The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1909-01-01
SCENT LEADS HOUNDS TO
FUGUTlVE'S HIDING PLACE
GREET new YEAR WITH
DRUNKEN/DEBAUCHERY

Last night while whole nation mourned countless
dead Seattle got drunk
Last night when quarter Of a million human beings
bo,hefs OF a cried ou in the climax Of their prolonged
agony thousands IN Seattle coiled God and sin
suffering they drank their wine and cecred the rbad song
Noltaire, once batting cardinal asked IF by pressing
this pin into this pin cushion you could make million francs
and incidentally kill IN China. would you do IT,
And the cardinal with and avaricc well balanced
ruthiuy declined 20 lie about his brotherhood 70 man.
II shere in the whole wide world last night
Seattle knew It knowing drowned all memory in
and made merry until darkness left the earth For the earth
having completed is heavenly orbit has since
she fast be celebrated in the classic revey Baeehus
and she pu,rid debauehery Of Harry Thaw
Never during the long loud night did the and
goans from stricken Italy obstruci the shl false laugh OF
she painted lady she quaed her cheer the table
the hottest The quaserng prayers for food that went
up from childish threats Sicily spoiled ot Of madys
salad she nuFsed her adsd palate with the best and
that gold command
The though, OF the heaps OF what and
men slowly burning ashes the thousands cazed with horror
sceng brains the homeless irendlcss dcspaing thousands
this concentrated aud distilled misery OF It struck
false With the wildly playing orchesfas in Seaes fashionable
cafes last night
For ali merry Seattle on the nigh, OF her annual
orgie.
Apd such an orgie Il was II Nero hdded over a scene
Of wilder abandon Rome tradition has been conservative
Men ard boys and girls drank themselves uproar
hssty and screamed in pride OF their drunken achieve
fashionable cafes Second the difference only
Of tuxedos and overas silks and serge The droong
that ered and eered in the land OF beer and whsky
brothers the young boods and about
who staggered and oggled in the land OF iced wine.
And the drink dsheveed who Haunted her
hose ard shoes in the stall of cheap saloon
sister carousa her who swshed spotess lingerie and
whisked her silken slippers tho tables OF the rich.
The bond OF drunkenness made thousands in Sc
attic KIN last night The strange atavsm for night, that
mpclsd the take his wife the thick Of this wild
reyelry. drew the school girl and the shop girl
daughter. 20 where license reigued supreme
Deecncy religion morals and all that clean and good
forgotten the long blasts Of horns crashes OF whistles
and shouts Of drink dcros crowds Every OF law
ou,ed ard and gloried in their
alcoholic Instruction Up and down Second in and out
Of saloons cafes theatres back and forth where the lights
gmnaed brightest surged the hectic thickongued hrong
singing thousand keys and dscords TO welcome the glad
New Year"
Boys in their drank their mite and riot in BIAS
pheny and obsccny Girls whose shoe tops showed beneath
their skirts bera,cd barenders and We'd with chaueurs
the hadnagc Of the bro,hc-
This was Seaes welcome to the New Year.
And few thousand miles away the greatest catacysm
Of modern times had just finished ping up quarter
million dead
HAPPY NEW YEAR,