The evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1907-1908, 1907-12-31
DINE OUT OLD
YEAR; WINE
IN NEW
Watch-night Services Also.
Religious and Social
Celebrations.


Dine out the old, wine in the new
not original, nor even built for the oc-
casion, but very much to the point.
Newarkers expect to do all tina. If the
number of tables engaged in the city's
hotel dining rooms and restaurants in
dicates anything. OF course, this en-
gazing of tables does indicate some-
thing for anybody who was in the vicin-
Iity of Broad and Market streets at
midnight 1854 days and some d hours
! ago, remembers thai everybody
seemed to be happy and there wasn't
anything left to the imagination in the
noisy farewell to the dying year and
the jubilant welcome to 1907.
There will be "~watchnight" services
in many churches and halls, where de-
vout ok will welcome the change in
the calendar with religious exercises.
While one half of h people gives it
self up to pleasure-seeking and world
ly celebration of the new years adj
vent, the other half will more quietly
celebrate and seriously consider the
new page of life hat is opening for
them.
Besides being observed in a social way,
New Years Day will be celebrated along
religious lines. Various churches will
have watch-nieht services this evening,
preparing in a spiritual way for the New
Year.
In the Roman Catholic Church the day
is a feast day of obligation. when Cath
olics are required by the discipline of the
church to attend mass. In the eccleSiasti-
cal calendar 1t is the feast of the circum-
cision.
The day will also be celebrated by mem
bers of the Episcopal faith. Trinity
Church will have a holy communion serv-
Ice at 10 O'Clock tomorrow morning, Bishop
Edwin s. Lines delivering the address. A
brief talk will also be given by the Rev.
Louis Shreve Osborne, the pastor.
Union watch-night services are to be
} held tonight in the Third Presbyterian
Church from $50 to II O'Clock. The pro-
gram will include special music, addresses
) by local pastors. a praise service, a tes-
tlmony service and a closing address by
the Rev. Edwin F. Hallenbeck, pastor of
the Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church, in
New York. Mr.. Hallenbeck has charge of
the evangelical work there. He has
preached in Newark before at the Park
Presbyterian Church.
Watch-night services will also be held
tonight by the Central M. e.. Church and
in the w. c. T. u. rooms in Mulberry
street. Tomorrow the union will entertain
at . o'clock the newsboys and bootblacks
of the city. Music will be furnished by
the e%vangelistic brass band, under the
leadership of Richard Neiderbuhl.
The first New Years reception ever
undertaken by the Christian Endeavor
Society Of Newark will be held tomorrow
IN the First Presbyterian Church. 1t is
expected the affair will be a big one.
The year 1908 will be welcome. There isn't
any question of that. Tomorrow Is a
hopeful word, and it's pretty nearly hlttlng
the bull's-eye when this old year is formally
blacklisted. 1t began all right. but these
latter months-because folks lost confidence
in something or other and because u num-
her of things did or didn't happen just to
suit-haven't been up to the standard.
There are some-it wouldn't be polite 20
be more defnite-who will be particularly
warm In their welcome of 1908, because
it's leap year-ieap year. with its wonder
full opportunities for the gentler sex who
are sailing life's seas alone-leap year
with 1866 days and a birthday celebration
} for those who are deprived of such n
thing ordinarily because they were BON
on the twenty-ninth of February.
If. the day be ~good-and present indica-
tlons are acknowledgements will be the
scene of action in all sections.
The old. old, custom of paying New
r Years calls, to be the first to wish them
, the compliments of a new season Will be-
gin a few minutes before the midnight
hour. In various parts of the city. men
and women will leave their homes and
, start to FIRST fut" in to the homes of
! their relatives and friends. They will be
tle Scotch folk, and from time immemorial
the custom has been yearly practised by
them.
The object will be to see who will be the
first to cross the threshold. There Is no
fear of disturbing the inmates of the
+, home toward which they are walking, for
T no true Scotchman will be caught mapping
! on first futter'' night.
> But woe to the first visitor IL he be
= red-headed, or even tow-headed. for the
) door is sure to be closed on him. 1t will
! remain 80 until some one calls who has
a hair of a different hue. Then the tut
ter with the Objectionable colored hair
is permitted to enter and will soon for
get his misfortune in the splendid hospi.
: tally of the host. Why this is the GUS
! tom, well, Just ask the first Scotchman
you meet.
= 1t is not until the sun is up, perhaps
away mp. that other people will begin fc
: become active.
There will be the inevitable '~'resell-
tons that are dissipated in the smoke
+ of forgetfulness before long.
I A feature of the dav will be the visiting
and receiving Of relatives aud friends. And
1 this will mean a glad New Year TO the
cabman and the liveryman for the doy
will find them busy the whole day.
Clubs and fraternities will also celebrate
A the new year IN a manner appropriate fol
e the occasion. Socials have been arranged
by many lodges and organizations. and
r musical. literary and vaudeville programs
have been prepared to be accompanied
with suitable refreshments. Some of the
: lodges will hold special business meetings
, hut the business will be curtatled.
There is likely to be considerable doing
! at the formal opening of the new head
quarters of the Leveen Democratic Asso-
/, citation. 81 Springfield avenue. tonight
Almost every Democratic association and
official in the county, including Mayor
s Haussling. has been invited, and 1t will
is