St. Paul daily globe., 1885-07-26
LIFE IN NEW YORK.
Shorter Hours and the Half-Holiday
Movement Prevailing in all Sorts
of Business.
The Rage Over Dear Lady Churchill and
Her Lord Randolph in Gotham
Society.
Sir Arthur SuHivan's VisiG--The
Clerk Who Keeps Late Hours
--GOSsip.

| Inc general tendency of all sorts of bus
mess in New York seems to be toward
/ shorter hours. The half-hOliday movement,
| which was good deal of Il novelty two
years ago, has grown so popular and is now
SO widespread that shops OF all sorts close
on Saturday at l O'clock as a matter of
course. Even little cobbler and tailoring
shops ON the side streets, which formerly
showed dim oil lamp at nearly all hours
of the night, now resoIuteiy put up
! the shutters about l o'clock on Sat-
urday. 1t Is so pretty much all over town.
BUSINESS IS slack and clerks and employees
| ma IL ulfilcut TO keep engaged even during
| the prescribed time. The elevated railroad
oihclalS say that the uptown rush has grad
ually grown earlier during the past few
years, so that the cars are more crowded
now at o'clock than at any other time,
While formerly o'clock was the hour when
the rush was to be expected. Even up to
half past the cars which left the business
center of New York were formerly crowded;
now II man boards train shortly after
o'clock at Park Place he will see fewer peo-
pie that at half past or 5.
DEAR LADY RANDOLPH.
1t is rather amusing to hear the gush on
all sides regarding Dear Lady Randolph" 5"
as Mr.. Leonard Jerome'S daughter is called
on this side of the Atlantic. One would
imagine that every woman and girl, i'll or
| out OF New Ork society, had been a close
and intimate acquaintance of Lady Ran
dolph ChurchilPs when she was on this
SIDE OF the water. Her plucky and brill
lant political fight for her husband has
received liberal advertising in the Ameri-
can press, and it is usually looked upon as
a Yankee innovation, though in point of
fact 1t Is no unusual thing for an English
woman to actively assist her husband in
political canvass. a man who sells photo
graphs near the Fifth Avenue hotel has
mad such run on Lady Randolph Church.
ills portraits that he has got out a lot of
unusually big and striking ones. and they
retail to Dear Lady Randolph's'' bosom
friends on this side of the water rapidly at
from S1.25 to 81 apiece. Lady Randolph
ChurchliI Is III reality less known among
women OF her own age in New York than
almost any other belle. She spent nearly
all her girlhOOd abroad, she is still quite
young, and when she has visited America
since her marriage she and her husband
nave Deen extremely exclusive and their
stay IN town invariably short. Lord RAN
dolph Churchill impressed men here as be-
ing an overdressed, foppish and pretentious
little man.
SIZE ARTHUR SULLIVAN.
Another Englishman who has been over
here and who has not left very pleasant
impression among New Workers is Sir
Arthur Sullivan, the composer of pima
fore, Pirates" Patience" etc. The
effect of a title upon S'arthur has not been
good. When he was over here few Years
ago, comparatively poor man and much
interested Ill the American success of his
nrst comic opera of Importance, he was
hard-W0rklng musician and clever enough
man. Success has not had the effect upon
his manners and appearance that
might have been hoped for. He
Is extremely short in stature,
with pudgy face, side whiSkers and q
mustache. He commits the unfortunate
mistake which small men occasionally
make OF thinking that he can appear taller
by standing up very straight and lifting his
nose high i'll the air. The result is he
struts. y titled man of very low stature
who struts is not impressive Sir Arthur
certainly has more difficulty with the single
glass than any other EngliShman or Anglo
maniac that l ever saw. Despite the most
tiendiSh of scowlS, determined OF grimaees
and inteminable of Squints, the glass will
insist upon falling out of his eye as often as
he sticks 1t i'll, and he is kept busy
constantly lifting it up to his eye again.
This also IN measure detracts from the
dignity OF Sir Arthurs appearance.
BREAKFAST AT TEN.
There are number of ways of taking
breakfast i'll hot weather. A widespread
but scarcely beneficial plan is well Illus
trated by friend OF mine who is clerk in
a Wall street office. 1t is his duty to be at
the Office i'll time to open the foreign mail
before the arrival of the old man., as he
reverentlY terms his principal AS
the ''old man. steps from his cab into the
office at the stroke of 10 every morning, it is
necessary for mis- clerk to be there before
that hour. Through literally bribing the
office boy so that the envelopes are cut and
arranged i'll order, the confidential clerk is
enabled to squeeze through and make
presentable showing if he arrives at the
office at from $50 to 9:52. SO he lies lux
uriously in bed, with one eye ON the clock,
until it is 9:05. Then he bounces
out, lunges through his bath, and in
an incredibly short time is steaming toward
the railroad track with his hat i'll one hand
and his cane in the other. At the last min
ute he daShes into the Office, puts his arms
through the sleeve of his office coat, which
the boy is already
HOLDING IN THE AIR
for him, and when the principal comes in
a few minutes later he sees his trusted
employe sitting erect in his chair, the pic
ture OF a methodical, correct and accurate
OuSlllCSS HudII. HILL dll uOur ldI6f Jl6
trusted clerk puts on his hat and an I'M
pOrtant ScOwl and huwieS around to the
branch office, stopping on the way to Del
mOnicO's for 'standee" breakfast
why don't you get up half an hour
earlier and eat your breakfast ut hOme?"
he was asked the other day.
What" he cried aghast, ''giye up that
last half hour III bed, the excitement OF the
chase, the neck and neck race with the old
man and the fun of the standee breakfast
| with the boys? l should rather think net
What's the use OF living if you have to be a
slave and keep the hours of an ordinary
clerk? 1 enjoy the standee break
fastS more than L do the ones at
home where the guv'nor makes
remarks about late hours, and my mother
hopes audibly at every mouthful that am
not growing dissipated You see. all the
boys stay up late these summer nights, and
it's great larks to see the men whom YOU
left three sheets in the wind and still
whooping her up at o'clock in the morn
ing come with more or less shallow attempts
at cheerfulness and flippancy into the
downtown restaurants for breakfast about
10 o'clock"
LATE HOURS.
New York does not seem to be given to
late hours just now. The almost intolerable
heat drove everybody out of doors last
week, and people paraded Fifth avenue and
Broadway in squads until and o'clock in
the morning. Roof gardens, beer gardens
and public parks are crowded. But what
struck me more than anything else was
N the very extraordinary number of women
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