Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1919-12-28
NEW YORK CITY
APPRENTICESHIP OF
DRY NEW YEAR S
People Of Metropolis Are Won
dering What 1920, With Its
Changed Conditions, Will
Bring.
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New York. Dec. 27.-Preparing to
bring. rather than buy. the bubbling
bottles to usher in the new year. New
Workers are today looking forward
on the most unknown and uncertain
conditions that ever in history mark
ed the forecast of New Years daV in
this city. with real prohibition only
fortnight ahead. peace settlement
still unsigned. labor troubles forever
brewing and business conditions
chaotic. the peonle of this town are
calling upon an the optimism they
possess to view in some sort Of rosy
light the 366 days that stretch before
them In the year 1920. That all these
feverish factors VIII be added to BY
one of the most violent and exciting
national campaigns that was ever
waved in this country. is a considera-
ton that is making the sauce seem
sour on the holiday turkey of many
IA harassed man OF business through-
Candidates Canvass.
Selecting the Empire state and this
metropolis as the first territory to
pick upon in their seasonable scram-
BILE for national convention delegates,
for the presidential nomination of
both big parties are now beating the
party bushes heree bouts in person.
lest not one single vote for their own
ambitions escape. Lowden and Poin-
dexter are camping in the Hobbies of
local hotels and clubs TO angle for
every delegate who goes to Chicago
in June. while McAdoo and Palmer
fly in and out of town from Washing
ton on the same strenuous mission.
Jimmy Gerard and other minor as
nirants for ticket heads are enter
tanning all corners. and throughout
the anteroomS of every headquarters
here the twang, Of the political pulling
OF wires rises high and constantly.
Soviet Schemes.
Following the shipping hack. to
Russia OF a big boatload of Bolsheviki
from this port. New Workers are now
sternlv setting about seeing to 1t that
the soviet doctrines that these schem-
ers sowed here are not allowed to
take root. even in milder form than
the real reds preached them. In all
the legislation that is proposed at
WASHINGTON or Albany. the people of
this town are preparing TO search for
Isocialistic features that reflect the
communists doctrines of the Russian
revolutlonists, and substitute for
them good. old-fashioned Yankee
practice. ANY legislator who tries to
set up the state as. sort of soviet
bulk of voters here. it seems certain.
SkyScfaper Scout.
Skirmishing for the first time north
of the forties on Fifth avenue. biz
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erect huge business skyscraDer right
in the heart of this fashionable resi-.
dence section. That this step marks
the beginning of the end of the many
mansions that line this avenue below
the limits of Central park. is prophe-
sled by those who know best the re-
gional currents of this town Before
manv years it is predicted that Fifth
avenue from Washington square fun
up to the Plaza. will be built in solid
business structure. on the ruins of
the old palaces of the plutocrats.
CurTan's Chance.
Watching for Henry Curran to take
over the administration of Manhattan
borough. that he won from Tammany
at the last election. every working
newspaper man in this town is ex-
pecting the beginning Of the best rec
ord that has ever been made in mu-
nieipal office. That this former Park
Row writer viii Law a splendid found
alton for the overthrow of Tammany
and also for his election as mayor in