Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-11-07
CROWDS IN AVENUE
FROM CURB TO CURB
All Washington Turns Out to
Read The Stars EIec- :,
ton Bulletins. ~
TWO BIG SCREENS IN USE

What Is said to have been the largest
crowd that ever assembled in Wash.
ington to watch the election returns
gathered tonight In front Of The Star
building. Massed solidly from 18th to
18th streets and filling Pennsylvania
avenue from one side to the other. even
crowding and jamming the steps Of the
Post Once Department. the huge
throng left only the narrow lane in the
middle Of the roadway occupied by the
| street railway tracks.
The orders issued by Maj. Pullman,
| superintendent of police, forbidding
Automobiles the use Of the Avenue
after o'clock. were largely RESPONSE.
BILE for the size of The Stars audience.
fic except street cars suspended the
| throng had room to spread. and 1t did
just that.
All Interested in Elections.
Everybody knows that Washington
| mans, in the matter of voting. are in
the same class as criminals. the insane.
\ women in the non-sunrage states and
the rest Of the country's population not
permitted to exercise the right of SUI
frage. That little fact. however. doesn't
keep Mr. and Mrs. washingtonian and
all the little washingtonians from be-
| ing interested in elections or from
wanting to know at the earliest pos
sible moment who has been elected.
That's why a crowd that filled the
Avenue from curb to curb gathered in
front Of The Star building to read the
bulletins that were flashed continu-
| ously on the two big screens erected
on the Avenue front Of the building,
People. a good many thousand OF them,
wanted to know tonight. before they
went to bed, whether the next admin
istration was to be hirsute or whether
1t was to be without facial foliage.
Little Pep in EARLY Evening.
| In the early hours of the evening 1t
was an Unconditional gathering. Nobody
seemed to have any pep. and nobody
appeared to be able to get up enthu-
siasm over the figures from scattered
election districts and precincts in wide
ly separated parts OF the country show.
ling how the great American voter had
done it. The earliest corners STOOD
the other-or on somebody's else-and
talked in low, hushed tones, glancins
ever and anon at the screens as new
bulletins appeared. 1t was an apa-
tnet1C punch, dl
But better things were coming, anu
about 6:45 o'clock the vociferators be-
gan to get in their work. AT hrst they
seemed rather afraid to whoop 'er up;
and the yells were feeble and needed
a lot of encouragement But as time
passed the leather -lunged ones gained
| confidence and the yells became more
| FREQUENT of greater volume ana more
| sustained, as the critics say, when they
are writing pieces about the new prima
ttonna. And from that time on 1t ac-
tualIy seemed like election night.
oratorical Jag in Evidence.
| There was the usual overexhilarated
brother with the oratorical jag. who
wanted to tell everybody just why it
couldn't help coming out exactly as he
had predicted since last July. There
was the bulging-necked gent with the
roll, who was willing to make Few
bets even at the eleventh hour.
There was the sweet young thing
who fancied that Hughes was elected
when PoughkeepSie gave him plu-
rality and who couldn't see the use OF
standing around the streets any longer
F.: There were the statistical individuals.
/ who copied all the figures in notebooks
and spent the intervals between bulle-
! tins in adding. subtracting. multiplying
. and dividing. And there were the others
who simply glanced at the bulletins as
! they were flashed. remarked. oh, well,
that doesn't prove anything, and walt.
/ ed for more bulletins.
All the Different Types.
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