Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1924-12-30
NEW YORK PLANS II
ANOTHER Spree ON !.
NEW YEARS NIGHT
BY MALCOLM ELLIS
Copyright, 1924, by the Consolidated Press
Association-Special Leased Wire
to The Atlanta Journal.) 4


NEW YORK, Dec. 27.-Provided
enc has the money to enjoy it, this,
will be happ5 New Years eve in
New York. The bootleggers are see
ing to that.
Undeterred by the fact that thirty
eodr persons have died this month
from bad liqaor-the sort that
blinded William Mack, the play
wright, and four of his companions
who took an indiscriminate swig (
from Jersey workman's proffered (
bottle-the fact that four more are
dying. that twenty-eight men and
three women are in the alcoholic
ward of Bellevue recovering from
bad liquor spirits and that 81 others
IRE in the same wards nursing In
juries indirectly caused by bum stuff. =
New York is going ahead with it's
plans for another grand spree next
Wednesday night.
The celebration will center chiefly
around the night clubs, although
the hotels are planning for an at
tendance of $4,000 in their main and !
private dining rooms. Night clubs<
have sprung up like mushrooms in
the fashionable forties" and the
nifty Fifties," during the past
year. There were a few last year
at this time but, in this twelve
| month, the London manner of doing
up an evening has gained the 4
ascendancy and most of New York -
night life is behind the closed doors
| OF these expensive and exclusive
places-so exclusive that it is neces-
sary to have an admission card to
get in. A man who has a number on
| his string carries as many paste
| boards as railroad man travelling
on passes. The clubs range from
| the elegantly furnished places with
convert charges Of S. for a weekday
and night and hoity toity English
and French walters, to common, orr
| binary barrooms with pretzels and
cheese and heavy jowled bouncers.
One can have all the comforts OF
pre- prohibition days, but it is expen-
sive. Perhaps the most. exclusive
Of these places has a CONVERT charge
| for New Years eve of $50 per per-
son. A couple can't walk in and
out of the place and have a little
| something to eat, not to mention
much to drink, for much less than
5000, And If the champagne is flow
ing freely, it may cost around $500
for the evening. A fairly good grade
| of champagne is quoted along the
hippocket market at So or $40 a
| quart, but the stewards of some OF
these clubs are expecting to get $40
a quart for it. Soda water to go
into whisky highballs will bring So
for that evening.
eral attitude about prices. Wall
street gave away $60,000,000 in
bonuses just before Christmas and
it all hasn't been spent yet. Besides
tho, bulls" in the market are Ilav-
ing the time Of their lives and have
got to blow off steam. 1t will be
perhaps the city's most expensive
celebration Of any event.
Prohibition enforcement agents
have warned the general public. I
against drinking bootleg liquor.
Only fools dare to touch the stuff
you can get now" Director Merrick
warned a few days ago. But he
forgot that fools" are always hope
full and confident. The agents will
raid, of course, but the tide of booze
flows on 4,
Most of the vaudeville houses and
some of the theaters are arranging
mldnlgnL performances. Tickets that
sell ordinarily for 1920 at the box
Office yield $12 and $15 each for
spectators who manage by hook or
crock to get hold Of them. Up ait
Madison Square Garden, number
OF the shining lights of Broadway
including Ann Pennington and her
dimpled knees; Martha Lorber, Mr..
Zieaield's prize beauty of the mo-
met; Vincent Lopez and a, dozen
othrs-will bring the bouncing y
yotngster 1925, into the world to the
accompaniment Of plenty of jazz
Greenwich Village will hold its
usu-l"revels, smacking of the artists
balm the mont martre, with inti-
mat dancing, much liquor and few
clotes.