Show I NEW YORK BLOODS One of the Phases of Life In flew York FUN AT THE SILVER GRILLE The Scene of Fred Mays Latest Xnca pado The Habits of the Hoodlum liloodi Correspondence Boston Herald The establishment in which the latent esca p1de of Fred May occurred the other evening is one of the celebrated spots in the nether side of New York life Itis a sort of restaurant and it is open all night They call it the Silver Grille and it is one of those establishments peculiar to the metropolis where thieves bunkosteerers loose women and gentlemens sons are to be found if not side by side at least not very far removed from each other There is almost al-most always at least one fight going on there of an evening and sometimes the number not so small as this Indeed it is not an unfrequent occurence that half a dozen rows occur there in a single night It is always considered a matter of course that Somebody will be humued before the eveniniMs nvpr nd nobody pays the slightest attention to any of these little disputes that breakout break-out and are settled from time to time The establishment consists of a long narrow apartment with a small kitchen at the back and a small bar in front Two rows of tables are ranged along the walls and they are generally uncovered excepting by beer bottles and dishes The owners of the establishment ishment are two muscular young men who may not be the grandest caterers in the worla but who when they have undertaken to bounce a man from their place have never yet been known to fail If at first they dont succeed they try try again There are also a number of waiters who were selected more for their athletic I qualities than for their ability to take orders with precision or to serve them with neatness and dispatch The last time I was in there a man sat at one 1 of the tables about halfway down the restaurant eating pigs feet and talking talk-ing in a casual and unconcerned way I with a girl who was on the other side of the table On top of his head was a large wet rag deeply stained with the blood which it was soaking up from his scalp At another table not far distantsat a large muscular woman near whose right hand stood an empty champagne bottle the label of which was also ensanguined en-sanguined to a degree which led to the conclusion that she had at some period not far distant stepped over and welted the gentleman referred to Nobody in the place was at all concerned con-cerned regarding the matter which was apparently of the most commonplace and trivial character A few moments laier there was a discussion down in the back end of the place between l two stalwart young men and it was briefly and suddenly disposed of through the fact that one ofthem got up and hit the other a crack which sent him out of his chair and landed him on the back of his neck on the floor The rumpus made a slight stir in the restaurant lasting last-ing perhaps forty seconds Some of the guests got up to see it and some of them didnt It was too ordinary an affair io attract prolonged attention This is the sort of place into which many aristocratic aris-tocratic young men of Gotham go for the purpose of seeing life It is the fashion among yonng New Yorkers of lo at least have the appearance of dissipation dis-sipation To be looked upon in mild horror by their sisters and cousins is sweet solace to their souls The blooded youth who wishes to be regarded as in the swim nowadays assumes the air of blase weariness talks about the difficulty diffi-culty of getting his hat on in the morning morn-ing without a shoehorn insists on having his brandy and soda before breakfast to pull him together and sits up every night till daylight He goes around to the Silver Grille in a dress suit about 1 oclock in the morning and he either gets licked himself or licks somebody else before he emerges at sunrise sun-rise Mr Fred May is ane of the most constant con-stant habitues of this establishment There was a time when young Mr May cut a pretty broad swath in New York society He comes of a good family which was formerly rich and which has always stood high until it developed this young blood Ic was Fred Mays sister to whom James Gordon Bennett was engaged to be married and it was Fred May with whom the editor of the Herald was said to have fought a duel over the breaking off of the match On the reputation he then got as a man of courage and a defender of his family honor Mr May has industriously traveled pretty much ever since doing more on his own account to injure the family name than Mr Bennett or anybody any-body else could have done in twice the amount of time He is a fellow of fine personal appearance and an athlete who keeps himself constantly in training train-ing He is not usually loud or offensive but he knows his strength and has the instincts of a bally The Mr Miller whom he slapped in the face with his glov the other night in the Silver Grille is the publisher of the weekly comic paper called Life He is an inoffensive young man five or six inches shorter than Mr May and not conspicuous for his development of muscle It is alleged that bespoke previously of Frank May as a blank liar and that May heard of it and took the first opportunity to humiliate him When May questioned him Miller would neither deny nor affirm the truth of the allegation and it waS then that the globe episode occurred The crowd of young men who hang around Fred May because of the cheap notoriety notori-ety of his affair with Bennett appear to be very much delighted with these petty heroics and Mr May himself strutted about for some time like a man who thought he had done avery a-very brave and noble act That Mr this Millrr did not strike backi a credit to 1 his common sense becau e if helind at tacked Mr May he w < uM probably have been whipped which would not I have bpen satisfactory to him In this little affair and in the place where it 1 occurred we bate an illustration of Ot a of the peculiar and not altogether desirable de-sirable phases of New Yozk life |