The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1895-12-19
THE WAYS OF GOTHAM.

stranger visiting Salt Lake once.
SAID That he never had been in town
where people lived so much outside
their houses
lie probably comes from New York
where, excepting in the tenement dis
trlcts, there is 10 sign of the people
being inside, and where no one thinks
OF looking out of the windows. To do so
is sure sign that one is not to the
manner born.
IL Is matter of interest to note the
diiferent ways of living and house
keeping from those which we have.
went marketing with friend to buy
the Thanksgiving dinner. Very few
markets were dressed up until Wednes-
day, nearly all the poultry coming in
IRON the country Tuesday night.
asked the reason for this and was told
that the farmers were afraid to lose
any weight and kept them alive until
the last minute. Turkey was twenty
cents a pound and capons thirty nine
wednesday morning everything looked
nne. The art of making things look
their best is well understood, and as
mucn trouble is taken as IL it were a
picture that was to last Potatoes are
Solu by the quart, seven cents a quart;
imagine some of our Utah potatoes be-
ing sold that way. 1t would be hard to
measure one potato that would fill a
two-quart measure. When you want to
buy bushel you must go to the large
markets or risk being told as one girl
L heard of was. She called to a vendor
| that she wanted some apples and
| asked the price. He told her how much
| they were by the dozens She said, But
| 1 want peck at least" "Well," he re-
piled, II haven't that many in my
wagon, you must have come from the
country"
Celery is sold five punches tied to-
gether in one large one for twenty-five
cents 1t Is necessary to get that much
for two persons, as you would find that
1T Is nearly all waste and of very in
| ferior quality to what we have.
| Lettuce is worth twelve cents a
head, but is very good and tender A
| small bunch of watercress, not more
| than enough for one, Is ten cents.
| Fresh eggs are thirty cents and fresh
laid, which is distinction never
heard of at home, are forty and fifty
| cents Dozen Altogether l think it
| would cost double to keep house in New
York what it would in the West.
| There is a peculiar custom among
| the waits and strays of humanity to
dress in all sorts of grotesque and alb
surd rags and parade on some of the
finest streets Thanksgiving day. They
toot horns and make as much of din
as our small boys do at election times.
They expect contributions of money
or other things. A few pennies thrown
among them will cause a scramble
equal to football game.
Not knowin ing of this custom / was
rather astonished when / went out on
the street to see an individual dressed
in the following fashion: long skirt,
trailing about yard behind, was
caught up In front, showing a pair Of
ragged trousers and unmistakable
boys feet, fancy waist put on the
wrong way about. A mask of a col
ored woman. adorned with flowing
blond curls and a bonnet met my as
tonished gaze. Similar styles worn by
a number of boys gave me queer SEN
sation, which | was glad to have ex-
planned away by being Informed as to
the reason for the show, that they
We're on their way to join in the pa
rade.
Some of the large firms are using
bicycles with box behind to deliver
small parcels. l Should think 1t any
thing but comfortable to ride over the
rough pavements, but l have seen
numbers of women who wind In and
out in fearless manner among the
carriages and wagons, in fact there
seem to be more women than men who
ride / have not noticed any wearing
bloomers. They have a regular tailor
/. | mo n u " rxytt Oh ov-t 81.
and tight-fitting waist or Jackets and
small hat. OF course they are not ri
ding for pleasure on the pavements
but only in order to reach the parl
and back home again, but 1t certainly
takes courage to reach either place.
A new and picturesque sight in New
York Is the street-sweeping brigade
On fine days the men wear white suits
Each one has his own district to kee,
clean. and with brush and shovel h,
sweeps and cleans, but like the ole
legend, the dirt keeps piling up, an6
, as fast as he brushes 1t away more
, keeps following. On rainy days they
, wear oil-skin clothes with a fisher
, mans hat. The yellow color Is a bright
, spot in the gray atmosphere, and 9
group of them with the huge cart the,
use give a decidedly picturesque effec,
to the street. It Is something that 4
needed, for the streets are very ugl,
and monotonous If you look only at The
architecture, which Is the same every
/. where, excepting In the newer parts
of the city near the park
That Neu' y--'r hr- z, III Ano -stlI
feeling tn erect OF the financial de-
preston Is evident Ia number al
ways. C'ne y n the ipprlased atteatlot
: and coui ,esy shown 10 ctlatomersI 4
few year since you could buy or lot