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Show Y THE ALOOFNESS OF NEW YORK? bservant Prvincial. Speaking for Millions of i&Others. Tells How They Regard the Metropolis Also Hovj the Metropolis Views Yap, Who. After All. Has a Big Advantage end U ii groat trip for 1 1 1 f provincial, ami on Hint very day when the New Yorkers are pouring out the provincials pro-vincials nr.- pouring hi. Lot tlio visitor he n 111:111 of well lo tin circumstances, a m:i 11 ut culture ami education. educa-tion. fn.issll.ily familiar with Paris ami tin' cities of Europe, but yet a stranger In lils own city of New York. Mr. Provincial's Experiences. ITo arrlcs with 11 rwornrinnil.it Ion of ji hotel, given lilni by some friend who lias added exact directions di-rections fr getting there, has posnibly drawn a little uinp cm the back of an envelope. At the very station the fear of the city begins to creep oxer him Other passenger are tearing In n great rush for the gates; every one mfiiH to kuow Just where to go except himself; and Anally, In the blanknc'ss of despair, de-spair, he throws the map to the winds anil drops Into the clutches of the nearest cabman, the. great maze of the city, which bad secnied so simple on the map. bccomlog a hopeless Jungle to him. Of course he neglects to go to the station cab otlice and hires a stlnct.s, but the best authorities do not advise this. It savors too much of despair. At dinner the world will become rosy once more, for "breathes there a man with soul so dend," fce. Tho llr-t thing to strike the visitor will be the music la the dining mom, and under its subtle strains he will realize without fall that he was made for city life and will wonder why he does not come to New York every week or two. The men rind women In evening clothes and the ' marvellous beauty of some of the red checks will also wrlke him, and he will wonder what Is "going rn" that night. The only tlaw lu his cup of bliss will be the gnawing perplexity as to whether he ought to tip the waiter before or after be Is served. He has heard so much about the evils of tho tipping system that It will be a distinct surprise when the head waiter falls to grab hlni by the throat as he leaves the room and h-inand a dollar bill. Being a well meaning provincial he will probably give the waiter the largest tip he has received that evening and will be quite surprised nt the creature's open gratitude. a preconceived notion that nil New York theatre were built on the principle of the Hippodrome, an even that, sorrowful to relate, is not as big ns tin State armory In our town. Some metropolitan manager man-ager should build a house with an orchestra exactly one mile long as n special upholder of provincial Ideabs. The metropolitan feeling will come back, however, once the visitor gets Into the llghtcH streets. Bcin( of an adventurous disposition, he will not return t his own hotel, but will seek some good cafe. riere the eager spring of the waiters to show hlra a falile will restore his feeling- of self-importance, and, like as not, he will settle back, saying to himself, "Ah, it's good to be In little old New York again!" lie will then watch the Incoming customers with eager eyes, painting the most glorious romances abont them. Those women, gorgeous with Jewels, regal In their low cut gowns, who can they be? he wonders. He envies the careless gracp with which their escorts chat with them. Their talk must bo the brilliant repartee that one reads In the novels, with snatches Mro'scwndM from Kenostu. (Copyrlictt. 1910. by tbo Kew York Timid Co. All rtjrhU TtscrrrA.) FOR the purposes of many ru rsons a proper map of the United States would show a large black dot on the Atlantic coast labelled "New York," and for the rest a huge blank space marked "Great American Desert." Geographical maps, topographical maps and many other kinds of graphical maps Illustrate mountains, rivers, watersheds, towns, cities and other features of Interest to scientists', with each State displayed in red. preen or aoroo other fancy color, but a soclogTaphlcal map would Phow the Island of Manhattan In a deep crimson, fading off Into pink and faint rose to Include everything as far as New Ilochelle and the near half of Long Island, while the remainder of the United States would wear simply some unltone, preferably n dull gray or a colorless khaki. New Yorkers not meaning a few brave, adventurous adven-turous spirits, but the average man, as jou would reach out and touch blm on the streets regard the rest of the United States much as the early Spanish that the elegant lady whom he had been admiring in tho restaurant as one of the fabled Four Hundred Hun-dred was none other than Mrs. Joslah Soandso, from Kenosha. And tho way In which tbey eye each other, theso tdx-ep and goats! For no patriotic Hungarian ever regarded with deeper suspicion .1 Philistine German-Austrian German-Austrian than does the average New Y'orker regard the man or woman from outside the pale. New York in War. In the summer of lfoo the United States government govern-ment threw some 15,f00 young men of various States Into two heterogeneous masses for the attack and defence de-fence of Boston. On tho surface they were the citizen soldiery of four States and tbe Dlsnrict of Columbia, ail armed, equipped, directed and trained exactly nllko. under the unifying process of the modern organized or-ganized militia.. At heart they were young men of every class, from banker to hostler, each representative representa-tive of the State from which he came. For eight days these young men on both sides of the mimic wnr marched, fought, lhcd and, as tho Issue proved, suffered together. And to a