The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-11-06
NIGHT CROWDS WERE
 GOOD NATURED
Police Did Excellent Work in
 Preserving Order

It is all over but the shouting and that has subsided to the level of or dinary converse and hearty congratula- tion. Even the evidences of last nights hilarious, throat-cractztng, ear-split- ting and wildly demonstrative celebra- tion in the form of confetti. discarded horns, ratt1ers and confiscated ticklers was swept from the streets and side walks as the earliest risers sleepily plodded to work this morning.
 But last night the celebration be- gan early and lasted until late. It is thousand persons participated in the enjoyment of the occasion along the main arteries. It was impossible at times to continue upon the sidewalks and persons had to oNaccoTnmodate them selves to the streets. Buoyant youths were predominant, and with rattles, of tin cans they paraded Main street. Broad street and Fairfield avenue, venting their pleasure at the posted results in the most vociferous forms permitted.
 Women of all classes and station in life temporarily dispensed with the rnirth which permeated the atmos- phere. Confetti.throwing and the blowing of horns formed their chief stock-in-trade. and pleasant retaliation between their parties and any opposing factions was the order of the evening. It was a carnival of publication, and
 
 authorities.
 7 Tn strong contrast with last years election the use of lanp-black, pistols and clubs was discontinued, and even tick1ers were discarded, after many had been taken from their users by the police and destroyed. Law and order was preserved from the start Under the direction of supt. Eugene Birmingham, an efficient corps of de- tectives and plainclothes men were posted at secretly assigned spots along T-k yI1i1 nA6 men lined the streets. and wherever congestion formed ror incipient trouble. stsrtsd quick .,esn. aetion ana an s+pf fcelna fha thread of movement which resulted in general motion.
 But one arrest was necessary and box of talcum-powder in the hands of Clarence White, Of East Bridgeport. who did not know it had been pro hibited. He later expressed complete contrition for the act and was re- leased by order of Supt. Birmingham.
 Captains of the police and detec- strategy in shifting Available patrol men to the ever changing scenes of congestion the fact that more serious disturbances did not occur Is partially due. The patrol-wogan served a two fold and salutary effect upon the crowds that witnessed it's slow move ments along Main street. It Effecfually dampened the ardor Of the unruly. as well as of dispensing congestion which at one time threatened to block traf- fic in front of the r. M. c. A. build ing.
 A small bonfire started by youths in Congress street.Sfp front of the High school building was reported at head quarters and Patrolmen Sheehy and Weller sent on the patrol extfngish- ed it quickly.
 The largest crowds were in evidence before the various newspaper offices, the Y. M. c. A. building and the par ty headquarters. A large Democra tic jubilation parade formed the nucleus for a shouting crowd as led by the Coast Artillery band it played it's red- lighted way through the center of the cffv followed by automobiles and car riages filled with the successfttu1 can didates.
 It was we'll after midnight when the last straggIers, disheveled, confetti covered, tired and yet hap ended their ways homeward after nights participation in one of the most en- joyed yet orderly demonstrations wit messed in Bridgeport.