The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1905-01-01
YEAR IS USHERED IN
W|THPANDEMON|UM
Crowds on Broadway Greatest
Ever Seen
STREET SCENE OF REVELRY
Hundreds of Policemen Are Brought
Into Requiston to Keep Order
In the Congested Down.
Town District.
STREET SCENE OF REVELRY

New York, December 31-New York
rendered it's customary pandemonium
greeting to the new year tonight with
more variety and amplitude OF cacophony,
If possible, than ever before. This was
due to an almost balmy evening, which
invited additional thousands to join the
multitude of celebrants that streamed UP
and down Broadway for at least two
hours before midnight. Towards Old Trim
ity, ever the central point of the New
Years eve festivities, the mob of down.
town jewellers moved. Here horns footed
the old year out, while the chimes, which
for years have rung the half hour before
the dying years last night. rank thei-
happy omen of the incoming season.
The cafes In upper Broadway and the
Bohemian restaurants of the Eastside
were crowded with those who helped the
old year out and the new year in with
songs and jests. and in contrast We're the
watch meetings with their wealth of re-
lfglouS sentiment
The subway and the elevated and sur
face roads We're crowded to their utmost
capacity tonight with parties bound to
get as near to Trinity as they could The
brooklyn bridge and all the downtown
ferries added their quotas, until at IL
O'Clock broadway was completely jammed
from the city hall down to the Battery.
The streets running to the ferries were
lined all day with vendors. who did a
roaring trade in tin horns, rattles, whis-
ties and other ear-spltting devices.
The din that rose high above the null
titudes ON Broadway slackened for few
moments, when at il 40 the solemn chimes
of Trinity pealed forth their parting to
the old year, followed by the bells of
nearly every church in the city Almost
instantly the tumult of horns and whis-
ties commenced, growing every minute
In volume, until as the midnight hour
struck the whistles of a thousand steam
ers' tugs and ferry boats sweIled with
their hoarse blasts the mighty dIapason
of welcome to the new year. For nearly
an hour the din continued as usual to
the complete extinction of the Trinity
chimes, and then the multitude began
gradually to float away. until at | o'clock
the lower part of the city was almost de-
serted.
Along upper Broadway and throughout
the theatre district all the cafes and
places OF amusement We're thronged, re-
ceptions We're held in all the clubs and
the streets were filled with troops of car
nival makers, including thousands of
gaily dressed women who, with all the
devices at their command, kept the infant
year awake until 1t was several hours
old
The crowds in the vicinity of Trinity
church We're the largest ever seen in lower
broadway. Four hundred policemen, half
dozen captains and a humber of SER
geants, roundsmen and numerous detec-
uves were on hand as the crowds
marched down Broadway expecting to
halt in front of old Trinity, but they were
turned aside and forced to go down WaD
street. Few were permitted to stand on
the temporary board covering over the
subway. as the police were afraid they
might fall through
The crowds in upper Boardway also
were unprecedently large and 500 police
men were specially detailed in the Ten
derloin to keep the great pushing jostling
throngs moving along