New Year's Eve Roar at Plaza and City Restaurants
Crowds of about 6000 packed the Plaza Hotel and city dining rooms for New Year 1907 1908 celebrations. Notables like Mrs Stuyvesant Fish and George Gould attended as managers and guests fought to seat patrons while roped entrances and pantry entries allowed some to slip in. Orchestras played Auld Lang Syne and The Star Spangled Banner as Caruso teased with a later aria.
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Brooklyn
Hotel Plaza
Fifth Avenue
the Plaza
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York
Sterry
George .Gould
Goulds
Thomas
New York
Mr. Sterryv
Enrico Caruso
Caruso
George Gould
John McCullough
Mmrs
Hermann Oelricus
Stuyvesant Wish
J. R. Thomas
FE. K. G. Billings
Oliver Harriman
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Jenry Clews
Nordica
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Antonio Scott
Plaza
Café Martin
Times Square
Aeh
Mme
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Davy Jonson
Rogeben
Ethel
Jackson
Sonia
Merry Widow
Waldorf-Astoria
Prince del Drago
Janeis H. Leggett
Charles M. Oehlrichs
Thomas Dolan
Sherry
Not Many Women Smoked At Café Martin New Year
The Café Martin New Year’s Eve scene contrasts women who chose not to smoke with those who did. Most guests reportedly enjoyed themselves, but the smoking portion of the crowd was notably sparse, leaving the night to proceed without a smoky haze into 1908.
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Broadway
Martin
Vista Avenue
Alartin’s
Night at the Theatres Shows Quiet New Year Mood
New Year crowds filled theatres but were calmer than last year with overflow noted. Hippodrome hosted a late night benefit for the Union of Stage Employees after the main show, with Victor Moore and the Talk of New York troupe invited to a Café des Ambassadeurs supper following a 150 cover estimate.
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Hippodrome
Union of Stage Meceles
Cohan
Tarris
Victor Moore
Talk of
New York” Company
Café Des Ambassadeurs
Owith
Seld
Rialto
Around Old Trinity crowd fills Broadway in jubilation
A massive downtown celebration spans six to midnight with crowds from Canal to the Battery. Traffic stops from Vesey Street south as revelers surge along Broadway. A notable parade feature is a horned auto driven by a canon named Hutchinson. Policemen mistake the noise for an injury before discovering the horn.
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Broadway
Canal
Battery
Tower of
Trinity Church
Park Row
Vesey Street
Canon
Hutchinson
St Patrick's Chimes Draw Crowd At Cathedral Midnight
Thousands gathered near St Patrick's Cathedral at Fifth Avenue and Fifty-First Street to hear the chimes play a varied program at midnight. The bells rang Moore's The Harp That Once Through Tara's Halls and pieces including Believe Me and The Star Spangled Banner. The event drew loud cheers and interrupted the usual midnight benediction, with no midnight service held due to prior boisterous crowds.
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St. Patrick’s Cathedral
Fifth Avenue
Fifty-First Street
Moore
Tara
Tenderloin New Year Provokes Propose and Robberies
In the Tenderloin a Frenchman proposed marriage at 34th Street and Broadway triggering a chase and arrest by police. Victims claim slaps and purse thefts as a second thief claims hunger as motive. An officer was injured by a fire hydrant while dispersing revelers.
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Tirty-Fourth Street
Broadway
Thirtieth Street
Sixth Avenue
Guy Revilla
Seventh Avenue
Madeline Hanceaux
West Twenty-eighth Street
Fifth Avenue
Estelle Cohen
West 187Th
Forty-first Street
Tenderloin
West 156Th Street
Third Avenue
James J. McMurray
Wast Fighty-eighth Street
Bread Line Contrast as New Year Joy Collides with Scarcity
Residents describe a crowded bread line outside Fleischmann's Ninth Street door where about 300 men queue amid New Year revelry. An authoritative German guard disperses laughing women and their escort at glass doors, while most waiters and walkers appear gaunt and worn, with a few younger men joking as they secure bread and coffee.
