Southport telegraph. [volume] (Southport, W.T. [i.e. Kenosha, Wis.]) 1840-1850, 1848-08-25
NEW YORK CIrY-EVEkY DAY LIFE.

NEW YORK CIrY-EVEkY DAY LIFE.
Unless by the labors of some industri
Gus and faithful chronicler, neither dcnizens
nor strangers can become well acquainted
with all the places OF popular resort i'll 4
large city.
When the picture is accurately drawn
and the figures discussed in a sprightIy style
we do not know of more interesting themes
that can be scared up than the various
points where the free and easy most do
congregate. A series of sketches of the oys-
ter celars-catng houses-and such like
places of the great city, are now in course
of publication in the New York Tribune.
called New York in Slices" which cannot
fail, we think, to engage the attention of us
tramontane green.horns-thc outside barba-
riaus of knowing ones of the least. -
With this idea, we give below an extract on
the Eating Houses:
Observation-Disclosures getablesnumberlw
nty--lnjinhard sparrowgra
teen! waiter! Waiter Way-ter!'
Coming sir while the rascaI's going as
fast as he can. as that beef killed for my
porter-house steak ordered last week -
Readnminisir, c0mingsir, drekly sif-town
siXpence sir, eighteen pence-at the bart
you please-lobstaucn mmingnumberfour
yes sir" Imagine continuous stream
OF such sounds rs these, about the size of
the Croton river, flowing through the banks
Of Gathering plates and clashing knives and
forks, perlumed with the steam from n man.
moth kitchen roasting, boiling, baking, fry
ing, beneath the hOOr-crowtS Of animals
with pair o(laws apiece, waging al emu
Iation of the one welded with such terrific
effect by Samson-and the Thermometer
which has became ashamed Of itself and
hides away belinda mountain OF hats in The
corner, melting by degrees to boiling heat
and you will have some notion of Il New
York eating house. We once undertook
to count these establishments in the lower
part OF the city, but got surfetcd on the aw-
full smell Of fried grease before we got half
through the first street. and were Obliged to
90 home in cab. We believe, however,
that there can't be less than hundred of
them within half mile of the Exchange.
They are too important "sli:e" of New
York 10 be overlooked, and strangers who
stop curiosity hunting after they have
climbed the big cIock-case at the head of
Wall street, haven't seen half the sights.
A New York eating house at high tide
is scene which would well repay the la
bors of an antiquarian or panoramist, fits
spirit and details could be but half preserved.
Everything is done differently in New York
from any where clse-but in eating the diff
ference is more striking than in any other
branch of human economy. A through
bred dinner-down-town will look at bill
of fare, order his diner bolt it an | himself,
and be engaged in putting Off lot Of goods
upon a green-horn, while you are getting
your napkin fixed over your nankeens I'VE
think the cotton article preferably and de-
clining whether you will take ox-tail or
mock turtle.
A regular down-towner surveys the kltch-
en- with his nose as he comes up stairs selects
his dish by intuition and swallows it by
steam and the electro-galvanic battery. As
10 digesting it, that is none Of his business.
He has paid all liabilities to his stomach,
and hat is all he knows or cares about the
matter. The stomach must manage It's own
affairs-he is not in that "line.''
Not less than thirty thousand persons en-
gagged in mercantile or financial affairs, dine
at eating houses every day. The work
commences punctually at twelve; and from
that hour until three or -four the havoc IS
immense and incessant. Taylor at Buena
Vista was nothing to it. They sweep ev-
erything-not fragment is left. The fate
. oonorallH- haI rl,, anlal
to that which the cook at home above a
Blocker saves for the beggars. (generallr
her own murfee cousins, lust come over. J
II is really wonderful how men Of refined
tastes pampered habits, who at home are as
fastidious as luxury and delicate appetite
can make them, find in their hearts-or
stomachs elther-tO gorge such disgusting
masses of strlngy meat and trepid vegeta-
hes. and to go about their business again un-
der the fond delusiOn that they have dined.
But" custom" they saw. does wonders and
it seems that the fear Of losing it makes our
merchant princes willing TO pu, up with and
put down warm swll in lieu or for soup,
perspiring joints for delicate entrees. corn
meal and molasscs instead of neriugucs
la creme la rose"
We also give an extract from the VII
,er's'' Slice" on Gambling Houses IN New
York, for the benefit Of outside barbara
ans " who have never d" seen the elephant"
IF you wish TO visit a first rate gambling
house you had better make the acquain
lance ofsomegenllemanly blackleg-"sport-
ing man" is the title by which he prefers
to be known IN his PROFESSIONALISM put
ourself under HIS protection IF lhis is