New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-12-30

rather high up. and people wonder as the light falls
through its roughened and dinusing surface at the
peculiar ana beautiful fittings OF the placr Encour
iron lattices which made more enective tran
som hlling than any spindle ani sr, "TF nSss .hat
stained glass. 1t does not require an artist to see
some great mahogany doors and they swing IN me
studio now. perhaps for somebody VINO Goes NOT
dream that he is holding the handle of what was
The loft where the interior a,tngs are kept is a
very thesaurus of doors-front doors and backdoors
baitenei doors ana ciiNtt pdIsS. 11ine y. 'ie."
have their frames and surrounding pillars ana cor,
Co!onih. door with a deep frame around ara pehlnd
IT. and put II up against the wall OF a room FOR
wardrobe. Beside the doors Is church pulpit ana
next % r. "A store cash Dooth ana an tt.ay T., 81
COUNTERS Then come marble slabs ana nantes IN, IN,
Vulnerable. together with gas fixtures ana OLD
plumbing Seemnsly lost among tnese SCI houseS
that have been is a house that was to have been
tvo-lnch log ami miniature nume and wheel Where
II was built. or when. If ever. II offered no eN-
ont in the yard are great piles OF boards and
scantlings and umbers Just as at the lnmper-deal,
NAH hole int though somewhat damaged they
are in demand. \ string OF wagons drive INTO the
yard. the drivers hand 20 the gateman sr"'Npacks'
ind drive OF win loads OF the old ur
Going on through Greenwich. the regioH where
they have clliuiicIl Windows, with nui-moon
blinds. which sNing from one n'nSe ola lnf 'uIsvn
side another Kind az Iunkm3n - found. lie Is
somehns Of asman DHt ne sGirs 81 hotties th@
He VIII buy any kind OF bottle, ana sell one,
too. that matter. though tnAt io' uiS
prnclpal business. He and others NJ MN
scnJ their bottles to be sorted. AMI the
patcnt medicine man. with his name biown IN
the bottle as Il guarantee to his custom,.s comes
and picks out what was once his. buys 1t back at =
discount and retlls 1t. happy in the thought that
that name In the glass helps him as wei as MS
patient The unlabelled bottles go TO various uses
Not one ends It's career until II Is broken Even
them II serves some purpose no doubt
Through Centre-st and other manufacturing us
tricts another class of junkshops Is found: There
bolts screws chisels and wrenchos abound Now
and then You will pick up some elaborate hre tongs
and nudirons or n rusty sword that has been d.
vorced from it's hero Then go down In South-st..
and see what ships come to. Here is coil OF rope
there an old capstan. in this corner compass. and
hest Of all the ngurehead OF some broken up vessel
Maybe some day she viii change her name and 80
on another cruise.
The iunkshop seems to that nothing is an emf
to Itself Everything lives to be something else ana
the iunkman takes all and gathers up the frag
ments that nothing be lost. And even the ;Inkshop
gives way a well-known one was sougr Tor raw
material for this sketch. and II too was found con-
verted into raw material and It's place taken by a
smart new block. This sketch. too. Is raw mate
rial I'm its turn and Is intended to go toward the
finished product OF n newspaper. And it IL Just
among the possibilities that somebody may md
the newspaper material for thought.