Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-01-01
TIME TURNS THE LEAF
Old Reaper Closes the Year
Book of 1907.
EVERYBODY CELEBRATES
Gotham Kept Its Spirits Up by
Putting Spirits Down.
PARIS ALONE WAS VERY QUIET
Charlemagne Tower in Berlin
Speaks of Our Good Relations
With Germany.
Special Dispatch 20 The Star.

Special Dispatch 20 The Star.
NEW YORK, January New York
spent a vast amount of spirits last night
in the late and the early hours. in well
coming among the glare of its lights
new year that looked, after all, much
like its predecessors. Never, 1t IS safe
to say. has there been a greater blowing
of horns. singing of chimes. overcoming
Of cabs than last night and that not
because of any greater welcome for l9oe
than for the years that came and went
before but just because the town always
gets out and blows its hardest on the
eve of the year. come thick or come
thin
For once the city lived up to its CHEEKY
boast of being the city that never Sleeps,
on all other nights it may keep gust 10
the good of being altogether asleep. YET
II is hut a few of its thousand eyes that
rernain omen, Only New Year morn sees
tho sight of a town lighted up from the
house parties in Harlem clear down u
the brokers' offices on lower bfoduwas
whore the lights over the ledSers or an
army of clerks gave sign that the pass
inc of a wear was not altogether a mat
ter of play.
Last Nights Festivities
NEW YORK January with hearts
as light as the confetti that swirled' biz
zard-Hke. about the Broadway revel route
New Workers tore the last leaf from the
calendar of 1907 last night and set their
faces toward the new year.
OF all the boisterous New Years never
was one more noisy and hilarious. Eary
Yesterday the word was sent out from
II ein Bingham once.
Let the crowds have a good time. sup
press rowdyism but allow them TO make
= noise - In this way Gen. Binsh ham
recognized the fact that the night pe1oTe
New year in the metropolis is primarily
for Misunderstanding, the like of which can
be compared only with the racket that
ushers in the glorious Fourth. II hau
been promised that last night s Demon
stration would be the noislest ever. ana
the whole thing came off as advertised.
Early in the evening the fun began. ear
splitting horns, cow.ells and every other
, din-producing device that the CUT Vi
hucksters has discovered sounding IN nor
rible dissonance and increasing in vol
ume until the midnight climax. when
shrieking whistles, pealinS bells and
shouts from a millions threats marked the
passing of the old and the advent OF the
new.
Cost Much Money.
Last nights celebration cost New York
crs about three-quarters of million dol
lars-the exact amount will not be known
until today. But those considered au-
tho-ities on the subject said that s2JOOO0
was expended in the restaurants and
cafes; that the theaters got 100000, and
the musicians. florists. cabmen and walt
ers the balance of half million; while
club parties. private entertainments and
the thousand and one attractions along
Broadway put at least quarter million
into circulation.
In the early evening the crowds were
divided between the street parades and
the theaters which, were crowded. When
the playhouSes turned loose tEeir audi
ences things began TO liven up at the no.
tells and restaurants. In the most fash
weeks in advance. and the aggregations
-~<GSGDers rivaled each other in brilliance
and\feDSctacular gaEety.
IuhnoA of the places only champagne
was SSSfed for drink. and the minimum
charreNor eatabl8s was 81 cover. De-
HgFr fuI \musc beautifully gowned wom-
on And Abe clinH of glasses at Martins,
R<cisrs.) Murraks. Shanleys and other
rosy tint. The dining rooms of the big
hotels also held thousands.
CoTks~ Were Popping.
n y .fuSu1de of corks popped at the Knick-
Gbocker. Astor. St. Regis, Imperial, Plaza
. add Waldorf Astoria, just as though there
Nd never been a financial stringency. At
Martins an innovation added spice to the
fmsfrymaking. For the first time, and
for last night only. women patrons were
allowed to smoke in the public dining
hall The scene in the big dining room
Of the Plaza was an unusual one In this
room. at the stroke of II. Caruso. the
opera tenor. sang the chime song from
the &..Cbimes of Normandy"
In ali of the cafes the diners rose at
minute before midnight and with glasses
poised in the air shouted goodbye to the
old and a welcome to the new year.