The evening Argus. [volume] (Rock Island, Ill.) 1861-1871, 1865-06-19
A Partisan Institution I'm Fifth Avenue,
New York--"PrettJ Waiting Girls" In
PrOfusiOn.
From the New York Express June

From the New York Express, June 3.
The new establishment on Broadway and Fifth
avenue, opened few nights since and called the
"Louvre," has become one of the fashionable
resorts of Upper-tendom. 1t is nightly thronged
with gentlemen, among whom our reporter
noticed judges, lawyers, bankers, merchant &C.,
who seemed greatly delighted. not only with the
rich appointments of the place, but also with the
'pretty waiter girls" of whom some fifty are in
attendance.
1t is said that the "institution" was modelled
after the most approved French plan, and cost
somewhere in the neighborhood OF thirty thous-
and dollars. Ii takes the entire basement of
Mortimer's building, and is arranged into two
tons; ane being devoted TO lager, wine, and fem
mines, while the other holds billiard and domino
tables. The latter place is mainly occupied by
gentlemen, for none of the girls are permitted to
enter its precincts. Still, truth compels the
statement, that the other section is more freely
patronized, and by men who would think il an
outrage upon public decency 10 be seen in a
Broadway concert saloon. The Louvre" is
without music, and does not come within the law
relative to the flash establishments, which emit so
much moral poison to the community.
The bar Is prc!."hly the handsomest in the city
and IL IL :.iaed th its lager by means of an air.
COMPRISING machine. which brings the foaming
beverage from the patent ice-box fifty feet away.
Mirrors oil great size, cooling fountains, and bril-
liant chandeliers, give to the place a SNOWY, yet
not hashlng-look. The wais~and ceilings are
frescoed in the best style of the art, and, in fact,
every thing is complete. Whatever may be
thought OF the character of such places, the sup
erb finish of this must be admitted The pIopri-
etors have placed the police arrangements in the
hands of a well-known officer, who has several
subordnates, and the most perfect order is main
! tanned. A girl who exhibits too much familiarity
is promptly expelled, and fashionable gentlemen
are also restrained from too free indulgence in
mirth. But t is the visitors, after all, who are
| the chief attraction. To see Judge Hand Judge
M, representing the, bench with dozens of law
yers representing the bar, the whole board of
brokers, who come in from their evening OK
change; the Republican Central Committee,
which passed resolution to attend in a body a
heavy delegation from that heavy concern known
as the Union Club to all these different
kinds of people in pretty waiter-girl" saloon
gives good evidence of the progress OF Fifth aven-
ne civilization. The girls fare well in this .soci-
ETY., for one received 800 aud another $50 from
their gallant customers
The proprietors who are known as very veal
! thy business men, have closed the Fifth avenue
entrance in order to please the residents in that
Immediate locality, that the saloon cannot be
viewed at all from the fashionable thoroughfare.
| They express their determination to keep the es-
adjustment in such perfect order that there can
! be no cause for remonstrance.