The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1900-12-30


Gazette. Jan. T. 1901.
10 was the same then as now. When
the eighteenth century was about 10 die.
ss ths nineteenth is now doing oil Amer
lca prepared TO usher IN It's succossor-as
u-o are doing even now. The good ciu-
zens Of lsgI celebrated as the more or less
good citizens Of Is0l is about 10 do. Watch
night meetings. dinners. gatherings Of all
kinds. fireworks. muminaions and the
like usAered Ia the new century. that IS
now lo) year5 old. ~ We may judge from
the publications OF that time the citizens
OF America "a century ago celebrated
ln mucn the same spirit if with a vastly
different view, as the Americans Of to
day.
New York was not as pre-eminent then
as "a ls now. ana the principal events took
place in Boston and Philadelphia. The
latter place, enormously yclept sleepy
must have been fairly wide-awaiSe town
from certain accounts printed In the
Aurora. According TO this authority, on
saturday Jan. O. 1901, the staid citizens
met at tle house OF Citizen Miller az the
sign Of tnc Green Tree ia North Fourth
street. 10 celebrate the favorable COM
meuctm.ut OF the nineteenth century"
Dr. Reynolds presided and after the din
neg had had lts meAowing effects, sundry
aud various toasts were proposed. The
prlu.I pal one was. '"rhe World-Our
Country Man. our Fellow Citizen-Be-
ueyoieuce our Religion Other tOasts
were 70 Thomas Jefferson. just elected
President. 60 Aaron Burr his unsuc-
ce gul rival named for Vice President:
Universal Tolesauon'. The Constitu-
ton Ireland, May she rise ike An
i1eus from her fan and crush the despots
who cNult BOO her mlscries."
The celebration lasted until early dawn
aud Philadelphia was considera bly,
shocked az the giraffe peregrinations OF
/ her ataid citizens while on their way
home. The Aurora added 20 the gaicfy
by printing a scven-coiumn review Of the
eighteenth century.
AZ Lancaster Pa, a tremendous cele-
I bratiou was held In the large hsll Of
I Franklin college. An the town turned
out. botr+res We're lighted. pistols shot cff
ana as much noise made as possible. A
great transparency. eighty feet high and
/ twice as lons. bearing the legend. Lab
/ crty and the Constitution adorned the
/ lower end Of tine han. Speeches predict
/ Ing slorloIs future for the new century
! were made. hud then a bullock was
/ roasted.
/ The Philadelphia German Society also
/ celebrated. as did the prominent citizens
/ Of Eastou. Pa, who assembled al the
/ house OK SIR. Hickman TO watch the old
/ century out and tho new one in.
La New York city the people being
moro osmofolltau. there was less ceIe-
I brauus. Watch night services were held
{ in tho various churches and in some OF
tho clubs OF the day informal meetings
were held. 10 was not until evening that
] q
I older ones, built huge fires OF whatever
I material was nearest a. hand An tho
. town was Illuminated aud when midnight
I came the church bells rang out the old
1 and lu the new century Men and wo-
men congratulated one another ana the
/ ccntufs was born.
Congress was so busy with the contest
/ "a election between jefferson and Burr
! that 20 cegnizlnee vac taken q the
I change 90 centuries The work OF both
/ houses went on uninterTuptedly. the
treaty pending with France occupying
much time.
They had the same old discussion one
[ hundred years ago that has been racking
the souls OF the latter dag public. All
| through the country discussion was rife
. for nearly n year as 90 when che new
. century hegan-just as We discussed the
matter during the last twelve months.
! ITO Bono ANtAeot \ ffikAHt JUICY a III
I xen and other woll-known personages
I who sim survive. wrote 90 the papers in
/ support OF their respective stand. and
acrimonious debates ensued. Finally Il
wees decided that the new century began
I Jan. /. 1901 Several well-intcntioncd.
I though mistaken. gentlemen had already
/ celebrated the occasion on Jan. l. 1850
/ and one of them wrote a harsh letter 60
! the papers. announcing that he would
/ take no part in any subsequent chrome
I logical jamborce Whatsoever However.
I the event passed or very nicely without
I his allotment
As for The newspapers. each and every
/ one had "a wcighty editorial or two. well
/ coming the new century and regretting
/ the old. Washington had been dead on
! ly two years and two weeks and repeat
| ed mention was made OF him in the most
/ complimentary terms. irrespective OF par
I IS Affiliations. Tho Boston Independent
l Chronicle on the first day Of the nine
I tceuth century said.
This day commences the nineteen IN
I century The great events which have
arisen at The close OF the eighteenth cen