Show 0 by L L STEVENSON thousands of new yorkers daily eat one or more meals standing up scattered about the city especially midtown and downtown are hun deeds of places where there are no chairs or stools just a counter around which the hungry line up luncheon brings the heaviest busi ness nes s there is also a heavy break fast trade the emphasis on that meal being in midtown at various subway stations as well as along the streets are little eateries where breakfast costs a dime orange juice or some other fruit drink a couple of doughnuts or toast and coff coffee ee there are also 10 cent luncheons they consisted of a frankfurter or hamburger and coffee then too there are the various soda fountains their trade however is largely feminine and they usually have stools though there are standing pa arons 41 in the financial sector are some basement places which resemble cafeterias that is patrons go up to a serving counter with trays ex capt for the fact that there are no tables or chairs along the walls ran narrow ledges also when there are posts they are utilized similarly to those ledges patrons take their food and do their eating the establishment is able to serve more customers because so much more space is available and the customer doesn doean t waste time sitting down and getting up everyone appears to be satisfied but whenever I 1 go into a place of that kind and take a gander at the patrons I 1 think of horses and mangers despite the general hurry of new york there is still unhurried dining the reference is not to those swank places or establishments that feature leisurely service but to small places where food is good and prices are not high many seem more like reading rooms than restaurants as patrons usually have their faces bur led in newspapers noted that even in the wall street district minutes down there usually seem priceless but there are those who take their time about eating even to the ex tent of a cigar after a meal in many neighborhoods especially on the east side the restaurant iq 1 more or less a club with e eating lomg secondary business men forget their cares at the tables while eating and discussing the news of the day or engaging in neighborhood gossip so great is the lack of hurry that in many instances there is plenty of time for an after luncheon game of chess or checkers there is a restaurant where many thick steaks are served at 10 in the morning true anyone who wants a thick steak at that hour can get it almost anywhere provided he can afford such luxury but at this particular establishment steaks out sell other meats patrons are most ly men of the fulton fish market they go to work about at 3 in the morning and at 10 with their day lay just about at an end they re ready for a big meal in an east side czech restaurant where I 1 stopped to try to get some war reactions the proprietor proud ly showed me a picture of a huge marlin which had been caught off montauk after a 45 minute battle by his wife who is in charge of the kitchen and who is such a sincere follower of izaak walton that she spends just about all her free time with rod and reel the marlin is being mounted and soon will be a vail wall decoration thus I 1 lead up to a campaign to increase the number of feminine anglers which recently was inaugurated before the move ment was launched the sponsors held a long and earnest conference on haw to induce the dear sex to take up fishing in a big way the result was that at the moment ex pertle signers are w working to de vise an attractive feminine fishing costume bell syndicate service |