The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-27
PREPARE FOR NEW YEARS
HOLIDAY PLANNED FoR GREAT
New Workers wiIl Greet Approach of New Year With FeastinE-- Gothan Indignant at
 Dr. Cook.

Gotham InofEn0nt ~
 Dr. Cook.
 New York. Dec. is.--tspeciai. )--Half . million dollars worth of wine. rare viands and costly entertainment has today been ordered for New Years eve by the host of high flyers. who have reserved every square foot Of space m the hotels and restaurants of town to celebrate the event as IL has never baen done before In this city.
 Squads of extra walters, musicians chefs, maids and pages are being or ganised throughout the supper belt or the Great White Way, to serve this mammoth spread to the thousands who have planned to see the old year out with lavish revelE.
 Noted opera singers are preparins to add their expensive tones to the merry y-making in every one of the princiual restaurants, while bands Of vaudeville performers are being en- gagged to hfi in every second or the holiday night with furious entertain ment With every bit of breathing space already engaged indoors. rom end to end of Broadway. only small sections of the curb appear to be left to members of the great crowd that IS promising to break all bounds in wei coming in the year of 1910.
 Collapse of Cook.
 Relieving that the last word has been said on the North Pole contro- versy, all Gotham is today practically agreed with the verdict of the Copen- hagen authorities. Within week popular sentiment in this town mas sbiftsd sufprisingiy, with the ebb all from Cook and the How all toward Peary, While not many months ago Cook adherents outnumbered the ps. tient Pearyites ten to one. It IS nara today to ma but one of those Wno have been most ciamorous TOT tne cIairns of Cook. The disappearance oi inc Brooklyn explorer as well as the Danish decision and the many recent questionings of his record nave appas entiy served to strike dumo ms 'myss ..',sa ardent champions. while the men who have silently stuck to Peary seem " have at last found tongue.
 considering 1t already found tnaI Cook has really attempted to palm on . noIar gold brick on the people or this nort. sharp and swift action IS being promised by the public. that mas long been storing up a whiriWine ". indignation.
 ur.atip9 over the boundaries that have always confined 1t to the narrow Wall Street district. the banking ous- mess of this town has today. for the s,rst time in history, located outside .he famous ..dead>line" that marks the old limits of the financial world
 Four miles above the whiri Of the stock market. Q branch banking house has just been opened across the Way fron, St. Patrick's Cathedral al flI,n Avenue and Fiftieth Street, In the ,n,dst of one of the best residence 'neighborhoods in town. As the result ,of this innovation others of the older haulxinr hou ses here are planning 10 niace their facilities at the doorsteps ns the growing class that dreads the excrrsion to wall Street. Since tho business of the banker began on tnw island, a few blocks surroundihs the stock market have always eontaineu evary banking house in this city. whtia hrokers and trust companies in vaded the uptown field years ago. tnis ,s Ae first evidence of a demand Tor Il hanrinr establishment here that IS re. rnnte from the haunfs nt bulls anu bears.
 with the saving of the lives Of forty hrave Are laddies credited to one hasn of his unerring judgment. cniex Crok- l. er is today going at his regular Dus,- ueEN or nBhtiuS hatA.S@ ,-.----.-ss- rctbipr remarkable had happenea: Toid bv the two score men who woHlaa . h. dead but for the lightning order oI their chief, this feature of the szoo.Voo fire of n few days ago iS Deconihk the talk of the town.
 when Croker sped up to this great hiaza on the lower West Side his men xvere handling with ease what aii ot them considered only case or unusu- : ailv widespread, flames. In an instant inc chief ordered every man out on shsi street: in the next, a volcanic ex- .,ioa,on shook the whole structure do,vn into e fiery pit. Today Croker cannot tell the cause for his suaden action. but the sixth sense. with which he Ia credited by the Are force. Is os. ing generally accepted as the real reason.
 That tatters and cracks nave ions ago crept into the furnishings or tne costly palace of the Astors on flItn Aven,,e' is information by a cruel court annraiser tbst Is today scarcely hsijeved by the public here. To the srnsrt society crowd. that the late Mrs !yUilIiam Astor lead without question. to inc day of her death. the announce nent Is not proving altogether sur- nrisa The few Astor intimates can And no news in the fact that the wid- ow of A man said to be worth S'o'- ooo 900 lived within her huge castle surrounded by furniture and decora- lions that would be consioerea un, s,orthv of a Harlem fiat. No hint or ,h. fraved spiendor of the former so- cisi nueen had ever reached the plain neonle of New York. however, and the revelation has spread amusement over the town.