Los Angeles herald., 1905-01-01
NOISY WELCOME
FOR NEW YEAR
WHISTLES AND HORNS MADE
GREAT DIN
New City Officials Meet the Outgoing
Administration as Guests at
Councilman Farish's
Banquet

The death knell Of the old year was
sounded last night at 10 O'Clock, and
the birth of 1905 was hailed with a
roar of whistles, a footing of horns.
shouts of welcome and a snow storm
OF good resolves.
Long before midnight the small boy
was on the street with his horn and
he kept up a din which might have
been expected to drive any ordinary
year to distraction and even out of the
game entirely. Nineteen hundred and
four was not an ordinary year how
ever, and kept the field nobly, not re-
firing to the resting place of antiqui-
ties until it had ascertained that its
successor had been accorded q fitting
reception. With the passing of the
old year the skeleton in the closet
emitted another groan and then shrank
back into the darkness, crowded to the
wall by good resolutions.
Every man in town has made some
special resolve which he has every in
tenton of keeping and if there is any
who is pessimistic enough to doubt it.,
all he needs to do is to ask the men
themselves.
All Make Resolutions
The Gas company has made a resolve
which will especially delight the resi-
dents of the Sixth ward. 1t has de-
cided to have better gas for it's pa
irons. The telephone girls have re-
solved not to swear back when people
swear at them. l.. E. Behymer has
resolved to have all the silver slippers
nickel plated next year, and in the
meantime he has draped the pictures
at the Mason in black. Mr.. Behymer
has also signed up for new supply Of
pianos as he affirms that he and
PadereWski have at last discovered the
only original rain producers.
"Buttermilk" Healay has resolved,
among other things, that he will stick
closer to the can this year than ever
Before, and Honest Jim Hanley has
made enough resolutions to fill a small
sized street sweeper. Mayor Snyder
says that he has resolved to extend
the glad hand" to all his old friends
at the city hall and then retire for a
we'll earned rest
Weather Forecaster Franklin has re-
solved to run in opposition to Rain
Producer Hatfield and promises that
the people of Pasadena shall have a
fine day for the Tournament of Roses.
Hatfield left his chemicals last night
only long enough to resolve that he
would tighten his strings on the heav-
enly bodies and produce that eighteen
inches Of rain, or know the reason
why.
Mayor Resolves
Mayor McAleer has resolved not to
keep friends and politicians guessing
any longer, and win begin the new
year with a business administration" :"
Uncle Billy Workman, the watch
dog of the treasury" has resolved to
chain himself to the city funds and
Tax Collector Johnson promises that
he shall have sum worth being
chained to during the next year.
Mr. Johnson and City Attorney
Mathews have resolved never again
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campaign as the one which has re-
Gently closed. They both have be-
come thin with the trouble of hunting
for the other Johnson and Mathews
who were running against them.
The women OF Los Angeles have re-
solved to let Hanley manage the bus
mess of street sweeping without any
assistance from long skirts.
The men who drink have decided to
stop and those who do not have re-
solved to begin. Even the small boys
at the detention home have resolved
to follow Judge Wilbur's advice to be
good.
All over Los Angeles last night,
there were groups of people who had
gathered to watch the old year out and
the new year in. At the clubs and in
private homes there was merry max
ing until midnight. Today there will
be appropriate services in all the
churches.