New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-12-25
HAD IT ALL THEIR OWN WAY.
CHRISTMAS TOYS AND THEIR vENDERs FILLEI
i. ....... AZ. NTH NnIs y. AND LLEE.

! CHRISTMAS TOYS AND THEIR VENDORS FILLED
SATURDAY EVENING WITH NOISE AND LIFE.
| The "fakirs' had it all their own way IN fuitoh-
Saturday From roadway TO Niiiiam-H'' inc
| famous old thoroughfare swarmed win Nehuefa Oh
| IA bewildering variety OF cheap hoVeloc' i"''1
was plague of tin bugs, bros beasts anu humans
all crawling or trying crawl or able TO crawl ac
| cording to the amount of winding their ''innards
had received
| On Fulton-st the day before Christmas always
seems like old times before the Bridge drew away
thousands of ferry pilgrims but the array of brass
throated "fakirs' which lined Fulton-st saturday
! broke the record Before their numbers and noise
the Midway Paisance faded into insisnfcance. the
Bowery was dis:anced completely. and Eighth-ave
and Coney Island became troubled dreams
The English was a sort of popourri and the ac-
cents savored OF all nations. There was scarcely
| room for another pushcart on either side Of the
street for two blocks. and the throngs OF people
made the sidewalks almost impossible. mere were
big fakrs and little fakirs-fakirs white and col
ored. Italian. Irish German and miScclaneous vet
Grams from Ann-st.. who sin look lovingly back 70
the Johnstown food their greatest professional
triumph. and amateurs from anywhere. Tribune
reporter pushed his way through the crowd early
in the afternoon and counted 1Gi fakirs on the
block between Nassau and William sts and the
djacent streets blockadod also. The articles
for sale varied from jumping jack to toothbrush
| but the favorte line seemed to be tin bugs and
animals propelled by winding up spring within
There tin flies. frogs. snakes. lizards. dogs
cats and rats, and in the human line cannibal
ran up an impossible palm tree, detached tin
cocoanut and down again.
| \ thin youth with premature chin whislers stood
on the north side OF the way and urged the crowd
to buy tin sailor that ran up "A corkscrcw masi
The thin youth was Just selling one OF these marvels
so simple" he exclaimed. "a child OF three can
button and the sailor runs up the mask ana then
runs down. carryin' the Amerkn FLAG"
purchaser cheerfully 'I'll be back here in ten min
Perfectly simple" insisted the thin young man"
"a child Of three can operate It, He places his 1t
tie fingers upon this button and the sailor runs up
the mask. and then runs down, carryin' the Amerl
/ kin flag"
That's sort Of Hawaiian business, isn't IT,"
in a}IaS the reporter
Il say it's kind Of way they do in the
y CLEAN of Intelligence spread over tho thin
young mans face and lost itself in the premature
You NEAR, them cannihals." he said simple
hangs the kokernut on the limb places his little
up the tree. detachcs the kokernut, and runs
dime. whichll yer have?'
a middle-aged "falr' selling muffs. Here
you are" he called elegant fur muN for = cents,
all lined with silk. There amt no cotton piusn
about these. every mun Is genuine animals faf.
And they were. The animals that fur grew upon
once lived and climbed and sang on the back fences
"Geruine gold watches fer Is cents" toy furnl-
ture. horns. fans. pincushions. Swiss villages IN
glass bottles. Esquiinaux with movable arms and
legs the in the moon. all SORTS and conditions
Of jumping jacks each and al came In for share
Of Importantly and attention.
Nearly all the boxes and cases were marked
made in Germany" and the display certainly sur
passed previous years in ingenuity variety and
noise The great number OF push carts impeded
the passage OF wagons and days through the
upper part OF Fulton-st all day. and made II ain
cult for one wagon to pass another. but tho
"fakrs" didn't mind trines Of that sort Th"y
kept one eye on predatory wagonwheeis ana talked
right along
As the reporter turned out Of Fulton-st thor"
was a collision between the wheels ~ Two hcdNF
draws. accompanied by the usual volley OF abuse
and profanity from the drivers but IN the paus'S
of the storm and from beside the larger dral
came familiar monotonous voice: "A child of
three can operate H. He places his little myers
upOn this button and the sailor runs up ne ma
and then runs down, carryin the Amcrkin nag.