Show 1919 Wh Whooped bed In With Noise Nise r isel v pi r. e It i h J 0 l l t Y gs' gs Lid Is Ii Is Clear Clear Off Off in in the he I Great Cities Cities- for 1 I F Festival estival I By Sy Associated Press I NEW EW YORK Jan 1 loather Father Father Knickerbocker Knick Kriick- I and and- his and his n numerous m rous f family mily be began began began be- be I gan prying off ort the lid late last night and md had it tt entirely removed by the I time chimes whistles bells a and d horns orns gave riotous greeting at midnight to i the advent of 1919 A strike of union waiters caIle called called-al j most literally ly at the hour and the excessive high cost of living cast no damper on n their determination to p toI I celebrate celebrate- properly They blithely pawned the family jewels or mortgaged mortgaged mort snort the old homestead that they might be for prepared emergencies I The r e olde oldest t inhabitants of or Broadway I II and adjacent streets In the Roaring I Forties orties admitted unanimously that for tor merriment and noise it was I. I most ost successful New Ye Years Year's rs r's eve the they remember They attributed the whole of the celebration to two factors One was that war no I longer cast a ghastly shadow over the spirits of mankind and the other was wasI I the prospect that when 1920 appears I upon the scene toasts will b be drunk In inI I I nothing enlivening than chaste I t tea or foaming ginger ale |