St. Paul daily globe., 1890-01-05
new Y0RkAFTERDARk
A Terrible Scene Of Realism
in a Never Closed Gotham
Restaurant.
Woman's Fearful Degradation
Through Drink, Which Leads
to the Gutter.
Picture Of the Vanderbilt
Boys as They Enjoy a Com
Il edy from Their Box.
No Bummers Among the As
tor, Gould and Vanderbilt
Families.
New York Letter.

HS yet the nuffylng creature
E that patteTcd over the Sixth
gp avenue sidewalk nnder the
dancing gaSlight the other
morning was by no means an
extraordinary figure i'll the locality
through which she was passing. The
policeman twlrling his club on the cor
ner hardly looked up to scan her face,
and the might hawks that were
pounding their feet warm alongside
their decreplt cabs merely sung out q
CHEEKY ''Eh, Sarah.' as she skinned
by, Just in the way OF goodnatured
chatf. This late trotter of the pave flut-
tered steadily on, until near Twenty
eighth street, she sweryed and dived
into the door of Observation-Disclosures
oyster house.
The early-and-late oyster house of
Sixth avenue is of some slight interest
to the patient student of oddities. With
out being what's usually comprehended
by the word tough it is so illimitably
Bohemian that it is diverting even
while not very dangerous. You may
eat dish Of ham and eggs there two
hours before daybreaks, and if the ham
and eggs do not kill you nothing else
will. But while you cat you may read
lily observe, if Your mood leads you to,
phase of life that is strange, sportive
tiAo iiOt III 10 lliG
life that your morning newspaper chap
likes TO take spicy notes of as he thinks
OF his own family far removed from
ITS DEPRESSING INFLUENCE.
By a table alone, perhaps, the belated
bird that has been winging her way
along Sixth avenue sits down and re-
| moves her gloves, as she looks braYely
about from one mars face to another.
She is not compelled to order any re-
freshments il she does not choose to.
The waiter mods to her as he passes,
and she utters brisk CAR yer, Mike!"
and possibly asks the gentle Mike
are greatly in favor of this poor maid
being Joined presently by one out Of
q highly wrought group of gentlemen
who are lingering with lush persistence
in the lap of night at neighborlng
table. This individual forthwith begS
the honor of the lady's presence at the
table with his friends and wine.
/ 1t is at this point that the free spirit
/ forming the key note of the harmony
/ in this all-night oyster studio obtains
/ striking illustration. The lone young
. lady does not raise one hand demureiy
. and beg permission to forego the wine,
. as we have hitherto seen done in diff
ferent places, but she gathers up her
| gloves and her skirts and assists her
/ new-made friend to find the table he
/ has Just left.
The lank, lustreless cheek that was
/ seen few minutes ago out on the ave-
niue has curved into picture of con-
/ tentment. The girls cold dash through
the night has been of some avail. She
is in the warmth and light of a Jolly
room. wine is before her, men are sur
rounding her, and money IS ahead.
ho acI-. for nit IL,
need it. She would only have consid-
cred herself in hard luck if she had been
permitted to sit alone there with her
sarsaparila. She labels her happiness
as the wine importers label their bot
ties. The skurry down Sixth avenue in
the cold was not what worried her. 1t
was the question whether it was to be a
chase for sarsaparilla or champagne.
Which suggests al interesting and not
an encouraging development OF woman
hood.
1t wasn't hundred feet from the
Union League club that, last midnight,
A WOMAN LAY ON HER BACK
in the middle of the street. She was
moaning and wailing, and the crowd
that began to gather about her though
she was dying. But whenever any one
would undertake to lift her over to the
sidewalk she would scream like man
lac and kick herself free. Some one
has rung a neighboring ambulance call.
Presently the wagon came rattling to
the spot, booming its big gong, and
drew up by the side of the PROSTATE
woman. The young doctor on the back
of the ambulance knelt down aud bent
his face near the Woman'S. Then. turn
ing to a policeman who had joined the
crowd, ne said:
This is your case. She's drunk"
And he ordered his driver back to the
hospital, leaving the policeman to pro-
vide 4 conveyance for the lady i'll the
street.
Ii has been noticed by close observers
and by the police that street drunken
ness among the up town women has in
creased to q marked extent of late. 1t
has not reached anything ike the pro-
portions that make London and Liver
pool so thoroughly deprayed, but it is
double what it was five years ago, and
there seems to be continual spreading
of this character of inebriatiOn. The
cause of wOmen'S drunkenness in Eng
land is undoubtedly found in the fact
that the pubs" there are open to femi-
nine patronage on the same basis as to
that Of men. And the increase of the
evil in New York arises from q similar
cause. A few years ago the corner grog-
shops arranged. in addition to the we'll
known little side door," another, called
the Family Entrance" which led TO
IA small room secluded from the bar
room proper, but connected with it by
small. square sliding window. Into
this room girls, unaccompanied by men,
could go and
BY RINGING A GONG
near the window could summon one of
the bartendsrs and receive anything
their thirst might dictate. As time has
passed these rooms become more and
more convenient for the SportiYe girls of
the town, and the result OF their popu-
Iarity is an additional female intoXica-
tion around the midnight streets. And
it can be seen how very awkward the
habit can become il the tendency grows
general among these ladies who imbibe
to lie on their backs i'll the middle of the
street and scream.
LOOKING AT THE TOUGHEST LIFE.
but in mimicry only, was the Could
family one night this week. Jay owns
the Grand opera house, and that theater
is now possessed by the crudeSt and
toughest form of melodrama. The
Goulds were ensconced behind curtain
and unseen by the noisy audience.
ming. Other millionaires who de-
light In stage performances are the
Vanderbilt boys. Very often you will
find Cornelius, Willie K. and George all
in one box, very often with Chauncey
Depew as a companion. They favor
comedy almost entirely. Cornelius
Eanderbilt's enjoyment of a comical
scene is most entertaining and whole
some. In the first place. Cornelius is
decidedly bright-looking gentleman.
His air of perfect cleanness has often
been remarked on. he being one of those