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NEW YORK'S WILDEST NIGHT

THE "FALSE ALARM" PEACE

New York is recovering to-day from tho wildest night in its history (says tho New York "Evening Telegram" of November 8), due to the hysterical celebration caused by the false news that Germany had abjectly laid down aud signed the' armistice terms imposed by the Allies. Men who were m London and saw tho joyous riot there on Mafcking night said that had this city possessed some rallying point like Trafalgar Square, the scenes of tho most riotous night in the history of England would have bean repeated hero. The chief eelebiators in many instances wore those same men who rejoiced four years ago over the sinking of the Lusitania. The oldtime distinctly German restaurants and cafes were the centres of the wildest revelry. Next to these demonstrations came that class which puts business over national feeling, and liquor flowed as it never did on the most excited election night. Veteran saloon-keepers acknowledged that they never had done such business as they did all afternoon and night yesterday. From the moment tho first false report from the United Tress was put through the downtown newspapers the city became delirious. Tho denial of this, posted on the "Evening Telegram" bulletin boards, could not offset the delirium which had seized the city.

Tn the cloak and suit trade district many firms called the business' day off entirely, and men and women alike flocked to the nearest place where the report of peace, which they swallowed hook, line, and sinker, could be celebrated in bibulous fashion. For the length of Broadway it was almost impossible to enter a saloon, so packed were ihey all, and the guttural Gorman commands for more drinks wero inosi noticeable. Broadway was littered with ticker tnpe. with torn scraps of liaper, broken horns, and all the debris,, many limes multiplied, of an old-time rlecton night celebration. Fighta were frequent, and broken windows quickly became an affair of no remark, so many were smashedFiglils were countless, the start of most of ilicm being the Teutonic boast: "Veil, it took the whole world to beat us, and they don't dure In go into the Fatherland." Tt did not take these Teutonic persons long to learn fhal. I here are still Americans 0:1 this side of the water who are eagor to fight. It. seemed as if every faker in (he city must have had advanced news, for in a few minutes after the, first false report Knt into circulation the hawkers of fhigF, horns, rattlers, and every d'-vico for '■ catch-penny patriots were out on every corner doing business. As a result. Hie crowd Hint filled Broadway in n moment carried flairs'anil every noise-making instrument imaginable.

Willi Ihese rinlous civilians were H'ousnnds of American soldiers and sailors mill 11 pe«'dly sprinkling of (lie uniforms of Ihe Allies. These were the onlv ones who failed to show much enthusiasm. "Ifavc Him- cheated us out. of our Irm lo I'iorlin?" asked ono American, and lie voiced the queries, some of IVm oppressed in most unparliamentary language, of Ihe bulk of the uniformed men caught in (lie vast Ihrong.

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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 81, 31 December 1918, Page 6

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NEW YORK'S WILDEST NIGHT Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 81, 31 December 1918, Page 6

NEW YORK'S WILDEST NIGHT Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 81, 31 December 1918, Page 6

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