The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1896-03-29
MEN GOING TO
SATURDAY Ut DINNER ar THE
REsTA TRzyT or FATL Is.
nshs=is with soiiea itseu and Uspaia
D~ebts-Lights that Fstied IN Lltsraturr,
Art, sad MusIe who Meet aua Tell One
Aaothsr Their Views About Success.

art nnn Huete Who NeeN nno AeN bn'
Another Their Views Abopt Success
From the outside one would never notice tn,
building particularly. II stands on one OF TIT
eide streets that branch from lower sixth ave
nue. to make wonderful angles over In Green
witch village. A sign conspicuously displayed
at the front Is ornamented with an Italian
maine and this legend! Table d'H6te. with
Wine" which means too often that hotel ref.
use and ~tlncture Of logwood are served within
at prices which preclude the possibility Of any.
thing better. Enhance Is gained through q
swinging door into a low. Ceilinged room
stretching the length Of the house and ~fuftncr,
for an extension has been built on TO accommo-
date the extra tables necessary TO the trade.
Here on a Saturday night at dinner time there
is revelry which the pSsser by hears from the
sidewalk: loud laughter. and the periods OF
after.dinner ~oratory and bursts Of discoriant
cong. Perhaps he thinks as lie goes on that Il ts
very Bohemian; and 60 II is. II soiled linen and
unpaid debts give their posscssor his birthright
in Bohemia. For such RohemiAns this Is a
centre point. 1t is the Restaurant OF Failures.
Every Saturday night they gather here. these
failures, and tell each other their views on
success in life. In his own splendid a~nticipa.
tons each is on the verge Of achieving this sue
cess. Most OF them have al some time IN their
life lines had a taste Of 4: a taste that should
have inspired. bu. has only deNauched. Emit.
nence In music. art. literature. drama, this IA
the goal they hope TO rea,h by a journey for
which they are al ways pre airing. and upon
which they will start-to.mcrrow. In the past
they have set their name on mems tongues.
and they will do II again; only give them time.
And while they are boast!nE of their yestcr.
days and dreaming Of their io.morrows the
world has gone on and left ,hem in a hopcless
obscurity. so, drawn toGether W the com-
munity Of hopes that are hardly ambitious. and
by the necessity OF FELLOWSHIP in their shift
lessness. they form a sort of organization, and
in the in:oxication ot telling what they have
been forge, the misery Of what they are.
An artist who strayed into the place once.
and has been going hack to Il periodically ever
since. because, rs lie says, lie has "a mild MA.
MIA for Junk and wreckage, took a friend
TO the Restaurant of Failures one Saturday
night not long ago. and pointed oui to him
some OF the characteristic types. l: was hard.
ly Necessary to point them out, FOR they made
themselves known frankly. A somewhat ex.
tended scru :iny greeted the newcomers as they
entered the place.
That is a financial sizing mp" remarked
the artist. at IS intended to make gu. wheth.
er We have money, and II so what manner OF
men we are. in order that they may the better
contr!ve methods TO borrow it from as"
As he spoke he motioned 10 a small table
whence = good view was afforded OF a long table
formed By the iuxtapcsition OF a number ~ the
smaller ones. around which sat a dozen Of the
regulars. All were eating and all were talking.
each OF him or her self. that being the unive--
sally individual topic Of conversation.
There they are" said the artist. They're
the ones who gave the name to the place. the
Restaurant OF Failures. hut not one Of them
would recognize il as having any connection
with him or her self"
A Babel OF voices interrupted him. Above
them all rose the tones c. a tall. thin-taced
man. dressed in seedy sombreress. who rose
in his place shaking his fists savagely as lie
proclaimed in a reedy voice:
They don't know literature when they see
II. There isn't an editor among EN- that can
get his mind on anything beyond the business
onice. Poetry. real poetry. is a drug on the
market. Look at the stuff they print. eh:"
Rotten" calculated a red faced. puffy fcl.
low to whom the inquiry seemed 10 be d.
rected. Rotten. I've tried it myself. Why.
that Lament Of the Downtrodden' Of mine
was"
To-day l took my last poem all along the
,Sw shive iq'e rGnpS The lYscs ar;. S2TsTaiGfF' and /
Ne. Why. ten years ago when l wrote stream
cts OF City Song, they were all after me. You
smember that famous Bit that headed the
volume. Arthur:
Night in the city; 4 shadow that falls
BLACK a. the pit from its thousands OF walls,
Covering silently all
Hold on: no speeches YET. Well call on
fellow in a soiled veiveteen a,Ee,. down -.
1n.idiy. Win a s GOVT the the G. set . hfsE ,si.
and The other having secured the attention Of
Bows. recognition is coming TO me at last
ne declared proudly. I've got a big order.
The real thing hi. time, Ne NOR Poi boiler
arr fellows that a man who can paint what he
,ses win win in the end. And now I'm going
Who's the sucker;" gloornin-ly demanded
2 slsepylqosing man who sat s~prawlias back
p. 9. s.. replied the other mys,eriously.
&C. Q. D." inquired the poe; with a .neer.
M, 50 . r% %2't cot 5"s y i 6ad:.' 3"a Een,ed a ia,
little fellow IL a "aistcoa: that rad once been
sorss2S': I'm put tina! down. and he did
That's Fe-ley. who writes things tha; he
and finally. II hes lucky. he gets EN- printed in
one Of the loca.!ty wrekiies that are made IN
Of two editorials ard the re e, ted mater from
friends printed a book OF poems for an by
G6ssrin:i2n' apd 20 s,eTte' him on q down.
pyssIt Il i hadn't heaa lie E~ed.:aced chap
hoNA "AhAN - N''+1 AAilN i : c 'rt9 mere. IL
made the name OF Clc!lirh known FOR a week,
sad he's never done anything since. As for
the greasy one, be CALI himself D'EnCrel. He
makes the worst pictures Of any man in New
York. Tie sleepy looking duck who yrrdded
w D'Endrel was q bright chap once and a
clever cartoonist. Might lie yet hut for a.
sinthe. Just a. much at home here as the rest.
but he desplSes EN-. hecAUse he alone OF the
gang knows what he is and what they
arc They call him smithson, hut he's like
the White knights uGern: II isn't his name,
only what he's called"
Meantime the artist had BECOME a centre
Of interest 10 the crowd. The fact that there
q prospect Of his having money was suf-
icient 10 set him u .on a pedestal. A dozen
RssAilei him.
"0h. a hundred noS and the rest when It's
be remarked with a noncha!ant air.
That's one of his elegant bluns." com.
nented a particularly shabby man 81 whom
the paint smears on his Gun. prelicaiel thar
be was also an artist. which. l. rhaps. ex-
planned his tone. on the ground OF professional
jealousy. He said ito a puny young fellow
next him. with no particular Ia!ns 10
render his words inaudible e. the lest,
IL know what that job t." he continued.
ITS n nude for Pete ShAughnessy'- sa.o0n. |
Pete got Stendley 20 do one for him, and when
struck him for the price. he told
him TO take il out In trade. stems been doing
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