The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-11-09
DIX wins AND THEN, HURRAH!
.po,DWtY CROWD UNWORRIED
Bl FINAL FIGt RES.
e,.. shriekinE up One Side and Returns
,hrirking Down the Other-rhe Res
,,urant, Meet MAY or Gayner's Ruling
II, .e,ling vi They Tan Before 4. ".


r,,ht almost before tho clocks hands
b,d MARIE! With their wood typed
ha,4Iira, half hopeful guesses and half
%, ~. ass made from slender bases
~ 49, r.-rrns, the youngsters sift~d
,h-,prh ~. Gathering crowds and laid
.-., ,,untat. ons for future bank accounts
r.,rIa s,Cpprd under convenient arc
,..,. md rad that Rome. y. Y. had
,-y.r InI plurality in the hundreds.
,nwr ~ kentucky which W a. hide
h,r,d IN lts democracy had given Caleb
pov.- th,, fist Republican plurality ever
r.,,ri,t sin,- pavy Crockett's day.
1--WE minutes after tho newsboys had
h.xl.d tn. news from Long Acre Square
"a Larsfstts statue at Fourteenth street
pr,sdwsy was alive. Tho report sifted
,hrourh swinging doors and WAS carried
hr ,aser Walters TO candle shaded tables
Ths hotel lobb.,s hummed with it. Bar
,.nd.rs passed the word over the mahog-
snr With IN. glasses. The boy who
bn,sh-~ Hypothetical dust OF your clothes
Exchanged his new information for his
40
sonshow or other everybody managed
4. nav his chsck without being short
changed for hick and to find his and her
uay out 10 the hig artery of JOY IL only
sor a little promenade.
Almost before the white eyes OF the
ser~opticnns began to wink facts and
figures on the Tapping canvases the
blocks OF reserves from the police stations
began 20 cu, into the glare from shade WV
tde streets and 10 get to work. For the
crowd WAS there and with the crowd work
Yes same old crowd. same old noise
blan, nlam hlam Of cowbells and ba- an an
Of fsh horns same crowd. but with this
reservation The news came so quickly
that there was not that fine suspense Of
som. other election nights 20 keep thou
sands glued to the bulletin boards. where
the change Of "A few hundreds IN the
count inspire steady partisan roar
There were spots OF close congestion here
and there where determined citizens in
tent on learning how -twenty-four out
Of umpty -umph election districts in
Richmond county went for this and thar
ssemblyman cheerfully allowed others
10 stand on their toes. hut for the most
part the jam was on the move.
The Gordon of reserves at Long Acre
SQUARE reinforced by half dozen
mounted men on horseback. put into
operation the old crowd schedule. which
DEGREES that 10 pass from one damp store
on IN. EAST side of the car track To an
other similar emporium on the west one
PARK then return to the station at Forty
second street. The elaborate policing Of
tins crossing Of the tn xicab channels
seemed overZsalous. because there was
not what the descriptive writers term "a
s.'a II upturned faces" there.
All the theatres made provision for
III. reading Of bulletins between rhe acts
In 'ha lobbies Of most OF the hotels busy
b"llhopS tackled up page on page Of
wrapping paper scrawled over with
hurried figures The stock ticker in every
hotel alCove was the centre Of a crowd
is'aning 20 the reading Of some volunteer
AZ the lapel
There was one disturbing element in
Oh. schemes Of many JOY seekers That
VA the embarrassment occasioned hy
the lack Of all night licenses The prom
~ made by Mayor Gaynor that the EXCISE
laws would be strictly enforced and that
oil wsllrprings Of happiness not protected
b. The al night license would ne plugged
A. 4. VI. was the inspiration OF many
Inventions by well meaning restaurant
and hotel keepers.
Al one well known restaurant on Broad
way where the head walters palm had
70 10 plastered with a five spot in order
thai table might be had the tip was
c.r~'I--, that the space between the four
legs Il he table could be used rs a tenn
porary vine cellar. TO be stocked before
l o'clock Result. many pretty baskets
with gold foiled necks peepine over their
edges ready for installation at 1855. One
had To Judge IN advance Of how much
one would want at rs and on. Conserva-
tism was not the basis OF judgment
Other places held more vigorously 10
tho spirit Of the law and in them there
was no early morning drinking
Broadway on a gala night In a place
where one who cares TO may note little
episodes popping out here and there
above the drab commonalty OF shiftin q
masses Here are some that were noted
last nj ht
Half dozen men and women who
bad just turned away from bulletin
screen stopped half block away 20 watch
an almost Turk in spangled jacket and
fsz roll cigarettes in n tobacconist's win
dow Everybody else that passed stopped
70 watch the Turk too until a mounted
Policeman had IN ride onto the sidewalk
ana shoe rns crowd Of a hundred or 80
away Yet that same almost Turk IL in
that same window rolling cigarettes every
DAY
Jimmy. dear" she said in a sobby
voice either you'll have TO carry me
or na hobbls. The two Of us can't kee,,
company long
Right xhere the crowd split in front Of
IN" building which faces the new Hudson
rihA~ station at Thirty third street. where
The house and -he shutting was loudest.
black and white pussy climbed in some
Unknown way 20 vindowsin high over
Tie heals Of the crowd and ahsrs she sat
oontsn,ei and asleep.
me Of tho sleek hay horses Of Traffic
showed % with evident pride when the
crowd vas thickest about Long Acre
Square Anon the policeman on has back
would give the beasts bride n gentle
MP and The mount would sidis sideways
against the pushing crowd at the curb line.
W gently that nobody could be hurt and
nobofy nould take offence I'm one Of
hs mile excursions into tho heart Of the
crowd n" horse piayfnlly nipped AZ the
orIrl - = mans hat Tho owner Of the
Ia i.nkei quickly. Then tho mounted
Policeman smiled. so did the police
hnr-r
H" sr""dy Greeks who dared To set up
H. "lnIt and chestnut stands in the
h"''' .I--.nt on Broadway suffered ire
me- .,E-iy from the swift raids OF the
n L. IL lfak, IN.