New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-12-18
SONG TO REPLACE RIOT
HERE NEW YEARS EVE
It Is Planned to Have Big
Choruses and Bands Make
All Noise Needed.
RnS HEADS COMMITTEE
Cue Taken from Other Cities,
Which Have Wearied OF
the Street Uproar and
Rowdyism.

Auotber popular celebration Is doomed
~ toin the old-fashioued. unsafe and III
s.re Fourth of July i'm the discard II
committee Of prominent citizens an
,,ouuced Yesterday by Jacob \. Rms, mas
us way this coming New year N-''
Instead Of the usual upr0ar OIL Io"uS iS""
and blare Of tin horns. with the accom-.
,.spvirq annoysucrs Of tiCklers, II IS hopeu
Ia employ music's power 10 soo'he t"e
savage breast" and make New Year rive
a festival of song instead OF hlGh' VI
not.
New Yorks manner OF welcoming the
New Year has come 10 be Nina VI
rough housing that found its expression
last wear I'm the slogan We heard IN the
streets. TO hell with the old year hooiay
for the newt" said Mr. His yesterday.
eve believe that our people are urea Oh
this and will be glad TO join IN better
and ganer way more worthy al ther
city"
Tbe first suggestion OF the idea, he SAID
came from the spontaneous way ID winch
Tetrazzini last year turned san fI@u-
cisco's annual New Years OUTLOOK mo
"a great singing fest by the sole power VI
nor own voice when she TOOK up he'
Mace in a public square and sang TO the
shouting mobs until they quieted down
and toined her. The feeling against the
noisy styIe of celebration has spread from
"a, Francisco to Chicago and many
cities Of the East, where organized move
nents against il have been s'drteu'
"The san Francisco pulpit Is thuhaei-
ing against IT," said MIR. Idis. "and III
Doston they are planning meeting on
the state House steps. We object mere
10 IFS being understood that what goes on
+, the Great White Way is typlc@I OIL
New York. We shall try to drown Out
eu rowdyisrn and other Objectionable as
rlavs bv the volume Of the music We WI"
have ON hand There will be bands III
,everal Of the squares. such as city Han
Park and others, % well as large
Choruses
.Then there will be great screens on
which will be thrown the words OF sue"
songs as THE Battle Hymn OF the he-
uublic.' John Brown Aud Lang S(He
and others, with which every one Is la'il"-
lar and which have the proper meter TOT
mass singing. This will be during the
hour before midnight. and then as i
o'clock strikes We viii strike up Amer
lea
we believe there Will be spontaneous
,.spouse. Just as there was i'm san fIah-
cisco-that the average man Is decent
enough 10 prefer joining in these grand
old songs 10 INDUCING in mere noise. The
salvation Army has agreed TO call in ali
its meetings that night, masslng It's TWO
or three thousand soldiers and its bands
I'm Union Square, but there will be moth
ing religious In any Of the meetings
They Will be purely song meetings.
There Will be men with megaphones TO
announce the songs and start them
The committee as announced yesterday
by Mr.. Riis consists of DR.. Lyman ABB
mott. Dr. Felix Adler President John
Finley Of the CITY College, the Rev. Frank
Mason North. Silas McBee, the Rev.
George Alexander, District Attorney
charles whitman. William jay Schiehe-
lin Rabbi stephen 5. Wise. Borough
President George McAneny. Arthur Won
Priesen. president Of the Legal Aid So
ciety. and Allan Robinson. president or
the Mcdowell Chorus.
Arthur J. Smith has been appointed
treasurer for the collection or funds 70
defrav the expenses of bands, screens.
etereopticons and other features OF TINS
\sw kind OF New Years celebration.