New-York tribune., 1905-01-01
A ROARING GREETING.
City ReS0unds from End to End as
1905 Is Born.

Greeted by the Ginning of multitudinous bells
the shrielling of whistles, the blaring of horns
and the comr1ingling of sounds of which only
Broadway in holiday mood is capable, the New
Year stole into being last night. The celebration
OF its birth. which filled the city with a merry,
Tiotous throng last night. will be continued to-
day I'm more sober fashion. until the evening
again brings merriment, which will last all day
Tomorrow ard tomorrow night. Really
friplex holiday for yesterday a day of
sport in the exchanges, while most Of tire iarge
business houses closed early, New Years cele
bration was begun in right royal fashion, which
promises 10 place il at high water mark in the
table Of holiday merrymaking
But TO the testers In the street the bells car
ried no such message. and il was the throng
which eddied along Broadway which colored the
night. A happy-gO-lucky, care free asse4nblage
it was trihe boisterous, a trihe brazen per
haps, but intensely human, gay and picturesque
with the characteristic touch Of the pleasure
seekers. From solemn Old Trinity, its great
brown spire pointing upward into heaven like a
finger, TO Long Acre Square. with its brilliant
theatres and great hotels a-glitter with lights
zaany colored, Broadway was stream Of hu-
ranity which flowed along swiftly. eddying into
SIDE streets. swrling around the entrances 10
theatres and restaurants: not like the dense
conglomerate mass which choked the thorough
fare election night until individual motion
whose component particles dashed hlther and
thitAer instinct with motion.
Before q o'clock Broadway began 10 I'LL The
late workers, hurrying home from their otnces,
mingled with The early merrymakers, women IN
gay dresses. with white shoulders glntlng
through gauZN wraps. or. from Deileath LUIS
half flung aside, their escorts In the sober black
and white which custom DEGREES.
Special musical programmes were held at lhe
leading churches, but few of the dense throngs
which assembled near could hear them. Around
old Trinity mass of people which reacneu
heyond RectOr-sI. and down Wall-st., when Al
bert Meislohn began his music at ll:4a. 81
Patrick's Cathedral was the scene OF a similar
Assem- bage. Grace Church chimes pealed out,
but save for the first moment. when their heavy
tones pierced the blare Of the Broadway crowd,
were almost uuheard. At st. Andrews, in Har-
lem was also great thronG The ten bell
chimes in ST. Johns Bohemian Church, IN East
Seventy -second-st. newly installed, pealed out
a concert from the hands Of Chester Meneely.
The National Arth Club arranged an elaborate
rrogranuae. which enlisted the service OF many
Of its members. The galleries around the as
semblv room We're filed with guests. who
watched the novel spectacle Of tableaUs and
dances. In the reading room was Mrs. Cecil
Campbell. a scientific palmist, OF London, who
prophesied ali kinds Of fate. dire and pleasant,
for the members At 10 p m there was cos
tune minuet IN the art gallery, danced by Mrs.
Dore Lyon. Miss Grace Lyon, Miss Felice Par
ker Miss Martha Brown and Pennington Hal
stead. William Prizer, John Prizer and Edward
HaRanan Hall.
At 1880 the guests were transported 20 the
offices Of the Recording Angel. John J. Boyle.
and Father Time. Henry r. browne. The Re
cording Angel with the aid Of a big GemiJohn Of
'indelible ink and tank Of sympathetic
tears for erasures. was making up his books
for 1904. Father Time repairing varied
assortment Of watches, clocks and hour glasses.