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Show NEW YEAR USHERED IN With a Boom 1 Boom! Boom! the 365-Day ' Visitor is Welcomed, a Boom! Boom! Boom! And 1902 was a past Issue! The advent of the new year was celebrated cele-brated in the good old-fashioned way at midnight, . with scarcely a single variation of the programme that has been followed since the memory of man can recall. The tidings of the coming of the guest who will remain with us for 365 days were carried on the crisp night air by the dull roar of many whistles, punctu- aiea Dy me rame or musiteiry ana ine tolling of bells all over the city. The precise Instant of the transition from the old to the new was recorded by the Western Union electric clocks which are regulated frori) Washington. When the telltale finger pointed to the witching hour, the populace broke out in merry riot. The street car men had assembled all the cars of the service, as far as possible, possi-ble, at the Theater corner, and at the stroke of the big bells in the city and county building tower, clanged . their gongs like mad. The hoarse roar of the whistles made a thrilling bass accompaniment to the higher keyed sounds. Withal It sounded like a monster Wagnerian Introductory. No arrests for disturbance of the peace were made as the celebrants, by virtue of the great unwritten law, were : given license. In the majority of the churches watch services were held. . |