The evening world., 1888-07-03
ALONG n BoWERY.

ALONG THE soWERY.
It 10 all very well to 60 South for the winter, and
10 a watering place for the heated term, but hsv-
| ing gone away lust In time to miss that delightful
| spell o. weather OF last March, / now return to that
most delightful Of summer resorts, the old Bowery.
But the Bowery isn't what 1t used to be. Imean
1t isn't what It was when to be O Bowery boy was
something besides 0 name There's no fun In the
| old place any more. met Old Sport, and he says
90. too. "why," says Old Sport, mournfully,
:" can remember when it was Q lucky fellow who
spent q couple Of hours Of q night in the old Bow
cry, aud carried q whole head home with him."
That's so, too. The Old owery, " as Sport likes
to speak Of II, an II 1t was o dear, departed friend
of whom he was talking, is no more. In Its place
10 q busy, brilliant thoroughfare.
Old Sport and I dropped In on Jake shipsey, who
has kept Q brokers' shop ut SO these twenty-five
years. Shipsey Ia one Of the old-timers, and such
old-timers as Harry Howard. who is more or less
honored in name Dy q street between the Bovery
and Broadway, and W. B. Gregg, who knows o
horse, and Col. james e. Kerngan like TO gather
and swap Histories of the olden time at ~Shipsey's.
They don't take much stock in these sanity
days. There was Gregg telling how blind Blyden-
burgh, the old-time sporting man who raised and
trotted Post Boy-it was when he had first gone
blind-hearug thai Tom Hyer, the man who had
Just whipped Yankee Sullivan, had opened Q
show at 80 Bowery, wanted TO be led down to the
place.
"Bliud as Q bat, " says Gregg, ''but he begged
of me to take him down and see Tom Hyer. He
Just wanted to put his hands on him. 30 I took
him down and he ran bis fingers over Tom's face,
| arms and chaaf. and aavQ ha- tGad- has n 00ad
onep"
That was way back in 40. one Of the news
papers said Dyer fought Sullivan because one
night when Hyers mother was walking on the
Bowcry. Sullivan hunted " mp against her and
made some insulting remark. Yankee Kept a
saloon down In Chatham street, between Pearl and
Duane.
After the mill Tom Hyer was q card, and he got
a half interest in SO along with Dick Platt They
called the place "The Branch" Eyer died Just
At the opening OF the war.
Then at 20 Ezra White kept O saloon. He was
the man who stabbed Q "bouncer n ct Q dance
down on "the Hook " in 's7 or 40 the man whose
ghost Ia supposed TO haunt the corners at Broome
and Sheriff streets, and about whose appearance
the people down there got 90 ratified last week.
"why, this place where we are" says George
II. McCabe, "is62 Before the war IL was known
all over town AZ the side pocket" II was o gam
V1ng-house. and there was NO getting into 1t unless
you had the double grips and passwords There
was a hardware store next door, where the Atlantic
Garden IL now"
Remember the old Amphitheatre across the
way. where that furniture store and painters sup
plies are now, 81 and 89f On, of course you don't"
says the old-timer, looking ~pityingly upon me.
You are too young. But in ~ or about the Am
phitheatre was q big thing. Stone d Rockwelrs
J circus used to show there. Stone was an Indian
rider and Rockwell was ringmaster. John Tryon's
circus was there afterwards, and Angevine Titus
and Jim June's menagerie. We boys used to rids
the elephants up Rivers q Darrius's circus, which
pitched its tents where the Bible House is now.
"Talking about the AmphitneasSe, T" runs on Mr.
! MeCabe, "Remember what was on there tn,
> night of the Park Theatre nre9 Park Thestr,
stood about where the big WORLD once is now
Howe's circus was on up at the Amphitheatre ant
l think Sands 4 Lent's party were giving q circu
ut the Park. That was aoout 1sts."
! went to "s8" to-day, Where Tom Hyer'l
i saloon and gambling house was ;hirty- eight year.
: ago. On the sign l read, 'Bowery Mission an
= Young Mems Home. Lodgings %, % and so cent
= per night Gospel service every evening"
Q 1 met Supt- J. Ward Cnlds, o tall, mild, cheei
Q fulmannered man. He said; The Mission fur
nishes lodgings, clean and neat. to sixty or sevent
1 young men every night. That is as many az W
can accommodate. We have an attendance at GU
nightly meetings that is as great % our session
a room will We have q reading-rooI
/. where THE WORLD. which ID sent to MS Tree G
It charge, and the other papers are always TO b
found. We have been here eight years, and W
are redeeming the name of % and undoing some {
y tie evil work done in It's earlier history"
Then Mr.. Childs handed to me with q signincaI
snun q tract full Of argument against smoking
d It was very hard on cigarette smoking. 1t sal
that 100. 600 cigarette smokers in :hls town smoke
!" 4, 900, 700 cigarettes daily, and spent for cigarette
y 81, s0u, OOO q year, or enough to keep an army Il,
q times the size OF our Standing army dressed ar
equipped. "Smoking Ii injurious mentally, PHI
sically and financially, " said the good man. as
n pressed the hand Of your Z BowRRY Boy.
n The ringing epics Of tia glorious field Of Gt
tysburg t0al be found in PHE EVENING WoRI
nj l a.