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Show STREETS DESERTED AFTER IBJ'CLOCK Where did tbe Saturday night throng go after the 9 o'clock closing? The business houses wero still open Thima,i,y ild, a ,,Ule late hoPPta. Those who had no shopping to do con- nued on their evening walk to get a little fresh air and exercise. The children wore along In many Instances' and they enjoyed the evening air, together to-gether with the Commercial Travelers Travel-ers convention dec6ratl0ns on the business bus-iness houses from the Union depot on Twenty-fifth street to Twentv-sec' ond street on Washington avenue. It was a quiet, happv throng It has been argued by many that r Sf iCJ,8,nB. or the sal00USJ at 9 o clock would be the means of filling the nool and billiard halls, hut sr t J J I? -- ...wm nans, out Saturday night's nvestlgatlon on' the part of an Evam- Iner representative proved this to be a wrong conclusion. These places rTnnC .nL lD10ro b"-nlly patronized than they have been Saturday nights of the past, and there were about as many playing billiards and pool before hquV 'aS there WerC after' 'lbat 'U'eems that'' the. ppol and billiard halls are patronized largely by young -wenrwira atG-irarjed from entering 'MhJVSi course,, Uie 9 o'clock .fJNajrlmade jo particular difference .in, thonumbecol, young fellows at the tables Saturday nlht. There was no .ow.dylsm aj. the-pcpl rooms and, from a casual observation, no drunkenness could., be discerned. After the nine o'clock hour a great many of the" younger people repaired -to Glenwood park, where dancing was in vogue, and those who had been at work up to that hour went to their homes for th night. Genoral business busi-ness houses closed at 10 and tho even-llog even-llog shoppers left Immediately after , , , i for home. Those sauntering weiit ': home early. All the show houses were well patronized - oo I |
