The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1908-11-04

GREAT CROWD GATHERS
At THE TRIBUNE OFFICE
People Out for GOOD Time,
and Get Worth of
Money.
Was Sail Lake City enthusiastic

Was Salt Lake City enthusiastic
about the elcctioni Well, perhaps!
Long before election day it was con
fidently predicted that there would be
a ''high old time election night Al!
through election day the same forecast
was made with greater frequency
And when night came there Ger
JainlY, was.
Noise! Lots % IT, And enthusiasm
that would not be downcd. 1t started
early in the evening as soon as dark
ness came on. aud the difference be-
tween eastern and mountain time al
lowed the newspapers TO display their
bulletins on the screens with the ster
eopticon And the celebration grew by
leaps and bounds until At s o clock 1T
seemed that IL could grow no more. 1t
was Just about that time thut the news
began 10 come in from the city pre-
cincts, and lust about thai time, toJ,
that the crowds began 90 get down
town after dinner
Bnt at clock it was still worse.
and only the size Of Salt Lake City
streets-and they are wide .ones-lim-
lied the masses that were dcnscly
packed 10 watch the election returns,
or werc simply jostling along with rest
less, unceasing, albeit good natured eN
uberancc Of spirits, that showed that
the people Of big city were out for
good time.
1t was between First South and Sec
oud South streets on Main that the
crowds were thickest. There, three
newspapers had their election bulletins
displayed near one another.
There. too, bonfire was started
early in the evening TO. celebrate tho
turns from che city had not yet begun
10 come IN.
Not Enonph Water
Some one tried TO quench the ar5or
of the enthusiasm. and the heat of the
FIRE, with tiny stream of water tflck-
ling from a lawn hose, ard squirting
out from a second-story window oa the
flames. Pedestrians were literally be
sprinkled with water, but did not seem
10 know that II was falling. While the
firc. encouraged by packing boxes and
similar light finder seemed to pay just
as little attention to-the efforts Of ~ the
man with the hose
And snch n crush. The college
- rush - was not in il with the lam that
was IN evidence from time to time on
the west side Of Main street Persons
out 10 see the returns were caught in
IT, as hotsam IN 2 whirlpool, before
they were aware what was happening
Once in the center of the mad rush.
there was nothing for il but To submit
good natu-edly, and wait until you we're
thrown ont by the crush seyerai hun
dred yards further down the street.
Bows and girls were caught in the
mselstrom. and enjoyed IL 10 the fullest
extent. Maidens and their escorts were
there, and prim bashfulness struggled
with exuberant spirits 10 show whether
they really enjoyed 1t OF not. Older
persons were caught. One little woman.
her hair Just beginning TO turn grew
was almost eut OF sight in the thropg.
but was full Of the real spirit Of the
thing. Old men were there. and wished
they were well out of il. Mothers
carrying children were pushed hither
and thither, and had all they could
do to keep the youn gsters out Of dan
ger under the fest OF the crowds.
Hoodlums in Evidence.
And the hoo6lums and the near-hood.
lums were IN their element
1t was great night Tor the vendor
OF noise-nakIng, ncrve-rackiEg instru.
ments Of torture, aud the man with the
novelty had an equally profitable time
Not shop-door on Main street but had
,ts little table whence were peddled cow,
bells, horns that gave forth every tone
from deepest bass to ear.splittins
screeeb, loud-neised rattles, and "tick
lers' with which TO startlc the unwary
Chief Pitts orders regarding tn,
throwing of confetti and talcum powde
were fairy well obeyed, but they die
not prevent Salt Lake from having on,
Of the most cxuberant "rights out" il
IT'S history.
The crowd would have been "meat'
for the pickpocket and other thief
were il not THAI every individual mem
Der in. it probably had TO spend all hi
time looking ont for himself One
caught in the grand crush, there wa
nothing for it but to double up the arm.
college style, and see that they did no
get twisted or broken under the in
meuse pressure Of hundreds Of pusilin,
rwaying human bodies.
But little damage was reported. ant
beycDd Uttered, and in some place
damaged. pavement, there is little o
tao street this morning 10 indicate tina
Eelt Lakcrs were doing things las
night. ~.