New-York tribune., 1896-11-01

.,.,or ~, rho other aoor4 Then. though
there are good many things that can be mad on
any of the floors. you must take them IN the man
r.r prescribed for the floor that you happen 10 be
an For instance. on one floor beer IL served IN
glasses and on another In stems You cannot get a
Gle ss OF beer the stein floor and YOU cannot get
n stein OF beer the glass hoor
This 10 rather an extreme case. bur 1t Is a com
mon thing to find two parts OF the same restaurant
having different bills OF fare and different scales OF
prices or even the same bill Of fare and different
scales of prices. The table d'h6e may cost 81 p
upstairs and Il downstairs. Probably women are
not permitted downstairs and smoking Is forbidden
unstairs and most likely there is orchestra up
stairs which the most OF the men in tho cafe would
gladly do without. even ii they did not save quar-
ter b, missing the music. There are usually also
many nosomr decorations upstairs which detract
from the digestive powers OF persons OF good tase
bur which for some reason or other. II Is thought
INDISPENSABLE To infct on women. II you are a man
and are alone go to the cafe by all means. There
is no reason why you should put up with incon-
veniences which are intended only for women and
their escorts.
IN DIFFERENT CHARTERS OF THE TOWN.
There is A great deal OF geographical distinction
I'm the character OF restaurants. II would be eN-
pected that cheap eating-hoises would ABOUND IN
the cheap and poor parts of the town and that more
luxurious ones would be found in the region OF
Fiftb-avc and upper Broadway; but this * not all
There are altogether different sorts OF restaurants
I'm parts of the inhabited by weil-todo people,
and az for the kinds In the places where tney i've
and where they work. there is almost no rea Nom
ship between them suppose a man lives in hache-
lor apartments uptown. fIc gets his breakfast IN
Tho restaurant In the house. lIc finds his luncheon
In what he regards as nj appropriate place neal
his business downtown. lie goes IL third place
uptown for dinner ard then II he should go to the
theatre In the evening with friend. ne would go 10
a fourth place afterward for supper The choice OF
this fourth place depends on whether the friend Is
another man woman but he would never
for any other meal than the for which he does
go II. Yet somebody might find each of them
Just what he wanted for all his meals. But the
sensblites must be terribly duiled by restaurant
life when anybody Ia willing 10 visit the same one
three times day.
of n very solid Substantial things sold IN
large portions. and there are few frs. They are
open In time for breakfast, but nobody cares. Al
luncheon time they are crowded A few people come
In TO dinner. and then they close early. II has
often been OF surprise that there Is nc
at night. Everybody except tho restaurant keepers
seems to think that such n one would be a comfort
TO the belated workers OF the region Of City Hal
Square and profit to Its owner; but the expert
ment Is not yet tried. The only downtown restau
rants late at night are the coffee and cake shops.
Between City Hall Square and Fourteenth-st
there Is great region where restaurants OF any
sort are merely sporadic. except for some not un
interesting well over toward the sides of the city
above Foureenth-st the prevailing character Is en-
tirely changed There Is more elegance and less
soldity. Women expected In greater numbers
| Soon the luxurious quarter Is reached 1t may be
said to extend from Twenty -third-et to Forty sec
ond ST.. occasionally cropping out further uptown