Evening star., 1912-11-06
FRENZY OF ENTHUSIASM
Cheering Throngs Stand for Hours
Before Stars Screens.
MANY WOMEN ON SCENE
Lusty-Lunged Baby, Not to Be Out
done, Squalls Loudly for
Wilson Victory.

Wilson Victory.
II will be many a year before the thou
sands who stood for hours in front of
The Stars two big election screens for
get the way in which they received the
news of the resurrection of democracy.
~ Is an easy matter to say There never
was anything like this crowd before, but
there are ways of measuring the crowd
OF last night. and methods of comparing
II with crowds on previous occasions. The
crowd in front of The Stars two screens.
last night beat everything else, at any
previous hour Of excitement.
Just after dusk there was a crowd that
would do credit to a larger city. Thou
sands of people must have stayed down
town for the express purpose of seeing
the first flash of election news from The
Star stereopticons. and at I o'clock there
was a jam which filed the open space
between The Star building and the Post
ONCE Department structure. like the good
old crowds that one reads assembled In
the public squares in the classic days
when all news was proclaimed by criers
and not by lightning express newspapers.
Stand in Side Streets.
In all previous election crowds the
edges did not overflow into 11th street
and 18th street, but last nights jam was
backed up on the 18th street side of the
post Office and away around into 18th
street. Two men on 18th street, unable
10 get closer had brought opera glasses
and remained for several hours. Evil
IDENTITY they liked the news. Policemen
and others who handle crowds and who
have a perfect remembrance of the size
of previous crowds in front of bulletins
give last nights collection of frenzied
bulletin fans the preference over all 9TH
ers The measurements of the crowd
overran all previous attempts at block
ing the Avenue, and the staying qualities
of the people in the crowd were elegant.
There was as big crowd at midnight as
there was at o o'clock, and the election
followers were cheering madly, with
scarcely sign of fatigue. Some of them
refused to believe that it was after mid
night when Good Night" was flashed on
The Stars screens.
Evidently The Stars bulletins pleased
the crowd. Aside from the complexion
of the news as it spread out plainly on
the big canvas screens, the physical as
pect Of The Stars bulletins was not to
be overlooked. Two screens rigged up
especially by two ex-sailors, now en-
ployed in The Stars stereotyping room.
carried unceasng bulletins and cartoons.
The wide space on Pennsylvania avenue,
without a tree to obstruct the view, gave
an opportunity to see the political earth
quake from the widest angles.
Crowd Yells in Glee.
And didn't the crowd yell? For per-
haps an hour. while the first figures We're
trickling in over wire and telephone, the
crowd was silent. 1t was waiting, with
the expectancy of a crowd which thor
oughly believes the country is going to
be turned upside down. Republican news
was received with doubt. The conver-
sation in the crowd had no hope in 1t
for the G. 0: p Democratic figures
made the watchers perk up and look for
more. Early democratic gains acted like
stimulants on the men and women who
had come to see democracy triumph At
o'clock picture of Woodrow Wilson
flashed from Star stereopticon precipi-
tated a yell that shook the heavens, and
at midnight, with all doubts long re-
moved, the individual results of various
states flashed on the two Star screens
brought joyful slaps and gleeful howls.
Cliff Berryman's cartoons helped make
the crowd one grand. joyous tumble of
good humor. 1t was Bergman who saved
the day for many chap who saw his
party go down to defeat. When a fellow
can draw picture that makes a defeated
political party laugh with real humor,
then he is 10 be congratulated. The tens
of thousands who stood in front of the
Star screens last night gave Bergman
the applause of joyful kids. They liked
him.
Not All Suffragists.
front of the two screens were an unusual
feature of election night incidents. Thou
sands of them, of all ages. interested
deeply in the result. stood there until the
last slide had told It's story. Not that they
were all suffrage advocates. either, for
many of them We're heard to laugh and
say Good when a woman suffrage de-
feat in Wisconsin was written upon the
screen.
Many women were in the crowd unes-
corted b. men. They watched the returns
with the same interest shown by many of
the more studIous men and stayed to the
End One woman. ntve. to be defeated
IN her purpose. stood in the crowd on
soap box while baby carriage full of
twins lay moored at her side. Women on
the post Office steps carried opera glasses
as II they were at the theater, and nun
dreds OF women were there in automobiles,
banked along the post Office curbing
the lights Of the automobile lamps made
a new feature for men who have seen
every election nighs crowd here since the
war.
Beau and Belle on Cart.
The election-wild crowd had TO stop
looking at The stars two screens for a
few minutes when colorcd beau came
driving along Pennsylvania avenue on
one Of the Districts dump carts. He was
high up in the air. dressed to kill. and by
his eide wes his best girl, dressed In old
rose and wearing large black hat. 10
which a willow plume of perfectly unbe-
lievable length was trailing. This was
the realest sort OF real thing, when 1t
came TO the Josh stuff and the pair
ran a gantiet of street corner 'repartee
from one end OF the block To the other.
,angling through the crowd Like a mock
~ sheep the youngsters in the crowd fol-
lowed after IL and seemed to be trampling
everything under foot until Capt. Holm
berger Of the first police precinct stopped
the whole performance with one push of
his shoulders.
Nearly everybody in the crowd in front
81 The Stars screens seemed to be
democrat after a certain hour and those
WHO avowcd themselves to be of the op-
?asite faith caught the joyous infection
after bit ana were satisfied that the
landslide was G good thing. perhaps.
said ore oiG republican. and If Wilson
10 elected / guess | won't starve.'
BABY for Wilson.