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Show SMALL ATTOiJTIOrf ; TO POLICE ORDER Chicago Celebrates ' Advent of New Year ttch the Same as Though There Was No Lid On. CHICAGO, Jan 1 New Year's trt j in Chicago's strer., was inferno ef I neiae, despite the ,ffrepted mandate of Chief of Polio. i 0llina that the violent vio-lent merrymaking be connned to the five minutea after -ne Government time ball, decorated wi- , red lights, dropped from its height nt-ve Masonic temple. The, same new vex- lid waa a fiasco. Detectives circulated through the mad "rah, rah" --rong that paraded up and down Sta'- street and around the principal thea-.:s. hotels and cafes, but their efforts w-r aa uaelesa as that of a dog having the moon. J.fy were laughed at . I scoffed at, all in a good namred however, and there was little serious -ee(l for them. The police order perhaps, had the effect ef-fect of keeping -.rearms well under cover, and protece. i to some extent the girls and women n : r tha theaters. Near the hospitals the -olice work is said to have had sorre rfect. but a whole the police "order'' might as well not have been issued The theaters a!l rrowded to the limit. All seats were sold before 6 o'clock in most ct hem. The principsl cafes were decorated for the occasion and all tables had been reserved for weeks. At the hotels tre same crush was reported re-ported The msngers said the numbers num-bers exceeded an rear they could remember. |