The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1912-12-31
CITY TO greet
'GLADNEW YEAR
Whistles and Bells to An
nOunce Coming Of the
Stranger.
HOTELS ARE CROWDED
Many Celebrations Planned for First
Day Of lsl3-capital IN
Festive Mood,
HOTELS ARE CROWDED

'The glad new year." which will ar
rive on schedule time tonight promptly
on the stroke of twelve. will receive an
ovation that will mark an epoch-an
ovation that is the result Of many tedi-
GUS hours of work all over Washington.
In the hotels, cafes, churches, homes
there will be watch parties, and to-mor-
row afternoon and night the celebration
of the arrival Of 1913 viii continue with
many receptions.
The most important OF these. of course.
will be the annual reception OF President
and Mrs. Taft at the White House. A
particular, significance attaches to the
White House reception this year. Not
only is II the last at which President
Taft viii shake the nations hand in the
Executive Mansion. but il Is possibly
the last that that building will ever see.
The annual New Years reception by
the President OF the United States has
been an institution for about seventy
years. II has continued without break,
but President-elect Woodrow Wilson has
intimated that when he gets TO the White
House he will endeavor to do away with
all customs and forms that demand
handshaking and receiving and take up
time, and with the advent OF 1913 the
public may have its last chance to shake
the Presidents hand.
Several Diplomats iii.
Several members of the Diplomatic
Corps will be unable to attend the re-
ception through illness. They are Senior
Don Eduardo Suarez, Minister from
Chile; .Senor Ledo Antonio Martin-Ri-
vero. Minister from Cuba: Senor Don
Carlos Maris de Pena, Minister from
Uruguay. and Senor Don Julio Betan-
court, Minister from Colombia. Countess
Won Bernstorff. wife of the German Am
bassador, has been i'll for some time and
will not be out for New Years Day.
The University Club will celebrate New
Years in its new quarters. at Fifteenth
and 1 Streets Northwest. The members
will keep open house" tomorrow.
Following the January meeting Of the
Oldest Inhabitants Association Wednes-
day morning. the association will go to
the White House for the public recep-
tion. The veterans of the civil war also
will attend the reception in a body, gath
ering at Grand Army Hall at II o'clock
for the march to the White House. The
usual New Years reception of Theodore
W. Noyes to the Washington National
Monument Society will not be held, ow-
ing to the recent death Of his brother,
Thomas c. Noyes.
A musicale and athletic events will
marx the programme OF the New \ ear
reception and open house at the WASH
ington Y. NJ. c. A.
From to o'clock a reception VIII be
held. when tours OF the building and ex-
plantations of the various branches Of the
associations work will be given. Re-
freshments will be served in the big as
sembly room to the guests and there will
be a concert From $50 to 4:30 O'Clock
there will be a reception by the board
OF trustees and board Of managers, as
sisted by their wives and daughters.
From 3 o'clock until 4 o'clock the old
time members OF the association will hold
a reception. Following the old-time men,
bers' reunion there will be a reception by
the pastors of the city representing eight
denominations.
Another reception, lasting from to )
O'Clock will be given in the building Of
the Y. NJ. c. AS boys department by the
committee on work for boys and the EN-
ployed officers of the boys department.
In the evening at S:15 there Is to be
q musicale, open to the public without
charge, under the direction Of Nine. Marie
Won Unschuld.