DRINKING

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLIII, Issue XLIII, 3 January 1924, Page 5

DRINKING

FESTIVITIES IN AMERICA

LAW-BREAKERS MORE CAREFUL

BY CABLB—PBEBB ASSOCIATION—COPYEIGH'j NEAV YORK, Jan. 1. All over the country the New Year opened auspiciously. A single death trom poison liquor was reported in Chicago, but otherwise relatively few cases of alcoholics were evident. New York magistrates were gratified because only thirty-five were arrested for intoxication during the New Year, while the city's hospitals reported no new alcoholic patients. Nevertheless, it issgenerally conceded that despite the vigilance of hundreds of prohibition officials there w-as more drinking than last New Year, but drinkers had apparently learned' discretion. Evening convivialities took place in homes or in the private diningrooms in hotels, whose managements were temporarily oblivious of what was being served. Meanwhile, successful celebrants are jubilant over their own canny preparations, declaring that liquor was never more easily available nor of better quality.