The sun., 1918-11-06
night LIDS POP OFF
10 MERRY CABARETS
Early Hour Licenses Are
Granted to Restaurants
In Theatre Zone.
ALL PLACES CROWDED
Gaiety Reaches Height Equal
to Any Ever Established
in City.

Tho lifting OF the official ban and the
granting of all night licenses to nineteen
restaurants and cabarets. most OF them
In the heart Of the theatre district. gave
New Workers. an opportunity last night
! to celebrate the election as in days OF
| old. Thousands ttfronged the various
| establishments eating, drinking. singing
| cheering and making merry in as up
roarious fashion as the city has seen
for years
Prior to Mayor Gaynor's administra-
] ton election night doings knew little
| restraint. Mayor Gaynor Issued many
licenses which required the holders to
shut I'D shop at 2 40 A. NJ. After Mayor
Mitchell assumed offlce deputaton oil
restaurant proprietors called upon him
and at the 1917 election he agreed to
| extend the closing hour to 80 A. NJ
The extra hour was obtained by the ar
gument that when Gaynor was Mayor
| the dance craze was in its infancy and
| that even the giddiest Of pleasure seek
ers were willing to call 1t a night and
quit around 2 30.
News that the lid was of in the caba-
rets spread along Broadway with re-
markable rapidity last night As early
| MS 10 o'clock the cabarets were damned
with flushed and noisy crowds.
The list OF establishments granted all
night licenses by the Police Commits
! sioner follows: The Palais Royal, 1890
| Broadway; George Rectors, 1892 Broad
way; the Toxic, 14l West Forty-fifth
street the Cocoanut Grove. West Sixty
second street: the .Folies, c07 West
| Forty-first street: Reisenweber's. 9S7
Eighth avenue /; Maxim's Hotel. 10 West
Thirty-eighth street; Louis C. Wallick
l492 Broadway: the Pre-Catalan, Ito
OF rrhirty-piDt1 d Is,
, Cohen, 100000 West Forty-eightr
street; Healy's, 141 Columbus avenue
Ritz Restaurant Company, and 10
Nevins street. Brooklyn; Walkers cafe
55S Fulton street. Brooklyn: Catherine
Schards, 440 Westchester avenue, The
Bronx Benjamin w. silver TsS Seventh
avenue Gossler Bros. 900 Columbus
avenue the Broadway Claremont Com.
! pany. 333S Broadway; The Pekin. 1872
Broadway. and Edward Fitzgerald. 1882
| Broadway.
| Soldiers Ignore Bulletins.
| A notable feature OF the gatherings
along Broadway and elsewhere was the
almost entire absence OF men in the
uniforms of the military services. Ap.
parently the election counted little in
their young lives. Fifth avenue, wher.
there were few bulletins. was full o,
| them; so were she theatres and the
restaurants, high priced and low priced
But in the neighborhoods of the election
| return bulletin boards, no.
At a number Of bulletin board stations
places were reserved for soldiers, Blu,
there were few soldiers in them One
place had A stage especially set up for
the accommodation of men whose wounds
and disabilities might make 1t a hard
| ship for them to pick their way in the
crowds which had been expected. One
| soldier was induced by some one TO eli
in 1t. The crowd. paying little attention
to the election figures on the screen, be.
gan cheering the veteran. He stood Il
looking the embodiment OF embarrass.
ment for few minutes. and then left his
place.
At most Of the bulletin board places
the intervals between arriving figures
were enlivened by pictures OF flags, sol.
diers and President Wilson thrown upon
the screen. These always evoked the
widest cheering. particularly the flag o,
Italy. And outside of the newspaper Of.
| fces the war maps and bulletins Of the
| world news claimed thick crowds OF
! people in every case.