The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1901-12-25
Continuous Shrek Promo
o'clock Until Midnight.
IT WAS THRoNGED.
All Kinds of Nuisances Were in
Evidence and Excitement Enough.
WHAT ONE FIRECRACKER Drp
Festive Young Man Threw 1t Ia Assortment
of Fireworks aud All Kinds OF Things
Began to Rappeu-Cow Bells,
Tin Horns aud Fire.
crackers Caused
Pandemonium.
All Kinds of Nuisances Were in
Evidence and Excitement Enough.
WHAT ONE FIRECRACKER Dp

! Broad Street was a nervejansiins.
! continuous and unnnitiGated shrek last
night. From o'clock until midnight,
! when the last man went home with h1
| heels hanging out OF Il cab, it was pan
| demonium; an inpreSsible hawl from tin
| Eora cow bells and fre-crackers that
wearied the ear. made mankind wear
| as to where he should step and threat
| ened the intellect. There were one or
| two accidents. .; score OF humorous Incl
dents and hosts Of arrests OF the dis
orderly. The tin horn footed violently
| into ones ear. combined with the newest
| form OF explosive, made life a burden
| for shoppers, had the nervous man con-
! tinuously on the hop and in various other
| ways afforded amusement to the man
| who was out for amuseennt.
And this was the celebration OF the
| coming of the Prince OF Peace. II was
| a howling disordered mass. a scrambled
! throng OF swirIiug humanity. White tla
| festive fire cracker blew its brains ous
| indifferently against the leg of Il conNeii-
| lent policeman, while the nend with fhe
! tin horn shrieked himself black i'll ths
| face, while the promoter of Internal
| noises piled his trade, and the pickpockee
! accumulated enough to properly cele-
F! brate that event which has separated
| civilization from barbarisnl. there was
! something to think about Tor the man
who thinks.
| MAKING 4 NOISE.
But Richmond doesn't think during the
| holidays. Civilization was out for the
sole and exclusive purpose OIL ripping tie
| roof of the universe, and, so far as ons
man with an able pair OF eyes could see.
| it succeeded in doing it. 1t sent squtbs
! under the heels of dignity and had dig
nifty Immediately climbing an imaginary
| ladder; it touched off the fireworks, and
| it had the policemen climbing tree
| With a firm idea of duty hXeG in MS
| intellect, the policeman went forth %
I do his duty dra Eged celebrating hN-
! manity to four walls until his arm got
tired, and then let it go at tHat
From Murphy's Hotel nortnt TO ADAMS tina
! throng was immense. The .nantn searehot
Santa CIzus' trinkets had all he could 40
| TO keen his feet anCf 1t was q push anu
(, crush for blocks Everybody was
loaded with bundles and took a ttn-fsoru
on the side Just TO help the noise along.
| Men. women and children struggled soo'-
| naturedly and the !Han with the Intel
lect twister, procured at various stopping
places on his way uptown, was dlstiileeiS
in evidence.
Ear1v in the evening the first eNcite-
,,ont came This was an involuntary
I display of pyrotechnics at shop 1use
! above the Biiou Immediately Things De
gan to happen. The multi-coiorsu liis
hall began to gat acqIitllHs-d Witt 'i'7
back of humanty's neck, ana tue tepss-
! lous sky-rocket lifted his nat as 1t "ette
! soaring. while the dynamite bonio, as "
foot-warmer proved tremendous sue
ss If warmed feet 50 rapidly thte
tter, was violent and precipitatc scat
teriue- of the curious.
FIRE ALARM SENT IN
| This was the primary cause of a hro
| alarm being turned IN. L ne aiarih ptou9ii.
! a hook and ladder, a chemical engine. IL
few steamers and other tnings WIZ
which the Richmond Fire Department
disccurages fires, and d crown sLsi. -,
The fire was out, however. more tldii
Suddenly BY the time the tirernen reach
ed the scene there was a scared proprie-
FOR n few hundred spectators ana nam d
dozen punctured windows TO snow "het'o
i, had been The throns parted ana "ehs
IFS way in disappointment. whiie ING
/ merry tfu-horn got new preaih s,hu
proceeded to blow itself good.
Pevond this ore incident there was no.
+b;ns- truly exciting in Broad Street. be-
yond a few arrests pt the utsoiu''iJ'
P,cknockets were jerked TO 1ustics sui'i-
,nariIy from time to time. and the sAop
T. lJfter of the kleptomaniac tWisl OF Hiiih
Justice f.r,,tchtield to-day Will be Il ffuie-5
FI one because of these things. Most OF
the arrests were made ABOVE fot. 'is
street. where Jackson Ward mad re"
words to say about the cefsofdt'ot- ot'i0
ness. ,,o>-c
Eron, about . O'Clock in the afternoon.
p.han fh. swirl began, 1T was all jump
throughout And it was q motley 'afonS,
mixture of butcher ana baker and
candlestic, maker" milady IN her hness
frock and milord with both hahas III ms
pockets paying the niiis. Atlu -.
there that scourge OF humanity WHICH
feasts on its purity. Thieves rubbed 81
hovs with the ministers OF peace, ana
detectives had their eyes on the WHY iei-
,ow who took occasion to hit nahases=
chief as a gentle reminder or the DAY,
There were pitiful scenes ana saa, a''u
saa TO say the pitiful predoininated
Pafore a brilliantly lighted window JUST
,aIou, Eifth Street came ore OF the pititut
scenes 4 mother. dragging Two reSalsi-
trant children by the hand, passed tne
windows wherein were aisciossa s.ta
elories of the holiday season ana tH,.,
stnnnei and begged for bit OF candy. "
Ianp,f, one of them began 10 cry. and ..
no,icenan came along with MS Isua :
arrfe ..noye on there SentishlI.1
stepped forward and asked wliat was .hs
matter. being gruffly told eisie =. W. 49,
/ none of his business. but the fess1it w'' we
that the policeman WENT his way sa.'S-
ned after a few minutes. ano .hs Two ..., si..',
| dren held bag each OF tue eostseu
candy. ,,,,,, az,
r+ra.ts said the mother. shfrerins es.
Meath a veil-iike shawl .'snd they .wantea
somsthine. All the others had sorethins {.
ard when they cried could do nothins
BURDENS OF 1NplGtss5iie'sN.
rt ~. tbis time four chubby fists had
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