The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-01-01
THE POOR AT PLAY.
Bah WALKS ALONG THE BOWERY
AND DESCRIBES N!GaT SPORTS.

AND DESCRIBES NtGdT SPORTS
Broken Eeads and Hearts-Dsrk Sleep
ing Holes-5ig Beer Gsrdens-"L ady"
Orchestres and Wretched Music.
Germans and Jews IN Groups Con
cert Halls and Sweetheart Songs.
Suspicious Champegne-Stage Howl
ers and Dirty 6cenery-Dismal Dress
ing Rooms-Some Curious Charsc-
| ters-Fun, But no Preaching Wanted.
A Midnight Supper Down In New
| Jerusalem " 49, Bah Extends New
| Years Greeting to Her InnumerebIe
Readers.
COPYRIGHT
NEW YoRK, Dec. 3l.-There Is nothing
| particularly new IN saying that in this big
world Of ours one is first with one set for
a while and then with another. Just now !
seem to he absorbed by my friends who live
on the other side. The preparations for
Maggies wedding, the delight Of Billy's
presence, the knowledge that Charles leg
Is going TO be cured, and the consciousness
that my library is course Of unendinK
pleasure to that loyal friend, the little Jew
| boy, are absolute f0cts. Facts ara not al
ways hard things; they are sometimes very
pleasant. The other day Billy came up to
lunch with me, and to tell me about the new
place he was making for himself in the
southern lands. The little Jew boy was re-
luctantly dragged from The Three Guards
men" to eat, and we three sat thinking
| what good thing ir was that tea was dis
covered, and talking about all sorts and
| conditions of things
Bah IN SEARCH OF PLEASURE.
Said /: "Billy, how does the other side
| playp Billy looked at me- so did Isadore
| and there was quiet. Then the boy spoke
They don't play. Miss, they think its play,
but 1t isn't because there's no love or kind
ness In it." You see, he is q bit romantic.
| Then Billy had his say. "Well, miss, the
kid is mighty near right They call 1t play;
they call 1t pleasure, but you'se can under
stand as 1t faint the sort o. play that pays;
| too often IL ends in broken heads, and just
as frequently in broken hearts; sometimes
ii means trip to the island, sometimes to
the rnorgue, but 1t is only when one Of God
Almightys women like Maggie and Mrs
Flaherty, and peace be to her soul, my poor
Katie, has It in charge that it is worth
| while. You see, miss, when you've been
| trained to work and work, you forget how
to play and you take whatever comes along.
Then, too. IL you have got dark hole to
sleep in, you just want to go where it is
| bright and then you drifts along"
Billy" asked l, suppose you take me
tonight to see how the other side playsN
| Billy protested In vain. Isadore grieved
over me. But 9 O'Clock found us trotting
down the Bowery. We went to one of the
big beer gardens; on the floor right among
the other people, sat down TO table and or
dered some beer, and then looked around
A lady orchestra, attired In emerald green
satin, was supposed to fascinate the crowd
by its beauty and lull them to sweet
thoughts by its melody. Unfortunately it
did neither. The women were coarse and
vulgar to look at, and the music
was poor. However, the place was
crowded, and you could have cut
the tobacco smoke even with a woman's
penknife. Was it all vices Certainly not.
! The family element was represented by the
Germans and Jews, who came In groups, sat
about the tables, talked to each other and
went home about 10 80 or II o'clock, having
| had a pleasant evening in meeting the
| friends, whom ii would be impossible to en-
| terrain in the small rooms of the tenement
house. l could not object to this The
| worst element in the beer garden Is the New
| York tough and his girl, bup even he was
| represented by the tone OF sociabihty as evi~
denced by the Germans and the Jews. He
dragged his girl by the arm, and said
Come along, Liz, dere amt no fun here;
it is too mighty respectable"
THE DARK SIDE OF LIFE.
| We followed In the wake OF the gentleman
| who found respectability damnable, and we
| landed at a small concert hall where the
stage came far out to the so-called reserved
seats, and the young ladies who kindly did
turns" were not only very civil from the
stage TO the audience. but even an invita-
ton by the eyes would induce them to come
down and be sociable. One of them was
| pretty, and she had about her that intangi-
| BILE something called womanliness, which
| always attracts men. She sang g
| ridiculous little song about her sweet
heart, and then she came down and
sat at the next table to us. Billy looked at
her with pity and said: Poor wretch, she
amt been here long enough to get like the
rest of them" She would laugh st the com
pliments paid her; a merry laugh that made
the other women start, as IL 1t were an I'M
| known sound In such place. The gentle
| man who had brought Liz there rudely left
her after telling her that she was old
enough to look out for herself, and paid his
respects to the pretty girl, said respects be-
ing in the sha ape of bottle of stuff called
champagne; but the liquid never saw the
fair land Of France. nor was it mixed out
side of the hall in which IL was
sold It looked like combination
OF bad whisky, fusel oil and soda, with
the oil and soda predominating. II would
have made me or you sick but this Girl
drank il and laughed, and seemed to think
it was very fine. The gentleman said TO
her: ''You'se is the best locking girl have
| seen since Mc3inty went down" Which
compliment the beauty acknowledged by
saying: ibid he give you his best suit of
clothesm This provoked wild laughter, aud
the young woman felt that she was very
smart Another gentleman told her she
had two as handsome black eyes as he had
ever seen; and she made the statement,
| probably truthfully: Say, il were with
/ you much, would have two more black
| eyes"
| REPRODUCTIONS ARE IN ORDER.
A lady, who was decidedly passe. but
who bad been bowling from the stage some
thing about her being too young TO 90 out
without her mother, recognized Billy and
called out to him she was coming down to
be introduced TO his friends You can
imagine Billy's face. / said; "Let her
come" After the song was over she did
come, and was introduced to me as Miss
Cora Dorsay,' she was probably "a, but
she looked an elderly IS; cheap makeup,
and the lack of appreciation of soap and
water had given her skin a dried-up look
while late hours, bad food and dissipation
had not fattened her. Billy muttered. Say,
Cora, l was always a straight chap