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Show NEW YEAR'S EVE IN NEW YORK CITY Trinity Chimes Will Ring in 1907 as Usual; Many Dinner Parties Arranged for New Year. NEW YORK, Dec. 31. Elaborate arrangements for the entertainment of the thousands of persons who will hid farewell to the old year and welcome the advenf of 1907 with feasting and drinking are being made by the proprietors proprie-tors of the various large hotels and restaurants. In practically every one of New York's many popular hotels and cafes all the tables have been reserved for many days, and a large number of interesting in-teresting dinner parties will take place within their walls this evening. At the Astor the advent of the new year will be marked bv a notable spectacle. spec-tacle. By a svstem of electric lighting au effect will be produced whereby 16 will disappear in total darkness and 19d7 will come on the scene in the guise of a beautiful maiden, showering favors on the. crown from a cornucopia cornuco-pia which she will hold in her hand. Trinity church's chimes will ring in 19(7 an they have done for so many other vears and the streets of the lower low-er city, deserted for 364 nights out of 36.1. will see the annual throng about the old church as midDieht draws near. In manv churches the pious will await and gret with religious reverence rever-ence the birth of another year, and in some there will be special services with music. |