The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-01-01
Chicago Kept Lid on Tight
Only Hour to Celebrate.
State Street, Usually HOwling,
Dark and Quiet.
EAT TROUGH FEAST
st. Louis Society Feted in
Adolphus Busch's Stable.
London Celebration Cut Short
Cafes Closed at IL.

Chicago, Jan. Nineteen seven
teen slipped fairly sober into Chicago
today.
With the lid off only an hour be-
cause of the Sunday closing law. cele-
brants who thronged loop cafes had
barely time to toast the new arrival a
few times before the lid changed down
at / a. m. After few brave attempts
to generate hilarity by footing horns.
all but few of the faithful quietly
went home
New Years eve was not like the old
days here. State street, which ordi-
narily is a canyon of bowling celebra-
tors, was dark and quiet except for
an occasionally blast from tin horn.
The usual maelstrom of shirt fronts.
silk hats and daring toilettes at Clark
and Randolph streets was as sedate as
an afternoon shopping corner.
Kept Lid on Tight.
Those who had expected Chief of
Police Healey to throw off the lid on
his last night in office were disap-
pointed when he sent a municipal
army of one hundred policemen and
detectives ito watch for pickpockets''
in the loop. Orders were to take evil
dence against every closing law viola
tor. The move was sufficient to
frighten most cafe owners who had
stocked up hoping that the 1 O'Clock
who permitted leaks were caught and
it is expected that summonses for vio-
lators will be used at the office of City
Prosecutor Miller tomorrow.
The Chicago theaters did the lar
gest business in their history last
night, owing to the fact that New
Years eve fell on Sunday when the
sale OF liquor is prohibited. Several
of the down town theaters gave two
performances at night and most of
sign early in the evening.
Proprietors of hotels, restaurants
and cafes reported that only a small
percentage of the crowds who u.s.
uaiiy watch the old year out and the
new in were there
In the dining room of a large down.
town hotel capable of seating / 900
less than one hundred gathered dur
able.
| Feted in Box Stalls.
st. Louis, Mo, Jan. 1.-The cream
New Years eve lunch from troughs
in the ables of Adolphus Busch III.
The elite took its wine and turkey
from the stalls where the young
nibble their oats
Two couples occupied each of the
twenty-five stalls and left their hal
ters only to try out new dance steps.
A stamping success was the com
ment or the guests today when thew
departed the stables for sleep in the
Busch country home
The balance of the town took it's IL
patton from regular tables and event
uaIly had good time, judging from
cafe owners estimates of expenditures.
st. Louis's bar bill was s125.o00. the
heaviest in ten years
War Puts Pail on Celebration.
I London
Years eve of the war was extremely
quiet in the British capital. The din
ner tables in the restaurants were well
filled. largely by soldiers, but all tho
establishments closed at IL o'clock
and few persons fingered In the streets
or elsewhere to watch the death OF
1916.
There was the traditional gathering
outside st. PauPs cathedral but it was
smaller crowd than usual that
joined In singing of Aud Lang Syne.
For the first time since the war began.
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