Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1928-11-07

town at dusk. BY o'clock there were
several hundred persons standing in
front of The Star motion picture
screens, erected south of the building
on the north curb of Pennsylvania ave-
nue. at Eleventh street. BY o'clock
there we're nearly 5000 persons on hand.
Gangs of workmen from the Capital
Traction Co. removed the street car
loading platforms from Pennsylvania
avenue between Eleventh and Twelfth
and Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets,
replacing them temporarily outside the
crowd areas.
Lieut.. Francis Burke of the first pre-
cinct, who commanded a police detail
of 81 men in charge of handling the
crowds and traffic in the immediate
vicinity of The Star Building. was warm
in his praise of the orderliness of the
great throng, which, he said. was one
of the largest he ever has seen gathered
in so small a space in this city.
ut was the largest election crowds
ever saw, and was one of the quletest
and most orderly gatherings I ever
handled" he said.
Only IL Arrested.
The records of the first precinct,
which included all of the downtown
election crowds, presented a sharp
contrast to the records of earlier cleo
ton nights. There we're but. IL persons
arrested during the evening. OF these,
five were charged with 'intoxication.
Four of the arrests were for making
unnecessary noises" The police charge
that the four blew their automobile
horns unnecessarily when tied, up in
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with the thousands who were listening
to the broadcasting Of results. The
three others arrested were charged with
disorderly conduct.
Maj. Edwin B. HeSSe, who had Or
dered out the police reserves to divert
traffic from roped-off spaces provided
for spectators, made, q round of the
various crowds and dismissed the re-
serves at 1890 o'clock, convinced that
the crowds were so orderly that the
police regularly assigned to that trick
of duty wuold have no difficulty han
ding them. .''-''t
Police activities in the. outlying pre-
cincts were almost at standstill. The
number of arrests last night for all
classes of offenses was far below the
average for single night.
F Street Picturesque.
The F street carnival was one Of the
outstanding features of the evening.
The celebration in the vicinity of Thir-
tenth and F streets was almost equal
to that in celebration of Washington's
first world series base ball victory,
according to the police detailed there.
Led by group of young men carrying
a large Smith banner, crowd of about
200 staged a Smith parade, stopping at
each street corner to cheer and sing
THE Sidewalks of New York" They
had not been parading many minutes
before rival parade was organized
by similar crowd carrying a banner
Pres. Hoover" The crowds clashed
several times during their parading,
but separated again with nothing more
than good-natured bantering and
shouting
All the city's "cabbies" found their
horse-drawn hacks in continuous de-
mand during the evening, and six of
them, piled high with passengers, were
seen at one time ON F street within
two blocks during the height of the
celebration. The horses, appearing de-
jected In the midst of all the din. were
helped along their weary way by volun-
teers who pushed the carriages, yelling
in concert with the more fortunate
occupants. Those horses, of all the
animate beings crowded into the thor
oughfare, seemed the least disposed to
join in the merrymaking. Apparently,
they didn't give a whoop who was
elected, and submitted dumbly to the
blasts of horns In their ears, with no
more than a batting of the eyes when
the din became too intense,
One motorist, whose car bore in large
lettering the sign I'm for Smith,"
drove up and down street about ii
o'clock with the single expressive word
"Phooey!" daubed with whitewash I'M
der the sign.
Traffic Snarls Frequent.
The traffic jams were frequent and
prolonged. Traffic policemen had
their hands full throughout the eve
ming Strengthening out the tangles.
Motorists took the law into their own
hands getting through the jams, turn
ing corners against the traffic signals
in carnival fashion.
The motion picture houses all re-
ported heavy attendance during the
evening, many of the rnerrymakers APP
parently coming in for short intervals
to rest as the turnover" was unusu-
ally rapid. The election announce
ments were more warmly applauded by
the movie crowds than by the street
gatherings, they reported.
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Senator Curtis was so confident of
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