Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1888-11-25

If a costume for stage purposes. Let some
foreigner come to him with pecunar
dress and he will instantly secure IL Inc
sctoC who goes into secondhand clothing
ssore 70 buy a costume is immt dlate'y
$50 tad and the oCiginsl price Of the gar
ments is always ran uo on nim'
A RICH FIELD IN BAXTER STREET.
"B.x.e- street, or. IS it is termed, The
Raw, wss fo,m :rly the best place to ana a
miscellaneous Sssortnent OF secono-nana
cIotbiug. BuS q Iivsl has usurpeo tn9
throne ard I have lately bteu keeping an
eve on Seventh avenue, from IwenIy
third tt:eet up TO FOrty-second- RoVe''S
seems te be concentrating there. Inete IS
scarcely g block within toe distrie' nieu-
TONED that does not contain three or Icul
second hand : ores. Second-hsr d c'ctoing
stores. secondhand shoe stores, s9conu-
hand fr-niture stores crowd each otaer on
both sides Of the avenue. At the present
rate of u,oyress it will in few years
ecl;nsa TIA older rival. / have Of.en fol-
loved man or woman around the CITY for
boprs until favorable opportunity pre-
septed for opening nego Nations Tor the Pur-
chase of Their clothes. No matter Win
vbom 7 NAV be or what I am doing, let
me ace q quaint costume and will do my
utmcst to secure it. My presidency In
this Iespsct OGea gets me into very queer
scrapss.
Goa my way to the thest,e every even
ing used TO meet an old lrlshInan Win
whose makeup l wac greatly taken. l
got in the habit of bowipg to him, AID SO
struck up An acquaintance. finally
brosched the sub ct OF buying his clothes,
but he ia " refused 10 sell his 'dacent
clothes to a play sttho, at any price. l
wss fully determined to get them, how
ever. and so kept up our noddiDg acquslnt-
snce. and by talking about the 'ouid dart
finally Iegainei my former place IN Ms
ssteem. But he still adhered TO the oplu-
| i'm that il was crying shame, that me
dacept mon like me should beap'a7' ac:or
I triei to soften this by telling him that l
wss also the manager offs theatre. A the
atre in sight being a tar bis reality give
me son1e Standing with hin, and 1t was
no. long before proposed that ne should
add to his income by doing some night
work srcund the building. was careful
NOT 10 saw theatre, ard building caught
hin. I had nctsd his peculiarities mora
carefuily al e-e.y meeting, pait c1larly h's
walk. which was beyond the power OF i'm
itation.
~ was then rehears!ng old Lavender,
and it IVES for this ply wanted
clothes. The character intended 10 veal
them simply had to walk ecross thu stlge.
TIE idea If getting the old maa on the
stsge-clothes, walk ard all-occurred to
me and couldn't drive it out of my head
I ergagei him ostensitly to work arou1o
the theatre in the evening, and he was
there purct1slly the opening night.
racked NV brains to find some eXpedieni
for getting him across the sage, and finally
decided to use the comparatively simple
one o! giving him something 70 carry acros;
To the other side. l stationed man II
one of the entrances OF the other side
where ne could be seen, aud handing bag
to the old fsllow told him to take it across
to the man en- the other side. ii;
was only too willing to earn his sa!
sry, and staIt.d across the stage
As coon as the audience caught
sight of the make up and the
walk there uss O IvaI of lAught=i. Oni
friend gave one startled look 'Ou! front
and then redoubled his psca. This made
his peculiar walk still more noticeable,
and the effect was to increase the laugh
ter. He couldn't understand it at first and
was very indignant, but assured him II
was all right, and that carrying the bag
across was part of the work he had con-
trscted for. As tbs bag wasn't very heavy
he concluded it was an easy job and tha'
he woull stick to ii. Before the piece
was taken off he N ide me present. ofhis
old clothes, and / bought him an enti:e!y
new o1tfit."
CHARLIE REED RUNIMAGING THE B0WERY.
The costume wear as Jonah in A
Brass Monkey" sIid Charlie Reed, was
only found after long and wssry search
II took me three solid days to fad what
wanted, ard during that tine l think
visited every second. Inland clothing store
s?uth of Tweaty-thiId street. l started
rom enty-eighth street down Seventh
avenue one Sunday moraing Every store
came TO was closed. l keyt on, how
ever, until l passed block or two below
Twenty third street, and fuslly halted in
front of secondhand store to ell out
ward appearances as tightly closed as ths
shell of ightened turtle. After trying
the door and peerirg between the shut
ters in the hope of discovering some signs
of life within, vas turning away in dis
grst, when gentleman CT foreign aspect
came up and inquired whether wished tC
buy so ne clothes. I said did. Turning
to some children who were playing On the
street, be called out:
",'Ssrab, ruu in sni tell your fathe,
dere's man here who wsnts to buy some
clothes
Tee little one went through side door
Ike 4 Il Ssb. and in less time than il takes
to tel it mp went the window. shades and
the store door was thrown open and every,
thing was ready for business, looked
through the entire stock without finding
what wanted. The proprietor tried T.
force nearly eve ything in the store upon
me, but l finally escaped without huyirs
and started in next day. Ga this second
expedition I explored the Rowery and
Chatham street, but found nothing to az
swer my purpose. Late in thu afternoon
of the third day, while stumbling along
Baxter street, my attention was attracted
by large red tign in front Of clothirg
store on the corner Of a broken -iowr
street The sign announced that nc
secondhand goods were dealt in. This, a
least, bad tn charm Of novelty aud l &c,
tered, so tired from my wsuderings could
hardly stand. Antici pating an easy
victory from my apparently exhausted
condition, the scotsman tapped ne coaf,
IDENTIFY on the shoulder and declared he
kuew exactly Whist wanted aud proceed.
ed 20 show me everything l didn't want.
After nearly an hour of frnitlts3 search
! among every concf iYRhls HariAtH of par-