Evening journal., 1910-01-01
NEW YORK'S BIG
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How Disciples Of king Booze
Welcomed the Infant
New Year
ORGIES In THE BROADWAY
LOBSTER PALACES
By unItsd Press Leased speeIaI wIrs

By United Press Leased Special Wire
NEW YORK. Jan III Father Times
newest offspring does not turn ont TO
be a neurasthenic the credit will be
70 his lusty parentage rather to any
thing shown his nerves by the count
less thousands who watched the ad-
vent Of the 1910 stork.
Bulletins from the cradleside OF the
infant today announced that he was
still showing signs of fright from the
revelry that marked his introduction
He passed sleepless night clutching
nervously at the coverlet and blinking
wildly at every strange noise that as
sailed his infant ears.
Those attending the infant. however,
declare his condition not at all SER
ious and say that with few days he
will have recovered and be running
the universe, in the old approved style.
New Workers welcome New Year
only TO come back the next day and
grind out the next 1856 DAYS in the same
old way. New York outdid itself last
night in revelry.
Rum Held High Carnival.
Now the great sine qua non OF
New York New Years celebration Is
AltN AANWAUk cup WHICH llfIuutN every
thing from the Bowery schooners 20
the thin-stemed glass wherein the bub-
hles rise The census bureau has not
yet made a report but on the best of
authority, there are 25O.00O hangovers
in New York today that attest the
truth of the foregoing statement. New
York washed out all previous records
last night. washed them out in waves
,F ..r \ a.
FIRE water. 1t was one gay glorious
seance with the cup and for every
rummy that staggered to his suualid
quarters there was a souse curled up
in subway or elevated seat and for
every one Of the latter there was
someone In a fur lined coat OF even
ing gown being whislSed home in a linn
CUISINE.
Just how much New York spent on
her meats and drinks last night there
is no way Of telling but Il is conserv-
atively estimated that $f.5O0.000 chang
ed hands on the Great White Way with
no other excuse for the prodigality
than that another day had dawncd.
that December 81 had given wav 10.
Januar 4 hing thai has bcop iail-
-.---r --.-----a =. ai-ia1l1 Tor s-sauI tans.
years.
AZ Martins one Of Broadway's lead
ing feederies. tragedy walked hand in
hand with gaiety as the result OF which
Mrs. Charles e. Ellis was probably iat-
ally burned.
Throns About Old Trinity.
The only feature Of the celebration
that had the semblance of sentiment
was the throng that packed around Old
Trinity to hear the midnight chimes.
The streets around the historic edifice
were jammed and the nearest ap-
proach TO reverence that could be
found in the city was shown by the
thousands who tried TO hear Amer
lea" Aud Lying Syne." Lead Kindly
Light" and a score Of other we'll known
airs clang out from the old tower. but
were kept from distinguishing any Of
the tunes by the pandemonium made
by the jewellers armed with horns and
rattlers.
Next TO the drinking. the essential
feature was the noise. II costs a lot of
money to induce a naughty waiter to
draw a ocrS from a bottle of cham
payne. but an informal, noise produc-
ing device can be bought for FIVE cents.
So while the favored few heard the
popping OF the corks. the great mass
tramped the streets and shattered the
air with a medley Of dins Shortly be-
fore midnight the boat and factory
whistles were added to the noise and
the gaunt figure OF 1909 clapped his
hands to his ears to shut out the in
ferno instead OF waving his usual fare
WELL
The celebration lasted until a late
hour and those who came to work at
their wonted hour this morning, met the
stragglers iiomewGrd bound on the wild
billows of their conviviality.