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Show - New York to Usher in the New Year in I Traditional Fashion NEW YORK, Dec 31. New Yorkers York-ers will celebrate in traditional fashion he hour tonight at which the ringing j chimes and shrieking sirens will announce an-nounce the arrival of 1020 j Revelers and w ine-bibbers of whom there still seem to be an appreciable i number, announced that regardless of prohibition, consequences, expense ori revenue men, they would have one las'. 'celebration ot" their own sort. Forty revenue agents, some of them in evening clothes, will mingle in the gay restaurant throngs and be on the j alert for violations of the liquor law. A special watch will be kept for pos sible distributors oi wood alcohol. John McGinnis, chief assistant supervising agent of the internal revenue bureau, toda;. called attention again lo the many permits to use non-beverage 'alcohol which have been Issued re- 'centh ostensibly for the manufacture manufac-ture of perfume, hair tonic, arnishes 'and similar concoctions I "Once more let me say," said Mr McGinnis "that much of the so-called wine and liquor which it is proposed to toist on a gullible public will be no 'better than poison" Big Hotel Plans. In the big hotels it will cost from, $5 to $15 merely to sit down at a din-1 ing room table For those who "tote, their own' liquor a charge a erasing $150 has been set for each cork extracted ex-tracted by a waiter I.cihs for cool- ' ing wines will be proportionate One chain of hotels, however, has an-j nounced that much of the stock of rare! ' liquors, wines and cordials in its va- I I rious cellars will be 'presented their Ml guests without cost at midnight. Virtually Vir-tually all of the restaurants and I cabarets reported that 90 per cent or j H more of their available space bad been reserved. H Thousands to Attend Church. Thousands wl pass the last hour ot 1919 in worship. There will be a H solemn service in St. Patrick's cathed ral from 8 o'clock until alter midnight. I Services also will be held at the Episcopal cathedral of St. John The Divine, Virtually all other sectarlau I congregations will hold watch night services. The prayer sent around the world by the inter-church world move ment for "the elevation of justice and brotherhood," will be offered. In Old I Trinity church at the head of Wall street the famous chimes will ring out as the old year dies in accordance with a time-honored custom. President to Be Left Quiet. WASHINGTON, Dec. 31 President Wilson will spend a very quiet New Tear's day. White House officials discloses to- day that the president overtaxed himself him-self on his birthday Sunday when ho I celebrated the occasion by having the members of his family present. Consequently Con-sequently it is considered improbably t hat he will hold a watch party in his I sick room tonight. Mr. and Mrs. Francis B Sayre, who came to the White House for the president's pres-ident's birthday, are expected to ro main over New Year's day. |