The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1892-09-19
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Differa from the Old.
For many years the Bowery was typ
Ical for all that was rough and ready In
American manners. The Bowery boy
who 4'rlin wild der masheen'. was praised
IN song and story, and his many pecul-
tarities from amiability to eye gouging
were being continually written about.
But all this WINS many years ago. Tht
glory of the Bowery has departed. In
It's entire length there is now but one
lake museum, and three solitary second
rate concert halls keep mp miserable
merriment that is CHASTITY in its hollow
ness. The shrill cry of the waiter,
1.-Two up and one down, and certain
death with settler on the slider has de-
generated into the request, In husky
whisper, for Tree beers, two large an
one small, an whisky an seltzer."
For, like Barney Rourke, the Oliver of
i"de Ate," the Bowery has moved up
town, too, and the Bowery, the old
Bowery that we loved for its pure cuss-
edness, is in the possession of a foreign
element that knows nothing Of fake
auctions and bunko steering. Polish
and Russian Jews, shabby and long
bearded, flock in crowds to the old Star
and Bowery theaters, places that once
knew the histrionic triumphs Of Fanny
Herring, the one that never dies, but
now known as the Roumania and Thalia
theaters, where sentimental and mild
dramas are presented in place Of blood
and thunder plays. Chinese from Mott,
Pell and Doyer streets; Italians from
Mulberry and Blocker streets, and the
Teutonic residents of the eastern dis.
tricts take the place of Rag Gangs,
dead Rabbits" ana "Whyos."
4 1t may be for the best, but it is sad tc
contemplate. The dear, old dirty Bow
cry is now good old hasbeen.
Bat there is a modern Bowery-e
Bowery broad and bright, with asphalt
pavements and all improvements, less
rough and changed for the better.
4 You will find the new Bowery OF
that part of Eighth avenue which ex
tends from Twenty-third street to Thir
ty-fifth street. Saturday night the hun
of the great street market on Ninti
avenue comes over to this promenade O
, shoppers and pleasure seekers. Old dark
les with delicious "hot con" take thu
place here at the street corner of til,
dirty looking Italian Of the old Bow
cry.
The shops are neat and bright. Their
is an opera house on the corner of TWEEN
ty.third street for the theater goer o
tine new Bowery who likes standard at
fractions. But up farther on the othe
: side big variety theater is open night
!, ly for the lover of vaudevilIes. Their
is no danger here of losing q watch or
: scarfpin in q crowd as there used to b
) on lower Third avenue.
And then there ure concert halls i
? plenty in the new Bowery. 1t will nc
do to praise these too much. They ar
d a legacy of the old Bowery, but the
) are better if anything than their oil
Is prototypes.
l. The new Bowery has the finest dim
museum in the country. Large, hant
some halls, where the lion faced lad
holds forth, Punch and Judy squeal
: and the fat boy breaks hearts and sell
= his photographs. A variety show col
n cludes the performance.
J. The middle class New Yorker like
! the new Bowery. His home is in tn
j. streets adjacent. His boy comes out o
& his velocipede and his girl on her tr
: cycle aud trundle on the smooth asphal
!. He takes his wife to the theaters thei
d at night and he purchases his goods frol
J. the merchants of the thoroughfare.
y Everything goes with rush and
whirl on the new Bowery. Young me
go skylarking up the bright light,
~ sidewalks and laughing girls 60 swee
K ing past. Considering the crowds tn
~ throng the way the objectionable ell
ment is much in the minority. I'll
street cars go faster on Eighth avenu
the stores arc brighter and life is gay
there than in the somber teneme
house districts down town and less ar
fetal than the more pretentious porto
Of the city farther up. The old Bowe
down town has evoluted ON and up.
successor of middle Eighth avenue
distinctly American in its entirety, a
the rowdy foreign element has no TO,
hold here
1t is the pleasure ground of the I
pretentious people.-Now York Worlt