NEW YEAR’S EVE

Hokitika Guardian, 2 January 1929, Page 6

NEW YEAR’S EVE

NEW YORK’S CELEBRATION

(United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—*Copyright).

this dav at 9. a.m.) NEW YORK, Jan. 1

New Year celebration as noisy and “wet’’ until midnight, after which it became subdued because a police raiding squad was supplemented by large forces of Federal agents, who entered approximately thirty night clubs and saloons within an hour. Some of these were most popular broadway resorts with the result that the streets were soon filled with revellers hurrying homewards, long before the expected time despite the fact that some had paid as much as a hundred dollars for reservations. However, up to midnight it was probably the “wettest” New Year’s eve since prohibition. Theatres, night clubs and hotels had been sold out for a week, and it is estimated one hundred thousand persons from other cities came to Now York for the festivities. Liquor was plentiful in other sections of the United States, hut the combined forces of the Federal, City and State officials, made the celebration one of the quietest in the history of the country. All public parties were abandoned before 1 o’clock in some southern- centres, by order of the authorities, due to the danger of spreading influenza.