The San Francisco call., 1898-01-01
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 many Tigers.
IN WITH A GREAT NOISE.
As the Stars and Stripes Float From the City Hall Bedlana Breaks
 Loose.
Special Dispatch to The Call.

NEW YORK, Dec. 3L-The citizens of New York, which tomorrow be- comes the second city of the world, en- ter then upon what is believed to be the greatest problem of municipal gov ernment ever presented. With the last stroke of the clock at midnight an- nouncing the advent of the New Year there will be born a city such as the Emperors and Kings of history would have deemed great for an empire.
 For six months, unless the machin- cry of the new municipality gets into motion, the Mayor of New York has the power of an autocrat. He may ap- point officials with salaries running in- to the thousands with as lavish a hand as ever Emperor treated his fa- vorites:o
 The Mayor will appoint every de- partment head in the city except the Controller, who is elected for four years. He will appoint all commits sioners, Justices of interior criminal courts, all the members of the school boards, with the exception of the Com missioner of Education, the Justices of special sessions and the police magis- trates, and is given the power to re- move any official in New York and ap- point his successor.
 There are five boroughs in the Greater New York, namely, Manhattan Brooklyn, Bronx, Queens and Rich mond. The municipal legislature is composed of the Council with twenty eight members and a Board of Alder men of " members. The president of the Council was selected by the peo- pie. The Board of Aldermen will be chosen by the members of that body
 Mayor Van Wyck is given power to veto any ordinance or resolution of either body of the municipal assembly unless five-sixths of the members of both houses declare otherwise. Each of the five boroughs has a borough presi- dent, but his principal duty is to pre- side over the various local bodies in his borough.
 The exit of the old year and the in- auguration of Greater New York was celebrated fittingly tonight One of the events that marked the occasion was grand parade.
 Notwithstanding the warning ele- ments and the announcement made in the early afternoon that the carnival and parade would be postponed, a great crowd of merry makers, mask CTS, wheelmen and members of various societies with numberfess floats, met al the rendezvous dTOuHu OIlOH ready to march through the rain and mud to honor the old city and welcome the new.
 An hour before midnight bombs placed on the lawn gave the signal and the parade was approaching, and just a little later the first of the pro- cession turned into the park. A huge balloon with trailing light was sent UT and as 1t swept across the park a blazing American flag floated down and remained burning until the bal loon went out of sight.
 The drizzling rain had turned tc snow, but the great crowds remained surrounding the paraders, who had gathered in the park for the chief cere- mcny of the night.
 At exactly 12 o'clock the search lights on the neighboring buildings were turned upon the flagstaff of the City Hall. As the hands pointed the exact hour little white ball was seen to climb the staff slowly. The Mayor of San Francisco had touched the but ton and the electrical current sent the furled flag of the city of New York to the top of the staff. Here it broke out and swung into the breeze. Then bed lam broke loose. Hundreds of bombs were thrown into the air, sending down their showers of blazing stars, and the salute of 100 guns was fired by the Second Battery of the National Guard. Soon after the crowd dis