Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-12-31
HARMONY OF BELLS
NEW YEAR GREETING
Musical PeaIS to Be Heard as
Clocks Announce Mid
night Hour.
MESSAGE TO GO SPEEDING
! ACROSS THE CONTINENT
fsDng Fest on Treasury Steps Feature
of Local Ceremonies-Watch-
Night Services.
Ring out. Wild bells. to the wild sky;

Ring out, Wild bells. to the wild sky:
The year is dying; let him die
in hovel and in mansion: in glitterins
cafes lighted with a thousand flashing
lamps. and in the narrow ballroom whose
gloom is lessened by only single. lick
ering jet, men and women in Washington.
in common with those of every city. town,
village and hamlet of the world, tonight
viii watch the passing minutes of 1913
and greet the advent of the New Year
rs the bells clash and clamor their mes
sage OF the birth of 1914. in peal that
hourly speeds its way westward across
the lands. friend will greet friend with a
warmer handclasp. and high resolves
many of them TO be forgotten long before
the baby year outlives its swaddilng
cIothes-will be registered
Ring oat the dread of foul disease;
Rims out the narrowing lust for gold;
IsinS out the thousand wars OF DID,
Rins III the thousand years OF peace
Bells to Speed the Message.
Aud 50, as the clocks chime the hour
o. midnight and the bells speed the
message from every steeple in the land.
the last leaf of the old calendar Will
- torn off and humanity will face
NsTgin page the fairness of which IS
nlarrcd by no blot of wrong or error
q ldge luminous with possibilities and
marking the awakening OF civic con-
seiouSneSS such as the world has never
snoysn.
- has been it's custom from time
1uJ ~ mind Washington will observe
the New Year eve with scores of watch
night parties, from the pretentlouS al
fairs of the wealthier residents of the
National Capital to the humbly hope
ful vigils of those who sit in poverty
and pray for better days in the year
Just dawning. And tomorrow, the first
Jay Of the New Year, will see a con-
tinuation of the gatherings that are to
lie begun tonight, when scores or the
,ity's churches. clubs and other organi-
z4tions. as we'll hundreds of homes,
will be open during the day for the
igits Of friends who call to exchange
1ngratula tionS and best wishes for
isl4.
Songfest on Treasury Steps.
What probably will be the most pre-
t-ntIous public observance of New Year
.se will be that to be held on the south
teps of the Treasury building. where a
-songfest- under the auspices or the
District of Columbia Christian Endeavor
'nior is TO be held tonight. Arrangements
ro.. the affair have been completed. and
s expected that at least a thousand
myers will join in the songs, to the ac-
impairment of a band The program
s 10 begin at HIS o'clock tonight, and
IS. singing will be led by Percy s. Foster
1d-fashioned songs will make up the
gram the words OF the songs to be
s5iected on a huge screen stretched
..sween the pillars at the head of the
r-asury steps. 4 feature OF the Dig
t.-of-door gathering will be New Year
-pssage from President Wilson, to be
.town on the screen.
Watch Night Services.
Watch night will be observed AT the
Ssw York Avenue Presbyterian Church
rom II to IL o'clock tonight. the service
.onsisting OF music and responsive read
.ng on 1.-The Burning Lamp"
Members of lexington Presbyterian
church will watch the passing of the
I'd year and the birth OF the new at
meeting 10 be held in the sunday school
house Of the church at $50 o'clock to-
night Music will be furnished by mem
hers of the choir and by the church
"rchestra.
Rev. pr Randolph H. Mckim will
direct the services at the watch night
meeting at the Church OF the Epiphany
from III to Il O'Clock tonight
1t Metropolitan Baptist Church watch
night services will begin at : O'Clock. con-
tinuing until midnight The musical por-
ton Of the program, beginning at >
!. clock. Will BE- under the direction of
=; 4. Clark. chojrmasteT. Preceding this
part of the entertainment a debate has
been arranged between teams made up of
man and woman members OF the church.
Sons OF Jonadab TO Renew Vows.
Washington councils OF The Independent
order. Sons Of Jonadab. viii hold a Joint
watch night meeting AT Pythian Temple
tonight III which the members of the
order will renew their vows Of total absti-
uence IN elaborate entertainment has
been arranged for the meeting, which will
continue until after midnight, and the
entertainment is to include a banquet
Two services have been arranged for
tonight IL Metropolitan Memorial Meth
odist Church. the first to be held at .
o'clock following which social hour
viii be held until IL O'Clock. refreshments
being served From II to l. o'clock, il is
announced. the meeting is To take the
form of an old-fashioned Methodist love
feast and praise service.
~ Shiloh Baptist Church there will he
= special watch night program, which
viii also mark the beginning OF a series
- revival services To BE- held At the
church. Special musical selections will be
given 5y the choir. and the pastor, Rev
T. Milton Waldron. viii speak on "a
New Year Resolution.
At the various clubs, lodges aid similar
ORGANIZATIONS OF the city watch night
gatherings ranging from social dances to
elaborate vaudeville entertainments, have
been planned for tonight
Two Years of Vaudeville.
The National Press Club has arranged
what is called two years of vaudeville
for tonight. The program is TO begin al
. clock and will continue until O'Clock
an. and viii include vaudeville features
- actors from practically all of the thea.
ters in Washington.
\ watch party and dansante has beer
arranged for tonight at Elks Hall. In,
entire building having been decorated TO
the event. liz is announced that the EIks
famous rathskeller is to be thrown opei
s.uesls Inl,ioiat f1.,.