Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-11-08
SUPPERs IN THE STREET.

Patrick Murphy, drunk; dis charged.
James Murphy, drunk; discharged.
SUPPERs IN THE STREET.
Wh1t Mem Can Find to Eat Late at Nsyht
on Metropolitan IhssOm9Efases.
eliot corn" is a familiar cry on the
streets of New York. Long ago it became
metropolitan institution. Scattered all
along the pavement of the Bowery and its
neighboring thoroughfares, on any of these
frosty nights, may be found perhaps
dozen or more fat black kettles swung over
an alcoholic fame. Under their covers are
closely laid ears of boiled corn, steaming
hot, whose best advertisement
is the toothsome odor of the steam
floating out upon the air. 1t
attracts many customers. and one vender
often sells 100 or more ears. at profit of
about 50 nightly. They make supper at
five cents an ear not dear to the impecuni-
GUS and by no means despicable to the
afflnent. Yet the familiar hot corn and
the honored raw oyster stand are by no
means the only methods to satisfy the un-
timely cravings of a nemadic stomach for
a trifing consideration. The streets
u.
| if he but knew where to look. There is
the shrimp man. Unknown above Four
teenth street, he is a cherished friend of
thousands below it. His only fixture of
trade is the bushel basket containing his
stock, stood upon an empty box or a COW
ertly overturned ash barrel. Sometimes a
box of salt, another of pepper ard a plate
Of pilot biscuit are laid beside the basket.
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town ferries are tenanted nightly by the
shrimp merchant and in the markets and
along the river fronts he is pre-eminent.
His favorite theory is the harmlessness of
his delicacy in the bulk (he sells dozen
for three cents, and he firmly believes
that mans appetite should be measured
alone by the capacity of his stomach.
Akin to the shrimp vender is. the herring
man; and indeed both offices are ofttimes
united in the one individual. their haunts
being in the same neighborhoods.
| SELLERS OF MUFFINS AND FLAPJACKS
Everybody familiar with the night side
Of New York life knows the muffin man.
He is distinguished for prowling and
mysterious habits, even more than for the
sweetness and lightness of his mullins.
Few patrons of the pastry have ever eaten
twice from the oven of the same muffin
man. The very next night after his crispy
luxury has been devoured the muffin man
may be sought in the same place, but he is
never found. The corner is barren and
desolate- Perhaps there is muffin man
on the next corner. He has apparently the
same oven and the same mullins. but he is
not the same man. He never is. However
tas mullins taste the same. And this
sense of feetness and transformers which
are their inevitable concomitant, perhaps
adds to their flavor. They can be bought
for two cents apiece. The muffin man is
very unlike his most dangerous rival. the
''hot dapiack" seller. Three fapjacks fol-
five cents would not seem to insure large
profits, yet the fiapjack man is popularity
supposed 10 have money in the bank. Un.
like the muffin man he is conservative
and a fixed institution. Selecting his
stand ne is there every night until 4 O'Clock
under any circumstances. He is well
known character and very mucn respect
ed one. Even his customers are in awe
OF him. His great and portentous digni.
ty; his smooth, saucy face: his chubby
red fingers: his huge overooat of NANCY
Astrakhan cloth, and bulky fur cap, with
eiephantlne fur tips, are unfailing attri-
! DuteS ana 90 not invite confidence. But
his f1apiacks are delicious. The man who
has not eaten fapjacks hot, with butte,
and molasses, on a damp plate on cold
knees, under a creeking awning on a
snowy, clustering winters night, that man
knows not bliss. The man makes
three fapjacks in as many
minutes, and the way he ficks
them on a plate, dabs them
with piece of butter and paddle OF
molasses, takes your money, makes change
and begins on new set of fapjacks. is a
marvel to behold. Naturally he enjoys a
heavy run of custom and often makes S3C
to $40 week.
1t is estimated that 10000 men will lead
a hand-to-mouth existence in New York
this winter. But it need not worry philan.
thropists, and as long as hot corn, shrimps
behring's, mullins and fapjacks are to be
had, man can support existence on $1.5C
a week. Meanwhile the street victuallers
will thrive and lay away.
DISCUSSING THE OSTRICH,
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