The sun., 1919-07-01

can be compared to Marshal Foch. On
armistice night this town had a regular
party, the kind Of party that will be
talked Of for years. To-nights anair
will leave terrible lot Of aching heads
and will be good business for the doctors
and the drug stores. There isn't the
gayety, there isn't the crowd, and there
isn't the fun that there was on armistice
night. This crowd is out merely to get
drunk as quickly as possible and on the
stun they are buying they won't have
any trouble doing It,"
solemnity at the Funeral.
All during the evening, until long after
the fateful hour of o'clock. the streets
in the Broadway district were filled with
slowly moving throngs out to bury King
Alcohol. There wasn't much noise. al
though that was in keeping with the
spirit of the occasion. because most OF
the folks who we're out felt pretty sad
about the passing Of booze. Early IN the
evening an extraordinary. number OF In
toxicated men began to make their APP
pearance, some of them staggering from
saloon doors and others coming out of
places propelled by the vigorous foot OF
the bouncer doing his duty for the last
time and doing It with vengeance. The
number of DRINKS began to increase
| rapidly as the evening wore on. and by
! midnight the Broadway policemen said
, they were seeing more drunken men than
they ever had seen before.
The police were lenient with the men
who had celebrated not wisely but toe
| we'll. The reserves OF the West Thir-
tieth street and West Forty-seventh
street station were sent along Broad
| way to help the regular detail. and II q
| drunk didn't get noisy about II, but
merely wept softly at the passing Of his
! tipple, the kindly guardians of the peace
would load the inebriated gentlemen into
taxicabs or street ears and send them
! on their weeping way
Ja.s Hand at the Wake.
The Bronx saloonkeepers reaped n
| golden harvest. too, what with short
beers and short whiskey with 80 per
cent. water. At the Elks' clubhouse a,
Burnside avenue and Grand Concourse
there was a wake" that lasted until
midnight, with a jazz band to throw
pep into the crowd and urge them &c
down more liquor. The walters wore
crepe on their arms and from time &c
time wept But by midnight everybody
was weeping.
| At Billy Gibson's Criterion restaurant
in East 149th street a mock funera
took place, with John Barleycorn''
corpse. unwittingly impersonated by q
customer who had got himself dead &c
| the world, stretched out upon a table
while scores knelt beside 1t and dranl
a mug OF beer. or whatever It Is the,
call beer, SO that the spirit of booz,
might rest in peace.
A similar celebration was staged BY
members of the fifty-two families VIII
occupy the house In 2115 and 211'
Hughes avenue. The Bronx. They helt
prohibition party" and had dancini
and jazz music and beer and wine ant
sandwiches until midnight. when
comm was taken to a vacant lot ant
buried with due and proper ceremony.
All the road houses along Pelham
Parkway and at City Island wer
crowded, with numerous procession
throughout the streets or The Bronx
some OF them being led by bands. Tn
crowd centred for the most part abou
149th street and Third avenue, wher
there was much footing OF horns earl
in the evening. Later there were groan
as the full cargoes of beer and whiske
got In their deadly work and citizen
began to be a bit unsteady on thei
pins
i Coney Deserted for Broadway.
Coney lSland was rather lert out ]
the cold by the celebrants. Very FEY
: people were there. no more than IN
usual weekday crowd. and while the
did their very best. at closing time tn
Coney Island bars still had plenty c
liquor left on hand and were able {
take care OF their cash without outsid
aid.
The celebration down town in tn
; financial district started about the tim
the crowds began getting out OF III
Offices Many persons who intended
go uptown dropped into a financial di,
} trict saloon TO have a snifter and ha
SO many snifters that they were unab
to undertake the perilous journey up (
the white lights.
One OF the biggest OF the down tow
celebrations was at MouQuin's Fulto
) street place, where a large crowd wei
. with the passing OF King Alcohol an
, drank innumerable toasts to his men
{ DRY. In the last few days Mouquin
I has sold more than $4,000 worth {
wines and liquors to the old patrons (
the nlnca