The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1891-11-08
district of New York. have newer heard

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the division of police precincts of the city
that district which fell to Captain Will
llams yielded the latest income, and is
thus the pet piece of the steak. 1t is no
torlous that this section of New York con-
talns, IN addition to its quota of hotels
theatres, saloons and pool rooms, a brilliant
assortment of gilded unnamable haunts.
IL lies IN the heart of FAST district, and
may therefore be readily assumed to pre-
sent an interesting field for that kind Of
supervision which the New York police
captain gives to the region over which he
is appointed to preside.
1t is IN this Tenderloin district, then,
that the Tenderloin club disposes itself.
Who are the members of the Tenderloin
club! Well, to begin at the top, newspaper
men, clOo men, men about town, horsey
men, brokers and theatrical men, with a
sprinkllng of detectives and police captains
ana so on-an interesting agglomeration of
city types. Here, you would say, is a com
bination of those elements which are hab-
ltually to take the world very much for
granted. If there are any ideaists in the
crowd their theories are at least based on a
profoundly realizing sense of what existing
conditions are. The men know the big
metropolis like a book. They know too
much about 1t to be sentamentallsts, and
enough, too, to represent the spirit of re-
form In Its most practical shape.
Inc clubhouse is as curious as the men,
bershlp. In general it has the character
lstlcs OF city clubhouse-the drawing
room, grlll-room, reading. room, billiard
room, etc. But it has some novelty in de-
tall. That second floor room with the
stucco walls is one of the most remarkable
in the city. Embedded in some substance
which L have not analysed, but which
seems TO have strongly adhering quality,
is collection of objects of fantastic var
lefty. Here are all manner of weapons,
pistols, dirks. poniards, stilettos, rifles,
razors, raplers, ''jlmmies,' police clubs.
brass knuckles, handouts, with shields,
spears, masks and an amazing number of
other unrememberablet things combining to
form an impressive background TO any
group which may gather here.
The Tenderloin resembles good MANY
other New York clubs in that its member
snip is too busy to spend much time with
In Its walls. But late at night, after the
theatres are out, and after the newspaper
men who are not tied to night desk have
got most of their ''copy'' off their minds.
there is pretty certain to be representa-
tive gathering in the room; and on one of
the special nights there may be q crowd
The Tenderloin's methods of amusing
itself are IN some respects peculiar. 1t may
be SAID that its amusements are sometimes
considerably unconventional, for the ordi-
nary forms of public amusement are. of
course, exceedingly trite and unbearable to
men whose life enables them to see every
thing. The club is always able to fall back
upon private entertainments by public per
formers. The members summon Mile.
tougere, the charming ChdnteuSe Ercentri-
que, TO sing for them; Waltz comes from the
Eden musee to sing her Chdntant novelties
Omene dances. Theatrical men appear al
their best before an audience so apprecia-
tive OF an artistic thing. Hermann waves
his wizard wand, and some big political
celebrity steals In for an hour to make a
capital speech.
Inclusive as the mem bership of the Ten
derloin might seem to be, it is in one sense
exclusive enough. Cads have had hard
time getting in, if they ever do get in.
There Is no room in the Tenderloin for
dudes.
LITERARY TEAS
The literary tea season is setting in. But
the glory of this form of aesthetic debauch.
cry seems somehow to have departed, Per
haps the decadence is only temporary: but
it is, nevertheless, palpable
When the literary tea, generally at or {
p. NJ. first came into fashion, it was 8
great lad. Everybody appeared to be de-
lighted. The tea was generally bad. Rut
Fourteenth street, were artistically sug-
gestive and alluring. The company was
largely feminine. A few men leaked in
toward 3, but they never looked happy, il
we except few gentlemen of advanced
years who delighted to bask in SO much
femininity.
OF course the women were all literary.
Mercy how literary some of them were
The more intensely literary they were To
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was that you had never heard of ANYTHING
they had written. When you inquired into
their literary standing you were amazed to
discover how many periodicals. that will
publish anything are circulated in the oh
security OF printers linked world. Yet il
was charming to hear and see them effer-
yesce; to hear their plots, to sympathize
with their battle against obstinate editors
OF big magazines; to hear a stanza of their
last poem, and to debate modification in a
denouemem. Sometimes you rot into q
scrape by being cornered into reading .
manuscript-not on the spot, of course,
but at a later day when it is handed over
for your honest opinion. If YOU are q
hardened wretch You have to give mod
erately honest opinion. If you are a human
man you probably trim" and let her down
gently.
The literary women who were really
AVSraFS were sure TO be interesting when
you could get them. The fact that thew
dressed awfully did not bother Won so much
as II did the women who could not write SC
well but could dress better. What is more
fascinating than to ''talk shop''-literarv
shop-wlth woman skilled in the orc
1t is one OF the mitigating amenities of the
afternoon tea.
But then there is the literary dude. He
is necessary, but he is most painfuIly
burdensome element A woman can TOW
with literature without losing any of her
natural charm. She can tiutter about $
lad In picturesque way, and even If She
writes with pitiful inferiority she carries
with her, like the bee or the butterfly
something OF an aroma from the many
literary flowers upon which she has
alighted, for she reads more than mos
men. But man cannot flutter abont
literature with anything of this success
His half baked opinions have q melsncholv
lack of interest. His affectation of thu
literary manner is simply maddening.
I ct worse things happen in New York
than literary afternoon tea. These enter
talnments have, in fact, many attractive
features. II there was any way of maxine
them little more truly literary they
would be immensely more feasible. Blu,
american writers are infected By the rusf
OF the oroker aud the dry goods man. They
live at high pressure and have no time
III AFRAID GRAB street is not good enough
for them. They are "out of the DUST,
MATT LANAI.
lone touch of nature makes the whnI,
world kim" Diseases common TO the rae,
compel the search for a common remedv
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