New-York tribune., 1907-11-06
ELECTION CROWD SMALL
Thousands See Returns ThrOzcn on
The Tribune Screen.

Where were The Of yesteryear? Where
were the crowds of yesterday? BY all tradition
Broadway should have been filled from curb TO
curb ny anxious crowds. But It wasn't. Add 10
she regular theatre crowds along about O'Clock or
soon after a score or more Of small boys to every
block or 50, and YOU have clear idea Of what
constituted the election crowd" last night
Tie theatres were fall, but not crowded. The
restaurants were comfortably filed. Likewise the
saloons In a few Of the restaurants the demand
for tables slightly exceeded that Saturday
nights. The bars OF few hotels had put up tenn
porary benches TO serve bars. hut they were not
needed
In former years the newspapers have had bulle-
tins spread all along Broadway, but not this year.
Commissioner Bingham sent several hundred pa
trolmen up in the old Tenderloin district to look
for the crowds, but they had easy time for
Election night. One year ago last night Broad
way. from 42d street 10 23d street. solid
mass Of humanity. SIast night the curb clear
nj the way across the stree with the exception Of
the many mounted and foot police Up and down
the sidewalks the hawkers of ''tickers'' and con-
fetd vended their wares with small success. At
scattered, disconsolate intervals were the vendors
Of horns and rattles These noise producers varied
IN degree from the hoarse, raucous fog horn notes
~ the larger to the shrill dscordant shrieks
Of The smaller ones Few Of these were sold. how
ever
There were more people downtown than along
Broadway. In front Of the Tribune Building, City
Hall Park packed from the steps of the City
Hall to the wagons lined up against the platform
IN Mail street There was no other bulletin worth
considering 10 detract from their attention. With
much difficulty the police mounted and foot.
kept the crowd within bounds. stretching It did
back 10 Broadway. Close to tom" Foley's district
as fl was the crowd cheered Justify when The Trib
une first announced the big lead of the Tamma1y
man. After that IL relapsed into its previous
apathy It has come to be accepted that certain
classes VIII bother vote, but il took a crowd
like that of last night to show what real apathy
was.
In Long Acre Square there was small crowd
watching the bulletins It cheered indiscriminately
the pictures Of Roosevelt and Bryan. Hughes and
Hearst and Of Foley and Ihmsen.
It in Printing House Square, however. in
front of the Tribune Building that the biggest
crowd in the city assembled. While no increase in
the Broadway crowds was noticeable up TO
O'Clock it was O'Clock that the first spectators
appeared opposite the Tribune Building. BY
O'Clock there was solid Of humanity stretch
ing from the Park Row tracks to those in
Broadway, and from the City Hall steps to the
platforms of the Federal Building in Mail street
No new noise making devices were vended last
night but all the old present in abun-
dance. Some of these old ones were deafening
enough to drown the warnings of approaching
tomohiles At 10Th street and Broadway William
McGrath and his wife started TO cross the street.
An automobile knocked down Mrs McGrath. in
turing her so severely that she taken to the
Rev York Hospital. McGrath not hurt Sc
verely.
One Of the worst noise makers was made of
big pieces of tin or zinc. There were enormous
cowbels. stolen or borrowed for the night; boards
20 bang together. cymbals. horns, locusts, drums.
whistles, cornets and even trombones.
The crowds were as good natured as usual but
the interest in the election was so lax that the
people out for fun tried 10 work themselves ana
Others into merriment. anxious were they to
make the night count
In Harlem, especially in West 125th street, the
crowds were noisy and rough Inspector Thomp-
SON who was in charge of detail of 1oO pohce-
men said the crowd was one OF the worst that had
ever appeared on an Election Night in Harlem
Only few arrests for disorderly conduct were
made the policemen being content to warn per
sons not TO be overzealous in their enthusiasm.
Central Office detectives mingled in the crowd. and
numerous arrests OF suspicious persons" were
made.