The Washington herald., 1922-11-08
Ne.0 York Spends
Hilarious Night
Pdrading Streets
@A" Smith Accorded the
WhOlehearted Homage
OF First District.

NEW YORK. Nov. 7.-Ever ready
to celebrate anything with full
dress and certain other fullness
from apble-week to part-your- hair.
In the middle Monday. New York
proclaimed election night a night
out.
Drinking was done in most Of the
big hotel restaurants and the all.
fired smart cafes. where table res
ervations had been selling for o
past week.
But in the earnest mob which
blared away on tin trumpets from
Times Square to the Circle was the
determination to have a good time,
There was no possible doubt
about 1t: Prohibition might be o
bleary-eyed Jest to them as has, but
to the 100000 afoot on the muddy
sidewalks II was tragic. For
liquids at $50 a quart in the haut
honka-tonks and a cover charge of
81 head at the doors were not for
the two-bit trade.
In the afternoon the owners of
glass-front stores in the high
pressure zone shored up their win
dows with protective railings of
wood. At dusk the extra policemen
trooped in from outlying stations to
keep the crowds moving, always
moving. There were the theater
crowds to reckon with. also a peak
load for the streets to carry on
ordinary nights and. therefore, a
hugely congesting element when
suddenly poured onto the sidewalks s
jammed already
The really rich. not the same as
the cabaret rich, have developed
quite a line of their own, exclusive
back-rooms along Park avenue in
the last few years. Society, which
often remains at home and calls the
police station at midnight to ask
what the shooting's for, came to
the peoples party this time. but sat
on by itself in these places.
But the most wholehearted cele-
bration of all was the one down in
the district where AL Smith, Demo-
cratic candidate for governor, was
born and still resides. Smiths home
Is around the corner from the Tom
Foley Democratic Club. The re-
gard for Al runs within a hairs
width of idolatry down there.
Through the murk of the late aft
ernoon the kids in Roosevelt street.
dirty little street so-called be-
cause of the hundreds of children
on the block-were dragging crates
barrels and huge spars of driftwood
Tor bonfires. At evening the oil
was spilled and the match thrown
in. And all over the First district
the flames roared toward the sky
while thousands of dirty-faced
ragged young citizens shouted XII
yi. the call Of the Tammany braves
The men and women of the First
district were all On the streets. In
the movies the mechanical pianos
played East Side-West Side" ir
honor of AL Smith.
Mrs. Mary O'Rourke. wife of the
famous. Diamond Dan, was at the
polling place where Al voted, In
her capacity as Democratic lady
captain" of the district. She said
that in the school where AL and
his wife and son marked their bal.
lots they had turned sout the COM
plete registration of 535 votes. bar
one. That was Johnny Bachigo-
loupo. the Greek undertaken, who
died in the night. And there were
only three Republican votes-com-
plimentary votes of the Smith fam
lily. probably.
When Smith was casting his bal
lot they told him of Johnny's death
He exclaimed, Isn't that touch:
He exclaimed, Isn't that tough
Johnny was a good boy. I'm sorry
TO hear that"
That is the sort of fellow Al
Smith is. That's why he got all but
three out of 535 votes in his own
neighborhood.