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Fleischmann
Ninth Street
Broidway
Guardian
Grace Church
First New Year Wedding at Hungarian Ball in 1908
The first wedding of the year 1908 took place at the Lenox Lyceum Madison Avenue and Fifty-ninth Street during the Hungarian Society Ball. Berti Bacsko, who came to the U S six years ago, married his sweetheart with the society paying wedding costs and providing a flat. The officiating pastor used a stopwatch to time the ceremony as the new license law began. About 3,000 attendees at the ball celebrated by kissing the bride and extending best wishes.
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Lenox Lyceum
Madison Aveons
Fifty-ninth Street
Berti Bacsko
Hungary
Cleggyman
Fifth Avenue Shop Reopens as Vaedaxtie of Re st Class
In the heart of the shopping district the Fifth Avenue T will change to a Vaedaxtie of rest Class beginning Jan. 6.
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Fifth Avenue T
Murder mystery: body photographed for identification near Harrison
Police and Judge Branegan press identification measures for a body found in Five Points Pond near Harrison New Jersey on Christmas night. Mrs Hull提供 conflicting stories asserting kinship with the deceased as detectives pursue truth amid public scrutiny and failed identifications.
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Walsh
Five Points Pond
Harrison
N. J
Jadee Braynegan
Wallsh
Petters Wield
Frank Hill
Astes A. Young
Tall
Agnes A. Young
Madison Avenue
Manhattan
Mlarrison
Mrs. Young
Tull
Charles Myers
New Jersey
Amsterdam Avenue
Minnie
Forest Ten
Daddy
Agnes Young
New York
Minnie Janette Gaston
Mrs. Hull
Judge Branegan
Rogers
Chief Rogers
Times
Mary Blanford
Albright warning against wind sign infringement
The public is warned against infringing the Albright rotary wind sign and the undersigned will take legal action to protect rights. No sign simulating theirs may be manufactured or sold outside their plant at 428 East Howard St. Muncie Ind except in New York through Aero Sign Company, their general agent.
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Howard St
Muncie
Ind
State of
New York
Aero Sign Company
Broadway
New York City
Albright Sign Company
Thompson's life in England sheds light on New Jersey murder case
In Brimington Derbyshire the Times correspondent reports on Albert Thompson now under arrest in the New Jersey murder inquiry. Rachel Richardson admits a flirtation that led to mistaken love and a plan to go to America. Thompson reportedly left Brimington two years ago, returned, and persuaded his wife to accompany him to the United States where they apparently separated.
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Albert Thompson
New Jersey
The
Times
Hrimipston Village
D ‘Rbyshire
Thompseni
Houge
Thompsen
Raehel
Rachel Richardson
Thompson
Pbrimington
Richardson
Derbyshire
America
Brimington
Fou
Sheffield
Thompson Famiy
J Thempson
Produce Exchange Circus Dazzles Young Shoppers Amid Market Pause
Nearly five hundred youngsters from nearby families were treated to a real circus on the Produce Exchange trading floor after hours. Tickets funded by Trinity Church clergy, St Peter’s Parish, and the Salvation Army promised baskets, New Year dinners, and toys for 500 families, with 700 children receiving gifts as brokers, clerks, and porters looked on.
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Financial District
Santa Claus
Trinity Church
St. Peter's
Salvation Army
Toj
Beaver Street
Ring
Veudeville
Spock Exchange
Broad Street
Walter Reaven
Pageant at the Garden Opens New Year Auto Show Parade
Madison Square Garden hosts a symbolic parade to celebrate the new year during the automob ile show. Automobilists lead a timely procession with diverse acts from a Hindus to a French sedan chair and a modern automobile ending the display at midnight.
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S. R. Ballag
Twenty-seventh Street
France
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