The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1920-01-01
GASES CROP
UP FOR new
YEAR CHEER
American Cities Celebrate
Arrival of Leap Year with
Usual Wet Parties in Spite
of Prohibition.
USE PRIVATE STOCKS
tBy Associated Press)

WASHINGTON, Jan. New Years
day was being quietly observed here
today. In official circles there was
the usual round of social functions, al
though at the White House there was
no formal celebration because of the
illness of the president.
Secretary of State Lansing and Mrs.
Lansing were the hosts at a luncheon
for the diplomatic corps, and recep-
tions were held by Secretary of the
Navy and Mrs. Daniels, Secretary of
War and Mrs. Baker and Assistant
Secretary of War and Mrs Crowell.
The New Year received a noisy
welcome last night from crowds on the
streets but there were no public or
formal celebrations other than the
church and home watch parties and
balls.
The customary watch party at the
White House was dispensed with be-
cause of President Wilson's condition.
Messages to the nation were issued
by Vice-President Marshall and several
! members of the cabinet in ali of which
was expressed a note of optimism for
the coming year.
NEW YORK, Jan. 1.-Celebration of
the advent of the New Year continued
until dawn in the hotels and restau-
rants along the great white way"
the jewellers taking advantage of what
they considered the last opportunity
to celebrate in the hilarious manner
traditional to New York
Police and other observers said the
crowds which jammed upper Broad
way from midnight until nearly morn
ing were equal in size and spirit to
those in former years.
While unnumbered thousands paraded
the thoroughfare with all sorts of
noise makers, other thousands who
with foresightedness, had purchased
stocks of wine and liquors before July
l, were making merry in the hotels
and restaurants.
Much of the liquid refreshment was
sent in advance by trucks and limou-
sines after reservations for the night
had been made. A. heavy profit
tthfo1sii c6Skage and uooifrg
charges was reaped
Crowds Are Orderly.
Crowds on the streets, while not
lacking in exuberance. were more or
derly than in former years. Two
thousand police officers who lined
Broadway from Thirty-third street to
Columbus Circle said they had little
to do and few arrests were made.
The celebration was not confined
to places of merriment. The chimes
of hundreds of churches rang out, as
of old, at midnight, while thousands of
whistles shrieked an accompaniment.
Many thousands attended watch night
! meetings in the churches.
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 1.-The
! dry law but slightly dampened the
! enthusiasm with which the west well
| coined the New Year.
In California, those who had private
| stocks encountered no insurmountable
difficulties in finding places of cheer
and merriment wherein to consume
! them and in tho other far western
states the advent of the new year,
unlivened by cheer of the malt, vinous
or spirituous varieties, was no nov
/ city.
| San Francisco met the issue brave
| ly and staged, on the whole, what was
regarded as credibly repetition of
! her traditional celebration. Those
who had private stocks repaired-to
| places of entertainment, parked"
! their containers with the management
and thereafter drew on these supplies
as long as the inclination and the sup
plies held out.
| Throw Confetti
Those who did not or did not care
+. to imbibe, thronged the streets in
holiday mood with the confetti and
serpentine dances they made shrift
to supersede the liquid producers of
enthusiasm now sinterdicted.
Los Angeles officials were less kind
| to merrymakers who sought exhilira-
tion in fluid form. A Police order
forbade production of private stocks
at cafes and restaurants and many
owners of such potables hied them
selves to nearby towns where the
i lones were drawn more loosly. Dane
| ing in Los Angeles was halted at mid
night.
| Seattle, which has seen several dry
New Yew Years, laid in what one
| hotel man described as enough
grape juice to float battIeship" and
proceeded along lines which now have
become habitual. A few, seeking
/ something of higher voltage. went to
Vancouver or Victoria, across the
| Canadian line,s where they hoped to
obtain it on physicians prescriptions.
| PHILADELPHIA, JAM, 1 - The
mourners parade, the big feature of
Philladelphia's New Years celebration
was held on Broad street today after
laps of year due to the war, and
was witnessed by hundreds of thous-
ands of persons. Hundreds of the
young men who served in France or ON
war shjps Ut year. passed in review
and zed for prizes amounting
to 81 DFawarded by the city as part
of Phfladelphia's official celebration.
INDIANAPOLIS, Jan. 1. - When
young 1890 arrived in Indianapolis last
night, he found crowds awaiting TO
greet him at nearly all the old time
places OF celebration. but they were
sober and mfld-mannered crowds, In
the main. Some of the downtown
| hotels were well filled and most OF the
clubs had their usual New Years eve
| crowds, but the old booze inspired
spirit Of '.reyelry by night. was lack
1 ing.