New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1888-01-03
A HOLIDAY OF THE PAST.
new YEARS DAY ROBBED OF IT'S aLoRIEs
sABooED ny FASHION. LITTLE OR NOTHING IS NOW
LIFT OF IT.


sABooED BY FASHION, LITTLE OR NOTHING Is NOW
LIFT OF 1T.
Only In poetic imagfnations does there seem to be
anythne like regret tho death Of the old Fcs
tfvtcs of q varied character In order yesterday
Some Rugged and fondled their good resolutions at
home, afraid to expose them to temptations. Many
vent to the theatres to enjoy giimpses OF IN Ideal
world in which Life is never dull Many went calling;
there . timc whom everybody did that, but cos
nopotan city can't be expected to stick to tho Gus
toms Of Its founders Happily for some OF these call
ers, tho pavements not slippery For some
ststed out proudly canseseus OF doing credit TO their
tailors, and by nghtfa had lost all scmbance TO mir
ross Of fashion. But on New-Year's night police
nan arc lndulgent and hackmen enterprisng and
soiscitous To-day the New Year will settle down to
Tia sober business Of iife
Central Park had the appearance Of day In carly
fan rather than in mIdvinter. constant stream OF
vehicles poured into the Fast Drive from Fifthave
during the afternoon and stretched away through tho
Park in an almost unbroken line to the Bouevards and
NcCombs Dam Bridge Tho cir was brisk and fresh
and thousands of visitors filled the walks and saun-
tered half frozen lakes At the Arsenal the
surgcd around tho animal cages. and Crowley
and Kitty, the chimpanzees, held an immense reccp
tis Kitty was rcticent and kept back in the shadow
of her cage but Crowley seized every opportunity to
grasp the hand of caller and give II wrench that
would leave the muscles sore for week He evinccd
. special aatipathy to those callers who wore glasses
and when he caught sight Of par OF specfacies he
xsuld gather up handful Of saw dust and with his
f.cs between the bars grin at tho When the
vlsitor camo near enough Crowley's hands wonld fly
Nd and q shower Of dust would be scattered oNer
the victim. This aversion became marked that the
Keepers finally requested those who approacneo 'ho
a>ce 10 remove their spectacles IL they wore any
The Wall street district was gloomy ana deser'c"'
snly few persons moving In the streets Tho occa-
asai pollcemanor watc looed1onely as he paced
his beat aud the only indie alton of life abont the In
changes the presence of few workmon on the new
building of the Consolidated Stock and Petroleum Ia
cAsnge.
Castle Garden was closed yesterday in honor OF Inc
halliday Three steamers arrived. but their Immigrant
vsssengers were not landed tingc OF New Year
nrstivty was given TO the Garden however by 'n9
Scnc Of 227 immigrants with bccf and mutton s'e"s
ana coffee furnished by the Emigration Commissioners
Tho Earur as mails added to those received ny sun
DAYS steamers and the many city letters received OH
Saturday night and Sunday, made the delivery by tho
fot Office carriers yesterday morning one OF the Deas
Sc.s that was sent from the Post once. Nearly
100000 city letters were received for local aeh'erS
TIE carriers were unable in many cases to denver inc
mails down town, as most OF the business noaso' "eo
exased Extra carriers will probably be needed 10 ae
IEer the mails town this morning IN IN res, 81
district the carriers made Two IN a a. % th h,
ess trip usually made holidays The msi MATE, ,n
srrcrs could lind the places open which the letters
were sddrrsscd some of the clerks received par par,
the on anconnf Of the heavy steamer mails CONT
Tho holiday thoroughly observed In me 'uut i
Hwisc None OF the Courts were open, ana ho DUST
scss transacted - c,,a,r
Although New Years Day proper cane n on a stru
t. LIQUOR stores not prevented ron uo.nS
rushing business, Judging from the fact ina. n,ar,y
our hundred drunken loci cd up Ihere wer,
sexeral drunlcn fights during the gay ana 'hs "a
Manor were shown by fights In tho evening
John Ouby of No SIT estTwenty -fourthst., went
"a the West wentethst. police station late on Sun
Az mi night bleeding from Slight cut on the arm He
1rs drunk ana could only that he had been sfaopen
at
later Rndoph Arnold OF No el4 Secondst went to me
Union Market police station Minus s .ns roy ss Or saw
hss finger tip in the mouth Of Andrew snrnaly VINO
he'd bitten II off, surnaky was arrested p LARRY
Isxrnes had n fight with q woman IN the tenemsht
hfass No. l55 Norfok-st and She struck him on the
NNsd with a hammer, INJECTING slight scalp ~ounu
TJe had his head dressed at the Eldrdcc ST. police sra
fsca but refused 10 meke a complaint against the
woman who had worsted him.