Show i I r 1 e r r rr r h I II w I 1 I I 1 1 Ii r r t q I r rI I I L WHY TH THE E LA A ALOOFNESS LaO f NE S 5 Of NEW Y 0 R K V 1 LI f fI rr I y I Observant Provincial al Speaking eaf rn for or Millions Million of ot r Others hers Tells Te How They Regard the Metropolis r t A How w the Metropolis Metro Views V Yap a Who After All AllI Has a Big r Advantage I F y t t IS 4 t r rr rt r ht r t ff Mrs Josiah a ar r Oot ht 1010 br by tow How Tori Yort l Oo co All rights rescued rt OR the purposes of many persons a proper map of ot the United States Stales would show a 0 large black FOR dot ot on tho time Atlantic const coast labelled la New NewYork NewYork York and for the rest a n hugo huso hu o blank space marked Great American Desert Geographical maps topographical maps and many other kinds of graphical maps Illustrate mountains rivers watersheds towns tons clUes and nn other features of Interest to scientists With each State displayed In red re green or some other fancy color but a n map would show the thc Island of Manhattan In n a fi deep deell crimson fading off ot Into pink and faint rose to include t te everything e as ns far as Now New cw Rochelle and the near half of Long Lon Island while the remainder of the United States would wear simply some preferably a IL dull gray or a colorless khaki New Yorkers not meaning a few brave adventurous adventurous nd cn spirits but the average man as you would reach out and touch him on the streets regard the tho thorest rest of the United States much as ns the early Spanish 7 r 4 Little Milwaukee Old Is la Good Enough for far Me Mo explorers regarded America in ill general simply as a n place to go out and get set gold to lo spend on return In the mother country countr Prot Provincials on the other hand han and an as ns this Is s written by h one of them no offence orren e Is 18 meant In n the title regard New ew York UK as a place In which to spend monor mono to look open oyed at Vanity hair Fair from a seat In the gallery h clothes with without without without or QI ai a as one In which they maj may wear swear stylish out attracting undue attention This rIlls grand division of population into New Yorkers and an others Is a n condition which has In a parallel In no other othel country in the world except perhaps In France Francc where they the have Parisians and others In England the tho prevalence of or great country estates nod ami ant the relics relict of the feudal fou nl system R st m the th abundance of country fam families nm Illes which were reigning before London ondon f was wa as thought of preclude any possibility of ot such a condition while In III the other countries historical conditions and und the limited area of or time the whole territory have hoo made mode It ft possible pos sible for tor the tho leaven of oJ the great grent city to permeate the whole nation much more mort than HJ n it has over done dOllo in thee the IJ e of the United Slates States few years and nn the vast area What a n sight It IL would be ue If It some somo day ny there thoro should sound on Manhattan a n sort ort of trumpet of Judgment Day blown one might fancy by b the Lady Jady of Liberty out In the lit harbor commanding lug the sheep and und goats goate lo to separate the New ew Yorkers on one ono side of or the line and mad the thu outsiders outsider on omi the other What for tor Instance would bo W the till proportion of or numbers if Ie such a trumpet should tl sound SOlln on ou a Saturday night nl lIt during the theatre I season And what whit surprises such n a call would unfold The New Yorker would 1 find clod fiu that the grotesque ut whom hom he ho hud had been laughing as a II typical r rubo lu a would take his place beside him having IJ been he en porn ora In the tho shadow of or the elevated and having never r cat of the tIle Hudson The Tho provincial would und tind i rt 3 III that tho tuna elegant lady whom he be had been admiring in tho the restaurant as ns one of or the tho fabled Four Hun Hundred Hundred Hundred dred was none nono other than limn Mrs rs Josiah Som so from Kenosha And tho the way In which they eye each ench other th o and gouts goats For no patriotic Hungarian over ocr regarded with deeper suspicion a 0 Philistine German Austrian than docs does the average flem o New Yorker regard tho the man or woman from outside the time pale New Nc York in War WarIn In the thc summer of 1009 1000 the United States govern government government ment threw some 1000 young men of various States into two heterogeneous masses for the tho attack and defence de defence defence fence of Boston On the surface they were the citizen soldiery of or four States and the tho District Dl of Columbia all nil armed equipped directed and trained exactly alike under the tho unifying process proc s of or the modern or d militia m 1 At heart they were young youns men mea of or every class from banker to hostler ouch each representative tive of o the State from which he lie came For eight days these young men on both sides of the mimic war marched fought lived lI and as ns the tho issue Is proved proc suffered together And to a n close observer there evolved one of tho the most Interesting points on this very ery question ques which Is being be In discussed of a 0 day the men of New Nei Jersey Jerney Connecticut and