The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-06-27
Garden Walls Budge
 As Smith Din Breaks
Galleries, Delegates And Cohorts Yell And
 Shriek For Hours

NEW YORK. June 26.-Friends of Gov. Alfred E. Smith turned the demo- cratic national convention today into a shrieking pandemonium of sound, ter rifying in its formless, terrible din; ex- hausting in it's duration.
 They howled, yelled, screamed and sang from densely crowded galleries l fringing the uproar with the steady clamor of fire sirens, horns, bands and every known variety of mechanical noise maker. They flooded the aisles of the convention floor, almost to oblit- eration of the Smith delegates, who were ably aiding the turmoil. They waved huge Smith banners in the slow, surging march around the great hall that went on for more than an hour. They carried the demonstration out ir- to the streets to keep it going on amid showers of torn papers rained down from the tall tops of nearby office buildings.
 i Sets Turmoil Going
 It was the word of Franklin D. Roosevelt, naming the governor as New York's choice for the presidential nomi- nation, that pulled the trigger to set the mad turmoil going. Long before he reached the climax, however, it was plainly evident that the stage had been set for such an outbreak as has rarely been known anywhere for any reason.
 For the first time, the high ranging galleries of the dingy old hall were ! damned to suffocation. They were there waiting, these thronging thou sands of New York folk, armed with contriyances to aid in the salute to their favorite son they had planned. Only the constant, urgent signals of the Smith captains in the New York dele gation block on the floor and hurried trips of message runners kept the gal lery gods reasonably well in check until the final moment. M
 The fall of the cards gave the Mo Adoo hosts on the floor first chance again today, after their orgy of yester- day when the Californian was nominat- ed. A seconding speech from Colorado brought them up with leftover en- thusiasm before Connecticut yielded place to New York that the governor might be named.
 MeAdoo Outburst Dies
 The McAdoo outburst died away pres ently, and the first foretaste of what was to come broke with the announce ment from the Connecticut delegation that it gave place to New York. A huge uproar rose and swelled in the hall, bubbling over to the uninvited thousands waiting outside.
 On the platform, blazing under the white glare of the spotlights, a tall, blue-clad figure worked it's way pain fully forward on crutches to the speak CTS stand. It was Roosevelt, but not the same Roosevelt so many of these thronging delegates must have recalled with the memories of the vivid scenes in San Francisco four years ago.
 Then he was on the floor in New York's badly split delegation. Then as now he worked for "Al'' Smith. But then he led in person n~the floor the impromptu demonstration the New York governors name evoked and joined in the happy revelry to the strains of Sidewalks of New York" from band and organ which has made that the Smith. battle hymn of today.
 Eagerly Faces Crowd
 Nov, himself stricken down by a cIingfng malady that has robbed him of his strength. he faced the great crowd eagerly, vivdly for the leading role he was to play in the day of noise and staggering sound. As he drew himself to the speakers stand. the. audience gave him generous and universal greet ing.
 He laid aside his crutches, gripping the stand firmly with both hands to keep himself firm in this trying ordeal for a crippled man. But there was no hint of suffering in face or voice as he launched into his address.
 The hall gave him close attention. There were bursts of applause and an occasional din from the galleries that was waved to silence by the Smith heutenants on the floor.
 Banners Appear
 Furled banners made their appear ance to be stuffed along to their ap- pointed places. Brass bands showed up. at three different entrances and mingled in the throng with instruments ready. Straw-hatted men with ribbons displayed bobbed into view every everywhere. Over the stir and rustic Roosevelt sent his praise of the man he would name ringing out in tones that reached everywhere in the hall. And he came surging to his concIu- sion. His voice mounted phrase by phrase; he held himself back from the desk and with a last rising cry that rang like clarion call, he hurled the name of Alfred Smith into the convention and got back such an an- swer that the solid, dingy old walls of Madison Square Garden bulged and shook with the terrific din.
 In one huge burst, galleries, Smith delegates and Smith cohorts crowding the aisles let go. From either end of the far galleries the rising ear-pierc- ing shriek of fire sirens walled high above the tumult never to cease their unearthly yelling for an instant until more than an hour had passed.
 CIings. To Desk
 Roosevelt still clung to his grip. on the speakers desk, gazing down at the tumult he had let loose. Presently there came a youhgster in colonial costume to be lifted to the rail where he waved the rioting masses in the aisles below to new outbursts. Other youngsters were crowded up.
 On and on and on went the tumult. By now human limits had been reached by many of the shouters and the shriek- ing insistence of the sirens was claim ing its own, but there was no hint of let up norsof pity for the ears of those who must listen.
 At the back of the hall. just below the box where Mrs. McAdoo sat, the rnuoPnnVfe Vzysfa v,In -s.