The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1905-01-02
WETBUT NOTROWDY NEW YEAR
MS CELRBRANTS WANTED TO SEE
THE OTHER FELLOWS SCRAP.
And Scraps There We're None-Restau-
rants Couldn't Hold the Crowds That
wanted TO Get In to see the Fun
Great Night for the Demon Rum.

rants Couldn't Hold the Crowds That
Wanted 10 Get In to See the Fun
\ Great Night for the Demon Rum.
The survivors OF the General Committee
TO Welcome the Glad New Year got together
in the mellow quiet Of yesterday afternoon
and talked the ceremonies over They
sought out shady corners in quiet res
taurants and ordered quarts Of Apol-
linaris and White Rock and shook their
heads dolorously over the decadence Of
the anniversary
There is one unanimous verdict passed
on the proceedings OF Saturday night and
early Sunday morning 1t was the noisiest.
soggiest and least sprightly New Year
welcoming that New York ever saw.
There was "A time when one could go TO
Jacks on New Years night with a fair
certainty of seeing at least one fight each
hour It was then that the visitor from
ont Of town might be shown the horrible
execution wrought by the strategy Of the
grim faced Cavanaugh, chief Of bouncers,
when tho invinoible flying wedge OF walters
centred on an over gay celebrant. On
ordinary nights Tor rather mornings) these
mi1-ups might not happen once in a week.
But on New Years morn Cavanaugh
gave the signal at stated intervals for per-
sons who seemed 70 him to have earned the
right as the sainted Billy Baxter said,
70 acquire the car track habit
There never was row this New Years
that required more than a warning raising
OF Cavanaugh's eyebrows or a suave apph-
cation of Jacks own honeyed diplomacy
Hundreds came to see fights, but none came
10 scrap. From long before midnight until
o'clock in the morning there were two
waiting lines each half block long in front
Of Jacks doors, at which derisive cabmen
leered as the bread lines. In these rows
stood sensation hungry persons who waited
patiently their turn TO DO let in when other
persons disappointed of their sensations
we're let out. Within all was maudlin and
crowded and hopelessly and spirituously
spiritless.
Reports from all the Broadway resorts
carried out the impression gained by mem
bers of the committee who took up their
posts at jacks. There were variations
here and there-as at the Criterion. for
instance where the thoughtful management
on the first stroke OF twelve switched off
all the lights in the place and did not turn
them on again until the clock ceased strik-
ing. The giggles and shrieks and muffled
reports (@pleasure cries one celebrant
called theml during the interval OF dark
ness drowned the din Of horns and DRINKS
on Broadway.
Nothing was more apparent throughout
tho night than that the restaurants were
FLIED for the most part with folks who never
20 out TO restaurants regulars. The
people who had engaged seats and were
holding them down religiously regarded
them not as places in which to eat drink
and be merry, but as grand stands 0or
which certain rental in the way Of pur-
chases must be made) from which to OBJ
serve the actions of other people. The
Committee TO Welcome the Glad New Year
rather inclined to blame this large per-
oentage OF gallery onlookers for the lack
of spontaneity about the whole game.
Thus a. all the hotels, and at Burns's.
Rector's and Shanley's and the Rossmore.
the Metropole and Martins, and in all the
rathskellers and other Ravens Of refuge
from the Water Wagon Devil with his
scoop net of resolutions there were hun
dreds Of open mouthed persons full TO
the brim with unaccustomed drinks, trying
70 be unaccustoned good fellows and
making Themselves very stupid, not TO say
offensive.
fashioned New Years riot had broken out
in the under sidewalk lair Of the Rum Demon
under the new Breslin. member Of the
committee made all haste thither and found
al cai5n and orderly; after diligent search be
ieSfd that an asleep-on-his-feet jag had
wa red in. escaping the vigilant sentinels
roy G,at the door by the management and
nad tried to save himself from going TO the
floor by grabbing tablecloth. Some
china was smashed and his feelings were
quite devastated because he was laid out
on the sidewalk to recover his sense Of
gravity. When last seen he was crying
because mean big policeman wouldn't let
him go back.
II was poor boozorium which did not
have to close its doors 70 keep itself from
being swamped by its patrons Way down
N lower Second avenue folks who made
for the Cafe Boulevard because they thought
thus to escape tho uptown mob found them
selves packed into a crowd before the doors
which reached to the sidewalk All except
old patrons were barred out after 10 o'clock.
Even when old patrons got in they had 10
fight with the waters for standing room
or else sit on the floor with their backs
against the walls and howl madly for food
and drink that nobody wanted 10 bring
them.
The General Committee 10 Welcome the
Glad New Year resolved varionsy but
unanimously Yesterday to let the tin horn
sports have the game all to themselves
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