The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1916-1920, 1919-01-01
NEW YEARS EVE
CROWDS JOYOUS
From the Sunset Gun Until
Curfcw in Early Morning
Hilarity Fills Hotels.
VICTORY YEAR TOASTED
Army's Khaki and Navy Blue
Blend on White Way as
Never Seen Before.

just for a pallid instant early last
evening a large part OF Broadway,
girding it's loins to tackle a Broadway
New Years eve shindig, came to an
unhappy pause as a vicious rumor
ripped and r,mbled up and down the
Great Aorta.
Waters are striking. yes. But slip
me the news straight, DO: is there any
thing in this here rumor that Sam
| Gompers or somebody is going to call
out the barkeeps?"
The man interrogated usually went
speechless Us the new idea thus was
fore everybody rushed through the
swinging doors and asked the white
coated gentleman on the sober side OF
the mahogany for authoritative infor-
nation. with some Of the hard stuff on
the side.
| To judge by n futuristic impression
of the ensemble as lamped in the For
| ty-second street neighborhood Just af =
ter the evening and this morning be
came one day the statement may be
made without fear of successful con-
tradiction that the barkeeps were not
called out by Sam or any one else.
Some OF them did almost crack under
the strain, but returns from ! S74 out
of 1876 districts at A. NJ. (Wednea =
day. showed that every Manhattan
| barkeep was rounding out a twenty
four hour day and still going as strong
"a the busiest barkeep In Bangor. Ne.
Townsmen and Visitors Celebrate.
Last night may or may not have been
| the last besoused New Years eve tn,
city and country can boast of Be thc.
as ii may. Il whole fock OF our leading
townsmen and visiting fremen started
. right out. the moment the sunset gun
had been fired, with the Idea that tho
last chance had come. and then they
threaded their various was up and down
Broadway and let nature take its course
through patriotic ard other emotional
reasons the passing year was toasted
universally as Victory Year" whereas
! young Master Nineteen Nineteen was
| greeted with quite as much damp en-
| thuslasm during the midnight mo-
| ments OF this morning as Peace Year
And as to-day progressed and pro-
gressed 1t grew more peaceful and peace
! ful but as the newspaper trains were
making their getaway for points west
THIS morning IT was noted especially In
, places where the bromo and other
headache remedies had been depleted
that peacefulness was departing from the
| dawning morning after at high speed.
Perhaps the fear that the supply OF
drinkables still left to broadway might
be gobbled up before midnight caused
! the outdoor crowds 70 be somewhat thin
| ner and the indoor crowds correspond-
ingIy o-nser and damper In the first
| hours of the evening. ~ midnight an
preached, however, ali the overcrowded
city was on Broadway-sutfering from,
the effects of the first fushes of in
door tan, perhaps, but still able to hurry
through the swinging doors OF one place
TO the swinging doors Of some other
place.
/ Uniformed Boys Behave Finely.
May it be said to the everlasting
credit OF the uniformed men of the ma
tion. who packed, jamme1 and cuttered
up broadway last night until II was
olive drah where II wasn't navy blue,
that the best behaved boys in town were
the soldiers and sailors, The lads who
hadn't got out of mufti during the last
year or two. who wore no foreign serv-
ice or wound stripes. nor even a sta,.
at home uniform. were the no!siest pest :
on the street, when il came TO hurTah-
ing about how we licked the Kaiser.
Hotels and restaurant tables had been
booked up 10 capacity in advance
throughout the huriy-burly part OF Man
haitian. The threatres turned 'cm away
Almost $50 of the more prominent hotels
and restaurants lad been granted "all
night" licenses--which permitted the
dispensing Of tasty alcoholics up TO 40
o'clock this morning-by the State EN-
else Department, with the approval Of
Mayor Hylan.
The newspaper men who honor Hiz-
zoner with a little chat every afternoon
yesterday went into the City Hall and.
not for personal but purely professional
reasons. sought authoritative iuforma-
tion from Hizzonners office where ore
might cr might not get an "all night"
'IGr!nk dfter midnight this morning.
Watcher Hiszoner knew that some
body was going TO ask him to whom he
had granted all night licenses ana To
whom he hadn't, or whether il was that
the Mayor was guiug 20 Albany anyhow
to witness Al Smiths inaugurl ton to-
day cannot be said. II may De stated
however. that Hizzonner out on the over
worked maguum sized glossy tile.
grabbed his suit case and beat Il OF the
80 train for Albany-thus making the
try's nat.ora, capital try 20 worry into
the New Year without the boss being
On the job,