The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1912-01-02
CHICAGO \
TAKES ON,
BIG SOzzLE
NEW YEARS ORGY COSTS
REVELERS MORE THAN
$5O0,0O0
SHOCKING SCENES OF
DRUNKENNESS ENACTED
As an Offset The Volunteers Give
$4,000 Poor a Turkey
Dinner

Chicago, III, Ian. 2--In striking
contrast to the shocking scenes OF
drunken debauchery In the hotels and
cafes Sunday night aud early In the
morning he annual orgy ushering in
the new year was the work ot the
Salvation Army American votun-
teers and other charitable societies,
who provided big dinners for thoua.
lands oil suffering poor.
In the thirtshve principal hotels
ami cafes where maudlin mobs greet
ed the new year with slopy intnxica-
ton It was estimated that more than
10000 celehrators expended more
than $50o0eO, distributed about as fol
lows.
Quarts q champagne absorbed iS,-
loco
Ss.t Ss.t sysss:'E s-.s sss.,5sss s'sss $4,000
l$l000sp
bauchery prayers and 49, meet.
ings we're held in nunfetfs< ~
Ichurches In Zion City the fuitlivE
hours
While the nerrFmakers, thousands
'of whom were attired III rented
clothes and ieweify leased for the
night or bought on the installment
plan. we're deluding themselves into
the belief that they were being mis-
taken for real sports" the American
Volunteers were feeding 15,0Nn poor
people at the First Regiment Armory.
Among those who applied for food
were thousands III women and chill
dren who had brayed the storm and
snow 70 obtain one square meal Many
III them had tramped miles. thinly
clad through the biting Winds. Many
or the children had no covering for
their heads and their apologies for
shoes were worn through
Al army Of cooks had worked all
OF the night ANA forenoon preparing !.
(or this feast Three thousand
hounds of turkey, 5000 pound
roast beef l50 bushels a 20.
400 gallons of coffee, 200 nei
butter. 500 pounds 81 sugar D
~ articles H proportion wes
IN preparing the dinner IN AZ
tGo baskets, containing sui
food for 4 family of FIVE, were se.
those Who we're i'll aud unable"
come 10 the armory
Disgusting scenes Here enacted
ter the ,lebauch was over aud heis
lesglv drunken ceiebtators We're ttrn
ed out into the cold night. with theirs
heads in whifl al the blood ~
their systems battling with lot ol
nnarcttstnmed food As result
pneumonia grip and Kindred Diseases
found them easy prey, and hnn'trehs
OF them win not be here next Year %
repeat the celebration
II was gala night for thieves
thngs headlums and rifiians Of every
ciass. OF which Chicago Is headquars-
ers for Che United States These
gentry did not celebrate last night.
Instead they were busy stripping
drupken victims Of their jewelry anu
rainent. They viii he IN 4 financial
rosiffou to celebrate today Gangs OF
hoodlnms raided the crowded street
cars operating the flying wedge.
during which deft pickpoekets ma y
aged ia relieve the passengers OF any
yallables. other gangs. pronting ps
the MAYORS edict allowing saloons
to remain opeu until 5 O'Clock IN tns
morning we're enabled 70 patron
street corners and rob victims as they
allghfed from the cars ~ a befuddled
condition
AppeaIs were made to Governor De-
neon "a check the debauehery. after
Nlavor Harrison aud his chief OF Ho-
lice had positively refused to put auy
lrestrainf on the roiters. nut the soN.
ernor said IL was a local affair anu
he cod not inte'f,re re. The sole 1e-.
lstrirfion imposed by Mayor HARRISON
WAS that steam whistles should not
lbe blown longer than two miuut = ~
line morning. as otherwise Il weeki
disturb his slumbers