Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-06-06
Tit BROADWAY PARADE.


and the shoppers.
The Broadway Of the promenaders is
divided into three parts.
Tie first part, the shopping district,
reaches from Eighth street north to
Twenty first, the second part stretches
from Twenty-first to Thirty-tlird, and
is the widely known ''Tenderioin or Hoff.
man House district" and from Thirty
third to Forty-second stretches tie sou.
brettes' parade"
There Is 10 other walk 10 this country
to compare with Broadway on a sunny
day.
1t begins to fill up with shoppers as
early as II, but it Is in the afternoon that
it Is at It's brightest and best.
The shopping district il the least inter;
esting to the men. The women WHO &c
there are IN hurry. They are Ireoccu-
pied; they have mission to perform.
They have heard that there Is a place
where they can get piece Of surah silk
to match the stuff they bought last weel
at another place for fully three cents a
yard cheaper: and they are looking fol
that place.
They tale time in their haste to lool
at each other, or rather at each other'i
garments. They also take time to Iool
1T what they themselves have on as theI
pass the inpromptu mirrors of tie plat
glass windows If the reflection il /
strong one they viii stop and walk up Il
it, keeping up an appearance Of deep in
tsrest IN what is displayed III the sllol
window, but in reality seeing only tlieil
own pretty faces and bonnets.
They are just AZ busy and earnest owe
their gloves and trimmings as are thei
husbands and big brothers over tbeil
"puts" aud calls" down town.
You see very few men in the shopping
district. They leave it to the enjoymen
OF their feminine relatives and walk fur
Their up.
From to o'clock the real prone
made begins on Broadway. 1t is a genu
inc promenade, for the pedestrians ar
not there by accident; they walk Their
for the pleasure Of walking and Of see
ing each other and being seen. Perhap
it would be more correct TO say 10 b
seen, and then incidentally to see Others
You win see everybody who is any
body on Broadway sometime If you wal
I long enough. But you will see very fes
+ of the swagger set. either men or women
/ They keep TO Fifth avenue. and only strik
I Broadway where the avenue crosses il
Broadway is only for the less fashiona
bic and perhaps less select citizens Q
/ Gotham. The women who are seen ther
( are just little too conspicuously dressed
and the men who sadnter there stare q
them more than is quite proper. Thi
may be because all tine actors and az
tresses in New York walk on Broadwa
in the afternoon, and the non-professior
ais are always on the lookout for then
They are frequently rewarded by til
sight of Sara Jewett, who dresses ovel
much on the street and looks, for som
reason. shorter and broader than sh
does on the stage, and Pauline Hail
seaIskin ard diamonds, Cora Tinnie
black, with black boa, and general
accompanied by her mother. who is sal
to be a real mother and rot a hire
''stage mother. and sweet Annie Ru
sell, who sees no one. but keeps s1raigi
ahead with eyes front.
The men who haunt Broadway are {
well known by sight as the Worth moi
ument or the clock in front of the FIT
Avenue hotel and they are quite ;
hardened 70 the curious giances OF til
pedestrians. York Evening Sun.