Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1909-12-31
THOUSANDS READY
TO RING OUT 1909
AND WELCOME 1910
Restaurants Prepare for Record
Breaking Crowds in Big
Celebration Tonight.
MEDLEY OF NOISE TO MARK
ADVENT OF NEW YEAR
Horns, Factory Whistles, Church
Bells and Cannon Among
Ear-splitting Devices.

As everyone who keeps up ON the
calendar quotations is doubtless aware,
this is quite significant period and
very large time is waiting around the
corner prepared to get busy awhile be-
fore midnight and keep it up until
morning. Some holidays are born. we
achieve others. while a third variety,
due to dull times or our own careless
ness, are thrust upon US.
But that holiday which is to be ush-
cred in tonight with blare of trumpets,
clang of bells, roll OF drums, shrek of
whistles. and rerhaps an occasional
irrepressible, IL slightly illegal, boom of
cannon, is a natural one of the sort
that was born with the calendar anu
that was long enough ago, surely, to
include it in the first classification.
The point where the passing of the
old year merges into the triumphant
advent of the new year is so STEPPED in
the holiday spirit SO fraught with
frolic, SO soaked in significance that no
matter whether hard times or pros
perity happens to be the order of the
day there are always joyous thousands
TO welcome it. That these thousands
are sincere is shown by the fact that
they are more than willing to sit up
and miss their sleep to do the season
justice.
Expect Big Celebration.
Unless all the signs go wrong thar
turbulent, temptestuous, tintillatins
turmoil, which is our way Of sayins
1909 is dead Long lige 1870" will be
more so tonight than it has been in a
great many previous anniversaries of
the kind
Everything has conspired to make the
grandest little setting for a watch night
this year imaginable. We have been
spelling prosperity with capital letters,
the Christmas was a record breaker,
the weather. even had 1t been ordered
by a, selected committee Of weather
=. 4,perts, could not Mt the season. to betr.
advantages; the old year WAS good
Ired enough to wind up with so
mphant a flourish that the new
is given running start with n.y.
olors.
years past Manhattan has claimed
.ge percentage Of the merry
|rs, in that the big city has been
to pay a little extra attention to
particular holiday. The indications
that this year fun-loying Newark
say "Good-by'' and How do you
2" to the changing years right here
home. The demand for tables in
yi1e restaurants set in early. and has
been much larger than usual Some of
the popular dining-rooms were forced,
Y indeed, to ask a deposit upon the table
that the second In the waiting list for
ii might not have to be disappointed.
In all of the larger restaurants dinners
are to be served at midnight and the
tables are reserved from 10 o'clock on
until the excitement is over. The fact
that the little New Year was consid-
crate enough to choose Saturday for
it's opening day lends fervor to the
festivities, in that 1t brings two holi-
days together and gives ample time
for recuperation to the more Jealous
and less judicious merry-makers.
No one should lose sight for one
single, solitary second of the fact that
the hullabaloo tonight merely ushers in
the genuine, old d-fashioned first of the
year which comes tomorrow. Many or
ganizations have announced their in
tention of keeping open house in honor
of the day. and in many homes the
good old-fashioned informal reception
for New Years callers will obtain.
Open House at Climbs.
The Jeffersonian Club is at home to
it's friends at the clubhouse, 95 Halsey
street, from o'clock in the afternoon.
Mayor Jacob Haussling is chairman>of
the committee in charge of the enter
tainment and reception. The Essex
County Democratic Committee receives
at the Democratic headquarters, 772
Broad street, from 10 a. m. until 2 p. m.
Tyler Parmly is chairman of the re-
ception committee, which includes
James r. Nugent, John f. Monahan,
Richard j. Franz, Charles F. Herr, p.
j. McGuinness and Washington Cross.
The Celluloid Club entertains tonight
with dancing until an early hour in the
morning. The University Club of AS
bury Park, in which is enrolled many
Newarkers, will attend the Dollar
Princess" and dine at the Hotel Astor.
All members and friends of the Repub-
lican Indian League are invited to the
wigwarn, 26O to 266 Washington street,
from IL a. m. to 6 p m. tomorrow.
Professor A. d. A. Doctors Symphony
Orchestra will furnish music through
out the afternoon and evening.
At the Union Club there will be an
orchestral concert from IL O'Clock in
the morning.
A big delegation of Hudson county
Democrats, members of the Davis AS
sociation, will be the guests of the Har-
rigan Association at its clubhouse in
Market street.
AT the Essex Club there will be a
special buffet throughout the holiday.
The Lent Lenape Club will give an
entertainment and dance in Krueger's
Auditorium. In addition to this the
large dining-room and two smaller ones
will be thrown open to the public. At |
the Krueger Greisenheim, 302 Clinton
place. many Germans-will celebrate.
The dance Of the Brass Molders |
Union will be in Dodgers Hall. In the |
New Auditorium the Chelsea Club will |
dance, Dances will also be held by the |
Newark Turn Vereln. the Sweet Glee
Club in Kraemer's Hall, and by the
George. Gareiss Association in the
Colosseum.
A series of special events has been
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