Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1882-02-25
ROGTES, WALK.


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ROGVES, WALK.
A Night Scene ia EOnaloy, Which Has
No Parallel.
From the London News
About 10 o'clock the Rogues' walk-that
broad ribbon of pavement stretching from Pic
cadiy circus past Criterion theater and restau-
rant to the top of the Haynarket-resembles
more nearly the scene of 4 recent riot than
thorou@htare in the heart Of London. 1t is al
most desoiate as far as way!arers are concerned
gasiight and moonlight fully illuminating the
WhIte sidewalks. dotted just now by the dark
ngureS OF the police. An hour OF an hour and q
nall later more policemen are visible. and pas-
sengers hurry along. the majority of these being
persons who have been to the play or to the
music hall opposite. Or to the otner places of
amusement. The thca!ers in the Hayinarilet in
Panton street. and in Leicester square contrib
ute Immediately, and those i'll the Strand and
Dean street, Drury lane, and Bow street.
indirectly. to swell the number of de-
cent and fairly we'll behaved persons
who debouch into Coventry street and on to the
Rogues' walk. But these passars-by are not
the promenaders who have earned the place its
unenv.able notoriety. They are sober husbands
and fathers, who with wife and family are hop
ing TO catch an omnibus at the circus and have
nothing in common with the reyeiers who make
the Rogues' walk and Lower Regent street
their own for at least two hours past midnight
These only begin to arrive toward the stroke of
IL, and are easily distinguished in several WAYS
10 begin with. they come to an obvious rendeZ-
vous; they do not merely pass through And
they come after the fashion OF March. hike n lion
they arrive with noise and fuss aad CHATTER.
Styiish'y, too stylishly. dressed girls some of
extreme youth, drive up with rattle and
Dang LII "headiong liaasons." The ultra-sty lis!,
ones halt at the glove shop while vet it Is open.
and don new gloves. Their next proceeding is
to light cgars-uot cigarettes, but manly cigars
corresponding III masculine tone with the bow
Ter hats. Itsfile all-Tound collars. and '.broHp
Newmarkets" worn by the majority. Other
! hansoms now drive up fHrousIy. and disrorge
the division of male hu:J:anity attracting or at
tracted 10y the brown NeT markets aforesaid or
other sirens III sealSk:n. Many greetn. are ex-
changed. boisterous and otherwise.
The shops are Closed snGw. except perhaps a
few tobaccohists. afl there is less rasliwht on
the pavement, thieklg crowded with roysterers
who walk here by moonlight, because they have
nowhere else to go. The scene is extraordinary
and Completely unlike anything else in the
world. Girls arn-in-ar!n three abreast Rot one
OF whom can be more Than eighteen Years old at
the utmost. c0Me roii:ekin.s along
Perhaps the most saddening feature of the
Ellasty scene is the youth of the grea. majority
OF the girls. They are not. at least did not see
any, OF the tender age sometimes spoken Of bat
they seem to range from fourteen to about
eighteen or twenty, the Younger greatly prepo,i-
derating. This is the peculiar character of the
crowd 1t is mainly young English women who
crowd the pavement Immediately after the Cr;-
tcrion and other places Of refreshmeat nave
been closed.
The men arc strange sample Of London hui
mainly. First Of all they include among them
the rabble which in former times l:lrked amnnr
the puriiens Of Panton street aud the Haylnai-
ket, the Keepers and dooi-opeilcrs Of late gro-
shops and supper houses the sham to,ts and
betting men, the prize fighters who never
fought anybody fairly, but were passing clever
at beating and stripping druaken fool of his
watch and Chain and ready cash. The person
described en- the police sheet as a .laborer.;'
does not appear on the Rogues' walk, the com
pany there being altogether too rough and
reckless to ave MIN an! chance of showing off
his own prociivities | have remarked that the
genus swell is almost absent. A few speci-
mems push their way through the crowd to get
to the United or Raleigh clubs, and one or two
ancient bucks, gray-headed and very well
dressed. pass to and fro. saluted with remarks
addressed to Daddy ard "Old 'ua:' but
beside the Haymarket residuum already men
toned the crowd is made III of disspa;ci
clerks and young tr;.desmen. the sons. perhaps
OF oppoulent fathers. The young mea are not
shabDily dressed; far from it. On the contrary
some are made up in strict imitation of the
orthodox crutc:l-and-toothlick type. but the
l!nlta.!on is OBVIOUS; Mr. RogueswslSer is "a
descendant. with perhaps some addition Of vice,
OF Albert Smiths Immortal Br.casywicksy. He
is noisy. demOastratiye young blackguard
upon whom the police cannot lay too heavy
hand. Dull witted and half drunken this is
the precise type OF person to listen by the hour
to the "lion comique." the Jcvial Splash. the
Great Macoray, and other drearnesses OF the
music hall.
The widest time is undoubtedly between
half-past IL and half-past l. Toward the latter
hour those who esteem themselves the more
fortunate have gone home; but there is still a
large and noisy residue.
The False but EseSuilz.lx Satsusma.
From Professor E. Morse's Lecture before the Lowell
Institute.
Satsuma ware (Which is not held in any snecsi
estimation in ,!apan) is of four kinds. the gray
painted. the gray inlaid. the brown aud the
light coiored or yellow. If we may believe tae
Japanese themselves. who surely on~ht to
know, yellow clay was not discovered until the
present century. and there is no ancient Sat
suma pottery dealers in this country to the con-
trary notwithstanding. All articles of real Sat-
suma are small. and have no stamp upon them;
plates With heavy ,rinss cups with handles and
saucers, and pitchers, have absolutely no exist
ence es genuine Satsulna ware which! obtained
with greet trouble and expense were made 65
years ago. 90 ~
The large articles sold as ancient satsuma are
from two to four years old ARE principally manu-
tactured In Toxic. and are rubbed with charcoal
dust to give them an appearance Of age have
myself stood beside an agent of an American
firm which deals in ''Satsuma" ware. and heard
him give an order for great quantity of this
ancient pottery. directing the designs and
teiila the maker to put on plenty of decora-
tons. no matter what. These large nieces are
regarded by the JaDanese as abonlinable para
Phrases. and name is applied to them which,
sign fes that they are made solely to be ex-
ported. They are for the most part not Sat
suma at all, but Awata, and the decoration Is
performed by childrcn and cheap worklnen of
al kinds. know that l am breaking MANY
hearts in this audience. and am sorry for it:
bit must speak to save other hearts from being
broken.
OSCAR WILDE THINKS the Atlantic OCEAN
tame" 1t Ia hard to suit such man We
shall have to introduce him to an actress WHO
has seen in the paper statement thai s'i, is
over forty II that doesn't suit his taste for the