The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1914-01-01
SEAT Tie
PUTS IN A
BIG NIGHT
By Fred L. Boalt.


"on your wayr said the newcomer with the arrogance
aAye, On nv wavw replied old 1918 And silently
he slipped away 10 limbo Of dead years think he
glad to go
Welcome 1914 After quaint custom We have done
The town got drunk last night
we tanked up the Washington and the Rathskellar
We got the Savoy oryed at the Breakers ana
splicated at Billy the Mugs The American Bar woudn
hold ne all so we stopped into the Scenic and the
Angeles and the Hobrau And midnigh, found at rate
And what do you think Of US. oi4' Same to you and
I, was say large evening And it is. repeat a
quaint cusom-that OF getting drunk New Years Eve
Don't feel sorry for your predecessor i9i4 Nor be
nuffed up because OF your popularity For Sol days hence
we will ring YOU have done the year Just gone
/, is the custom
or less bound by Ordinarily mos, OF us behave
with decent decorum. But New Years Eve we behave
with abandon ,,,
Last night we filled Second from curb to curb We
sang eow-bel. and blew horn, and shook ra''les We
smashed stiff hat. and s,wss sS We & pS'sd uss.r hs
We showed and pushed scrambled and surged w:
sauted and other mems wives and Il they would
ssen told them splitting jokes that you couldn't he
to tell our own
companion gamely came his Whereupon dozen
score hundred maybe white men-dare,de fellows
fell upon the little yellow and chased them through
the crowd.
Happy New Year
pompous gentleman with protuberani pauneh ar. ana
red tissuepaper hat teeered on his toes and new
and the blood rushed to his bubous nose
He blew in the Of grm-visaged lady o. uncertain
age. She stabbed him in the eye with her umbrella
High jnks the Rathskeller All tables reserved ana
crowd the door Decoee ladies' bare OF shoulder ooa
OF eye marvelously beautiful to drunken eyes SIT az
wne-wes tables Smart Set or demimode-"ho Knows
Or caresi
Hell-.o-pay a. Billy the Mugs mooeher soaked a
stew-bum. And go. bung starter behind the ear
They heaved him and he grunted when ne mt tne
gutter. There blood his face and mud IN ms na
But he grnned picked himself up and wished us
There orderly crowd in City Hall park. grouped
before gandstand They ching the old year out
They sang hymns. told and patriotic tunes We
had patience with them They seemed to have missed
the true spirit OF the hour
So back went to Second where the fun was
We stood four deep in front of every bar. We fought
for tables in every cafe
old enough TO be mother lurched against
table Her hand struck fragile wine glass which man
in evening clothes lifting to his lips The w1ne spat
tered his shirt-front. He cursed her
waiter hustled her to the door and thrust her into
the night
to our tables and drank with and got drunk win US
Midnight at last slyery gong Tate's struck II
The cabaret struck up Aud Lang syne"
We have the word Of Madam Tate herself that that
was what they sang
we only know their lips moved and that they smiled
and gestured
We were shaking hands with perfect strangers and
wishing them Happy New Year We humping them
on the back and yelling
an hour left! An hour in which get staggering
erunk could we do it, Some people did The bars closed
a l.
Yes they got good and drunk by
Is It not quaint custom
Two O'Clock. A woman stands framed in doorway,
waiting With unsteady step approaches The woman
nPs aslac 10 let Rim pass. He pauscs the threshold.
hhHng faiuou'ly There answering smile on the
woman. lips. =
-Iagny " Yr m dearr he says