New-York daily tribune. [volume] (New-York [N.Y.]) 1842-1866, 1848-08-19
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Slife XvH....THE B6wERr

ary affected He Is at the entrance Of the greatest
street the Continent the most characteristic, the most
American, the most peculiar with all sorts OF green
things plenty OF high grass $50 to speak, deep water
and heavy timber before him He turn his pen
il any direction withou, bringing down some rare
beat or strange wild fowl At the fret step he has the
Mastodon Chat largest OF all known creatures exhibit
ed in transparency, by Dr. Beach with music in the
balcony extensively patronized and highly approved
Of By crowded audiences along the sidew Seeing
how the Hat stores swarm already, would think
these Boweryites were many headed race-some
thing like the Anthropophsg, with diference-and
wore three hats las certain gentlemen ride three horses
apiece Immortal Charlotte Temple, and that prohi
gate British offcer-this little yellow house under the
tree at the the scene Of all that And no"
we have the North American Hotel, with the ragged
wooden boy atop "a full-length Of the founder As
ne appeared in his early orunes) and about its doors
clustering like bees in Midsummer, the Circus riders
in highly colored craysts who perform al night over
the way and standing about the neshboring tavern
steps infinite variety OF young men, all weldressed
with coats of particular cut shiny hair and pecu-
liar glazed look about the eye. What is the business
or calling of these young men No mortal man has
been able to discover They are not connected with
the Bowery Theater next door, the Amphtheater
over the way nor even with the tsverns at their back
And yet they always standing along these stoops
day after day night after night the supply never gives
out-s,eady the stars, they come out upon
the face of darkness
We begin now to appreciate how miscellaneous a
world the Bowery L. for at every step We have taken
new business a new kind of shop and traffic has dis
closed itself ssddleres stoyeshops pouterers stands
stage Offices, clotbiers grocers, druggists jewelers.
a. No have
counted no less than two hundred and forty distinct
trades carried on in the line of the Bowery What l.
not to be had and seen there will be found nowhere
As general an almost universal rule, business in the
Bowery is done on small scale, with more Of an eye
to comfort than spendor. There are no great plate
glass windows, no gorgeous jewellers shops no over
powering furniture establishments. The only attempts
at magnfcence- and these do not partake of the bril-
fanfare in sundry clothing shops stacked high TO the
very ceiling and hung thick along the shopfronts with
great Bowery overcoats, blazing wastcoats and ever
lasting pants-sll constructed for race Of big
limbed and broad chested giants. Among all the mum
beess stores and warerooms of that street cannot
recoect single undertakers shop coffin warehouse
in its whole length Life is too cheerful and fuhushed
in that street allow of such impertnence II in
efnes. on the contrary to excess of enjoyment and
perpetual raw oysters and stiff smashes. We state
from actual count that there no less than twenty
seven oyster houses and fifty two the Bowery
enough to keep the street at fever heat through the
whole twenty four hours By wise provision of Ma
ture there end to the sights to be seen in this
Bowery thoroughfsre it is perpetual kaleidoscope
from morning till night something rare and strange
constantly starting up 1t to the study Of what passes
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for what they get of education They trouble them
selves very little with gilt edged ANNALS Greek Die
tionaries. or McCulloch on Commerce. They take
things in the lump pound of sugar costs at whole
sale SIX cents Mr. Bowery retas it at eight and makes
a couple of cents profit That he understands. man
presents himself with broken nose low forehead and
sinister cast in the eye Mrs. Bowery knows him to
be villain although she has never made the aoquaint-
ance of Iago) and keeps her grownup daughters out
of the way accordingly In their personal department
the Bowery people are perfectly ndependent-every
man for himself You need MT trouble yourself to put
coat on when you 20 into that street If It is not agree
able no one will cut you for that breach of etiquette
They are as near 70 state Of people in a
great city can be- preserving their original traits pretty
rnuch AS they came from the hand OF Nature. In their
upsophtcated curiosity about sights for example the
last monkey that comes into the street excites vivid
attention as the first Monkeys monkeys in the
Bowery and have respect and consideration bestowed
on them there far beyond any other part of the City
Some of the remoter regions of the extreme Eastern
side alone excepted)
Some have expressed belief that the people OF that
whole section of the City lying OF Broadway are
composed of different material from the settlers about
Fifthavenue and Unionsquare that they an essen
tally distinct and inferior race This Is the doctrine
we believe taught in many of the fashionable scade
mics in the best dancing schools and in both our Col
leciate Institutions One unmstskesble evidence that
they are somewhat degraded caste is, that they pay
their debts much regularly than the high toned
people Of the Western quarter We do not know
whether this distinction in regard to the two sides
of the Town is laid down in the new biographies or
marked in the City maps but we are confident there
are thousands in the Western part of the City grown
up men and women) who could Mt find their way to
the Bowery without guide
Is Human Life, take it altogether happest in Broad
way or The Bowery on the Aristocratc or Democratic
side of New.York In the one it short cskesubstan
tal bu, perhaps little lumpish in the other fancy
teacske with all of csrsway seed and dainty frost
work-with an inclination perhaps, to engender fatu-
lency The looks after the useful-the other, the
ornamental The one is especially careful TO I'LL his
bely-the other to illuminate his back Light goods of
more show than substance, for Broadway wear
heavy. with strong tendency to coarsensss for the
Bowery. The thinks more OF the homely virtues
the other Of the eegsn, accomplishments And yet We
would not take it upon consciences to affirm that
the road Heaven lies strsghter through the Bowery
than Broadwsy-thst the workmsns tin kettle is bet
ter provision for the journey than the hsgree retcule
of the lady OF fashion While in Broad way TO rest
moment there the apparel is notable for its nesness
aud careful arrangement the people OF the BowoTy
have all OF them, appearance as they had got up
of sudden and dressed in hurry-with the excep
ton. now and then OF notsbiity who is known
Bowery dandy. The style of this gentlemans costume
ia startling and extraordinary. Blazing colorssiark-
staring blue for coat brick red for waiscos breeches
with portentous green stripe, hat brushed up to the
highest gloss shiny kettle-he rolls down the
Bowery perfect Meteor before whose slightest scin
tlstion Broadway exquisite would dwindle to undis'
tingushsble nohingness The Broadway dandy dresses
snug and small reducing his person by stays and pull
leys, close fitting coats, pants vests and gloves The
Bowery dandy would impress you with an idea OF
lsTgeness strength he swels his chest makes broad
the brim of his hat he skirts Of his costcuts close his
hair, which conveys notion Of vigor-snd as for