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SAN FRANtlSCO
CELEBRATES
A FORMER BROWNSDALE RESI
DENT WRITES OF THE NEW
YEAR'S EVE CELEBRA­
TION IN THE NEW
SAN FRANCISCO
"On with the dance, let joy be un
confined," was the motto for San
Francisco's greatest New Year's eve
celebration. It began at dusk when
good old Nineteen-O-Eight was light
ed to his grave with the greatest il
lumination ever, for the streets were
strung with millions of incafndescent
electric lights and all ^buildings out
lined likewise and it was concluded
only when naughtly G-Nine was born
into the fairyland, ie, the New San
Francisco, in a shower of confetti, a
baalam of glad noise and under a
midnight sky rainbowed with colored
fires, shot with starry fireworks and
ribboned with flashings search lights.
There was illumination without
end. red fire to encrimson the sky for
iniles, fireworks to sizz," crack and
shoot, to coruscate and scintillate
to match the stars and to shoot like
meteors. There were playing bands,
screaming and wheezing whistles,
tooting horns, blaring trumpets
there were masqueraders who
marched, danced, sang, reveled and
frolicked as they chose, gaily decorat
ed autos floated on streams of joy be
tween gala-clad banks of humanity.
The visitor might well imagine that
he was walking in Rome during a
great festival or perhaps in New Or
leans during the famous Mardi Gras.
The spirit of carnival ruled.
