The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1894-02-03

closed W by the time the Investigators
come out Of the theatres. The COMMITTEES
/ will find no arches Of colored gas jets over
Bowery doors. aud will hear no squeak OF
festive fddles within. The street will be
comparatively silent, and II will not be worth
while to investigate the policemen who will
/ he walking their beats at that hour Of the
night. The shopkeepers OF the Bowery open
I early and close in fair season.
BILLY McGLoRT's Armory Hall Is closed.
! and BILLY himself has grown Rrayhaired
! since the stories Of former investigators
| were told around up-country firepiaces.
| OwNET GEOOHEoAS is no more; there lie
| big wholesale warehouse on the corner
where HARRY HILL furnished entertain
ment for man and beast there is a Hat
| house or something else where the old
| Tivoli used to be- and The ALIENS Mabiile
has disappeared. It will be Of no use to look
| for the Slide or the Glass Barrel. The
! opium Joint Of JoHS. one OF the pioneer
Chinese 81 New York, into which the most
heroic investigators used sometimes to
venture. is occupied now by an italian fam
lily; no more do the sweet fumes Of the mar
cotic dope permeate the hallway OF BARNEY
MCGUiRE's. aud Bottle alley Is moetly
given up 10 private tenements, On the east
side almost the only opportunity for In
vestigation by rural experts is in the region
OF Third avenue and Fourteenth street, and
Whereabouts the cops are so "fiy" that
in the event OF a misunderstanding IL
would be a hard matter to convince them
ofThsnd that the stranger was an investi-
eating statesman.
ON the west side the Investigators will
find things somewhat different. but 50
changed that the stories OF former investi-
eating committeeman will be anything but
accurate guides. The old Buckingham Is
gone. and so are the Cremorne and the swell
opium joint next door. No moro do festive
jays trip the light fantastic cowhide with
Sixth avenue ladies on the waNed floor Of
the Haymarket. to the amusement OF
Johnnics in the galleries: for there is a
family museum OF CHASTITY things on that
corner. Ton GOLD has lost the Sans
Souci and one lung. and JENNY IRVING
colleague Of former Investigators and his
Empire Garden have gone the way Of most
OF To- other things which statesmen from
afar used 70 love 70 investigate. All OF
these landmarks for Investigators have
disappeared.
evan gelized. however. and It may be that
the presentinvestigating committee will not
find the after-theatre hours entirely dreary.
But things are so changed up there that
few residents OF this orderly town. outside
Of the PARKHURsT coterie. know Just where
the vice that has been driven from public
view is temporarily concealing itself. II
the up-country experts insist upon making
the most Of the hours after committee sit
tings. they should remove their trousers
legs from their boot tops before venturing
late at night into the Tenderloin labyrinths:
for. despite all that can be done by the
police. these localities are not so safe for a
stranger with the smell Of hemlock bark
about him. as were the wide-open resorts OF
other days. Should occasion require. any
policeman Of this town would as cheerfully
interfere for the protection Of an expert up
country investigator OF the metropolitan
police force. as he would II the stranger in
distress were in town on any other errand.