The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1916-11-09

,ANOoN OuI ~ NiOWU WHICH, h0pC uL
a Continual Demopstration-Pic.
lures of Wilson and Hughes Cause
Onlookers to Go Wild.
Did you come out Tuesday night
on North Main street and gaze upon
the large bulletin board erected over
Staley's store upon which The Re-
view gave the returns from the cleo
ton through the use of the proiecto-
scope? If not you were one .of a
very few stay-at homes and also
missed the treat of your life, because
The Review had the people and had
them in great numbers and there
was not dull moment throughout
the night. Fully four thousand peo-
pie kept their eyes rivited upon the
big screen for hours and watched
the returns play upon it, sometimes
favorable to. the democrats, other
times leaning to. the republicans and
when the pictures of Wilson and
Hughes were thrown upon the white
canvas pandemonium broke loose
and this happened at least 100 times
during the night. We used nearly
twelve hundred slides during the six
hours which is a little better than
slide every twenty seconds. 1t took
work, hard and fast work. to accom-
plish this but it was done and the
great throng seemed pleased LIN fact
they said SO with a mighty shout
when the question was asked and
scores of people have called and
stopped us ON the streets to COM
pliment us on the excellent service.
When you have to write slide every
twenty seconds (scratch the word
ing with a steel pencil on painted
glass). and make it so it could be
read the reader can see what diff
cult job it is But we had every
thing arranged to a nicety-one per-
son handed the slides to the opera
tor, another took them from the
m achine; boy was repainting the
used slides and everything was NOV
ing like clock work-not a hitch to
mar the whole affair.
The editor assisted by j. S. Peel
of the Atlantic Sales Co., wrote the
slides, Fred Walker presided at the
telephone in an admirable manner
and got the nearby returns; the
Western Union furnished the tele-
graph dope fast and hot, the North
State Telephone Company gave US
right of way over its excellent sys-
TEN, r. P. Parker of the Atlantic
Sales Co., and Paul Stamey used
the megaphoDe, Will McSparran
presided at the machine, assisted by
Messers. Myatt and Brown, and here
was the system that won out ..and
drew a crowd that blocked Main
street from the railroad crossing al
most to the Home Banking Co. corn
er and over run the near by stores
And there were many ladies in the
crowd too.
The crowd composed of people
from every walk of life took things
good naturedly as flash after fash
on the huge screen told of the re-
suit of the heavy ballot of the day.
The fact that the people were able
to read the bulletins at once owing
to their clearness did not call for
the use of the megaphone as often
as was expected Gn order to give
those not so well versed in letters a
chance to learD) because the crowd
went wild with what they read many
times before the megaphone would
read the wording On the bulletin
board. -:,
We are under obligations to all
who contrit uted to this superb SER
vice, the Rose theatre, j. L. Kirk
man, Fred Walker, Paul Stamey,
Messers Peel and Parker, McSpar-
IAN and helpers, J. c. Mills, the mes
,en9er boys, the North State Tele-
phone Co, and its capable long dis
.ance operator Miss Lilly Rankin,
Western Union Telegraph Co. with
Manager Benson at the key. and
perhaps others we have overlooked
n the rush.
In conclusion The Review is in
Iced glad the service gave such uni