The New York herald., 1922-11-08
ELECTION night GAY,
|. BUT LACKING in Pep
Street Throngs Unable to
Shout Lustily Through
Dry Throats.
CROWD THINS SOON
NOiSemakers of YOre Gone
and Chief Revelers Meet
in Hotels.
RADIO PLAYS BIG PART
Returns Received and Sent by
Wireless, With Elaborate
Relay System.
RADIO PLAYS BIG PART

1t was a mildly smiling rather than
an exuberant night jubilee with which
the White Light district paid tribute
to Al Smiths famous victory. The
hotels and restaurants were well filed
with merry parties celebrating the
landslide or striving, with a dearth of
wet material, to drown their sorrow,
as the case might be.
But the Broadway scene lacked the
effervescence, the sparkle and pep, the
carnival spirit of spontaneous abandon
to merrymaking that used to mark
such triumphs in the days long gone.
One missed the slowly moving mil
titudes, the police standing almost
shoulder to shoulder along the curb
from Herald square to Times square
to regulate the two avalanches OF Pc
destrians, the one moving northward
restricted to the west side and the
other moving southwark, herded to
There was none of this last night in
the hotel and theater district.
Here and there one heard the shrek
Of a tin horn, the din OF cowbell trailed
the ear splitting pandemonium, the play
full thrust of the feather ticker. the
raucous wooden rattle, the improvised
professions of snake dancers shoulder
ing their way through densely packed
street throngs and beating upon tin pans
or other noise making devices, wagon
loads OF which were backed up at every
street intersection and selling like Lib
erty bonds in war time. Gone--prob-
ably forever--were all these relics OF
pre-Volstead days.
OIden Acclaim Lacking.
For three blocks northward of Times
Square thousands stood In close array
almost TO the facade of the Hotel Aston
with eyes glued upon the white screen
where the story was told in bulletins
But even here the spectacle lacked the
mighty voice Of the od-time multitude
as II read the blazoned figures that told
OF vast pluralitles. figures which a gen.
GRAFTON agone would have called for al
coholic libations and would have beer
greeted with roar OF acclaim that
would tear the well known wellNn to
n frazzled fragment long before mid
night.
Apart from the eloquent numerals on
the screen there was so little outdoor
diversion that the multitude craned its
necks and laughed gladly when motor
truck logged up Broadway carrying a
auartette OF young men armed with
megaphones who were advertising So
called popular song by singing its re-
frain. the burden of which seemed TO be
Tomorrow, tomorrow how happy
will be ."
The first real shout I'm anything like
old time volume rent the foggy. drizzle
soaked air wien, at ,ust l:O i. NJ. thC
bulletin man flashed upon the screen
the cabalistic words. smith elected y
Then came a long succession OF dis
trict returns within and without New
York city and the amateur mathemafi.
clans busied themselves with pencil
and pad striving to estimate what a.
Smiths tidal wave would amount to
when II attained its high water mark
When Syracuse complete reported a
plurality for the Tammany favort'e
there was a mingled laugh and groan as
n penetrat ting voice shouted. "LooK
what Millers home :own did to him.!
Copeland Gets Cheers.
There were scattering cheers as tic
crowd nusd how Or. Copeland was
running, even in some of the hitherto
rock ribbed Republican upstate cour-
ties. Al 8 o'clock II shout almost as
voluminous as that for Smith half an
hour before welcomed the announce
ment: "Copelend elected" But. by
this time the result was so obvious,
even to the least wise politically. that
the multitude began to thin out. is
integral parts either starting for home.
for the the theater or motion pictures
or for the hotels and restaurants. AT
$50 a bulleein announced: Smith
elected probably by more than 4o0.VD
in the state. Hundreds more drifted
out of the crowd, the inevitable told
you-so man"-at least one In every
group-declaiming how he had said 50
all along.
The radio found a new field last night
for the extension OF its intimacy with
every day life when the news OF the
election came out of the atmosphere and
found its way into scores OF crowded
rooms in hotels and restaurants. where
thousands of anxious voters listened In
alternate periods OF silence and noisy
demonstration TO the returns that had
come from that new source of distribu-
tion. It was by radio that the election
news found its way TO waiting crowds
in the McAlpln, Waldorf-As,oria and
Martinique Hotels, as well as to other
crowds In the Pennsylvania and Van
derbilt and at Delmonico's.