ENTER 1929.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 2 January 1929, Page 5

ENTER 1929.

NEW YORK’S BOISTEROUS GREETING.

RAID OF NIGHT CLUBS SENDS REVELLERS HOME EARLY.

ALCOHOL PLENTIFUL IN CITY

AND ELSEWHERE,

(By Telegraph-Press Assn.-Copyright.) (Received This Day, 9;5 a.m.) NEW YORK, Jan, 1.

Tho New Year celebration was noisy and “wet" until midnight, aftyer which became subdued because a police raiding squad, supplemented by a large force of Federal agents, entered approximately thirty night clubs and sßoons within an hour. Some of these were the most popular Broadway resorts, with the result that the streets were soon filled with revellers flurrying homewards long before the expected time, despite the fact that some had paid as much as 100 dollars for reservations. However, up to midnight it was probably the “wettest" New Year’s Eve since prohibition came in. Theatres, night clubs and hotels had been sold out for a week, and it is estimated that 'a hfunjdrcd thousand persons from other cities came to New York for the festivities.

Liquor was plentiful in other sections of the United States, but the combined forces of Federal, city and State officials male the celebration one of the quietest in the history of tho country. All public parties were abandoned before one o'clock in some of the southern centres, by order of the authorities, due to the danger of spreading influenza.