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Show GREEISjNEWJfEARz WITH NOISY GAIETY Prosperous Section of London Lon-don Celebrates LONDON, Jan. 1. London's prosperous pros-perous section hailed the advent of the New Year with noisy gayety surpassing that anything seen since January 1. 1M. The revelers turned their backs upon the grim bogie of hard times, but its shadow, nevertheless, crossed their palhs In the form of collectors of funds for Ihe unemployed, who shook money boxes on street corners and In the porticos por-ticos of hotels. The large west end restaurunts and hut-is vied with one another In staging stag-ing attractions for their patrons. From the ceiling of the ballroom In one big hole! was suspended a big airship eighty feet In lensth. from the capacious capaci-ous cabins of which young women dressed as fairies descended and distributed dis-tributed gifts among the guests. Another An-other hotel featured a Japanese garden, gar-den, where silver bugles announced the birth of l2l. Dancing and merriment continued until duybreak. Outside St. lnul's church there was the time-honored gathering of the poorer poor-er people of the city, which though perhaps per-haps larger than usual, was more decorous dec-orous than It has often been. There was evident, however, a disposition to defy all "dry" thoughts, flasks and bottles being produced from thousands of pockets as the bells rang out heralding the New Year. At the stroke of 13 the streets surrounding the ancient church were filled with a din of bagpipes, mouth organs, accordeons and human voices playing or singing "Auld I-anz Syne." |