New-York tribune., 1892-01-01
A MIGHTY DIN FOR 1892.
VAST THRONES GREET 1HE NEW YEAR
THE CITY HALL PARK TILLED WITH IRE
MENDoUS MULTITUDE THAT LISTENS TO
GILMOREfs BASD-TRINITY CHIMES
HAVE HARD TINE.

| GILMORUs BASD-TRINITY CHIMES
HAVE HARD TINE
| The announcement that besides the annual nlav
! ing Of the chimes in tie Trinity Church s'eep'c,
there would be q concert at the CITY Hall BY
Gilmore, broaght an enormous multitude to the
lower part OF the city last ni3ht
Long before midnight. the downtown streets
became perfect bodldm. The sidewalks and the
| pavcmcnts were lost. In their places. there WIs
| a moving stream, or rather two, one 60
| ing up and the other moving down, ana
| horsccarS and cabs were stopped by tie
immense, moving mass of human beings. Nothing
| could stop the motion OF that army
and the policemen were lost IN the crowd
Pandcmonium reisned there indeed. and every
| thing that the human throat was capable OF was
| brought into play TO rend the air with fendish
noises From the City Hall to the Trinity Church
the sea of humanity covered Broadway dcnscly,
| and women struggled helplcssly in the crowd.
| They were borne along irresstihly. To say that
those who gathered around Trinity Church went
| there TO listen to the chimes would be mistake,
| for it impossible to hear anything.
| No animal, and especially not the human one.
| can lear to listen 80 sound without making noises
| Of its own and the more dreadful they are, the
| greater is the delight The American youth
excrtci his proad privilege last night 10 the utmost
and helped out his not feeble throat with the
| thing which has surely sprung mp from tarcs sown
| by the evil one. the eXubcrant fish-horn. Ieiorc
It's appalling wall all things in earth and air shud-
dcrcd and the chimes of Trinity's graceful stcepe
rang out unhcard.
This was a pity. for the chimes Of Trinity
Church are 50 fine always, and the programme last
night especially was 50 good, that they should
have been listened 10. Tie ringing Of the bells
| bepon AT II 80 o'clock The selections were
"Conccrto in Rondo," Evening Eells. " Blue
Rcll, of Scotland" Kiss Me- Mother. Goodnight,
| Ring Ont Wild Bells. The Little Wandcrcr,
q" Down Upon the Suwancc River, Grand Miicn-
| MUM Song" The old Volunteer Fireman.,
Yankee Doodle, Home, Sweet Home"
But if the crowd WIS great At Trinity Church
and on Broadway, il was Simply beyond description
in the City Hall Park. where Patrick : Gililorc
and his 22d Rcpimcnt Band played Preparations
had been made for crowd but what Gathered
was an army. From an elevation, tie park
WIS n sight not 10 Dc forgotten. The walks had
disappeared and nothing could be seen except
thousands and thousands Of heads and shoulders,
all ammcd solidiy around the Illuminated and he
tagged City IIab, leaving a square space vacant
before II. There the members of the band stood.
and they looked few and small in flat vast crowd.
{ cir hands full in cndclyorinS to handle the
| thousands. They succeeded we'll, however. and
there were no serious accidents. Several women
tainted In the crowd. but they recovered soon
| after being rescued from the press Of people
70 thosc who looked down on the tightly packed
mass from the windows OF the City Hall it seemed
almost miraculous diat there were 40 worse mis-
haps Luckily thr people remained standing still
for the greater part of the time Had the crowd
ever bc8un 10 move, nothing. certainly not the
handful Of policemen, could have checked
them II estimated that there
we're at least 10000 people grouped around the
City Hall. II the usual mixed crowd. the
same as turns out every holiday 10 watch
parades For crowd OF It's size it remark
ably well-bchaved and quiet Contrary TO cX-
pectations, the playing of the band was not
intcrfcred with The people listened as
quietly rs such bIg multitude Old lis.
ten. and made no demonstration OF
approval after each selection. Now az t-U, they
joincd in and sang with the music, rby when
the band struck up Way Down Upon ne Suwanec
River and Home Sweet Home. The pro
gramme was, besides these selections: " Hail
Columbia Red, White and Blue, Star
Smngled Banner, Yankee Doodle, Gimorcs
2lamba America pr,ity N.Y. SoHntTy rIo, NJ WIo1 oi
All blessings Flow, The Lost Chord The
22d Regiment March.
When the crowd began to dspersc after the
music was finished il could be now enormous
a multitude there was. Every street leading from
the park was black with then, and before the
last strains Of music had ded away, hOrsccars
elevated railroad cars and the Bridge ears were lii
emily choled by the sudden onslaught Of the crowd
The elevated railroad cars running uptown were
So overloaded with passengers that the doors could
not I've shut n the lOstling crowd filled the ears
from platform to platform. The same was the case
with tie Bridge cars. Park Row and the Bow
cry were filled with moving people. Broadway
was crowded more than it generally IL in the
day time and the ears going uptown through that
thoroughfire were filled dcnscly that there was
no foothold left after they passed the Park
Long after | o'clock, though the greater part
of the crowd had gone home, many still
fingered around Printing House Square
and made music with their tin horns
Men. and sometimes few women, would form
in marching order, and each blowing his or her
horn fnriously. would parade up the streets.
Gradually the crowd thinncd more and more, then
10 dwinded to small groups, later 10 single. weary
individuals and shortly before daylight the
II reefs began TO look like ordinary streets again
The bell-ringcr of Grace Church began - play
popular airs on the chimes at II 80 o'clock. lie
PLAYED these until - o'clock. when the new year
was ushcrcd in with Hail Columbia, THE Star
Spangcd Banner and other National airs.