The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-11-14
NoVE1 MATTERS OF ETIQUETTE.
Bsrs showed Up at . Tenderloin Restaurant
and q New Concert Room.

and q New Concert Room.
Not only is the etiquette of high society
sometimes confusing, but there are also trou-
bles in store for many other people whenever
New York has something new on its hands,"
said the didactic stranger. This year two
unaccustomed places have had trouble in i'm
pressing on their patrons the same view of
their duties which the proprietors themselves
hold. Uptown there has been opened a large
restaurant, which docs its principal business
after the theatres. 1t is an immense establish
ment, which represents the last word in lob
ster foundry enterprise. There Welsh rab-
bits are nightly manufactured in unprece-
denied numbers and there the cold birds flock
on the tables in covies of astonishing size. 1t
is not just the place to which a person would go
in search of q quiet supper when he wanted to
be freq from the interruption of beauty ana
v~ivacity. Thither the crowd focks after the
theatre, and remains until the early hours.
Some Of 1t goes home and some of it stays.
''There have been no particularly strict
rules. but there has never been any need Of
them. AS soon as tho place was opened the
crowd came, and the prosperity of the place
threw q cloud over all the others in the neigh
borhood. But the proprietors suddenly de-
tected a difference between their point OF view
and that of their patrons. To the diners it
seemed as IL their patrons were regarding the
place as o little less formal than the new AS
toria or Delmonlco's.
THAT was not at all the view of the man
agers. When they began to realize that this
was tho public's attitude they were deeply
grieved. They resolved to reform it, and one
Of those characteristic American struggles be-
kind the proprietor desires set in. Instead of
supposing that persons sitting, at one table
were certain to be contaminated by their neigh.
hOrS at the next. the DrODrietOrS ought tn hn va
allowed the customers to take care of their own
don. Paris or Berlin. But our point of view Is
different and another solution of the question
suggested itself to the proprietors. They decided
visitors who were not to their liking. The
curious feature OF the business Is that these
men had a restaurant further downtown, which
made 1t possible for them to get their present
establishment by building up precisely the
away at present. If they succeed, the rest of
the patronage will disappear because the Gus,
t1mersmof every kindIGo there merely because
Tenderloin is divided over the question Whether
it shall run the, risk of being waved away or go
to some other place; ,,,. .,o n
the questions suggested by another new cs
Enlistment. This is a new concert room in
q new hotel. The room is also to be used for
balls and is most superbly decorated. Con.
certs are held there for which tickets are sold
just as they arc for steinway Hall, CHECKER
Ing Hall, and other music rooms. But the pro.
prietors of this new hall want it to be very Sc
1ect. They will have nothing but the most
elegant audiences and the most brilliant
crowds. The New York habit of believing that
A. one has paid his way to get IN he may dress as
he ,pleases caused the proprietors OF this cs
their tickets, many of the au ;ience went with,
out wearing evening dress, The women wore
was not at all the idea OF the managers. They
wanted the concert room as brilliant as the ball
room. Something had to be done. So II was
given out that at the next concert womer
would be compelled to remove their hats, Il
they wore any, and leave them In charge OF q
maid. Then tickets sent out for the second con
cert had on the envelopes: Evening dress
please 1t may have made some difference ii
the appearance of the second audience. but Il
was regarded as the most heroic method o.
discipline ever adoptGd' ~ LOOKS as though ",
for everything new. Tho most disagrcoabl'
feature OF that l. the fact that the persons whit
teach us are the ones who are taking ouI
money all the time. AS soon as they hav'
made money enough out of us, they raise rhei
own standard and expect ours to come vi
simultaneously"