New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-01-01
NEW YEAR WELCOMED.
TENDERLOIN GOES WILD.
CITY Resounds gcitH Din of Horns
ana BATTLES.


by thousands of tin horns, with painted women
by the hundreds yelling Justify at the highest
pilch OF their brazen voices with a vast sea of
excited humanity surging mady along Broad
way giving every evidence of being wrought up
10 the highest pitch of excitement; with men
acting as If they were boys. and boys behaving
as If they belonged to another branch of the
animal kingdom, the new year was ushered in
by the Tenderloin last night Although the way
the advent of new year is celebrated in this
section Of the town is always one Of the feat
ures of the day oldtimer3 who have witnessed
New Years Eve TenderIoin celebrations for
many years declared early this morning that
they had never witnessed such a spectacle or
heard such wild pandeTnonium Of rejoicing as
was to be seen and listened to last night. Every
man and woman in that frantic crowd who vas
yelling cheering, shriel1ing or blowing a man.
moth tin horn was usherinS in the Tiger far
more than he was the new year.
The lid is off! The lid is off, was the
hoarse cry with which men and women greeted
each other deliriousiy. Painted women with
their peroxide hair marched arm in arm along
Broadway, shrieking at the highest pitch of their
voices and dancing in derision around every
policeman they encountered Men with faces
that are closely identified with the Tenderloin
and the racetrack showed their way joyfuIly
through the dense mob joining with right good
will in the yelling and furnishing goOdly pro-
portion OF the horn blowing. In their hats these
men displayed conspicuously a single playing
card, which was popular and significant badge.
The lid is off, The lid is OFF, was the cry
which taken up by thousands Of threats
and sounded like a trfumphaI chorus. Every
now and again a wild-eyed woman. unable to
control her Joy any longer. would make sud
den rush and throw her arms Historically
md
women. blowing horns. were carried on the
shoulders of yelling men, every human chariot
thus formed escorted by a bodyguard Of about
a hundred hornblowing men and women. The
sidewalks were unable to hold the dense throng
which encroached on the roadway. SO that traf-
fic was for the time being at a standstilL
An immense stuffed tiger. carried on a wagon
and drawn by pair of big black horses was
driven along Broadway. and became the centre
Of vast yelling procession of men and women
who were glad to be able thus to pay summar,
homage TO their idol That the jubilatlon Wa
deeply founded is plainly to be understood b.
those who are in a position TO know the change
that has come over the Tenderloin during the
last few days. All over the Tenderloin gamblers
have been secretly planning for weeks to throw
open their houses soon the New Year
dawned. we'll known Tenderloin sport said
last night that within two days four gambling
houses would be open in Twenty-ninth-st- four
in Forty-second-st. and thirteen between Forty
secord-st. and FOTty-hfth-st This same man
says that twenty more proprietors Of gambling
houses are preparing TO open it is
seen that the first lot not interfered with
Three opium dens We're said to have been
opened last night in Sixth-ave., between Thirty
ninth and Forty-second SITS. Disorderly house
keepers were preparing to do a fourishing and
uninterrupted business. Another Tenderlon
habitue told Tribune reporter that sixteen
places of this description were opened last night
in various sections of the TendeTlOin AS for
the women in the streets. there was not one OF
them who did not believe that with the end Of
reform rule good times for them were again in
sight.
"Of course Wen have to give up as we did in
the good old days. said one of them, but
there'll be chance to make good money, which
there hasn't been the last two years"
Captain Burfeiad of the Tenderloin station.
said:
There will be no violations of the law while
am in charge here | not politician. I
know my duty and shall do 1t under any circum-
stances"
In the Tenderloin it is believed that Captain
Burfeind means what he says, but the Tender
loin is also confident that within few days
Burfeind's transfer will be effected and another
and more cCngenial spirit put IN charge OF the
West Thirtieth-st. station In his stead
Miss Bertha Thomas played the following pro-
gramme on the chimes at Grace Church: At
Hos p. m. 20 God, our Help in Ages Past
Nearer. NV God to Thee" Christmas Carol
and "A Few More Years Shall Roll. At mid
night "Grandsre Triple Changes" Happy
Greeting TO ALL" The Heavens Are Tell
ing" Largo Cantabile C'XampaD bonanza
C'Xampa'O. With Verdure Clad" Haydn. Cho-
rus Gounod; Chimes Of Normandy Selection
from Handel, Kathleen Aroon.' The Old
Oaken Bucket oft in the Silly Night" Can
tabile-Mendelssohn. My Old Kentucky Home,
"AuId Lang Syne," Home. Sweet Home and
the DOxolosy.
BROADWAY in front of the church was filed
with people, and among those who heard the
chimes the guests Of the St. Denis Hotel
opposite who wrapped in shawls and blankets,
stood In the open windows
1t seemed as though half the population or
Harlem had gathered at ST Andrews Church.
one hundred and twenty -Seventh-St- and t1rth-
ave TO listen TO the chimes. At II :45 O'Clock
/ Grant Sonia began 10 play America. Inc
great crowd in the street was silent untll the
last stroke of the bells. and then 1t burst INTO
cheers. Horns were footed and men and women
lasted only few moments. Then MI Senla
continued his programme of "BeautltuI Dreams
the duet from "Puritanf' and ABIDE WIN NE.
Precisely at L. o'clock Mr.. Sonia started TO
play Praise God. from Whom All Blessings
Flow" Then followed in succession Ihe keti.
White and Blue" Minstrel Boy. De Bertots
seventh Air, Those Endearing Young Charms,
comm Thro' the Rye" Liberty Bell anu
"Hon7a Sweet Home"
AZ II o'clock there was terrific din in every
one of a hundred parts of the city where CROWDS
collected 10 help make themselves happy oy
Uoakirg noise This din increased with every
five minutes. 1t being noticeable that although
the crowds increased but little, the clanSor anu
cIamor increased in geometrical proportion by
II 80 O'Clock il seernd if no more noise could
he made except by cannonadlhS, dynamite OF
tk,rIar In it's vilanousness the noise was
enough TO make Schopenhauer turn IN his grave
PI- This time river craft of every variety added
~ the din Whistles with tremendous power.
soroa seeming to have colds. shrteked, and
crews rang bells. and in some instances hreo re-
volvers 10 make noise Many rang toS oeils'
rrhJla crowds in small numbers around the river
front shouted footed horns, banged TIN cans
s,vung Iocusts beat cellar doors or storehouse
80 - or anNthine else which resCunded.