Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1910-01-07
new YEARS EVE
ON BROADWAY
Famous New York Street the
Gayest-and Costliest--
Place in Country at
Birth of New
Year.
From the New York Press.

From the New York Press.
A million dollars worth Of food and
drink will be consumed within a few
hours on New Years eve along Broad
way In the mile between the Hoffman
house and the Hotel Aston. Three
quarters of this vast sum will be spent
for the drink with which to wash
down the other quarters worth of
food. A hundred thousand bottles of
champagne will be emptied in speed
ing the last few score minutes Of the
old year and in welcoming the early
hours of the new. The comparatively
few thousands of people in the great
hotels and Recommendations who have
reserved their tables there, some of
them months and ever a year ago
will spend most of the money. The
innumerable throng surging up n
down the street outside will make
most of the noise.
Never before, so the Broadway hotel
and restaurant men say has there been
such a tremendous demand for tables,
and never before have the markets
been so ransacked for costly and curl
GUS foods with which to load them.
Price is of small consequence to a host
or hostess if he or h can have some
special menu for the New Years party
that will have the stamp of originality
and novelty. For the first time in 30
years there is a little buffalo meat to
be had in New York. There are also
wild boar steaks from Russia, quail
from Egypt, white grouse from Nor
way and pear meat from Canada.
But such things as these or any
less costly viands are as nothing COM
pared with the wines when one comes
to the years last milestone and starts
in to celebrate 1t with much money
along Broadway.
Probably nowhere else in the world
a suc a vast variety Of rare n
costly wines be found as in the lists
of these great hotels n restaurants.
The cheapest champagne on New
Years eve will be IS a quart. In most
of the places along Broadway one will
have to drink champagne or else go
dry, for nothing else will be served
after 10 o'clock. That means that
nothing cheaper han champagne can
be had. If a man wanted a bumper
of metheglyn or hypocrasse or no
mai-jow or something else that the
head waiter had never heard of and
which was extravagantly expensive,
undoubtedly he could get it If it was
to be had.
or music in these great eating places
there will be a surfeit also on New
Years eve. Every restaurant will
have one orchestra in each dining
room. Where there are a dozen rooms,
for instance, there will be a dozen
orchestras hard at work all the even
ing. These orchestras will average
eight to a score OF musicians each,
and there will be many Of them along
this crowded Broadway mile.
Close to $1,000 worth of souvenirs
will be given away by the restaurants
to their patrons. They range from
balloons to "Billikins." and between
the two extremes are fans and ladies'
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Knickerbocker. There isn't to
initiate the balloons indoors-one place
will give away 5000 and another al
most as many. each as big as the full
moon looks on a summers night
and so men up on the roofs are busy
now filling them with gas and max
ing them ready.
The people who throng the restau-
rants will be New Workers mostly, but
there Will be a big proportion OF folk
from cities near and far. And the no.
tel men say some persons are coming
from such distant places as Omaha
and New Orleans just TO take part In
the nights festivities. Those thous-
ands who throng the streets, none o.
whom can enter the bigger restaurants
urless he has a caro- of admission. will
cry place within an hour or two's ride
of the city.
All in all, the preparations for well
coming 1910 are the most lavish ON
record. Take the Hotel Knickerbock-
er's programme. for instance.
The dining rooms will be powered
In green and festOoned with red satin
ribbon. There will be so youths who
will act as pages. Each viii be dressed
to represent Father Knickerbocker--
with powdered wigs and in costume OF
q bygone day. They will wear coats OF
sky blue satin ties and cuffs OF lace,
long waistcoats OF white satin, trousers