Southwest-sentinel. [volume] (Silver City, N.M.) 1883-189?, 1895-02-19
EDNEW York
.sAlNT LITTLE TUCKED W SHOPS
or HUDSON STREET.

az NV H
lother part Of New York, barring tho
lanes aud twisting thoroughfares Of
Greenwich VILLAGE. Tho elevated rail
road and tho march Of progress have
10th passed them by, and tho real estate
agent and tho builder and contractor
have not yet laid plans 70 Haussmaun-
izo them out Uf existence or out Of all
likeness 10 their quaint old solves This
cannot DO fer long, however, and al.
ready tho now order Of things. hugo
business blocks and crowded tenemonts,
IS pushing mp Hudson street from Cham.
bers 10 Harrison nt the one end and
down it for n block or two, where Il
runs into Niuth arcnuo at Thirteenth
street But between Abingdon square
aud Vestry street Hudson street retains
It's character lies almost unchanged
since it was opened up, aud q prowl
about this part Of its length will give
one au excellent idea Of how people liv-
ed and traded when tho century was
Just ablo TO walk alone. This seems all
tho more astonishing because Hudson
street Is nm unusually wide thorough
fare and furnishes direct communication
between tho wholesale quarter Of the
south and west and tho crowded living
quarter Of the middle west.
Hudson street Is no moro like the
New York OF today than an English
tavern Is like tho Kew Netherlands hos
tel. In fact, thcro Is a distinctly old
world atmosphere about tho place, and
II sections of Hudson street were 10 he
photographed and labeled "Strcet Scene
In Bristol" or I'm Exeter" or "In Dun
dee there Is no ono that would dis
pute tho legend. So, too, It would be
ont Of all keeping to call tho stores any
thing else than shops. They are just
plain, coy. tucked up little old fash
toned shops, whore tho stock in trade
aud tho customers are SO crowded to-
gether that two or three people will
crowd tho place, and where you can sit
at the short scrap Of counter and liter
ally put your hand on just what you
want. There is no need FOR n stepladder
in these shops Tho salespeoplo just
reach mp easily aud take down any
thing that Is needed, while tho ceilings
IRE so low that you fnstinctively feel
like ducking when you open the door,
with its little jangling bell, and when,
in fact, you can sweep the plaster with
your outstrotched hand. There is genCr-
ally. too. an unnoticed step down into
the shop at the junction Of the doors,
over which you plunge hcadlong in the
dear old fashioned broalCneck way.
There is no need Of clerks ia these
stores. The proprietor and one assistant
can look after all tho customers that
can be accommodated at ono time, and
sometimes all tho business is transact
ed by a comfortable and rotund old lady
who rolls her way slowly down tho
fioury lanes between tho piles Of mill
truck or m mp slowly ON a starboard
tack and lies to beside the open tubs OF
salt mackerel and pungent bloaters.
Some Of the progressive shopkeepers
and ono or two of tho younger people
have put plate glass into their windows,
but most Of the places arc still lighted
with sashes filed with many small
panes Of glass. Nine and twelve lights
70 the window are quite common, and
thoro ia one weather worn place on q
corner where each window has IS little
panes Of glass, and where you can stand
on the sidewalk and look in through the
top row, as was the proper thing when
New York thought that French plate
for American light was as fOolishly for
eign rs French songs for an American
audience. These are tho windows thai
one secs in cuts where tho passersby are
shown in sCuttle bonnets and p~elisgcs Il
they are ladies. and in bell topped hat!
and strapped trousors If they are men.
There is a distinctly old time and ole
country character about what is sold II
the shops as we'll as about tho shop
themselves In tho bakers shops, for in
stance, n secs the old mansion loaf,
Scottish scenes and English curran
cake. The candy shops sell 'swee
tuck and "lollicops." Tho ''tonsoria
artist" calls himself squarely a ''hai
cutter, T" and tho furniture man carrie
heavy mahogany tables, high marbl
topped bureaus and four post beds ii
stock, not as secondhand goods, but q
the proper thing for present use.
Hero ono may find tho real Englisl
e%hophousos and grillrooms, dull it'll
places where you pick out your stca.
aud can II you choose stand and soc
broiled over an open fire Of live coal
built up in hugo brick ranges, an
where the great brown ware teapots m
kept hot on tho hob, with Rebocca an
the well both glowing In tho freight
In one place, too, is an old fashione
''drosser" on which nro ranged blue ON
white orOckery. as though you wer
taking your meals ohocrily and withou
formality In tho kitchen, which, by tn
WY, Is where things always taste tn
best
Between tho boundaries indicate
there isnot a tall, ieeLing and thronge
tenement 10 DO seen. There is a goo
deal Of boarding and lodging. to DO auT'
but there IS also a good deal Of thi
rarity IA Now York, home lifo-thi
s.. tho single family occupation Of q
whole house. This is largely possib.
down hero because Of tho TCmnrkab'
conservation Of tho coy little tN
story rcd brick houses which are
characteristic Of tho period when u
quarter was laid out Here and there Z
Bond ami Delaney and Thompsc
streets these tiny. Npah's ark hons
arc to DO met with,1hut they are on.
the diney and dirty indications Of VIII.
they woro-hOuso tramps, 10 10 spot
while on Hudson street they AFRO 10
found BY tho block, still "a trim IA
neat and warmly red as when thl
were put up-New York Sun.
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