The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1916-01-01
MERRY CROWDS
NOISILY GREET
BABY SIXTEEN
Old Man Fifteen TOtters to
His Doom as Broadway
Speeds Him.
RESTAURANTS ENJOY
RECORD PATRONAGE

The Very Venerable John J. Fifteen.
tottering where ne stood. stuck 1t out
until midnight struck this morning. lie
dropped In his tracks then, all shot up
with bullet holes. his groans unheard in
the general uproar. And on to Broadway
and environs NJ the same moment, the
same instant. toddled his fat tummied
baby successor, clothed mostly in fur
rowing folds of pinkish flesh and SEEM
!ngly obscssed with the notion that all
Was lovcliness before him.
But Baby Fourteen had come TO town
that way and so had even Baby Fifteen.
And now look at the darn things,
Nevertheless despite the fact that
Ruesle Worthington, head OF the Y. NJ.
-. A. department oi ;he Racquet Club,
had left Broadway and his accustomed
breakfast table at Jacks HAT to spend
the night reading an instructive hook up
at the Ardsley Club. despite the fact
that Booth Harrington had left town
Tor his nome in u place called Indian
alolis, Ind. that Squire Jawn Drew is
out playing the tank towns where fruit
removed from the dining room, as per
notices. Is charged extree. that even
Dick Harding Davis is In Europe
despite these ahsente.e Broadway and n
street running parallel 10 1t called Fifth
avenue and numerous cross streets in
between welcomed the new baby last
night and this morning with the dod-
derndest uproar that even the worlds
largest city tsec recent census repOrts)
ever greeted the arrival OF a new year.
Word Comes From Dick Davis.
Around the grill at Delmonicos there
was the slightest OF pauses in prepara-
tons during the late afternoon when
word filtered through the place that Dick
Davis was spending New Years Eve
abroad cheering up a lot OF Kings and
things. But finally sort OF "Oh. we'll,
let's make the best Of it, sentiment was
passed around Del's-as Dick calls it
and thereupon II was decided to go on
with the suppers and the dances In the
Palm Garden.
A brass band Of excellence. supposing
there is such thing as brass band OF
excellence, beat the noise makers to 1t
up In Columbus Circle.
~ The--4ountf -Gtsrted In AT dusk. or
before the crowds. all fed UP with din
ner. broke into open spaces jangling with
raucous horns striped like barber poles.
Fathers which, despite their fiimslness.
could make a noise like 'grghgrghru-
siugruggrugggggh' and bells and few
ticklers and various other impedimenta
which proved that on New Years Eve at
least all men. women and children are
created foolish
The biggest crowd OF supporters ever
assembled under one roof sat down at
the Waldorf. The biggest crowd sat
down At the Astor The biggest crowd
sat down u; the Plaza. Every place a
crowd sat down it was the biggest-at
the most free spending New Years Eve
crowd the several maitres d'hotel had
any record Of
crowds at the Big Hotels.
There were more than 5000 celebrat-
Ic at the Waldorf, more than 5000
at the Astor, more than 5000 at the
rlaEN ana more than thousand at the
Eitz-carlton Tom Healy. George Rec
to-. Jacques ana Andre Bustanobv,
James Churchill. James Regan's Knick-
- hooker. the Belmont. the Biltmore,
ENiscnw bers. Shanleys, the Woodstock,
TIE Algonquin Sherry's. Denoslicoe. the
s.. Regis. the savoy, Hotel Netherland.
Nallick's, Murray's. the Ansonia, the
Vanderbilt. the Holland House. the
Gotham, Pabsts Columbus Circle and
l25th street restaurants. the Empire.
TIE McAlpin. the Martinique. the I'M
pcrial. the Manhattan-any hotel or res
taurant any one ever heard or never
heard of--lnst night had the biggest and
most lrodigal crowd it ever has housed.
And it's a safe guess to say that as this
T. being read a whole lot of them are
SIN sticking around with hopes of COM
Ing up for air come time around Monday
HuTninE.
Whether or not the automobile show
- natt IL,
for the phenomena, the fact rema ms
that rarely have tables been reserved
for visitors from points So far North.
South and West. In Tom Healy's. for
instance, one happened upon Bill Goosby
o. III Paso, Tex, whose table had been
served by the only Col. Matt Winn
OF Kentucky and the world at large sub
or. one aisle 10 the right and one to
the left, State Attorney Maclay Hoyne
OF Chicago, or the Baron Won kossack.
who was "A resident Of Canada right UP
to the moment that war started among
tn ncishhors,
Put GALLAGHER Of Caimm In List.
Again. leaving Healys and moving
toward more southerly points of Ireland,
who wa' the first supperer one saw upon
entertHg Shanley's: Pat Gala her OF
China. that's all--,thc same Patrick Gal
lagher who, after being graduated from
III" University of Dublin almost score
OF years ago went To China, Is now edi-
tor of the Far Eastern Bureau and
speaks chink so fuently that argument
was necessary last might and this morn
ing TO convince know IL alls that Pat
Gallagher IL net an Oriental
While these folks we're assembling at
Their tables the police reserves were