close observer there evolved one of the most Interesting points on Ibis very question which is being discussed. Inside of a day the men of New Jersey, Connecticut and the District of Columbia were fraternizing together to-gether like brothers. The minute peace was declared they were over the line exchanging tobacco and canteen can-teen drinks with the "enemy" from Massachusetts. And, alono in all this feasting and rejoicing, stood the camps of the New York city battalions, as closely raarke-d as If they were hostile, In dlgnltled aloofness from all the others. Lean, gaunt Yankees from Connect Con-nect lent, jovial troopers from New Jersey and even grinning negroes from the District of Columbia were hailing each other In the streets of Hanover Four Corners like brothers lu arms, parsing In and out of one another's camps, exchanging tokens of the campaign, cam-paign, while behind the picket lines of the New Y'ork crs the city soldiers stared and glared In strance aloofcetes, and uo Y ank or bean eater ever unbidden crossed the line. An ofUeor of those days says that In the week's campaign be made firm friends with men from every other State, but not once did he speak to a New Y'orker except on a single occasion when ho had business busi-ness at .the camp of a New Y'ork battery and asked his way, to be met by exactly that some suspicious stare that the provincial pets when he nsks his way in the streets of New Y'ork. The New York regiments were perfect models of neatness and discipline, their officers were the best looking In the streets of the towns, but at admiration all Intercourse stopped. On the second day out there And Having Never Been West of ' the Hudson. """ about hordes and hounds and country houses. That stout woman, who chaperons, Is undoubtedly one of the famous hostesses of the metropolis. Lucky Is he that he Is not near enough to hear what she is actually sa, lug: "Well, I told George that If we came to New Y'ork It would be the last time. Little old Milwaukee Id good enough for me." Then that slim inun with the silk hat ami the bored ilr a real New Yerkernhls time. Another leader of society what a devil of a fellow he must be! But our friend from Hoine Ille does not see the contemptuous gl, imes of the waiters which follow the man as ho cliim es Idly from side to side, looking, as Mr. Frovln-"clnl Frovln-"clnl supposes, for some acquaintance with whom to lighten the ennui of nn hour. The waiters know that he Is looking for some good natured soul on whom hi can graft the price of a supper and the drinks. It Is possible thot one chance iu a million will fall ami that, in the stream of faces, our frleml will seo that of a fellow townsman. From the present pjlot of view it Is the most unfortunate thing that he could do, for, though they had but a bowing acquaintance at home, ihey would fall on each other's necks and tho whole fruits of an evening's training would be lost. For when two people from HomevlJle fall together the atmosphere ceases to be New Y'ork and for all pnutienl purposes they might as well be back on the corner of Main street and HoinevHlc square. All Days Alike. The first day Is a fair sample of all that are to follow. When he sums it all up, afterward, Mr. Provincial Pro-vincial finds that he has done- but three things walk tho streets aimlessly, watch the people and pour money Into tbe cavernous pockets of tbe hotel and theatre proprietors. After a while be gets so that. In his morning walks, he can tell Fifth avenue without looking up at the lamp posts. He even sees peopbi stranger to New Y'ork thuii he Is and smiles with a quiet air of superiority. On the second night he finds, to his surprise, that be has dropped into the same cafe as on tbe tint nlgbt, and Is rather proud of the fact that the wuiters recogulze hliu. , He had had on Idea that he would eat lu a different place every evening, but habit, the strongest force in human nature, gets the better of him and he has soon marked out a tiny bectlon of New Y'ork which Is all his own. When he has done that he h'js (a Wen the first step toward becoming a naturalized natu-ralized New Y'orker; yet somehow he had never realized real-ized before that all New Yorkers do not llvc ull over tbe city at ouce. And now for the provincial, in the eyes of tbe average New Y'orker. It can bo expressed in one word, "Yap." This doos not refer, of course, to the viewpoint of the New Yorker who has. been educated outside of the city or who is constantly on the move Jn all parts of the country, but to the man and woman of the streets and restaurants. The Yap may own the very apartment in which the Now Y'orker lives, but an long as he continues to vote and bay his hosiery In Nashua the epithet is still applied to him. As one goes up the social scale the diction Is nncr, but the fteotl-iiwiit fteotl-iiwiit remains tbo same. "She Is a girl from out of town," wys tho young lady lu society, referring to a frleud who ha been seen with her. The frland may come from Detroit or from l'ensucola, but that makos no difference. The fact that she is "out of town" U the TlLU point of the MateujenL The Y'aps huve a ocsl deal to say about this. George WaihlnKton wa u aP nnf Abraham Llucoln was from "out of town." So has been every I'resldent of the United States, with od exception. Jack Johnson John-son is an honored Yap and ao arc moet of the hemes of the nutlunul league, but Instances have uo appeal to the New Yorker. It Is about on ereu deal. The New Y'orker continues con-tinues to scoff and the provincial, wheu he reachea home, smiles safely from the satisfaction of honest food, good air and a friendly neighborhood. And thel Yap haa thU bl