New-York tribune., 1908-01-01
HE'S A HUSKY INFANT
HOWLS LIKE HIS FATHER.
Nesc Year Welcomed rith Great
HulLabaIoo Al OCer City.

That younger Hvelier and more ohtnesot"e oA
the twin holidays. Christmas and Ne"
poked itself into the greater city ABOUT l-'"V'V
this morning under a starlit sky 10 the a.
commandment of an amalgamation. cohceh's@
ton and mixture OF noise. din ana hniaOaiO'
which will not be surpassed ion many a' ie"S'
six months TO come Even then the gori-
GUS Fourth OF the year nineteen hundreo an"
eight whatever may be the sum totsi Oh 'he
noise. volume measuring machines for that day.
will have nothing the Day of the year 50
far as the first three. or perhaps nrst Iodr'
or say Eve, hours Of its short but sweet career
of twenty-four all told are concerned Ihere
q sure TO be frst rate wager for almost any
part Of Manhattan. which declines to iet FaFiS
show more hilarfty than itself at festival that
is Partisan II anything. -Four was sale lor
many spots in the metropolis, AS TO hNe' II
all depended on where you were and VINO you
were with when the sckly pre-sunset ghm-
mer started to cast itself over what is an
nuai!y referred to as the "lusty infant
IL ever the first day in the frst month OF the
Christian year i'm the first city or the western
World deserved to be called 'lus'y," as to the
way it was greeted give the credit to the sun
hrst round the world trip Of 1908. As 1t would
be a shame to withhold credit where credit Is
| due and as 1t Is only fair to be frank In the
matter 1t Is only just to say tha; the last hours
most Of the civilized world to regard as 1907
| were distinguished by an exercise Of clamor'
| human and mechanical, that left no platforms to
! the adherents and defenders of the good old
! times.
Essentially in its New York observance. II
! the term popular" Is to enter. Pagan ooserV-
! ance and ringing in acclaim OF Januarius. that
| other deity the weather god" is to be praised
! for the harvest Of sound which marked the be-
| ginning OF the second leap year In the twentieth
| century His gift to the votaries of festival was
| almost fawless in its complexion and its haVor-
! Traditions tale of a New Year confirmed
to the satisfaction of the Celebrators In fine
bracing day yesterday. with temperature never
| reaching 80 degrees. and varying less than .
| degrees. A bright sunlight with never a threat
| ening cloud to cause the holiday makers to grow
| anxious made the final day Of the poor old year
| 1907 which produced a Wall Street panic. a
shortness of money. crop of Presidential
booms and other things more or less desirable
or salutary for country and for individual. one
to be noted with those within the memory OF
those able and inclined to note such things
CROWDS AROUND OLD TRINITY.
There vas amazement, therefore, when
those forming the horde of persons who throns
into the streets and taverns and meeting place:
Of New York when there is a slated occa'
sion for merriment, fun and noise found tina
there were many before them. In fact, the fur
started all over town early. With the weather
made for II It was extremely contagious a
| fun In New York holiday celebrations ma!
surely beget noise. If 1t doesn't mean it, 1t wa
| a din everywhere last evening in Manhattan
| with 42d street and Broadway the point o
least resistance and the most terrifying rever
beraton. with that usually quiet stretch o
Broadway at night-from Park Row to th
Rattery-a close second. To this latter ant
lower region went in multitude the outdOo
merrymakers. drawn by ancient and per
sistent legend that old Trinity's chimes ar
the best to hear in ringing in the new year
So thinks also Albert MeisIahn. who has playe
the chimes on New Years Eve for q score 0
years or more
Broadway was. naturally. the centre of tin
outpouring of the noisemakers and the noisc
though there chimes. which always figuT
most prominently at New Years. to be heark
ened for in other thoroughfares. 1t EveI!
road from it's starting point to at least sal
street for eight hours so. spread botl
the years 1907 and 1903. Such as could not o
would not negotiate" listening the chimes o
Old Trinity found it little easier going a
IIth street where Frank M. Jones was per
forming on the chimes of Grace Church Still
further uptown the bells played at ST. Patrick
the mecca for the noisy celebration Of the nigh
and the day.
What was once the best of form in the New
" Year observRncss to New Workers. the Crowdn
into a narrow street to listen to Ginning bells
has given way within the past decade =
the watching for midnight in restaurs nt
| crowded to lheir table capacity 10y persons VIII
can afford to pay the extra price charged 70
the nights accommodations. 1t IL
height last night In all the we'll known hOte!
| and restaurants along Broadway and Fifth ave
! nue. Exorbitant prices. II is said de
manded for tables. and even fancier figures wer
l | offered by late Comers for a chance to be in q
even with the Inducements offered many Of IN
| tavern keepers had To turn the proSpeCtiv
= guests out into the cold and glaring lights Q
= ! the RialtO.
Three hundred detectives. Commissioner BinR
$ hams entire force OF sleuths. were turned ou
= TO protect the crowd from the operations Of pei
t sons who Ike to get into a squeeze IL they ca
d | get away in time. The Commissioner got all hi
[ | inspectors before him yesterday morning an
4 | gave them special instructions TO suppress a
II | rowdylsm Despite his admontioss and the Fl
: forts of the inspectors. captains and the police
E men IL was absolutely impossible to prevent th
2 Use OF the feather tickier and the throwing
l. confetti. both Of which had been ruled out
y the Commissioner the unfair list.
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