Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-01-01
Washington Has Time of Its
Life on Streets and in
Restaurants.
| WHISTLES. HORNS, BELLS
MAKE NIGHT HlDEOUS
Tables, Long Reserved. Scene Of
Gay New Year Eve Revelry.
MERRY DONGS ON AVENUE
Watch Night Services-Police Able
to Quell Funmakers-Few Pistols
Shot OFF in Defiance of Law.

If you did not have reserved seat
| last night you weren't in it. The man
who pushes the revolving doors around
and around and around had "A frozen
face for any one who asked il the ia
bles were all filled
Reserved tables only" said the re-
Nolving door man. The poor unfortu-
| nate wight who was foolish enough L.
wait until IL O'Clock of New Year
eve had to ring in the new and rng
out the old i'm a chop suey Joint or a
1ive-ceDt lunch counter
But those who had "a tablet i'm tie
hall Of fame celebrated right merrily
The hall of fame in this instance Nd
the list of folks who had tables re
served i'm the hotels and cafes. that
| simply had outdone themselves in menu
cards. flowers electric ,Io-funnies mu-
sic and all sorts OF New Year surprises
Fun and Noise in Plenty.
This baby year bounced i'm on "a per
| ambulator of fun that costs blurred vi
| sions, aching heads. indigestion and pos
sible regrets this morning. The christen-
ing was a wonder and no mistake about
il. either
From the time the theaters disgorged
their merry mobs, long about IL Pm,
until the time when the obliging waite
came round and whispered that the cafe
| would close i'm just five minutes and
would the gentlemen care for another
| order things just swan.
The police saw to il that the law was
not Vloidted-in spots. But up to the
| time that the lights went out and the
crowds sang Aud Lang Syne" there
town, except at the soda fountains
Peacock Alley was decked with gor-
geous beauty all the evening. The gowns
oesan floating in early as O'Clock.
ana with them came the rubber necks
| that walked in one end and out the
other, working their eyes i'm two direc-
uons at once
There were more freshly pressed dress
suits on view last night than ever be-
fore. AS for creations" OF wonderful
| tones and tints and hues. hobbled. low
| necked, biased. fur-trimmed hand-naint-
! ed. rivaling the colors Of the rainbow.
cumming the glories of Aurora. rosy
| fingered goddess of the morn making
| the very stars of blazing wonder and
| comets of awe-inspiring brill.ance look
like the weather signs on fifth-rate
circus-why. there were so many that
| the eyes of a. poor. mere man grew sjcx
and faint. as If they had looked for days
and days into a Kaleidoscope Of burning
suns.
| All other nights were like the sixth
carbon copy of last night, when il came
Throng on Avenue.
| Up and down Pennsylvania avenue. for
an hour and a half before 1910 ran out
and 1911 stepped in, there was a parade
hat 10.
enough noise to deafen the poor little
| infant year.
A cigar store man who laid i'm "A supply
of paper horns that made noises like the
last trumpet was besieged for hours. lie
| must have sold thousands. Girls. boys,
men. women and children got hold o.
those horns and blew their strongest into
| them.
Rattles and cowbells made the night
| frightful affair. II was hard to hear the
| honk- honk chorus of the automo DileS that
sped along the middle of the street Ana
| the louder the noise the more satisiiei
were the noisemakers.
Those Oh the Avenue contented them-
selves with an egg sandwich or bread and
n cup of black coffee when il came time
to eat while those in the reserved table
district were stuffing away OH camembert
and duck
escorted two girls in ding-a-ling toques
and FELLOWSHIP skirts to the window of
cafe where about a Thousand dollars a
minute was being consumed.
'.Madge." he asked one of the dfng-s.
lings. did you ever have any turtle
soup?'
NO." she replied. as she larruped her
chewing gum to the 18th street side ot
her face but ben where il was, a.
ready
And they thereupon went across the
street and ordered three loads Of chop
suey in a place run by an ex-Chiness
laundryman.
Every now and then some callow
youths in rcady-made sporting clothes
would pile riotously up to the aforesaid
revolving doors, beyond which the wise
ones ate and drank and grew merrier
and merrier, and would be turned down
fiat.
Hat Boy from New York.
Inside the revolving doors hat boy,
in one of these happy places. would peer
out with his face fattened against the
door He was a little king and had
once worked in New York. The as
sistant hat boy. the cane boy and the
glove boy and the boy looked up TO him.
When a party of callow youths would
be refused ldmittance, the little king
would say:
"Aw, gee look at the bunch that tries
to get in here. Why. say. when L work
ed in Moo York, yought to see the sweils
that ate there. Aw. gee
But the little king got the surprise Of
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