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Show REVIVAL OF ROAD HOUSES. Rural Taverns Doing a flood lluslnass at I'reaant Time. There aro certain old country tav-ems tav-ems hero and thero, up toward Wst-choster Wst-choster and down beyond Drooklyn and over on Stolon lland-not only those which everybody knows, llko th Hermitage In tho Ilronx nnd (iarrlaon's over by the fort at Wllletts Point, but remote ones which buvs not yet been exploited In play, or books, and which still have a fine old flavor, with faded prints of Dexter and Muud fc). and much earlier favorites In tha barroom. In ome cases, lo be aura, though still situated at a country crossroads, with green fields all about, they aro now used for Tammany headquarters, with pictures of the new candidate for sheriff sher-iff In tho old-fashioned windows but most ot them would have gone out of exletencs entirely after tha death of tha stage coach, If It had not been for the approach of the city, and th aide-whlskorod aide-whlskorod Now Yorkers of a previous generation who drove fust horses, if tho ghosts of these men over drlv hack to lament the good old days together, to-gether, thoy must bo somewhat surprised, sur-prised, possibly disappoints, to And theso rurnl madhouses doing a bettor business than ever In their day. Th bicycle revived tho roadhouso, and though tho bicycle has since been abandoned by those who prefer fash-Ion fash-Ion to exerclso, the plnces that ths wheel disclosed aro not forgotten. They are visited now In automobiles. Scrlbner's. |