The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-12-30
The Bohemian War Upon tho Business
Elen of New York.

Tho Bohemian War Upon tho Business
Sien of New York.
This Bohemian war is still insoIently carried
on. Indeed, the Bohemians now exhibit
greater activity than ever, for they have at
length pushed the war into province with
which they are all more or less familiar. They
have invaded the barrooms Of the city. After
skirmishing a while in certain vile localities
where they felt most at home, and attacking,
ungratefully enough. what has long been their
meat, drink and raiment, but is now stigma
tized by them as the benzine of Bayard street,
the fusil oil Of the Fourth ward and the
double distilled kerosene and creosote Of
Roosevelt and Water streets, they have sud-
denly changed their base. They have grown
so bold as to venture upon Broadway and to
intrude themselves on the society of the gentle
men who frequent the most fashionable restau-
rants and lunch rooms along that gay thorough
fare. Concentrating their ragged regiments
upon "a well known restaurant at the corner
of Broadway and Chambers street." they
have advanced with wild warwhoop and a
grand flourish of penny trumpets, and waded
up to the lips in the brandy, gin, Jamaica rum
and Bourbon whiskey of that establishment.
They don't pretend to appreciate its wines.
AS is usual on such raids as this, when
they can swallow no more themselves they
offer a petit oerreto their s'chemst" and invite
the Board of Health to drink with them. With
a wholesome fear-quickened, doubtless, by
recent warnings-of being prosecuted for libel,
they refrain from announcing the name of the
proprietor of this ''well known barroom, 4"
although they allude to it as being ''almost
| historical, and at oil events universally known
| in this city and throughout the country" We
| may add that the name of Delmonico has been
honorably known here for more than quarter
of century, and that it belongs to family
entitled to the credit of having founded and
Of conducting on munifcent scale no less
| than four great restaurants in New York, which
are unsurpassed by the finest Maisons Dorees of
any city in the world.
| If the bibnlous Bohemians are not foored in
the barrooms which they have chosen as the
if they are not utterly put to rout, horse, foot
and dragons, on their new field of battle by
some gallant General Fritz, according to the
successful tactics which the favorite Of the
Grande Duchesse de Gerolstein employed in
his famous campaign against ''the enemy
what shall hinder them from extending their
predatory excursions into every department
of industry and trade in New York I?
They may at last be reduced to fall
back upon themselves and to expose
each other, and surely they cannot boast
''there are tricks in all trades but our
own Meanwhile they are daily slandering
their betters, who are engaged in creating and
distributing the wealth OF this metropolis.
The ISLANDERS by which they have lately scan
dalzed all honest citizens have been published
in journals which appear to be run by an ire
sponsbe set OF hungry and thirsty Bohcmians
most Of whom are said to be too young to
wear the beard that used to be their prede-
cessors' only badge of manliness. The nomi-
nal proprietors OF these journals are rarely
visible at their Offices. They may have good
reasons for hiding themselves, like the Grand
Llama, from the eyes Of the public; but il they
are neither myths nor mere men of straw they
cannot hope to escape the legal consequences
OF the libels Of which their subordinates are
guilty If the mischievous fellows whom they
hire to do this dirty work are not checked in
time they will soon feel encouraged to levy
blackmail upon our merchants and traders
our manufacturers and mechanics of all classes.
They already threaten to nfest and to infect
the whole town. There is danger that they
| will prove to be a nuisance more intolerable
than the frogs, or the lice, or the griev-
ous swarm of flies, or the very gIevous muir
rain. or the boils, or the hail, or the fire
mingled with the hail, or the locusts, or the
darkness, or all the plaques together, inflicted
upon ancient Egypt. Let the nuisance be
/ ahated