Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-08-10
NEW YORK NOTES
Times Are Very Dull in the Great
Metropolis.
TALK ABOUT TIE ALLISON WAVE
Conspicuous Politicians Believe in
the Iowa Mans Chances.
SUMNER AND THE RESORTS

New York just now. 1t may subside. These
anti-convention enthusiasms are not the
best gron d for predictions. But the opin-
Ion of some of the best politicians now in
this city or who have visited 1t in the past
week is that Mr.. Aiiison's chances today
are better than those of any other repub-
lican candidate for the presidency. And
make no mistake about Mr.. Allisons candi-
dacy. There is probably only one man in
contemporary political history who was
a confessed candidate for the presidency
and that was David b. Hill. He was not
afraid to say that he wanted to sit in the
White House. But all of the other can
didates of both republican and democratic
parties are like Mr.. Harrison. men who
have nothing to say, or like Mr.. Allison,
,r1en who are mot candidates for the NOM
nation but who will not say that they
would decline the nomination if it was ten
dered to them.
So astute public man as the Hon. David
E. Hill is credited with having said in con-
yersation recently that he believed that
Mr.. Ailison's chances were better at pres
emit than those of any other candidate, be-
cause of his conservatism and because of
the fact that he had no pronounced enc
mics in his own party. Mr.. Hill is
no doubt would like to see him nominated
rot any more because of his admiration
for him than because he believes that with
his high tariff ideas Mr.. Mckinley could
not possibly be elected. | met ex-Congress-
man Nathan Frank of st. Louis the other
day at the Hoffman House and he said
that he did not see how Allison could help
being nominated. Mr.. Frank had been un-
der the magnetic influence of James S.
Clarkson at Long Branch, though, and
that may account for his feeling in the
matter.
Speaking of presidential candidates. 1
Eryp Il. I'D
that he will support Reed TO the nominal
ton. No ole who knows the Senator ex-
pected anything else from him. He is 10y
al to New England at all times, and Mr.
Reed will be the New England candidate.
But Mr. Frya is too honest to say that he
personally favors Mr.. Reeds candidacy.
Signs of the Times.
There is undoubtedly an increase Of
prosperity in some parts of the country and
a growth in certain Industries this summer,
but certain signs suggest that 1t has not
reached New York city yet One of the
most striking of these is the line Of work
men out of employment waiting for bread
on Broadway and 10th street every night
1t has been the custom of a weIl-known
baker. whose shop is there, to give to the
poor every night between 1880 and 1
O'Clock the broken loaves Of bread from his
shop Fie night sell these for a small
sum to cheap restaurants. but he prefers to
summer. a line forms at the entrance to
the bakery on 10th street. Strangers III the
city who are coming up town in a Broad
way car late at night on their way home
from Manhattan Beach wonder at the long
line OF shabby men gathered under the
gas lamps. sitting the curb in orderly
single file. waiting for something--just
what is not apparent to the uninitit'ed
.Coxey's army the Broadway car con-
fuctors call this army of the hungry
when they explain to in:uirers the mean
Rs of the gathering. There is rarely a
right when every conductor whose car
Jasses 10th and Broadway is not called
on to explain. Even the people of New
York are so little familiar with this part
of the city after dark that I heard the
driver of a street hack the other night
what the row was about
Normally this line of men extends as
far as the door of Grace Church, but lately
1t has gone on beyond 18th street. The
men in line not tramps. They are
plainly workingmen out of a job. No one
can doubt that If he passes along the line
and takes even casual look al the men
who compose 1t. The line now, in the face
of returning prosperity. is longer than it
ever has been before. Plainly, if this can
be taken as an index, the number of men
out of work in New York is greater than it
has been.
In the Squares.
The tramps, too, are unusually thick in
the city. Every public square is full of
a little circle surrounding fountain. On
its benches every day is an array of
tramps which would brighten away any de-
Madison Square, too. are full of these dirty,
Unlocking fellows. The chief occupation
Of the policemen in the squares is to see
that no tramp goes to sleep on a bench.
Tho tramp's rights stop at the privilege of
occupying sitting room. If he drops into a
doze ne is awakened pretty sharply by hav-
Ing his head shaken violently or the soles
OF his shoes beaten with vigor. Central
Park Is not free from the tramp, of course,
but he is not in exclusive possession there
To ono who has seen the public squares
and Gil cles of Washington filled day after
day with groups of smart nurse maids and
prettily dressed children, and often with
men and women, the tramp
infested gardens of New York are rather
except as they offer spot of
green in the waste of brick and granite
and asphalt
There are to be more public squares in
New Yorks crowded district While the
misguided city authorities of Cleveland
and ST. Louis are filling up the public
squares with public buildings and con-
Sressonal economists are trying to rob
W Washington of some of the public parking
Tor building sites. New York Is planning
the purchase of valuable land for the pur-
pose of establishing new breathing spots |
m the heart of the crowded city Nothing
IS too costly for New York If 1t represents
Improvement
When the excitement over the enforce
ment OF the excise law has subsidized a lit
tie. the police board is going to have an
sven more serious problem to solve 1t is
not new by any means. but it has been lost
10 sight recently. 1t is the ever present al ]
ways undetermined social evil cues lion. |
fhe new phase of it grows out of the
breaking up of the famous ''Tenderloin''
district. One evil which resulted from this |
Immediately was the invasion of the fiat |
houses by the scarlet women, so that GER
lain parts of the city are quite as much |
.ainted now as the Tenderloin was before. |
On the RinIto.
There is not much to be seen on Broadway |
nowadays anyway, except cheap actors and |
women with bleached hair The famed |
Riaito' is no longer in the vicinity of |
Union Square. but on upper Broadway; and |
the curb of that thoroughfare north of 23d |
street is fringed day and night with young
Or old men, whom the passer cannot rec
ogniZe as any of the celebrities of the stage |
ihey are the small fry of the profession |
waiting FOR engagements. Few Of the bet |
ter Known actors are in town. Most of |
them are yachting or spending their time |
at summer resorts In fact, but for the |
plant of the summer Resort managers one
would think that all New York was at the |
seaside or in the mountains The hotel