Show NEW N EW YEARS y VE AR 98 DAY it its s entrance has been celebrated for many years custom of calling originated with dutch in n new york state recep ti 1 tion by president dentan an annual occasion celt bration of the entrance ot of T 6 a new year rear has boon been observed V with much ceremony III hi lits country c cintr ever since tile beginning of our it public president washington was wai tie first to establish tile the custom find at his philadelphia residence during hla his first administration it has been noted that 1110 day was observed with appropriate ceremonies with n light alight re post poat in the afternoon including ft a plum rake cuke bilked baked by martha washington her calf and sonic some temperance punch made C of lemons find sugar minus any intoxicating ingredients tito custom of new years calling originated in ili this country with tile dutch in new york state tito nature of tl alu 0 o day the clearing on off of count find and the lie hopeful beginning of tho the new trial of life made new years year 11 day 1 I 1 ily i u day for the interchange of friendly greetings and in no country more than in this has the firle friendly nolly visiting crystal lied izod into such a hard and it nd fast fa 8 t business busl nes 1 in tho the south in tho the early gnys that billni acro where social life Is as aa delightful and in its growth as Is tile flora dora of tile tho region now new years day ft was as formerly fori observed as tile tho greet great for coming put the debutante hurst into blossom on that day tile old homesteads were thrown open find tho the world like the huge family faintly met to exchange greetings find good cheer on new years day tile observance in washington takes on the forni form of find political observances when conveyances from nil all over the fly city start moving toward tile the white house for their occupants to pay their respects to tile president and other dig alg ulta rles of our government when tile tho general custom of cele ccle orating tho the first of tho the year by tho the parading por noling of new year clubs in fantastic costumes find and similar joll luca hong began it Is lini cult to say though it does docs not appear to havo have aute antedated dated tile civil war asbor As for shooting in tho the kew ifer year that seems to havo have been the custom and strikingly so in philadelphia ever since tho the revolution when john adams mocoa into tho the whito it was so incomplete that there was very little attempt boob serve new years lay day at tho the mansion man slon nor la in fact any other elaborate social affair tho the celebration ns am now observed began tho administration of Il president resident jefferson on new years day in 1803 it Is noted on saturday new years lay day tile president was waited malted upon by diplomatic characters tho ito officers of the government tho the members nem bers of tile the legislature and tho the citizens eltI zens generally thero there were also present a abarge largo number 0 of ladles ladies in 1801 tho the report contains the information that ahn t the affair was rendered moro more tg bythe by the accompaniment of the marino and italian bands at this second jefferson reception sonio some time after tile company had assembled colonel 33 burrows at the head fiend of the marino marine corps saluted the president while the band of music played tile presidents march went through tho tha usual evolutions in a masterly er fired sixteen rounds 1 in n platoons und and concluded with a I 1 general 0 ueral ifer tile de jole 1 11 I 1 naturally with dolly madison as hostess tho new year receptions during her husbands administration were brilliant and at the last one prior to tile the burning of the mansion man slon a guest wr wrote 0 to ns as follows ever wils was witnessed in washington so brilliant and dazzling lavery prestol president eilt since then has celebrated tho down dawn of the new year na as an occasion for diplomatic courtesies MI au well as aa an opportunity to give th tho public pu lillie a chance chan ce to visit the white and shako shake hands with the president |