Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1890-06-17
TAe BROADWAY PARADE
A Few Lines About the shopping pistric,
aud tho shopper

Few Lines About the shopping District
aud tho shoppers.
The Broadway of the promenaders is
divided into three parts.
The first part, the shopping district,
reaches from Eighth street north to
Twenty first, the second part stretches
from Twenty-ilrst to Thirty-third. and
IS the widely known "Tenderloin or Hotf-
man House district and from Thirty
third 10 Forty-second stretches the .sou.
hrettes' parade
There Is no other walk in this country
to compare with Broadway ON sunny
day.
IL begins 10 fiji up with shoppers as
early as II, but it is in the afternoon that
it is at its brightest and best.
The shopping district is the least inter.
esting TO the men. The women who &c
there are in a hurry. They are preoccu.
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 week
st another place for fully three cents a
yard cheaper; and they are looking for
that place.
They take time in their haste TO look
at each other, or rather at each others
garments. They also take time to look
at what they themselves have on as they
pass the impromptu mirrors of the plate
glass windows. II the reflection is a
strong one they viii stop and walk up to
it, keeping up an appearance of deep in.
terest in what is displayed in the shor
window, but IN reality seeing only THEN
own pretty faces and bonnets.
They are Just as busy and earnest over
their gloves and trimmings as are theiI
husbands and big hrSLhers over their
puts and "ealls' down town.
You see very few men in the shopping
district. They leave it to'the enjoyment
Of their feminine relatives and walk fur
Their up
From g to . O'Clock the real prone
uade begins on Broadway. 1t is q genu
inc promenade, for the pedestrians are
not there by accident; they walk there
for the pleasure Of walking and of see.
ing each other and being seen. Perhap-
il would be more correct to say To be
eHttis anu Aii-li lilttaftAtiiiN 10 SEE oktletS.
You will see everybody who is any
body ON Broadway sometime if you wall
long enough. But you viii see very few
of the swagger set, either men or women.
They keep 10 Fifthavenue, and only strike
Broadway where the avenue crosses il.
Broadway is only for the less fashiona.
BILE and perhaps less select citizens OF
Gotham. Tie women who are seen Their.
are just little too conspicuously dressed
and the men who saunter there stare al
them more than is quite proper. Thi.
may be because All the actors and &C.
. tresses tn New York walk on Broadway
in the afternoon. and the non-profession
ais are always on the lookout for them
They are frequently rewarded 10y the
sight OF sara Jcwett, who dresses over.
much ou the street and looks, for somt
reason. shorter and broader than she
does on the stage, and Pauline Hall in
seals6in and diamonds, Cora Tinnie in
black, with a black boa, and generally
accompanied by her mother, who is said
10 be "a real mother and not hired
stage mother, and sweet Annie Rus
sell, who sees no one, but keeps straight
ahead with eyes front"
The men who haunt Broadway are a.
well known by sight as the Worth mon.
ument or the clock in front of the Fiftl
Ayenue hotel. and they are quite a,
hardened to the curious glances of tn,
{ pedestriaus.-New York Evening sun.