The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-01-01
NEW YEAR GREETED N0lSiLY.
CAME IN AVID A MEDLEY OF ALL
SORTS Of WELCOMING SOUNDS.

BELLS Rang, whistles Blew, Crackers
Popped and the Small Boy Blew
His HOrn-MOre Than the Usual
Number Seemed to Have Remained
I'D to See the Ola Year Die and
the New One EbOrn-1S9si Memoir
able Tenr-Americuns Made Most
of It's History.
This is the day OF good resolves. From
now until 365 days nave passed is the time
allotted by the solar system and the
chronological ordering of the universe for
them to be broken in. Those resolving
can break their resolutions into a thous-
and fragments before tomorrow or they
can wait until Dec 81 next-but they won't.
In the curing smoke of a fine Havana
hller, the wftchiDg gurgle of a seductive
Manhattan c. T., the explosive Vehemence
of a ripped out cuss word, the still-stand-
ing account at the haberdasher's, the con-
tinuance in politics and the inability
TO say no when a friend tries to make
touchdown for V, resolutions will so up
and the breakers of them will wait. as
they always do, until the next New Years
day to make them all over again.
A brand new page viii be turned over
by many people to-day. But many of
these same people have grown accustomed
to reading besmirched pages and they
may find it hard to get out of the old
tastes
New Years started in the usual way.
The city clocks rang out the hour of L,
and the Old year died. The birth of the
new was heralded as was that of its de-
ceased predecessor. 1t was always a case
OF lie roi est mort; vive lie roi." Cannon
crackers that the small boy and the young
old boy mad been saving over from Christ
mas popped in great glee. St Johns
chimes rang out, whistles shrieked their
welcome and from the threats of heated
wayfarers and those out to see the town
ON New Years eve went up yells of greet
ing. On the vessels along the wharves
horns were blown, bells We're rung and
| sailors shouted greetings to the new year.
1t was the same Old old story that was
| started way back in the musty volumes
of the past, and will be gotten out in
serial form on the first of every year for
centuries TO come.
The year was welcomed by a number
of good Methodists at Wesley Monumental
| as the average citizen extended. 1t was
a religious one and there was lacking the
| levity that characterizes the ordinary
| greeting that is extended the new The
| church people prayed as tine old year went
| out and the new year came. They prayed
! for strength to lead better lives and TO
/ walk more closely to the path He trod
! while on earth
! Then there was dancing and merry max
| ing. Seeing the Old year die and the new
| one begin, as long been a popular form
| of diversion with young people, and there
We're numerous parties, of old as well as
| young, throughout the city. 1t was with
| jollty and great iun that these bid well
! come 30 the new
| The old year was an eventful one with
! the American people. 1t has been a maker
/ Of history, and some of the strangest
! events war has brought forth. 1t saw
! American arms everywhere victorious on
! land and sea. Fleets of an enemy went
| to the bottom without having sent res
! sci of those opposing 10 keep them COM
! pany. Peoples We're freed from yokes
! they bore for centuries and the power
! of nation at one time the greatest on
! earth was still further decreased. America
/ did it all The year 1898 will go down to
/ the ages with this country as the fore
most factor in its history
There viii be little to-day out of the
Ordinary sundays run. People will go to
church and hear the sermons just es on
other Sundays, but the sermons will be Of
/ new year character. All the preachers
will say something about good resolutions
and the policy of adhering to them They
will review the past year and glance into
! the present
There is one good that comes from hay
/ ing New Year come on Sunday This will
| be appreciated by the business men and
| their employees who viii get tomorrow
off. Sunday and Monday will come along.
as holidays just as they did when Christ
| mas fell on last Sunday.
The time is beginning to get decidedly
| "hn de siecbe." Let one year more pass
! after this and the Christian era will be
in it's twentieth century. There viii be
many who will dispute this statement.
there always are They will say this is
the last year of the nineteenth century.
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