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Show Thoosands of Chemng Entasiasts Celebrate Up and Down Main Slreei; Chccrins and shouting, singing, screaming, whistling and yelling, surging surg-ing to and fro, wedging and edging in every direction between llic Post Office Of-fice and the Mormon Temple, tooting horus that were long and short, and covered with the patriotic red. white and blue?- beating tom-toms, pans, cymbals, cym-bals, all kinds of drums, and every conceivable con-ceivable utensil that could be improvised impro-vised for tho purpose of making an uproar; up-roar; waving hundreds of Hags in the crisp night air; exploding torpedoes, giant crackers, and firing an occasional round of blank cartridges; fairly deluging delug-ing each other with copious showers of confetti; laughing and talking in a way that would make a Babel of corvine clatter sound like distant whispers, the victorious enthusiasts of the American party tramped and stampeded up and down Main street and -through all of j the intersecting streets last night after the success of their party, was an assured as-sured fact. There was a din and roar that reverberated reverb-erated from the streets far above the tops of the buildings uniil long after the resonant warning of the curfew had wafted away to the mountains. It was truly a congested concourse of red-blooded red-blooded Americans; of spiirted, vivacious viva-cious people whose active work during : tho past campaign will insure Salt Lake the position of eminence to which it is bound to attain while its destiny is in tho safekeeping of those who have its best interests at heart. In Front of The Tribune. .Immediately after Tito Tribuno commenced com-menced flashing tho returns of the election, elec-tion, together with extemporaneous cartoons, car-toons, a crowd gathered in front of ibo canvas, increasing so rapidly in n short time t hat it. was with difficulty that tho cars wore able to get through. As the figures wero flashed, the cheering became be-came deafening; the, cartoons worked over3'one up to a fine state of humor, and one period of hearty and long laughter followed another. "While intently gazing upon the bulletin bul-letin sheet, there would occasionally be a scamper and shuffling of feet, and as soou as tho breach was opened a phalanx of husk' young men would rush through. Isot being able to make themselves conspicuous enough with commonplace horns, a gang of small boys hitched a long rope to an empty ash cnn. which they dragged down the street between the car tracks, frighteuing tho multitude multi-tude uutil they discovered the occasion of the unusual chaop. Great crackling bonfires wore built all up and down Main street, and on many of the cross streets, but tho most original nnd unique fire display of tho evening was a huge wooden caso such as dry goods nro shipped in. This wns stuffed full of nil kinds of stray pieces of wood, smaller boxes, kegs, and other fuel, and was lashed to tho body of a discarded wagon, As soon ns the flamos commenced to burst out on all sides nnd up through tho top, a great crowd of men and boys mnrched up Main btreet behind this moving fire that at times, fanned by the. wind, reached i above the trolley wire. It was pulled j i ' almost around (he entire block before the wheels caught fire, creating an innovation in-novation in the line of fireworks. Out of all the fires that were blazing . around tho principal part of the city, only one caused the fire department any" concern. On Main between Second and Third South, the flames leaped up so high that it was feared that the buildings build-ings in the neighborhood might ignite from a spark. An alarm wns turned in, and the fire was extinguished. Lively at Midnight. Along toward midnight the crowd scorned to liven up even more than earlier in the evening. All of the cafes and grills were packed with joyful spirits, and many a bottle of wine was opened on the ''velvet" derived from the election of Mayor Bransford. In spots one noted the individual with a gloomy visual aspect, and the ''1 told you so" observation from a companion denoted that tho other party had been longer on money than judgment. The hatters of this city should reap a rich harvest today. Between eleven and twelvo last night, a crowd of daredevils dare-devils lined up in front of Walker Brothers' bank, and every man who wore a derby hat received a succession of swats upon it that made dents and kinks that will not come out. Tt was surprising the good nature displayed by tho average victim, but there were a few spirited sutils who attempted to display a little skill in "catch-ns-catch-can. ' ' Talcum powder, nnd soot were distributed dis-tributed frocly all during the evening, and various types of squirt-guns wero brought into play. Dusters, ticklers, and other implements suitable for such an occasion wcro used freely, and every one entered into the fun with a zest that is essentially American. Drum corps wore in evidence in many places, and oornots, bugles and other instruments instru-ments were hauled out for 'tho occasion. ' In Hotel Corridors. In tho hotel corridors one could get 1 111 rough only with difficulty; they were j tilled with a great many people who ! came in from the countryside in order to watch the result of the election, in- j terest in it being so keen as to attract ! Tex JRicknrd and others from Goldfield-for Goldfield-for no other purpose than to attend it. .Notwithstanding the fact that there were thousands of people rushing here, ' there and everywhere, all of tliem over- joyed with the results, there was scarce- j Iy any disorder, and despite the fact that .' the saloons were crowded all during the evening, no ono seemed to step over the ! limit. It was just a wildly enthusiastic crowd celebrating in true American stylo one of the greatest epoch-making victories that has ever beou won in any city, in the Union. |
