Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-01
THIRTY Jewellers
SPEND NEW YEARS
AT POLICE STATIONS
Four Turn In Alarms, See
Firemen Ride, Then Get
Ride Themselves.
THREE DANCERS BURNED
BY FIRE FROM REVOLVER
Black Maria" Not a Bit "Blue" as
It Carries Sc Pleasure Seekers
to Greet Judge.

1t may have been New Year to some
people, but 1t was just another We'd
nesday morning to police.
Only about 80 celebrantS qualified for
ride in the patrol wagon. Those were
booked on charges Of drunkenness, and
the sum total was about the routine
average for any day of the year.
Four persons concluded their New
Year would be louder and funnier with
the assistance of few fire sirens and a
couple Of red wagons.
Beginning shortly after midnight,
they pulled boxes at Twenty-second
street and New York avenue, Seven
tenth and East Capitol streets south
east, Ninth and B streets southwest
and Twenty-sixth street and Pennsyl-
vania avenue.
In the old days, veteran firemen
pointed out, 1t was no New Year at
all unless score of false alarms came
in. The least they could expect was
the thirties.
Not All Quiet on Potomac.
The men at the IA precincts this
morning were willing to admit, how
ever, that all was not quiet along the
Potomac for good part Of last night
and this morning.
More than one party recommended
itself to the attention Of q passing
ton houses brought a fair number of
complaints from neighbors, who said
they could not sleep, and refused to
blame 1t on insomnia.
The exuberance usually subsidized aft
er an ACCOMPLISHMENT, the policemen
said, and only occasionally were they
forced to ring for the wagon.
At precincts Nos. II, IL, Is and II
no arrests for drunkenness were made.
Precincts Nos. z, 8 and 9 each reported
lone defendant in their lockupS. At
Nos. 3 and there were five persons
being held on charges of intoxication.
Seven Sleep ut First Precinct
No. / precinct, which embraces q
good part Of the downtown district,
provided sleeping accommodations for
seven persons whose condition seemed
to warrant it. There we're three de-
PENDANTS at No. 2 precinct and q like
number at No. S.
Police at No. precinct brought in
four jewellers on charges of drunken
ness. Charges of disorderly conduct
were lodged against the prisoners in
most cases.
The BLACK Maria" a vehicle which
makes the rounds OF the precincts on
the morning after the night before,
collecting those who are supposed to
greet q Judge for q bit of explaining,
took Sc persons to Police Court for APP
pearance on New Year day.
Three dancers at the Lotus Cafe re-
ceived slight powder burns about 1880
O'Clock when some reveler in the crowd
on the floor fred a blank cartridge
downward from his pistol. None of
the victims was able to identity the
man.
Miss Burke Injured.
Those injured were: Miss Evelyn
Burke, 81 years old, of 1917 Fifteenth
street; Raymond Gerster, "a years old,
of 638 Alabama avenue southeast, and
Maude Wells, 81 years old, of 1922
Lanier place. The former two were
treated for minor burns at q doctors
ONCE at 1892 Ogden street, while Miss
Wells declined medical attention, police
Of No. l precinct reported.
One Of the first arrests for speeding
during 1880 was effected shortly after
midnight when Policeman Z. p. Hart
man Of No. 3 precinct had Miss Violet
Orme, 18 years old, daughter Of Mr.. and
Mrs. Gardiner p. Orme Of 1881 MaSsa-
chusetts avenue, booked at the station
house on a charge of driving in excess
of 40 miles an hour
Miss Orme, student at Holton Arms
School, also gave her address as New
port, r. I. She was taken into custody
on Connecticut avenue and was ac-
companied to the precinct by young
man and young woman, where she was
released on $25 bond for appearance
in Police Court.