The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1914-01-01
LIVING STREA VI IN BROADWAY
street damned Tor Miles with joy
Gus weIcomers Of 1914.

OF course YOU won't believe II, but every
one in the five boroughs came down to
Printing House Square last night to dis
turb the night workers or to wish them
a Happy New Year. one couldn't be sure
which. The noise heard around Forty
second street and Broadway didn't come
from tina, locality at all, some persons
seemed to think who were blowing their
lives into tin horns, but from Park Row
and the adjacent provinces. where for
once i,not, pists couldn't hear the click OF
their machines and reporters seemed to
b. writing on noseless typewriters with
. COW bell accompaniment
At least that's the way 1T seemed until
q Sun man strolled out OF his native
heath and tried to make his way up the
Bowery by short dashes, false starts and
football rushes. all OF which at last proved
20 unavailing because OF the dense crowds
that other means Of locomotion had to DO
resorted to.
Nobody knows where all the people
came from. and they all looked 50 much
the same and acted with such frolic-
some abandon that 1t did seem as II there
might be after all only half US many as
were seen.
Human stream In Broadway.
However that may be, there they were
with their noise and their customary good
spirits. for all the world like some dream
cartoon. II steady, surging stream, which
at points was more like cataract, OF
humans running from Bowling Green up
Broadway to Park Row. up Park Row 10
the Bowery. up the Bowery to Third ave-
nue. up Third avenue TO Fourteenth
street, and 30 across Fourteenth street
back TO Broadway and ny that thorough
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the north pole
There have Teen New Years ewes and
New Years ewes In New York since the
indians sold out for bottle OF beer or
whatever II WAS. to the Dutch. but 1t Is
safe to say that there never was before
either in New York or any place else a
Now Years eve when 80 many persons.
young and old, poor and rich. Jammed
themselves into one mighty river OF mer-
riynent and flowed back and forth from
In the evening until the old year had
fnally given up the ghost with last ter
rife explosion OF fun.
To be sure there were the usual num-
Der Of brawls, arguments. arrests and
wandering drunken men. but on the whole
there were not quite so many of these
Is might have been expected from so
many people and SO much liquor, which
may be . cause for rejoicing to some,
though possibly not to those In the
brawls, the arguments. the station houses,
aanitariums for alcoholism and the others
who got into trouble.
Horn Sellers Arrested.
Among the persons arrested, and this
ala seem q bit harsh. were hundred or
more men who tried to sell horns, confetti,
false whiskers and other means OF amuse-
ment on the streets after o'clock Most
of these men were caught In the Tender
ioin and taken to the West Forty seventh
street station. They were arrested on a
law which forbids the peddlng of goods
after 9 o'clock and the order went out to
the policemen In that district from Head
quarters.
The Christmas trees which grew up
overnight a week ago In the various parks
and squares between City Hall and Madi-
son Square shone for the sake of the
general celebration, while bands played, or
al least went through the motions OF play
ing, for one couldn't hear them there was
80 much volunteer musical talent here
and there and everywhere.
The volunteer musical talent was the
reason, too. why those who went down
town to hear old Trinitys chimes didn't
hear them at all. THE SUN was informed,
however, on the authority Of the man
who plays the chimes himself that he did
play them and that II they weren't heard
II wasn't his fault. And then no confided
that as a matter Of fact he himself only
heard about every third note, so rOundly
and Justify did the fanfare Of tin horns
pierce It's way through the solid brown
stone walls.
But chimes were played In other parts
- ~ ala nd In