Morning journal and courier., 1889-07-25
NEW xoRK,s ONLY VERY.
As IL struck the All-Observing Eye OF
NOValfAt HOyVella.

IL struck the All-Observing Eye OF
Novelist Howells.
New York Commercial Advertiser.1
Many cultivated men take keen pleasure
in studying that Kaleidoscope mile, the
Bowery, and among the number we now see
that Mr.. .Howells is to be included. He, too,
has sauntered up and down the great thor
oughfare with alert eyes and has jotted
they are witty and accurate. 1t may be that
Mr.. Howells, as Bowery reporter, is not
quite sympathetic in his point of view, but
what he sees clearly, and he tells Us in Har-
per's Weekly what he sees in an interesting
vein.
Mr.. Howells, In these explorations speaks
in the person Of young author, Mr.. March,
who has come to town to "write up" low life
for the magazines. Hence, the disguise in
the case is quite thin. But the result is none
the less pleasing, for Mr.. Howells is never
| more agreeable than when he drops the
mask of the novelist and writes in his own
| individuality.
Here, then, is what Mr.. Howells-March
| sees as he wanders in the 3owery, or rather,
as he surveys it from an aerial plane, as a
passenger on the Third avenue elevated rail
road:
"He went over to Third avenue and took
| the elevated road down to Chatham square.
he found the variety of people In the car as
| unfailingly entertaining as ever. He rather
preferred the east side to the west side lines,
because they offered more nationalities con
ditions and characteristics to his inspection
They draw not only from the uptown Amsri
can region, but from all the vast hive Of
populations swarming between them and the
East River. He had found that according t.
the hour, American husbands going to ani
i S1o1~
| road, and that the most picturesque admixt-
ure to these familiar aspects of human nat
ure were the brilliant eyes and complexion
| of the American Hebrews, who otherwise
contributed to the effect of well clad cemfor
and citizen self satisfaction Of the crowd
Now and then he had found himself in
cafe mostly filled with Neapolitans from tn
constructions far up the line, where he reat
, that they are worked and fed and housed
their unintelligible dialect, he had occasion
, for pensive question within himself as t
what notion these poor animals formed of
free republic from their experience of lif
! under its conditions; and whether the,
found them practically very different fron
> those of the immemorial brigandage and en-
3 forced completely with rapine under whic
they had been born. But after all, this wa
an infrequent effect.
s'New York is still popularity supposed
? fbe in the control Of the Irish, but March no
r ticed in these east side travels of his wha
must strike every observer returning to tn
> city after prolonged absence-the numer
o cal subordination Of tho dominant race.
they do not outvote them, the people of Gel
manic, of Slavonic, of Pelasgic, Of Mongolia
a stock, outnumber the prepotent Celts; an
= March seldom found his speculation centere
upon one of these. The small eyes, the hig
d cheeks, the broadnoses, the puff lips, Il
10 bare, cue fllited skulls of Russians, Pole
: Czechs, Chinese; the furtive glitter of TIA
ians; the blonde dullness Of Germans; Il
: cold quiet of Scandinavians-fre under ioe-
Is were aspects that he identified and that ga,
ID him abundant suggestion for the person