advantage, that, whllo New York Is a mighty HtU place, after all. there la a good dcalj to the rest of the American continent. Ii Well fed and smoking a cigar almost as good as that supplied him by his honest little cigar dealer at borne, he will stroll Into (he foyer with the admirable Intention of "seeing a show." He may even ask some minor employe, like a bellboy or a chambermaid, what Is "In town" that night. The fact that the employe knows lesohout It than lie does will be the basis for surprise No. 2." His unconscious belief hud been that the entire city of New York attended the theatres en masse every night in the week. If he only kuew what bliss lie could bring to the heart of the bellboy by giving blm the pike of the peanut gallery for th.. llrst time lu six months where would charity cease? The Queer Effect. Having now a place where he may eat and sleep, the lsltor again lews the world In a normal light und strolls out with confidence unalloyed. At llr.-t glance there Is noiuetblug qucier about tbe atmosphere of the hurrylDg streets which he does not quite understand. un-derstand. Oue provincial who has had the feeling often enough to analyze it explains that it Ls (he lack of people stopping to greet each other, to cluster on street corners and In front of saloons, aa they do at home. With plenty of lime (o find his way Mr. Provincial will get along swimmingly, especially if he discovers early in the game that because Broadway ls east of Sixth avenue In some placea It does not follow that it occupies the same relative posltlou all the way up town The visitor will probably make good his resolve re-solve to "see a show," and alus, alack! ten to one it will not be 'The Old Homestead." but a musical comedy of the sprlgbtlh st kind. At the theatre be will discover with surprise bow exceedingly simple it is to get to hL s-eat and will ah noto, with e-jnie disappointment, that tho house L uo Lifter, than the opera iKu at honro. He had explorers regarded America in general, simply as a place to go out and ge t gold, to spend, on return, In the mother country. Provincials, on the other hand (and as this ls written by oue of them no offence ls meant In the title), regard New Y'ork as a place In which to spend money; to look open eyed at Vanity Fair from a eeut In the gallery, or as one In which they may wear stylish clothes without with-out attracting undue attention. This grand division of iopulatlon Into New Yorkers and others U a condition which has a parallel in no other country in tbe world, except perhaps in France, where they bare Parisians and others. In England the prevalence of great country estates und the relics of the feudal system, the abundance of country families fam-ilies w hich were reigning before London was thought of, preclude any possibility of such a condition; while In the other countries historical conditions aud the limited area of tbe whole territory have made It los-slble los-slble for the leaven of the gTeat city to permeate the whole nation much more than it has ever done in the few years and the va.st area of the United States, j What a Slight It would Im If some day there should sound on Manhattan a ort of trumpet of Judgment luy blown, one might fancy, by the Lady of Liberty out in the harl.r commanding the sheep and goats to M-pnraic, the New Y'orWcrs on one side of the line and the outsiders on the other! What, for lustauce, wmiid le the proportion of numbers If such a trumpet should sound on a Saturday night during the theatre season? And what surprises such a call iiuld unfold! The New Yorker would hod that the grotesque haractcr at w hom H h;id been laughing as a typical rut?" would take his place I.eMdo him. having been born in tho shadow of the elevated and haTlng never j ccii vxeat of tho Uudsvu. The provincial would tlnd was almost a tight when a detachment of the Second Connecticut iufantry, acting us a provost guard, ar-rcste-d a man from the Twenty-second New Y'ork w ho was trylug to pass the lines without a pa.v The same feeling comes to the provincial In civilian life, felt most acutely on every visit to New Y'ork. For the odd part of it Ls that every visitor has a guilty feeling that the grim hostility of the great city Is directed eutlrely agnlust bis tilth) self. In all the bu-slle aud gayety of the place he feels as If he were the one outsider, us If the whole city might rise at any moment and demand, with a glare, bow he had dun-d to intrude-. , Take the case of a sample man from a city weD outside of New York, fur enough away so that his business does not make blm famlllur with the place and yet not so fur that a trip to New Y'ork assumes tbe asiect of a two days' Journey. lie arrives la uit city probably-on Saturday aite-moon for u week' shouting Jehu, who charges him two or three tltnea the legitimate fare, which he pays as a willing penalty pen-alty for his own Ignorance. lie arrives at the hotel a beaten man and takes any room offered blm by the clerk, who appears to be the best drescd and most sophisticated young man w hom he has ever seen. Ile-avcDs. If he could only know (hat this same clerk carnc from his owu State and had been In New York les than n year! But he never will know. That is, the clerk will never tell him. At this most hopeless minute of his life our visitor. If he Is experienced in landing In strange places In the depressing hour of twilight, will do a very sensible thing. He will go to bis room, shave, bathe and make a complete change. If the symptoms continue he should order a cup of coffee and read a few short stories from tho magazine which he has bought on tho train. Lf ha Is ft driakifl man he may follow Ida ia-. |