The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1891-08-26
BOHEMIA IN NEW YORK.
WHERE ACTRESSES AND THEIR AR
DENT ADMIRERS MEET.

WHERE ACTRESSES AND THEIR AR
DENT ADMIRERS MEET.
How Portion of the Population Of the
Metropolis Turns Night Into Day-Sou-
brettes Chorus Girls, CIubmen and Col
legia"s Make Up the Parties.
AT that hour when staid and solid
Gothamites are either preparing to go to
bed OF are already fast asleep there be-
gins to gather in two well known Broad
way restaurants a bizarre company of
men and women who make it habit to
be very wide awake o nights, when or
binary mortals are ahed and asleep.
These nocturnal gatherings form an odd
feature of the faster life of the big town
They are Partisan in their Bohemian
good fellowship and they seem to pos
sess marked interest for those who find
pleasure in contemplating the various
modes of existence that the lively me-
torpolis presents to the philosophic OBJ
server The nocturnal bon vivants who
make up the coterie are actors and
actresses, men about town clubmen,
colleglans and professional men, who
have the faculty Of never getting sleepy
until the sun wakes up
The restaurants have become noted re-
sorts because of the presence of these
Bohemian spirits. They are prosperous,
and IN the character and quality of their
creature comforts rank in the first class
Their prosperity has been attributed to
fortunate location They are situated
half a mile apart on the west side of
Broadway amid the group of fashionable
theaters and big hotels in the Tenderloin
district that famous parallelogram of
Gotham blocks which has for years been
known as the heart of the city" and
which is locality that the police say
never goes to sleep.
Special accommodations are provided
for the Bohemian set. They recall the
Cave of Harmony" that Thackeray tens
about. In the restaurant at the south
ern end of the big Teuderloin parallelo-
gram this Bohemian Cave of Harmony
is located on the ground floor When
the restaurant was first established the
bower was directly back OF the big
dpdI llltht WutiS OlO4udAy guests gut
their late meals
WHERE THEY MEET
It was separated from the main res
taurant by an alcove decorated with lace
. curtains When the coterie grew in
numbers, however, a new and spacious
apartment, aglow with electric lights
was added to provide comfortable &C
commodation for the special patrons 1t
has mirrors and fine frescoes In the
second restaurant the whole second floor
: of the building is set aside for the Bo-
hemian bower 1t is carpeted and com
fortably furnished, and the indispensa
. ole mirrors are there too.
a 1t Is generally near midnight before
, the neighborlng playhouses are shut NJ
and the fun makers of the stage are free
= TO ENJOY themselves. Pretty actresses
e neat in attire light witted and fond Of
late hours and Bohemian association:
saunter III in knots of two or three Male
escorts accompany them
BY . clock the coterie is at its live
Hest 1t is a striking picture of midnight
a conviviality Soubrettes and chorus girl
:. are the bright particular stars Tn,
actors dressed up like fashion plates
Il are a sort of background to the picture
r The clubmen and collegians and profes
2 sional men are the moths enjoying tn
glitter They are almost invariabl,
= young Sometimes, however, a gay ole
= fellow with gray hair and a jolly laugh
., gives the interesting spectacle of the fel
, low who is trying hard to be boy ant
sit up with the other boys. Whethe
the moths are young or old however
they seem inspired with the same arden
2, ambition to gain the good graces Of tn
20, theatrical people.
Each plunges into his pocket for none
e and tries to excel the others in spendin
N it for the entertainment of the oubrettt
Al and chorus girls and incidentally keel
ing solid with the actors and managers
1t They seem to imagine that this sort {
Re thing will insure good seats at the the
~ alter whenever they want to go Their,
and that they won't have to pay for th
D. seats at all In most instances this is
IN very big mistake.
~, NOT WHAT 1T USED TO BE.
The collegians are partial to the SCI
ond-story bower at the upper end {
Broadway Yale. Harvard and Primo
n ton boys go there whenever they con
le to town to have good time. They boo
things when they get there too I'll
polished cherry tables are pushed Il
es gether, and the soubrettes and choir
no girls draw up their chairs with the me-
Sometimes as many as thirty gather
u single group, The collegians joke al
Is, tell college stories. The soubrettes al
ot chorus girls take hand in the story te
, ing, at which some of them have a gil
Very often the sun rises while the throI
lie, is still there.
ed 1t all looks feverish and unhealthy
the observer who has decided MOTTO
'o' about the hurtfulness of late hours al
as late suppers, but there can be no dou
lat that the jewellers enjoy it and dor
l.. bother their heads about any Of b
~ Franklin's judicious injunctions abo
IA going early to bed and getting up wi
Ter the sun.
All this in marked contrast with {
w revelry that used to run fast and furio
in the resorts that were numerous in
Tenderloin district a decade or so az
5h' The pale faced opium eater and
ky painted women of the streets do not pa
Nc as a rule, within the portals of these
hemian caves There is no boisterousn
IT'S and no singing Of songs A stranger v
find out in twinkling that while
.tte seems to look more or less jolly and f
:. and easy there is 10 reality q strict
tlh forcement Of order at all times. N
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