Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-11-12
S10TfE THOROUGHFARE.
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80 .sicnIIy Described.
gar, ,--.rv has been we'll called the
3 - y. If New York, and yet it is
- n~opolitan than any other por-
' no metropolis. From Chatham
g !. - either side, to the further ex-
y the Bowery, the thoroughfare
..,,s. Is packed with all sorts and
human beings Several lines of
!" ears moving continuously make
'adle Of the street lively, while the
.aon the elevated road thunder
- and down, imparting a super
4 clement to scene of turbulence
i multitudinouslY noisy and dis
From early morn until the vast
zion homeward bound at night
..oeds the street, the Bowery is the
y norton of New York; but when
.reninc shades prevail and night
M her wonderous tale the panor-
even more diversified in yividness
..,aresque, unique and weird. The
easing tiakling of the bells gives
like tone to the picture, and the
bulI's-eye light Of the rushing
IA overhead strikes one like the
In coming of ghostly apparition,
lnr no particular lively lmagina-
4 % endow it with all sorts of
|,aal activities. The Bowery from
10 end is one great glare of
kic fire. Two hundred and eighteen
|sdc lights blaze along the pathway.
+ theatre, every museum, every dive
|.sie luminous by the novel flame of
Earn invention. No tailor is too poor,
'dmcrack store so impecunious that it
.ot afford its electric light. Some
\ like blazing stars far up upon the
. d lofty buildings; others dazzle
eyes of pedestrians upon the side.
4 hung so low as to almost literally en-
.sr the heads of the passers by. The
distinguishing features, in fact, of
Dowery are brightness and medley,
Very language known to the habit
globe is spoken there. English,
III, French, German, Spanish, Down
/ Yankee, Indian, South American
japanese tongues may be heard vol
shouting their wares or pressing
commodities. In other days the
cry was infested br thieves, pick
tets, bad men of every sort and Kind !;
1t is as true to-day a Il was
} the Scriptures were penned that
ness is the cloak for evil, and
light and brightness ne the gar.
5 of decency and the good. The
. records show that, although there
many disreputable dives on tie
Try, liquor saloons practically in
,able. Chinese joints by the score
ager beer saloons by the hundred,
J of violence are very rare, and
Is and midnight disturbances are
6 the things of the past. Long
Of peddlers make the clean light
'hed by the electric fire lurid with
noke and yellow flame from their
Ol lamps. In various tongues they
rate cries of bananas, chestnuts,
! and other commodities. Other
e 90 to and fro with wagons loaded
fish. Men sell shrimps and women
flowers. 1t is curious fact that
Z all the crowds that throng this
)lace strange faces are very rarely
Now and then, going in or COM
ON the museums with which the
is fringed. rural visitors are seen;
rule the people who swarm upon
dewalks, look in the snowy win
patronize the stores and spend
means in rum or beer seem perfect
nome in every place they @ to-.
ps and stores upon the Bowery are
open hours after kindred bazaars
losed on Broadway and in other
of the city. Cheap joints abound
pawnbrokers are on nearly every
secondhand stores find many
ners, and every variety of
smen, showmen and trickstcrs
there be found. All sorts and
of buildings line the street new
I'D. marble and brick, high and
stone and wood. The B0wery is
i different from Broadway as San
cisco is from New Orleans. When
heatres arc cyer men and women
n in and out Of the beer gardens.
bid and the young of both sexes and
ges haunt those places, spending
ands of dollars every month. The
4 shows that there are many wealthy
ents upon the Bowery. and many
he'd homes as well. It is a kind of
: where people who pick up a bare
stence find their headquarters.
the cellar of q junkman to the
house OF merchant there Is long
nee. and. that distance is occupied
inch of it by men. women and
zen who live and have their being
est they can. Some of the homes
comfortable, some are luxurious.
simple depots to which the rag
IS brings his odds and ends. Here
'orekeeper owns his shop there Q
y occupies a room as dark as a dun
With no bed but a pallet Of straw,
aEnllure but rickeEy table and a
Dealers IN old rlnfhac old hats