Daily globe., 1882-11-08

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Patrick Murphy. drunk; dis charged.
James Murphy, drunk; discharged.
SUPPERS IN THE STREET.
Whit Mem Can Find to Eat Late ut Nigh.
on Metropolitan ItOr0Mghfares.
sHot corn" is familiar cry on the
streets of New York. Long ago it became
metropolitan institution. Scat cred all
along the pavement of the Bowery and its
neighboring thoroughfares, on any of these
frosty nights, may be found perhaps a
dozen or more fat black kettles swung over
an alcoholic flame. Under their covers are
closely laid ears of boiled corn, steaming
hot, whose best advertisement
is the toothsome odo- of the steam
floating out upon the air. 1t
attracts many customers, and one vender
often sells 100 Or more ears. at a profit of
about 81 nightly. They make supper at
five cents an ear not dear to the i'm mpecuni-
GUS and by no means despicable to the
affiuent. 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 nomadic stomach for
abound with provisions for the poor man.
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 coy
ertiy overturned ash barrel Sometimes a
box OF salt, another of pepper ard plate
Of Lot Ii 10; ~ -.
Most OF the streets leading to the down
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 IL the bulk he sells dozen
for three cents, and he firmly believes
that a 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 i'll the same neighborhoods.
SELLERS OF MUTFINs 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 a 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.
TIC mullins taste the same. And this
sense of heetness and transformers which
are their inevitable concomitant. perha ps
adds to their flavor. They can be bought
| for two cents apiece. The muffin man is
very unlike his most dangerous rival. the
hot 1apjack" seller. Three fapiacks for
five cents would not seem to insure LARGE
profits, yet the fapjack man is popularity
supposed to have money in the bank. I'm
like the muffin man he is conservative
and fixed institution. Selecting his
stand he is there every night until o'clock
under any circumstances. He is a well
known character and very much 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 overcoat of NANCY
N>.'NA ~1ii''A OANbA. tAl1o bu1Ay cap. Wlt.l
! elephantine fur tips, are unfailing attri-
butes and DO not invite confidence But
his tlapiachs are delicious. The man who
has not eaten fapjacks hot, with butter
and molasses, on & 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 a paddle of
molasses, takes your money, makes change
| and begins on new set of fapiacks, is a
marvel to behold. Naturally he enjoys a
heavy run of custom and often makes $50
to $40 week
1t is estimated that 10000 men will lead
hand-to-mouth existence in New York
this winter. But it need not worry philan-
thropists, and as long as hot corn, shrimps,
herrings, mullins and fapjacks are to be
had, man can support existence on S15O
week. Meanwhile the street victuallers
will thrive and lay away.
DISCUSSING THE OSTRICH,