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Show NEW YORK'S BRITISH SECTION There le a Quiet Corner of Manhattan Where the Cockney Dialect Relgne Supreme. New York. Tbe Urltlsh, like the French and the Germans, love their own quarter of the city. Here, south of Fourteenth atreet, la almost the only part of New York where yoo may hear tbe Cockney dialect. A few mil-lions mil-lions of New Yorkers do not auspect that any each quarter exists, bat It must have been familiar to many a prosperious Itrttlsh resident In the days when he was a homesick newcomer new-comer glad to And the "mutual comfort com-fort of the mother tongue" among his ftHlow Hrltoua In the characturleUc resorts re-sorts of the reglou. For a generation or more a saloon of the quarter, not many years ago owned and conducted by a man with a characteristic lowland Scotch name and a taste for the rnder sports that Diitons love, haa been the resort of Iff L jtM,..tnmtammmi , .... i Like a Bit of 014 England. Englishmen, Scotchmen, Welshmen, rarely of Irishmen, and never, except by accident, of anyone speaking a foreign for-eign tongue. Here unmistakable Britons Brit-ons of many types gathered to eat luncheon of cold roast beef off the Joint; drink the Imported English malt liquors, talk horse and scan the ticker for" aewa of the races while yet racing flourished as a tolerated form of commercialized com-mercialized sport In New York, The talk Is of sport rather than polL tlca, of Great Hrltaln rather than America. The place has long been a sort of second home to the homeless newcomer, though it begins to show ilgps of coming change. The British quarter would be an admirable place for an English speaking man to live If he wished to disappear from the ken of the great world uptown. All over the leas active streets of the quarter are sunny, respectable looking bouses of no great else, where lodgings may be had within a stone's throw oft one or another quiet, sbsdy Uule park. Indeed, It Is almoat the only quiet part of lower Manhattan. Bleecker street would be the anchorite's anchor-ite's shopping district, and he would And here and there endurable reataur ants. Indeed, a man with a taste for study and the quiet life might do far worse than to bury himself In the Drltlsh quarter under a vow never to venture outside tbe limits of Its sooth-tug sooth-tug domain. |