Show SIGNS BOWL PLY WHAT ONE MAY SEE ON NEW YORKS FAMOUS thoroughfare tile biot feature of a street that hile K a deput llon flon an avenue wherein are round people of all nationalities to those students of human nature who aro are quick to seethe see the weak bide side of every character save their own a trip up tho the bowery and park row is always fruitful of good results there are so many sights sounds and scones scenes novel and interesting in the stirring comedy drama struggle glo for bread that tho the student cannot help beelin fe feeling elin amused and interested then too the fact that nearly every one he be meets is poorer than himself imparts the zest ot of complacency to his pilgrimage 0 and ho he steps amo among the hungry and wretched and the hap happy py and careless keeps his hand on his hia pocketbook and his eyes on the shifting ting 0 panorama of life and makes notes the signs are the first things that take tho the wanderers eyo eye ile ho notes A regular dinner for thirteen cents and two genuine imported havanas for five cents with inter est cst no ile feels that his barber charges chang him too much when lie ho sees that he can receive tonsorial tou attention hero here tor for five cents with the added luxury of bay rum for ten cents and that a clean towel is guaranteed with every shave abarge A large and gaudy cartoon extolling 0 the merits of the flor flar do de maggie clino cline ci cigar ar attracts his attention A small footnote says that it is changed every day and that while tho the merits of tho the cigar will be dwelt lovingly upon yet the tha cartoons will also deal with timely topics A clothing store near by has a big black signboard stating that this is the headquarters of the society for encouraging cou raging the wearing of clean shirts whereof the proprietor is president iio cannot but feel that the society is at once beneficial salutary and situated in its proper field park row the notice over a dingy doorway that black eyes will be made to look natural for ten cents causes him some vague bagu 0 apprehension as it is a silent witness that he is in the land of fisticuffs and assault and battery but contemplation of the chalk written t words that a delmonico lunch goes with every glass of beer gives rise to more kindly feelings and ho he soon forgets his fears A red nosed man rapping with a rattan at a large and st startling artlin 1 representation tio of the wonderful monstrosity humbeto Jum beto the elephant boy half elephant half human now kow to do be seen alive inside holds him awhile but he feels sure it is a fake and drifts on to the auction sale A sharp eyed person in his shirt sleeves is extolling the merits of a solid gold full jeweled stem winding american movement watch cased chased turned and beveled going at the ridiculously low price of four dollars cappers are urging victims to buy pullers bullers in are bawling the auction to all who pass and the hurdy gurdy behind the dime museum screen tries vainly to drown their cries by its jerky rendering of comrades comrades ever since we w were ere boys while the man at the door still raps the counterfeit visage of the elephant boy and cries that the admission is but a dime the crowd thickens evening comes on the oysters and clams one cent man li lights ats his torch bloused and pigtailed Z heading for chinatown italians with pushcarts push carts turning toward the bend greeks bound for james street bleg negroes roes for south fifth avenue germans for avenue A hebrews for eldridge street all homeward bound work worn and weary hurry past beefsteak johns is crowded the fifteen cent lod lodging gitig houses have each their score of loungers at their dingy portals it is ni night T ht now the shooting 0 galleries light t up and the pin fingl 1 ping fingl 11 of the 22 caliber bullets riu ring down against the sheet iron targets men lurk k in alleyna alley wa s and slink out to demand alms A crowd of roisterers roister ers come down arm in in arm they are college b boys down on the bowery for fun full A one eyed man has song 0 sheets tor for sale he cries his wares and sells several coples copies to the youths the variety theaters open their doors and the bowery amusement seeker surges in to see the it irish ish american four and mcgiffin and mcguffin the kin king pins of song and dance the german and hebrew theaters are open aioo too and have their crowds also the elite lady orchestra has tuned up in tho the concert halls and tho the bowery is at its best the bell at the family resort is clanging for the first performance and tho the ticket seller opens lus ids little window and gets his change 0 ready the clothing store barkers redouble bla their efforts to catch trade by manual force and the bowery roars with sounds of life and trade saloons are doing a 1 rushing business now sailors lon longshoremen sh mechanics all out for drink and recreation make up the crowd A new venture the 1 two and a ba half if cent a cue poolroom has done such bucl I 1 good business that rivals have sprung up on every side thebe places are all crowded the frequenters are for the most part evil looking low youths of eighteen or twenty years of age they crowd the tables and dow bow cry argot makes their conversation almost unintelligible to the alio uninitiated the notice that no profane or vulgar language is allowed seems seema sarcastic it is as funny in such a place as bow cry prices for broadway goods is in the cheap john clothing cloteil ag store and the student of human nature notes it in liis bis memory inemer y along with the sign I 1 it I 1 debt I 1 rust ifal ali TULA kol i in 13 RU hu no ho tu T u 0 lin bil all AU auernik ja 0 lal ni new yol soi atila world |