The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1867-01-28
CITY INTELLIGENCE.
IFor Additional Local Items see Third Page.l


s-COUNTRY PAPERS PLEASE COPY.-rhe most
Important hours OF some mems existences are
those that drag their slow length along" from
tel, in the morning until noon and in some
aristocratic localities still later, until the hour
OF one, enjoying a warmth OF atmosphere in
winter, and a CORES ponding refreshing GOODNESS
in summer, that would give an appetite to
Sybarite How else could they llveY Enter
any hotel, however aristocraiC, ike the courtly
Continental or the Grard, or mtseraby low,
like the ''rummeries,n par ebceHence located
everywhere in our midst, aud gaze upon the
heterogeneous assembly that meets your eye.
What study of character! What an exhibit
tion of human nature Look at the long ranges
OF marble-tOp tables, In the lengthy saloon,
covered with the morning ne wspaOers and you
will zee. beside them score or more of anx-
lous eXpCCtants, awaiting the ascent, or descent,
of the daily lunch dishes, perhaps their only
meal in the twenty-tour hours, with as much
anxiety as the lsIaeliles OF old watcned for the
fall of mama, or hurgered after flesh, in their
forty-years' wandering in the Wilderness We
dismiss such hotels as the Continental or GiraTd
without remark, aud proceed to the contempla-
ton OF the ordinary eating-house, or simple
bar-rOom, encountered at almost every corner
and IN every block Who are they?
The merchant, who runs in for his mornings
glass Of ale, or "att-and-a1," about eleven; the
clerk, fresh from his account-book; the nows-
paper reporter and news yender cheek by jowl;
sometimes the editor IN prOprtd persona; the
more modest mechanic OF the ne1ghborhood,
who, because he spends his daily two or three
STAMPS and quietly retres to his shop-board
VI,
right to such Hospitality than the regular
Lunch Pirate who sails IRON house to house,
and crib to "Crb," satiated but never ''satis'
fed" always eating for day ahead, and who
freezes" on every one whose trankness of coun-
tenaDce indicates likelihood OF victimizatiOn.
"A lovely day --bracing weather; neither too
hot nor too cold. 1t has been some time since
1 saw you last as the victim is putting down
his plate. THANK you, yes; will was
about asking you! Alittle whisky, boy !" taking
in bar.room Yernacular "a four-hnger snooger."
Good liquor, nice house this; clever fellow the
landlord! All, how are you, Brown? MIR. =,
| have forgotten your name - Smith - Mr.
Smith Mr.. Brown. Just lmbibing. Pray JOIN
us?" quoth Smith, when they bow, leave him,
and return to the lunch taOle, eat an additional
dish "tO take away the SMELL" and retire, with
the papers they had been peruslng, in their
pockets, under the eve of the bost who knows
it is worse than useless to waste word. Many
of these visitors however, are of another class;
decayed gentlemen, who, reduced in clrcum.
starCes, visit these places with the hope OF
meeting some old familiar who had known them
IN their better days, or who might perhaps, not
yet be aware of the change in their cIrcum-
stances, for scrupulOusly clean and well brushed
are they, There is some sympathy tor such
meR, but none for the regular lunch feeders,
who are as practi sed in the pursuit OF their
peculiar profession the shell pickpOCket,
who, not unfrequeLtly, "fourishes" in this
mixed society.
Lunches we're originally instituted in places
of public entertainment as sort otslight snack
10 stay the stomach, in the interregnum be
tween an early breakfast and late dinner. VI
course, those who breaktasted at seven or eight
O'Clock, and dIned at the old-Iashioned hour OF
twelve or one, never Leeded anything of the
sort. 1t was the nine o'clock breakfast man.
or no breakfast man at all, that needed this
sOlaCe, dining as he did at tour or nVe O'CLOCK
in the afternoon. But nowadays lunches are
extensive affairs, and are, made a. means by
which ian enterprisug landlord" seeks to
attract custom to his saloon or shanty reaping
his reward in the addit oual amount of biblbles
consumed at his bar. A lunch Is cheap means
of sustaining a semiluXurous life. with ten
or fifteen cents in his pocket, a man can
hardly starve. Generally, several courses of
dishes constitute thus mornings meal, more or
less expensive in character from the locality.
Green turtle, down TO pea or bean soup. or
plate of pepper pot sauerkraut, Goldfish and
potatoes Ton FridaYs), or PLAN, unpretending
silver aud onions' with bread, mustard. and
other condiments Gd lbitun1. A glass OF lager
at five cents or of whisky at ten, closes the
account A visit to another establishment is
productive of like results, and perhaps even
vet third, with the constant contingency OF
''What will you have to drink :" or what VIII
YOU take to drink ?n from some Smith or Brown
or Jones who have FALLEN upon fiat. Who
shall say that free lunches are not valuable
institution, the Ian Ilord a good Samaritan in
disguise, and the Lunch Pirate useful member
of society?
Not the least distinguished and most distin-
gushable of the visitors on the occasion of these
daily reunions, are occasional members OF our
very useful and ornamental police, VINO 90 where
there is q possibility OF their being OF the
sliehteet service-for sometimes such contin-
gency may occur-and a lunch is just the place
to tnd the nnduudis s1yet OF society. Very
cosy and comfortable looks the gentleman.
No one imagines he come to make "a descent =
not he-but he is the conservator of public
peace and public morals, aud his services are
most gratefully appreciated both by the host
ana generously aCkno Vledged surroundings
Very little he cares for the lunch, per Sc, his
social value is too highly appreciated; but hC
is everybodys friend; for who knows but wha
bn no oustOmerY
thing TO have friend at court,
The ATTACK ON THE SLEIGHTNe PARTY
IN THE TWENTY SEVENTH WARD.-The attack ol
Messrs. A. w. Morton and H. NJ. Day, wht
driving in a sleigh down the Darby road, ol
Thursday evening last as reported in the papers
Was calculated to reflect discredit on these cen
tlemen, inasmuch as they we're stated to hay
stopped on their way out at Rey's tavern
which has the reputation of being none to-
resnnntahln. The slelgh was mol stOpped at thi