the tho District of or Columbia C were fraternizing to together together gether ether like brothers Tho The minute peace was W S declared they were over the tho lino exchanging tobacco and can canteen canteen canteen teen drinks with the enemy from Massachusetts And alone in all this feasting and rejoicing stood tho the camps cumps of the New York city battalions as ns closely marked as if Ir they were hostile In dignified aloofness from all nil the time others Lean Lenn gaunt Yankees from Con Connecticut Connecticut Connecticut Jovial troopers from rom New Jersey and even een grinning negroes from the Ibe District of or Columbia were hailing each ench other In the streets of or Hanover Four Corners like brothers In fu arms passing In anti and out nut of one camps exchanging tokens of the cam campaign campaign while behind the picket lines of the tho New York Yorkers Yorkers ers the city tits soldiers stared and glared in strange aloofness and nud no Yank or bean eater ever eer unbidden crossed the line lineAn lineAn lineAn An officer of or those days nys says that In the weeks campaign he made mn e firm friends with men from every eer other State but not once did tIld he speak to a New Yorker except on a n single occasion when he had busi bust business business bustness ness at the camp of a New York battery and asked his way wn to be met by b exactly that same suspicious stare that the time provincial gets when he asks his way In tho the streets of New York Tho The New York regiments were perfect models of neatness and discipline their officers officer were the best est looking In the streets of or the towns to ns but at nt admiration all Intercourse rc stopped On second se ond day ay out there the there w k 1 i N j 1 t 4 t k r 4 r 11 t I I 1 1 d a n light lIht when Wb ll a detachment of the Second Connecticut Infantry acting as a n provost guard nr ar arrested rested a n man from the New York York who was trying to pass the lines lIlies without a 0 puss pass The same ome feeling comes to the provincial In civilian life felt most acutely on every eve visit to New York For Isar the odd part of It Is that every visitor has a n guilty feeling that the lie grim hostility of the great city IK lR directed entirely against t his Ills little self In all nil tho the bustle hu llo and gayety of tho the place he feels fee hI ass as If he were wore the one OIW outsider as us If tr the whole city elt might ml ht rise nt at any moment und and demand with a n glare how he had hind dared to Intrude e Take the case cose of a 1 sample I man manfrom from a city well outside of or New York far tar enough away so that his business does oes not make him him familiar with tho the place tad and yet ret not so tar far that n a trip to Now York assumes the tho aspect of ot u two tuo days dU I Journey Ho no arrives in the tho city probably on Saturday afternoon for a weeks j j 0 y end is n a great r nt trip for tho the provincial and andi on that very ver day when the Now Ness Yorkers urn are pouring out the pro provincials ore are pouring In III Let iet T t the visitor be he a 11 tuna man of ot otwell well to do circumstances n II marl man of or culture and education thou lion possibly familiar fa with wit h Paris and the cities ot Europe but yet jet et a stranger In his own city of or New NewYork York Mork Olk Mr Provincials Experiences Ho lie arrives with a n recommendation lation of or a n hotel given him by br some friend who has h s added exact e dl di directions for getting there has possibly drawn ra a n little lithe map on time the buck of or an on envelope At the very cry er station the fear of tho the city begins behl to creep over him Other passengers are aro tearing In a n great rent rush for the gates every one seems to know Just whore where to go except himself and finally in the blankness of o de despair despair he be throws tho map to the winds and drops Into the clutches of or the tho nearest cabman the great groat reat maze of tho the city which had bad seemed scorned BO so simple on the map becoming a 1 hopeless 5 Jungle to him Of course be lie neglects to go to tho the station cab cob office and hires a ti I I 1 s I or r rn b V p wl 1 st tA t fr I shouting Jehu who charges him two or three the legitimate fare which he ll s as ng a 11 willing whiting will Ins pen imell penalty 11 alty for his bIB own Ignorance lie air arr ves at ot the tho hotel n a beaten benton man ninn and takes tokes any nn room offered him by uy the llIe clerk cleric who appears al to tobo tobe 0 bo be the best dressed and nud most young mean man whom wham he lie hns has ever eer Seen scon Heavens if ho he could only uly know that this same Game clerk came from t om his bis own o n Stale trod and had been In New York less than a year yearl But he never will know Inow Tint That Is the time clerk will never tell teU him Wm himAt himAt At this moat niost hopeless minute of his Ids life our If he be is experienced In landing In strange arrange places In the depressing hour ur of oC twilight ht will twill do a H very A Yer cry sensible thing Ho tic will go bO to his bis room sheave shave bathe and make a complete completo change e If IC the thc symptoms S continue ho he should order a 0 cup of coffee and rend read ren a few fow short stories from the magazine which he has hns bought on