Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-30
New Year Will Receive a
Hearty Welcome.
ARRANGE entertainments
Dances, Banquets and Receptions
Will Be Features.
CHURCHES TO HOLD SERVICES
Departments to Close Saturday Noon
and Holiday Will Continue I'm
til Tuesday Morning.

Makers of good resolutions and strict
chronologists are being reminded that al
though the worldly celebration of the ad-
vent of the new year will occur Monday,
January =. New Year day will be, as
heretofore, on January /. January l is
Sunday, and Saturday night is New Year
| eve to all the Christian world.
| In the churches and in organizations
and homes where the advent of new
| year is marked with religious reflection
and devotion. the watch meeting or other
| appropriate exercises will prevail As of
| yore until the hour of midnight Those
| of a gayer turn of mind and heart will
welcome the coming and speed the part
| ing guest with merrymaking and dancing,
| while still others will bend their efforts TO
pleasures less strenuous but yet divert
| ing.
| The windows and counters Of the big
stores that but a brief while ago We're
| laden with all sorts OF entictng Christ
mas gifts are giving place to horns and
| be truly American custom to din"
great events into the ears of the people.
Already there are indications that fv11
! will not arrive unannounced.
The clean, white leaf already has been
| turned, awaiting the good resolves that
are to be enrolled upon it. The legal
| continuation OF New Year day through
Monday will give another twenty-tOur
hours in which to clinch the good reso-
| buttons.
Many Events Arranged.
| AS in former years, Saturday night,
New Year eve. will be marked with a
program Of feast and folly, tears and
penitence. From the cafes and restaur-
xr,hA~ TO
watch away the ebbing hours of the old
year in feasting and drinking, come re-
ports of elaborate advance preparations.
In many Of the favOrite hOstelries nearly
all the accommodations have been pre-
empted. The warmer weather which has
come in the last day Or so is melting
| snow and ice and leaving the sidewalks
| clear for the great army Of those who
| will walk the streets to tOOt their horns,
cheer their neighbors, shout their greet
| ings and grow fat-With laughter. Despite
its tendency toward saner things, Wash
ington doubtless will be the proverbial
Washington Of old on New Year eve.
At Rechabite Hall, 3O4 B street south
east, the Rechabites will hold an open
| watch night meeting, beginning at y
O'Clock Saturday night and closing at
midnight. Literary and musical offerings
will be presented and refreshments
served. At midnight the members Will
form a circle around the altar and renew
the pledge OF temperance. Inc pouAo
will be welcomed.
| Various councils Of the Sons of Jona-
dab of this city, assisted by members or
Monumental Council of Baltimore and
Potomac Council of Harpers Ferry. will
| meet for a class initiation at Pioneer
Hall, 623 Louisiana avenue northwest,
| New Year eve.
At midnight the initiates and the mem
| bership will form the "Jonadab's chain
around the altar and renew their total
abstinence pledge for life. At o'clock a
| banquet will be served. and on the return
to the lodgeroom sermon Is expected
| from a minister who is member OF the
order to be- 6y ds%eb Hf tine
meeting will be closed in due form, after
| breakfast has been served. goodwill
Council, which meets at AZ and q streets
southwest, will hold similar services at
| it's hail. The local councils celebrating at
Pioneer Hall will include Pioneer, Cen
| tennial and Empire
Bookbinders to Dance.
Among the merrymakers of Saturday
evening will be the bookbinders of Local
Union No. Of the international broth
| erhood, who will give their annual en-
| tertainment and dance at Pythian Tenn
pie The program will include musical
numbers by the chorus club, monologues.
camp-meeting melodies and other attrac-
| of the entertainment and Samuel V.
Samuels will be the musical director.
Elaborate preparations have been made
| for the observance Of New Year eve and
New Year day (Monday) at the Y. M.
c. A. Tomorrow evening at 1880 o'clock
| DR.. George L. Robinson will deliver an
illustrated lecture, Among the Arabs
| of Sinai and Palestine" The devotional
exercises will begin at II 80 in the even
ing and be led by General Secretary Will
| liam Knowles Cooper.
Monday, beginning at O'Clock with
a reception in the lobby for the men,
bers and their guests by the officers of
| the association, followed by receptions
on the second floor from 3 to o'clock
| by the board of managers and of1cers,
and between and o'clock by the pas
tors Of the city, at both OF which ladies
will assist, something will be going on
until after the close of the grand free
concert in the auditorium at S:15 o'clock
| in the evening, at which w liam A.
Engel. jr., pianist; Mrs. Harriet Y.
Hough, soprano, and Earl Carbaugh,
ba ritone, will assist.
Concert in the Lobby.
In the afternoon at o'clock there will
be a concert in the lobby by the Asso-
ciation Orchestra, under the direction of
d. B. Mcleod. At the same hour in
!
be played between the Regulars and
the 'Rovers," and an exhibition Of ap-
paratus work will be given. while match
games Of billiards and bowling will take
place in the billiard room and bowling
alleys.
| refreshments will be served from to
) o'clock by committee of women. Be-
tween and o'clock there will be
aquatic meets in the natatorium with
members of the Philadelphia Central Y.
NJ. C. A. In the boys department the
various boy scout brigades will give dem
constructions of their work. The aim of
| the association throughout the day will
| be to give exhibitions Of it's work in the
| various departments.
washington Aerie, No. 125. F'raternal
| Order of Eagles. will hold its annual New
Year ball at its club home New Year eve
The committee in charge Of arrangements
Is composed OF Arthur r. Hooe. chair
man; DR.. Philip r. Terry. Fitzhugh Tay-
ioe. Fred Wagner. John Campbell, e. NJ
Venable. @. B. Haske. E. w. Coughlin
| and ]. ID. Britt.
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