The evening world., 1908-10-08
CROWDS GATHER
EARLY, BUT FAIL
TO AVOID RUSH
Red Line of Heroes Spent All
Night Outside the Polo
Grounds.
Continued from First Page)


Sixth Reader. crashing and smashing,
ana all that? Well, that's how the
crowds are now coming here. II is
three hours before the game starts but
the grand stand is almost full. and the
beachers, which throw their ends far
out to either side like the arching ant
lers of a Texas steer. have become big
tenRnted gardens OF humanity. The
beat OF feet on the long plankej run
ways leading from the gate make music
like lo.eoo Norman brewery horses run
ming away on covered bridge.
Fred Knowles says there are now
more than 1900 people inside the fence
ard oltside are 5000 more young Turks
Bulgarians and Bosnians, tearing their
own and other peoples clothes OF as
they fight to get in before actual trouble
starts on the Balkan bluffs
A quarter of one-The inner gates
commanding the entrances to the grand
stand have been closed. Several pa
triots were caught and pinChed. The
bleachers and the field spaces are still
Hospitality open TO the populace.
One o'clock--It is reliably reported that
all the people in the world are here with
the exception OF seventeen who stayed
over In Red Oak, Iowa, to hear William
jennings Bryan speak on issues OF the
day, which are purely incidental and
have no bearing on the proposition OF
New York versus Chicago.
BIeachers Filled Up.
Prominent citizens plead vainly for
admittance to the grand stand. which
will not hold any more, unless they
tax. the roof on The bleachers are
/ now living avafanches which look top
| heavy enough 20 landslide down on the
field. There are only a few bare
patches OF yellow seat space left. and
/ these are being wiped out with black
as the crowd keeps pling in.
There are no signs of those Chicago
rooters who were coming on to root.
Maybe they won't dare TO cheer. be-
cause. while this is a good-natursn
army thus far, II could be aroused.
Everybody who is anybody gets a
cheer. Big Bill" Devery is tumultu-
ously greeted as he enters. So is Jus
tice Mccall, Of the Supreme Court.
Adolph link and Marshall Wilder.
fresh from their morning bath In a
/ niser poW!, ger II "Ioop Mark IVAN.
in white flannels, sits In a box up
stairs. Former District-Attorney Oh
colt is in the next pew Larry Doyle,
in a soIled white uniform. and Jack
Barry. disguised as a civilian. are the
first players to cross the field. Up rise
5000 sun-kissed bleacher gods and, ca CHI
with features ajar until he looks Ike
an old-fashioned open fireplace in the
ia'e' ."ee' '"ese wv iaNoi''e SUITS
nightly.
Two o'clock-Thousau tis are making
.h.t si., go 81. L.. =, hraar
'hNif oihher on twin slices Oh p'eae'
cut to the th!nnest OF shaving paper
with faint male red yeneerinRs OF hog
''' ."''' pun e
/ meat between. These fragile Things are
known. no here on the Polo Grounds.
~. ,ho ,,ts,.as,no ,.,,. n, ham ..,d-
W '"e ''.s'e nan. 20 ",',' -.
tb.r hi, th.y nroyide .greasble .xer.
49,,
Csc LOT ''le JAWS
The cheering never stops, only when
a .Chl'' PLAYER shows himself in his
rebel gray fatigue uniform boos and
misses ninsle WIN IL man IN '!ie
bleachers has key hugle on which he
them are using cowbe,ls and wooden
mem are u''''s wv" oe'S anu "'o.e''
rattlers. Inc gay colors OF many Mcr-
ny Widow lids and lot OF waving lila gs
made TN. bsnked-up piled.un seating
-
spaces look IKE Lu'her buFoahA
flower gardens.
olO-rhe police omen the inside gates
-. ala nit. 10 49, voc, ,ir,, ,,.,
" t''e ne'u I"'' 20 VIC oe'' sHe'' "
| through dozen slulces pour men and
nOmen-fuliy third of them are
women. They race across the field
Overwhelming the players practisi NJ
there until from the press stand the
picture in front of YOU makes YOU think
Of runaway kaleidoscope film There
IS lot OF pushing ana telling, while
tne GUARDS ana lne pollcemen ana me
roo Srouhas peopls ny 70 sel an tnls
,i Dn.h In, di an is Toe, o. o.
sight. The men OF the two teams can
inheid. The pitchers may have 20 warm
up their arms over a gas stove IL this
thing Keeps up,