the tho train If hols n a drinking man ho may follow hla in fin r 3 4 I 1 but the best authorities do not advise this It lit litsa savors sa om too much of ot despair At t dinner the world will become rosy once more for breathes there a n man with soul GO so 0 dead dond c The Tho first thing to strike tho limo visitor will bo be the music In km time the dining room and under Its subtle strains he lie will realize without fall that ho was made mn o for city lifo find and will wonder won dol why wh he lie dots does not como come to New ew York every week or two The mon men and women In evening clothes and nn the marvellous beauty of ot some of the red reel checks cheeks will also strike Mrle him and he will wonder what Is going on that night The Tho only flaw fin w In his cup of or bliss will be bethe bethe the time gnawing perplexity as fiS to whether he ought to tip the waiter before or after he Is served He lie has fans heard so SI much about the evils e lIs of tho time tipping system that It will be ue n a distinct surprise when the lend hen waiter falls to grab him by the throat as ns ho leaves the room and nn a dollar bill Being a well meaning provincial he lie will probably hive gho the waiter the largest dip he has received that evening and will be e quite surprised at lit atthe the time creatures open gratitude f t P tX L LWell X Well Vell fed and smoking a n cigar almost as liS good ad nd that lint supplied him by b his honest homiest little cigar dealer at nl home howe he lie will stroll into the foyer with tho the admirable Intention of seeing u a show He lie tummy mur even een ask ash some minor like a rl bellboy or a 0 chambermaid what Is In him town that night III ht The fact that tho mho e knows knos less about It than thun he ho docs does will be tho lie basis fur for surprise No 2 His Ills unconscious belief belle had boon been that the tho city of New Now York attended the theatres en masse every elry night In the week weel If It he only knew what bliss he could bring to trio the heart of or the bellboy by giving him the price of the tho peanut gallery for Cor tha th first time lu In six months where would charity cease cense The Queer Effect Having now u a place where bo lie may mH cat cut and amid sleep the Ole visitor again views the world In a n normal light and und strolls out with confidence unalloyed At Al tar t glance there Is something queer about the atmosphere of the hurrying hur lug streets which be he does not quite un ua One provincial w who ho bus bas had hod tho the fooling feeling often enough to analyze It Jt explains that It Is 18 the lack of o people stopping slopping to greet reet each other r to cluster on street corners and in front of saloons as ns they do at home i With plenty of ot time lime to find lInd his way WilY Mr fr Provincial will get along swimmingly especially if he lie discovers early in the gamo garno that lint because becaMe Broadway is cast east of Sixth avenue in some sowe places it docs does not follow tollow that It tt occupies the sums same relative position p all nil the time way up uptown uptown uptown town The bo visitor will probably make good hOod his re rl resolve resolve solve to see a 0 show and amI alack ten to one ODe It will not be The Old Homestead but a n musical comedy of the sprightliest kind klud i At the theatre he be will discover with su surprise prise how exceedingly simple it ft Is IB to get gat to his scat seat and will also noto note with some somo disappointment that tho the house la Is no larger than thun the opera house nt llo bad 1 a preconceived pre notion that all nl New York theatre were built on time the principle of the Hippodrome nn I even een that sorrowful to relate e Is not as ng big as State armory In our town Some metropolitan man manager manager ager should build u a house with an nn orchestra exactly one oue mile long as lJ a special upholder of or provincial Ideals l eals The metropolitan feeling will come back however once the visitor gets geL Into the lighted lI streets of an nn adventurous o disposition he will not return t this this to his own hotel but will seep seek s l some sonic good cafe Here litre the time eager enger spring of or the tho waiters to show him a table will restore his feeling of and like ns as not he will settle feUle back tying saying st ln to himself Ah All Its good to he be In little old New Now again He ne will then watch the Incoming customers with eager eyes painting the th most glorious romances about them Those women gorgeous with Jewels regal In their low cut gowns gOWD who rho can cnn they be he wonders won irn He lie envies time the careless grace with which their escorts chat with them Their talk must be the time brilliant repartee that one reads rends In the novels with snatches l r I I y w o z y I y t 1 a 7 I I 5 j p D And Aid n Having Never Been Bce West Wes o 01 I H a I c I about t horses and hounds and country houses honses That stout woman who chaperons Is undoubtedly ly one of the time famous hostesses of the metropolis Lucky Luchy is he ho that he 1 I is not nol near enough to hear henr what she is actually a saying n Well I told George Goore that If we e camo came to New York Tori It would be the last laRt time Ume Little old Milwaukee la is lagood 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