New-York tribune., 1921-01-01
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To New Year
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experience in handling New Years Eve
throngs, and hotel and restaurant men
agreed with them. Every public eating
place among the white lights was turn
ing people away.
Reservations we're not made early
this year, it was said, but when the
applications for tables came they came
With a rush The restaurateurs said
that. although they were entertaining
as many people as they ever did, if not
more their profits would be fully so
per cent less because of prohibition
They were about the only individuals
along Broadway who seemed to care
whether there was q Volstead act or
not.
In Harlem, where the New Years Eve
celebration centers on 125th Street and
Broadwa ay, the same conditions pre-
vailed Everybody had all he wanted
and r.ther more than he needed, in
most cases, to drink, restaurants were
filed to capacity and the crowd in the
stree Was as numerous and as noisy
as ever.
Obsequies of Liquor
New Years Eve revels at the promi-
nent hotels and restaurants were ell
livened with various forms of pageants
dedicated to the death, more or less, Of
John Barleycorn. Dirges sung over the
demise of this BILE were accompan-
led by the clinking of glasses.
Everywhere the table capacities of
eating places were reported to have
been sold out weeks in advance, the
prices ranging from $40 to $25 plate
exclusive of "kickless" drinks. The mid
night dinners, as usual, followed thea
ter parties, and as the theaters began
to pour their crowds into the streets
around II o'clock the cafes began to
fn up. Fifteen minutes beford the
birth of the New Year the revelr{ was
at its height.
Church Celebrations
Most Of the churches welcomed the
New Year with the ringing of bells.
The chimes of Trinity Church began a
quarter of an hour before midnight
and ended in the fifteenth minute Of
the new years life. The chimes played
Lead Kindly Light" Drink TO Me
Only with Thine Eyes" "Robin Adair,'
"Hall Columbia" and Home, Sweet
Home"
The usual throngs gathered in lower
Broadway to listen to the chimes of
Trinity and the Old John Street Meth
odist Church had its 155th watch night
! service.
The service began at 9 o'clock and
was, conducted by the Rev. DR.. 8.
Parkes Cadman, Of Brooklyn After
the first service there was q reception
which was followed by the midnight
watch service.
DR.. Cadman said that the church
could not live by money alone, as was
| shown by the collapse of the Inter
church World Movement. Rohemians
might sneer at the Blue Sunday. he
:aid, but for his part he preferred the
Blue SUNDAY to the Red Sunday, which
how prevailed
"If New York were like the London
Of John Wcsley's time" hI said, 81
should not have dared to come to this
historic house Of worship ton .ght
Why, in those days robbers abounded
IN London--they even robbed the Lord
Mayor within two blocks of the Man
sion House. ] do not think his Honor
experience as that
The chimes Of Grace Church at
Broadway and Tenth Street paled out
almost unheard. In former years
Broadway has been crowded with peo-
pie waiting for the New Years bells Of
this church on the old Peter Stuy-
vesant farm to ring out. This year
the only persons in sight were two
patrolmen, department store night
watchman and an impatient group
waiting for a street car.
A congregation which filled the
Cathedra of St. John the Divine, in
dulged in moment of silent prayer
on the stroke Of midnight at the
atch-night service held there
The service was preceded by an
organ recital by DR.. Miles Farrow,
organist of the Cathedral. Dean
Howard c. Robbins read the scripture
lesson and the sermon was delivered
by the Rev Dr. William Z. Gardner.
honorary vica of the Cathedral.
Watch night services were held at
St. Mark $ in-the- Bouwerie, 1873 + .
Tenth Street, beginning at It Is
O'Clock. The service is to be follow ed
by another tomorrow afternoon at
four o'clock, when the church will give
its annual Christmas Symposium of
poetry. Those who are to read from
their own works include Amelia Jo-
sephine Burr. John Farrar, Edwin
Markham. David Morton. Jessie B. Rit-
tenhouse, Clinton Scollard, Florence
Wilkinson and Margaret Wlddemer
The Salvation Army, under the direc-
ton of Commissioner Thomas Estill
this afternoon from one to three
O'Clock, will give a Christmas roundup
at the Ninth Regiment Armory. Four
tcenth Street near Sixth Avenue. for
1000 poor children. Clothing and good
things to eat are to be given away, the
army announces. "in so fay as the sup
ply Will admit" Evangeine Booth
Mrs. Finley Shepard and Mrs. John l.
Mott are to assist
At midnight the crowd that filled
Times Square had become so dense
that 1t was closed to vehicular traffic
from Forty second to Forty-seventf
streets. Surface cars, however. con-
tnued to run. One hundred and twenty
police from Traffic shunted the auto
mobiles over to other avenues.
In all telephone exchanges double
forces were on duty from midnight till
o'clock. Even with this additiona;
help it was difficult to handle the tens
Of thousands of New Years calls tina,
went flashing through the city anc
out of town.
Chinatown was thronged with holi
day makers as never before in it's his
tory, according to policemen who had
tseen many New Years welcomed there
Soldiers and sailors made up a larg,