New-York tribune., 1909-11-03
Oh! WHAT A NIGHT
Il CITY CELEBRATING.
Fast Army Watches Tr1bune's
Teldutograph Returns.

Long before most persons were up and
about yesterday morning every boy who
soams the street from those still in kits
ell the way TO those who graduated into
trousers so long ago that they had for
gotten that important occasion, scour-
ing the city on hunt for boxes, barrels.
eawdust-in fact. everything with which to
make bonfire.
Never political canvass conducted
with more energy and thoroughness than
WAS the campaign for bonfres by the Lii
puflan army. Ine lumber was stored in
many secret places, and when the shades
OF night began to fail the march to the
battle line in earnest. Armies of
boys tTamped down the middle of the
streets. the rank and file led by Officers
errayed in outlandish costumes. their faces
smeared with lurid paint. These leaders
among the boys swung tin cans by wire,
the cans being filled with bits of burning
wood and paper, as they marched solemnly
elong
So ii was that when the vast army of
adults went out last evening, some on their
way to the polls TO watch the count others
10 the theatres and restaurants, it was
greeted by the old familiar sight of bon
fires. about which danced the hordes of the
youthful army. No one candidate was
favorite among the boys: they were there
only to make a gala night of it, and were
as willing 10 shout the name of one candi-
Date another.
The adult army began its invasion at
comparatively early hour. As prelmi-
nary TO the later activities OF the night there
was a concerted rush for the restaurants,
and such a thing an unoccupied chair at
g dining table anywhere on Broadway or
its tributaries was as rare as hairs on
mans bald head The walls of every well
known hosiery fairly bulged
The most Typical sight, perhaps was
along Broadway. with its myriad OF lights,
its laughing, iostling crowds. and fits gen
eral air OF freedom from care and worry
OF every sort. The hosts came in taxfca bs
carrya1ls, touring cars, runabouts lmou-
sines, motorcycles, bicycles: they came in
hansoms. coupes. victorias. stages. cabs.
buggies, drays. moving vans. closed car
riages, open carriages and wheelbarrews-
and still they came.
But Broadway was not the only section of
the city which held high carnival. Every
side street had fits full quota of humanity.
men and women packed together like sar-
dimes in a box. 1t was possible almost for
a man 10 start from Broadway and 42d
street, travel east to Fifth avenue walking
all the while. and never have his feet
touch the sidewalk He was ''up in the air.
all the time. carried along by his next ell
bow neighbors.
Harlem opened its arms to mighty host
of voters, their wives and their children
and they made 125th street from Eighth
avenue to Third avenue their rendezvous
To protect their property and display of
stock In the show windows merchants had
taken the precaution TO have stout boards
nailed in front of the plate glass, and il
well they did, so great was the crush
Nothing less than a heavy locomotive
could have ploughed Its way through the
masses that stood before the newspaper Of
fees. waiting the first news of the cleo
ton. Before the space in front of the
Tribune bulletin board was packed crowd
that crowded Park Row, filled CITY Hall
Park and extended far back as Broad
way. II 4
The thousands watched, with close atten-
ton, the giant teIautograph. that glided a.
mammoth pen across tie white surface of
the bulletin board, giving the news from
every election district in the greater CITY
with unailins accuracy. The actions of
the giant hand that guided the mammoth
pen were almost uncenny, so natural was
the stroke, yet with no visible signs OF
human agency TO direct its work Every
body expressed surprise and satisfaction ~
the rapdity with which the returns were
flashed on the Tribune bulletin board
While the celebration was at its height
and the crowds making things sizzle with
their enthusiasm. rain descended in tor
rents and sent the thousands rushing for
shelter They perched on every spot that
afforded a foothold. squeezing themselves
iato doorWays, into theatre Hobbies and in
the subway stations. When the blankets
of rain had expended their surplus energy
the crowds came forth from their tempo-
Tsry retirement. and once more started in
TO celebrate where they had left off