Weekly national intelligencer. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1841-1869, 1853-03-26
LIFE IN NEW YORK.


Such is our Telegraphic report Of the news
LIFE IN NEW YORK
The New York Times has the following account Of
that portion Of the population who sleep up town and
eat down town.
1t is well known that Of the thousands Of active work
ing people who engaged in various avocations down
town. almost all have their homes far up town. or in the
neghborng cities of Brooklyn Williamsburg Jersey City,
other suburb. This is all very well known but
few stop to ask how oil these people fed The COM
Portable employers who commence business at 8 or 10
o'clock, and go home to dinner at s. constitute but q
small class of the active operatives down town. All these
four five stories Of lofts in Nassau Fulton Ann Gold
john William, Pearl, Water Beaver in short all the
down town streetsal these lofts many industrial
hives, where from score to hundred hands are en-
ployed to say nothing of the shops the ground floor
and the Easements devoted to all kinds Of mercantile and
mechanical operations. Here is great family to feed
and the tin dinner kettles and little provision baskets are
carried by comparatively few the rest dine at the bakers
the Coffee and cake shops the cheap vcuang shops the
moderate price eating Saloons at Demonicos at the
large hotels according to the inclination the state
Of the finances Many oval round little urchin
dimes on four buns sprnkled with dried fruit and glazed
with for which he pays two cents his companion
more extravagant shows taste by diving into a
dirty coffee and cake cellar and devourng greasy
cakes and small cup of Coffee which costs him four
cents fhe in funds he may 40 the whole hog and
have full plate of cakes and regular coffee
for sixpence.
Gomez
sixpenny eating houses, where plate of beef
beef stake mutton chop may according to the bill
of are be had for sxpence with fish fried and boiled and
numerous other Dishes all at sxpenee plate Here ma
ny dinner is made. Meat, vegetables and desert for
the moderate Of 21 cents which price thousands
Of mechanics and others daily dine Next to the six-
penny houses in the rising scale the houses where
one may be served at shilling a plate and an ex-
ira charge for cabbage and such like Injuries One >mav
here kill or deaden his appetite at quarter Of dollar
come the lunch and restaurants where may dine
n ha l1aocno that,e
to any price desirabe and may well wind up the
list with the French eating saloons and the large hotels
where one may dine with friend, if they both observe
toerabe regard for temperance for five dollars All these
different classes Of vctuaers exist classes down town
and all, apparently, do good business There is one
thing certain that out of all these eating shops one may
safely calculate upon accommodating either his appetite
or his purse BY the way, abiding to eating houses re-
minds one OF the movement lately made by the keepers
of the sxpenny houses in the endeavor to raise the price
of their merchandise 1t came about something in this
wise:
Some weeks ago the Sweeneys and Johnsons and Gun
ters and Dunlops and Fishes and Sweets and
other proprietors of cheap eating houses held meeting
and deliberately resolved that in consequence the high
price of provisions they must raise the price of the more
expensive dishes from sixpence to nnepence per plate
They accordingly advertised that and after certain
day penny beefsteaks sxpenny plates of roast beef
mutton, lamb, fish or flesh, roast or boiled fried or
stewed could be had that the of these
savory vands must plank up nnepence plata rise of
fifty per cent. at jump Well the thousands of Gus
toners who had years dned and some Of whom had
breakfasted and supped at these economical establish
ments made outcry against the high tariff on eata
bles but if by unanimous they became philo
sophers of the school of moderate wants so they went
for their daily meals usual but instead two plates at
sxpence each they managed appeae hunger with one
ninepenny cut, seeming determined to dine upon sh
lings worth and not break up quarter There was no
action the part Of the there
had been the part Of the caterers and yet they all
seemed to act upon the principles The loud long
cry of the saucy waiterboys for Suet, b-o-hl" or
/" Pun, h-a-r-dW or "Apple-dumpling, wine sauce"
seldom heard and pies dull Of sale, let them
look tempting The landlords counted their cash
at night estimated their expenses and found that the
turned for want Of being eaten and two days market
ing under the sixpenny rule would for three
days supply This would never do. Instead Of ncrcas-
ed pay and less trouble they found scnny money drawers
and great deal of anxiety ALI seemed share the
fate SO, after comparing accounts the proprie-
tors to the conclusion most of them, any rae)
that they had better return to their nmbe sixpence In
accordance with this notices were posted up informing
customers that sxpence plate would again be the estab
shed price for all kinds Of meats and pastry hereto
fore. An ha," laughed the money takers at the bar
F" here's old times again. Receipts again in
creased customers satisfied landlords well
paid indeed they all along had been; and the vctua
ing trade generally seemed prosper The fact was the
eating house propretors had made mistake. II won't
do to NEEDLE with the bread and butter of the million in
such undisgnsed that attempted by eating
house keepers Men won't be forced even to eat at an
increased EXPENSE they'll fast first But it's all right
now and the waiter boys have their old cries
of Suet, both kinds" Apple dumplin hard sauce
Indian pudding, wine saucei' &C.; and the long tables
crowded as ever from midday till O'Clock P NJ