The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-07-11
NEW YORK CHARACTERS.
Picked from the Throngs on Bus.
Broadway.
From the Baltimore american.

BrOaOWdy.
From the Baltimore american.
NEW York, June 30-What a vast,
moving, changing panorama are the streets
of upper Broadway i'll summer!
The respectable idler and the industrious
and hopeful pass side by side. Thenarrow-
minded check by jowl with the great and
the liberal-mnded. Here they parale-the
rich merchant and the aspiring youngster-
the well-dressed, the thrifty, the careless,
and a few wage-earnerS Here pass the
man of ideas and convictions, and the men
tai weaklnGs; the man Of affairs and the
petted son of a rich father.
" hat picture is presented
"Who is that" my friend asks. as a
busy-lookiGg man brushes by. overtaking
half the people on the street. He PUSHES
and pushes through the crowd as if upon
his shoulders rested great responsibilities,
He is aging now, but only a few years ago
he was one of the well-knowns. Who has
not heard OF the proprietor of the Hoffman
house, Ned Stokes? As a comparatively
wealthy and positively notorious man, he
deserves to be pointed out, and yet scarce
one man of q thousand will turn to
catch second look at Stokes
As the wealthy proprietor Of for
merly fashionable MOTEL, he is usually
known, but Stokes is n man of striking
originality in many things. 1tmust he said
to his credit, that he doe, not go with the
crowd. He has succeeded in keeping his
wheels out of the rut, and the man who docs
that successfully in New York becomes
either famous or notorious. The biography
of Ned Stokes will be incomplete without
extended reference to his business methods
He has most proftably combined respecta-
bility, and, indeed, fashion, III hotel with
barroom attractions of most peculiar
md conspicuous order. The cafe OF his
hotel is perhaps one of the greatest in the
world. One visiting New York will not
have seen all the wonders till he has lookel
at the expensive adjournment Of Stokes bar
room-a saloon and art gallery SO blende1
that the artistic eve and the thirsty throat
meet and take a drink He has furnished
tho rooms of his hotel i'll almost every style
of decoration. He has made his house
stopping place for the rich and the ostenta-
tions, and to stay at the Hoffman house Is
in a way distinction. Ns1 Stokes has
done all Of this, and yet no one turns his
head TO point him out.
But walking by Stokes side Is nm interest
ing and picturesque being. In Colorado OF
New Mexico he might attract no attention,
or be a subject of no note, but on the streets
of New York he stands out from the popu-
lace. He is out Of the rut as much as Stok S,
and stands out from the rabble as does the
sycamore above the aspen saplings. Away
down his back, long flowing locks about
to turn gray. A wide hat Of felt shades
half of his body. which is supple
looking and decidedly graceful
His movements are not those Of the
man from the interior, although
that is Just where he halls from He has
the bright eye Of vigorous youth. Cody IS
a man OF many unique parts In England
no was a social fad. some OF the cable mos
saQes limited that the throne OF Great
Britain had been offered him, and tnAS NOT
a. hays soon the Wild Wost show In Eag-