The Washington herald., 1908-01-01

New York, Dec. 31-They laid the
ghost of the financial stringency, with
miles and miles of ticker tape, down in
the dark hollows about old Trinity to-
night and even as they were swathing
the specter in the cerements of his own
deysing, the crowds of T0isterers dared
the infant car 70 bring another such mon
ster.
When the chimes rang out from the old
tower, the streaming white ribbons thrust
eager fingers into the belfry TO weave
about the ropes
Il must have beer some genius with a
goodly store of ir0nical humor that first
threw open his window high up in the
building at / Wall street, across the
street from the church, and@ fed 10 the
whipping wind endless streamers of the
stuff. His example was followed by 9TH
ers in the Trinity Building and in the
building on the Rector street corner.
Make an Awful Din.
Daring bands with horns and devil
fddles went down Wall street as far as
William. waking the echoes in the mar
row gulch between the walls and causing
the dead eyes of the windows 10 culver
at their blasts. Sleepy watchmen came
10 the doors 10 look out on the revelers.
The noise was varied more than on
previous years. The earnest endeavors
OF street vendors 70 foist new inventions
in nOise-making on the people during the
earlier hours ef the day bore fruit in
assorted knives for clipping the atmOs-
liz.
a cat in torture. combination COW bells
and street car gongs. tin horns with a
double register. sections of iron pipe that
could be rasped with files to give forth
bellows that carried blocks; these We're
some of the instruments that pleased the
crowd. The inevitable ticker of COney
Island parentage was much in evidence
Inspector Russell and 80 reserves, who
had assembled at 10 o'clock, found very
little work 10 do with the crowd Twenty
5ve E-3unted police kept the two black
lines on either side of the street car
tracks moving, and the policemen on the
sidewalks satisfied themselves with call
ing down the too spirited youth and pass
ing the inebriate teuderly up the line "a
q safe island in the crowd.
Chimes Ring New Year In.
The chimes came promptly. although
only those on Rector street and back Oh
Church heard them then by an by
the opinion began to filter through the
crowd that New Year had come, after
all, and everybody might as well go bach
to Brooklyn. Harlem, and HOboken, eaci
with his resolution tucked brayely Undel
his arm.
Crowd Is GOOd-natuTed.
OF course it was good-natured crowd
on Broadway. II always was, even in tH'
palmiest DAYS of the ticker. But to speaI
of Blah, The horn was there in all rs
most glorious gl0ry-the fish horn of com
merce the common or garden nsh horn
the blue, green, and red fish horn. tn,
asthmatic fish horn. the tenor fish horn
the bass fish horn. the wheezy FISH horn
Millions of fish horns, i'm fact.
And the rattle the glOrified rattle Al
of them contributed TO the grand. mag
nihcent Blahl with which the hour o
midnight WAS welcomed on Broadway
which for three hours was packed from
Flat Iron to Flat Iron on both sides of IN
street So crowded was the famous thor
Oughfare that when the theaters tried Z
empty their thousands out il looked for
time as if there was no place 10 put them
But ultimately they wormed their wa,
out. Broadway swallowed them up ant
seemed no fuller than before.
Restaurants All Crowded.
Broadway itself was cheap. II wa
open 10 anybody who had the car far
and the legs 10 get there. Not so tn
hotels and restaurants They are not or,
tirely inexpensive at any time but o.
New Years Eve, after the hour OF Il
it takes not only money. but forethuught
10 find room within them.
Without exception. they were jamme
TO the rails, from the Forty-secon
Country Club which some call tn
Knickerbocker Hotel bar. to the La