New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-11-04
Republican Victory Greet
ed with Cheers from
Battery to Bronx.
CROWDS MARCH TO
BELLS AND HORNS
Firemen and Police Kept
Busy in "Dousing" More
than 500 BOnhreS. &c.

Cheering. yelling and surging, 6oo'ooo
New Workers, spread over Broadway
end important cross streets from the
Tribune Building TO Yonkers. last nieAi
greeted the news Of the crushing Re
publican victory with a demonstration
chat dwarfed every other election night
ou.burs. as far back as the mind OF
the oldest rcsiden; could pierce.
The air OF expectancy, which usually
hoyers over the election crowd until
midnight o. later, was dispelled before
o o'clock last night. and the certainty
of Whitman's election serred 70 tnrr
sr aimless demonstration into a vivid
celebration. Every contrivsnce from
which noise could e extracted was
drawn into service to edd 10 the gen
eral pandemonium. .
Having celebrated Halloween IN re-
pressed and conservative manner as
though deliberately storing up its en-
orgy for the greater event TO come. the
crowd lot loose last night in the Old.
fashioned manner. With horns ana
bells and pans and rsttlcrs and thou-
sand demoniac devices, including the
human voice in all. its variations, the
celebrators "whooped II up from D
O'Clock in the evening far into the
chilling hours OF the morning AFTER .-
Crowd Good Natured.
Even the earlier hours Of the even
o.
doubled its efforts with confetti and
ticklers, and managed 10 keep warm
All OF this was done as good ratured-
W. as IL is usually done by New York
election crowds. The great majority or
the crowd were gentle in their humor;
mere and there ruAian bobbed up
nomeDtarily. but was usually re-
strained By the watchful police.
Although the entire police force was
distributed over the area OF celebra-
ton. they found more scope for Their
activities IN extinguishIng insurgent
bonfres than in arresting diSturbers.
There were no serious rows calling Tor
police interference, and only few az
rests for minor offences resulting from
exuberauce OF election spirits.
With bonires. however, the case was
different. All over the city the impress
sion prevailed that the law against the
lighting of bonfrcs was not meant TO
ne enforced on election nights. Scores
Of police wagons. loaded with fire hose,
patroled the city all night, eXtingulsh-
ing incipicnt blazes II was estimated
nat more than FIVE hundred hres we're
handled by the police in this way.
The Fire Department was also called
cut on numerous occasions. but no
serious blazes resulted from the efforts
of the bonfire enthusiasts.
The "furthest south" bulletin was
hat operated by The Tribune, in Park
Row. Here two thousand people, pre-
ferring the comparative quiet OF PARK
Row 20 the riotous noises Of uptown,
greeted the news OF The victory OF Re
pubGcanism and cheered the picture of
intcrspersed with the bulletins, con-
rived 20 keep the watchers occupied
every second.
Wild Throng in Broadway.
As in the past. the White Way was
The scene Of the widest celebration
and most vociferous exclamation. From
saith IT, 10 50th St, Broadway was
wedged with humanity, at least 200
persons being packed into this area.
Half a dozen bulletin boards held most
Of the curious in the early part of the
evening. but later the crowd expressed
tself us satisfied with such news as IL
rad already received. and deserted the
bulletins for an ampler celebrating
pace.
If any change were noticeable in the
styles of celebrating mediums, IL was
that the horns showed a tendency to
emulate ladies' sleeves and become
shorter. They were small and con-
Nenicnt; any child could operate them
and nearly all Of them did. So did the
Crown-ups, and the very grown-ups.
The restaurants all reported capacity
business. with every table reserved
days ahead
Gle one-way traffic system was en-
forced along Broadway by the police,
who kept the crowds moving uptown
ON the west side of the street and
downtown on the east. In each of the
squares the stream flooded over, and be-
FORE each of the cabarets Of the lobster
belt was o back water.
81 Long Acre Square the crowd never
numbered less than 5000, and this
crowd of 5000 was a difficult one for
Inspector Meyers and his men TO force
across the raised boardwalks over the
subway excavations. At Columbus
Circle Inspector Dryer found it neces-
sary TO supplement his force Of thirty
Eve men with fifteen more, Tor by $3.50
rothing less than a scythe-be
chariot could have made its way
around thc Circle.
Special policemen wee detailed to
nurse the 1efreshment seekers who
seemed willing enough TO send their
front RANKS through the windows IN
their efforts TO gain entrance TO Refs
euweber's and BustanOby's. just as
was the case farther uptown at IIealy's.
At Lincoln Square Captain Duggan
kept about 1900 u..der control
There was a breath Of excitement in
The streetcars when Detectives Nc
Gowan and Miller, of the Sd District,
plunged through the crowds after a
band of pickpOckets who were said to
be working" the cars. Three men,
who gave their names as William
Reilly, John Macdonald and Harry
Britt, were arrested.
Man Drops Dead in Rush.
I'm the dense crowd up as far as
pSth 50. an unidentified man, sixty
i've years old and weighing 1875
rounds. fell back into the arms of j.
p. White. an officer of the National
Guard. MIR. White carried him TO the
nearest doorway. where a physician
pronounced him dead. In his pocket
vas note recommending to him Dr..
Polk, the son of Corporation Counsel
Polk
Harlem, as is its custom, thronged
125tn ST.. from Third av. 20 St. Nicho-
las r.. In this space the good news
was thrown on seven bulletin boards.
Ind the crowd greeted the returns as
fbouoh every man had market his bal