The sun., 1919-07-01
WHOLE CITY DRINKS
AT BIER OF RUM


night. Some of the big hotels, notably
the Astor, the Boomer chain, including
the McAlpin. Waldorf-Astoria and Cla-
ridge, the Pennsylvania and the Bit
more. said they didn't get this tip and
closed everything down promptly at IL.
, At that hour the Pennsylvania withdrew
It's wine list and substituted in It's place
a beverage list" Upon the latter
glowed the names of the deliriously de-
licious corrections which special soda
water mixers hereafter will dispense
from soda counters in the big bar and In
all the service bars
! At the Waldorf-Astoria our Mayor
saw the last Of the old years pass A
@. Kaufman Of the Chatham and phm-
nix National Bank, and beside His
Honor sat Gen. T. Coleman du Pont,
Sheriff Knott. Cornish Dickie Enright,
Robert Adamson. Ollie Hartman. DR..
John A. Harriss. Secretary Of State
Hugo and n dozen or more other nota-
bles and comishes. Cornish" was a
tough word to pronounce last night,
! too.
Nor was the Mayor the only one upon
whom mercy descended last night.
There was the grandest assortment of
sailors and soldiers along Broadway
|
Some one had taken mercy on them
and they were properly illuminated. but
properly orderly and donhning their
joys almost strictly to their own uni
| formed selves.
They led the demonstrations in the
streets. however. Before the theatres
were out the old alley was filled with a
flock Of jumpers from bar to bar. And
at not one. so far as an observer could
tell. did they miss foothold or a lip
hold. The bars were really the busiest
places. About them men stood in deep
packed ranks packing deep their men,
cries for the years to come.
Rough Seas and Flowing Bowls.
There didn't seem to be any Othellos
with very poor and unhappy brains for
drinking in the whole darned outfit. In
fact at this morning they had lived up
TO the first allusion to wine as found in
old Homer, who said:
And wine can of their wits the wise
beguile
Make the sage froiic and the serious smile
They strobe out into the lovely cool
of the starlit night like the gentlemen in
] The Tempest
For breathing In their faces: beat the
ground
For kissing OF their feet.
That Is all but a few. Over at the
Biltmore 1t was a rough night below
stairs. BY 0:30 the two bars had
reached subjective and objective capa-
city and they were both closed, while
on the comfortable couches OF the lower
corridor reposed the overzealous. brow
bound with cold. wet towels. Not 80 OF
the Cascades Roof, however There ths
crowd filled the tables early. They
came to celebrate moderately and gaylN
and they did. BY midnight the fur
was fast and furious but strictly within
bounds.
At the Ritz Carlton, where one can
get in without card and two can't ge
in without baggage. an enormous conces
sion was made to the night of nights ant
the roof garden was kept open until az
ter IL o'clock. There were number o
: gay little parties there. and they got bee
or light wine II their advance supple
ran out after IL.
The Great Change caught Delmonico'
in a great change all Its own. Las
night marked the remission of the con
Germ from a receivership. f. l.. c. Rob
bins, connected with downtown chai
: OF restaurants, has bought the majorit
interest in the concern and promises
: new lease of life. The Delmonico es
tate will retain the interest 1t hilbert
has had There were a few faithful oil
, devotees Of "Ders' about the place las
, night. But mostly they were rubicun
gentlemen who were sitting in to buy tn
= last remnants Of "Dels" cellars, whic
= were CLEANED out to the last drop q
5 these private sales.
Jacks Goes on Unrufned.
II there was on place less rufied tina
any other by all the row It was jack
Nothing bothers Jacks. was the wa
they expressed It around there. an
though the hard stun was given the gat
promptly at midnight. the tables wer
} filled with the usual after theatre GROVE
eating the usual sea food, and drink!n
its unusual beer and light wines" Bus
. ness Is going on there Just as usual. bal
ring only the hard stun, whatever haI
pens.
Over In Forty-second street where Fl
Ziegfeld elevates the drama or wha'
8 ever II rs, the elevators were Crowde
n all night by those going to and comm
g from the nine o'clock and the midnigf
r shows atop The Follies. Those that sa
s the nine o'clock show had to be ushere
Q out with a shoe horn. for they had hear
the rumor that the beer and light win
: edict had gone forth and they feare
t their ability to shoe horn into any oths
8 place There was a near riot decidin
n between the rights OF the goers and tn
comers
I But by midnight each one of the AZ
J. tables was holding It's full complemer
n and the show started with no perceI
Q tible absence OF the usual pep whic
outsiders always have attributed to III
Il mInistering aid OF the things that ar
r peared In those glasses which are M
d opera glasses as much as by what on
n was able to see through a periscope c
Q hear through an ear trumpet. M
Il Ziegfeld remarked that It was a gres
vindication OF his genius He presente
o TO each and every woman present
3 powder pun. not at all significant {
= the connotation dry" but draped
the colors of victory.
Atop the Century Theatre, where Il
Midnight whirl whirls. was perhaps II
. biggest and the gayest crowd in tow,
70 The normal capacity OF the roof Is lao
!. On extra chairs and at extra tables Ia
!, night the total was brought up to 200
- which at two dollars each gave the TOO
. its biggest gate In history. nearly $500
There came even the college studel
band with its barber pole. Just like del