Show S 2 17 46 4 6 1 1 I 1 4 I 1 I 1 1 I 1 I 1 7 39 11 z 7 I 1 I 1 m 1 I 1 a 0 11 k Z 5 I 1 I 1 1 I I 1 1 4 y fi 4 j tx sy il yr 0 i 1 1 ja V I 1 verkita YORK SALOON wan t it 11 izz me the barig parig c af pf athi tho T butr xi tr cn C cotlar n where and ad mk me my r ry aa ute h teX toa and senua SWIM SCORE of ronicle V ins ing noisy fellows young and old gathered about a trusty worm eaten bler bier deep down in a mu mustier s tier old cellar eating bread and beefsteaks beef steaks a cotan coffin tor for a sideboard holding foaming afons and tobies of SS as i a ofa great jar Of of tobacco and dozel ot tong lon stemmed church warden pipes aa uther clr walled wal ed in with tuns auns and hogs bog of wine casks aks and ba barrels frels of wandy baudy and whisky flask of rare old cor cordiali cordials cord lala dials and over all the d dust of decades and gleaming skulls peering down 11 from odd places through the dash w which the flickering candle ag light I 1 h t to make more aghas ghastly tl says new york world worl d this ts Is not a picture from degenerate pa parit but an actual scene in old new york it Is one of the monthly meetings of the tha gnomes a drinking club of old ninth warders and held in the of a far famous acus time drinking place at the corner of fourth and charles streets it Is in not a new institution this gathering of subsurface sub surface revelers with their ghoulish ghoulie s h tastes for upward of fifty years year 8 the ahrens father and son have kept a drinking place in ili the little old dutch red brick building and during that time it has been a favorite resort for the politicians and men about town of the old ninth ward and old greenwich village i this place is now kept by henry ahrens all ens handsome harry they call hinl him it consists of a large barroom with a sitting room in the rear the barroom is itself unique it Is a low room with oaken floor I 1 which is kept as clean as s scrubbing f i brushes can make it halt half a dozen handsome rugs cover the floor A quaintly carved old english settee and 1 three or four comfortable rocking chairs and a turkish stool add to the like aspect of the place I 1 two groups of life sized statuary one on a faith hope and charity rity and the other a venus occupy prominent places in the room they are surrounded by potted plants and tropical ever greens the inside room is a museum of curious incongruous yet artistic treasures some of them rarely interesting the chief interest in the place however lies in the old cobwebby cellar or rather in the banquet banau et room of the cellar this is a little room not more than tour fourteen teen feet square walled in with barrels and casks grimy with dust and cobwebs thick black webs wo bs hang from the weather stained rafters and where t the he spiders have tailed failed to string their nets artificial webs have been made of pack thread to which papier mache spiders as big and ugly as homed toads cling and wink their glass bead eyes with looks of devilish ferocity two bats live in the cellar and occasionally sio nally stir up the h dust with their I 1 skinny wings and skulls grin everywhere ono oad thing that is always pointed out to a visitor Is a cask of madeira wine which it is claimed Is forty years old it is so old or rather the cask is that the hoops look as aa it if they were falling off the cask Is never tapped except on the occasion of a marriage or birth inthe in the family and upon the occasion of the five year unions wh which ich the old roosters hold another old cask of liquor is otard dupuy brandy Prandy which has haa been in stock since 1860 1890 this is never to touched hed except tor for medicinal purposes and upon a physicians prescription script lon an enormous coffin in which Is a papier mache skeleton and the worm eaten bier are the principal articles of furniture the coffin Is the sideboard A of the club A similar apartment but little more I 1 than a niche in the walls of barrels and mke casks and hogsheads hog hogs headst holds the anc ancient lent and rusty took cook stove wh where ere the banquets of the midnight revelers are prepared orsi stools there are an no chairs or the guests sit around on be beer er kegs planks the first thing and rough to visitor tor when his to meet th tte e eye of the eyesight ge gets ts used to jo the dirk dark is a huge hug blackboard reaching from ceiling to 11 floor dor upon which is a hideously amm drawn sir skeleton eleton |