The New York herald., 1922-01-01
new YEAR HILARIlY
SPLASHES over Lid
IN THEATER REGION
Broadway Dry in Spots,
Hips and Kits Supplying
Liquor Bountifully.
BAGGAGE WITH DINNER
Gayety and Dancing Reign
i'm Large Food Palaces
Despite Prohibition.
NINE RAIDS; NO ARRESTS
NINE RAIDS; NO ARRESTS
AS Good Time as Any to Go to
Jail, Is Refrain Of Scores
of Bottle Celebrants.


Whenever any place tries as hard
to be merry as Broadway did last
night it can't help achieving GER
tain measure of success. Many things
happened of New Years eve in
years gone by in Broadway that didn't
happen last night. But several things
happened last night that were never
beheld before anywhere.
1t was the first time Broadway saw
folks going to dinner in it's hardy
cafes and restaurants Juggling baggage
with them. They have gone to dinner
and supper with their pockets bulging
and neat little cylindrical parcels un-
der their. coats. but New Years eve
was celebrated publicly last night by
crowds who seemed to be under the
impression that this is as good time
to go to Jail as 1t will ever be. what
with business so bad and not much to
see in the streets anyway.
Prohibition makes no difference in
this place. explained the manager of
a restaurant in Broadway above
Forty-seventh street. I'm turning
folks away despite the fact we sell
nothing stronger than soda and
cracked ice and tall glasses, and that's
where we stop. OF course"
But before he could explain two men
and three women appeared at the door
iooking about inqc&nsiy. l5oth men
carried Kit bags and one OF them was
wearing his hat backward.
All Arrive with Baggage.
Table reserved for Mr.. Jones?' he
asked.
"Yes. sir" and the manager and the
head waiter and couple Of hatroom
attendants ushered the two men, three
women and two kit bags to Mr.. Jones's
table.
"Are you taking in boarders?" in
quircd the reporter.
IAN a customs officer that should
search mans baggage?" replied the
manager with a Shrug.
Don't your customers check their
baggage with their coats?'
you can't compel man TO check his
coat or his hat or his baggage" was
the response. "Besides II they had TO
let those bags stay out In the courtroom
they'd all stay out I'm the courtroom. too.
and there wouldn't be anybody In the
restaurant eating the best food In Broad
way. You can put In your paper that
our truffies'--
What are you going to do IL the Vol
steaders come snooping aroundT'
LET 'em snoop. This high class place
don't handls liquor. II they find 1t on
a customer that's his fault. Besides II
there's a bottle on the table and VOL
steader wants to know who owns It and
everybody denies owning u and the
volsteader don't see anybody pouring or
drinking drink what can the Vol
steader do?"
And then the dancing began and the
boys and girls began TO trot. and the
reporter looked at the vacated tables.
lie counted eight suitcases and kit bags
without shifting his feet
Further up Broadway another pre-
prietor Of a strictly dry restaurant had
taken forethought. He had stationed
two extra porters at the curb TO carry
the bags as the customers arrived in
their motor cars. There was the gem
erai air OF a railroad station about the
place. Virtually every one carried bag
gage. Moreover In almost every case
the heavily laden clisnts wore evening |
clothes ana there was much ceremony
about the removal OF wraps in the
foyer.
False Alarm Causes Ripple.
SO when the reporter arrived on foot
and In the suit he wears every afternoon,
and, finally, without baggage. there was
OF a commotion. Gentlemen
clutched their kit bags resoluteiy and
ladies' slipping out OF huge fur wraps
ceased slipping and began squealing.
Walters came toward the reporter. who
had never had a walter show any con-
Germ IN him before. The pretty girls
who were helping the ladies slip out of
the huge fur wraps began looking around
rather wildly as though making sure
that all exits were unlocked. A large
man with whiskers. who turned out TO
be the manager or its equivalent. placed
himself squareIy In the reporters path.
Confined on Pare Tourteeu. '