structure had been
burnt to a cinder before the engine arrived.
That put nm end to the Journals chrome
picture show for a time but later IL got into
working shape again. The election bulletins
were flashed from a second aerial cabin and
wercI't interfered with.
A decent and well ordered crowd IL was.
There ives some attempt at carnival
spirit A horn was IN every third mouth
and the Greeks peddled -teeklers" on the
edges OF the crowd But The horn. were
/ not DIayttillV uScO rs GUIDE ana the uCkIerS
did not nave nails In TIE hats or CAYENNE
in the feathers. as wns the case at the Coney
island Mardi Gras.
In the middle OF the evening several
impromptu marching PARTIES we're at
tempted by Heart partisans. who bore
brooms over their shoulders and shouted
exultsntly. Later these enthusiasts melted
into the crowd.
1t was rot until near midnizht. when the re-
turns had Begin to flicker into mere de-
tails oS facts already known, that the crowd
drifted gradually into departing streams
and frally eft the street clear save for
battered horns and dirty confetti.
NORTH CAROLINA DFNOCRlTTC.