The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-06-20
j. M
9th Ave., Corner goth St.
A NEW
ls Has Arisen from the Failure or an Ola
Bohemia That Had Been Deserted.

ls Has Arisen from the Failure or an Ola
Bohemia That Had Deen Deserted.
There 10 a new place in which one can sec the
Bohemian as he eats, and the table d'hote din
ners, to which these rare birds were supposed
to flock. are temporarily languishing.
Visitors to New York who look for this inter
estins specimen Of metropolitan life drink sour
wine and eat sloppy food In his old haunts. yet
arc not rewarded with o glimpse Of the DO.
hemian. He has fowl the nest and re-
turned temporarily to an establishment which
10 believed to have sheltered at ono
time q collection of eaters who were real
Simon pure, genuine. hard-backed Bohemians.
who. having disappeared from the scenes of
weak coffee and strong butter in which they
once figured, have never been succeeded by q
generation half SO sturdy. TheBohemians, like
other blessings, grow brighter rs they hy, and
the flyer the Bohemian the brighter he is. At
all events, that early splotch of Bohemians has
long been referred to as the best of the kind.
The preceding generation either had weaker
stomachs or the table d'hote grew worse; at all
events there was a degeneration somewhere.
and tho Bohemians of one particular resort
that may servo as an illustration lost prestigs
greatly. The dinners declined also. and after q
while IL a man came down from Port Byron and
wanted to see a genuine specimen. It was per-
fectly useless to take him to the place. There
was never anything to be found there which
oven a Port Byron stranger could be made to
take for a Bohemian. 1t was true that some OF
them burned sugar In their coffee with brandy
that could DO used only for that purpose and
for washing carriages. Many OF them did
this, and one distinctive mark Of the tribe
was to be observed. But 1t seems
only a survival of the older days when the Eng
lish singer was the supposed queen Of a little
coterio that was about equally subject to her
wit and her beauty. Queens of Bohemia. 1t
might be observed in passing. have grown rare
and the domain 10 becoming democratio. But
even the sugar burned in the coffee spoons could
not conceal the fact that a large number Of tho
the nall brush. Most Of them were shayen. and
that the B%ohemlans were no longer to DO hunted
They, had scattered among other and cheaper
table .dIl6te establishments. settling in some
town. This added excitement to tho task OF
hunting them. but the lack OF Capitalization was
seventh street, down to Eighth to dnd a 10
hemian, who might after all be IN none OF tho
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which a Bohemian would certainly DO soon:
The establishment came into existence after .
II was, curiously enough. tho original home OF
the tribe that OPENED its doors again. When the
found who for any length q. time was, able to eat
the dinners. They were adapted only TO Bohe-
milan digestion, and the landlord, trained to
cater 10 this taste. found himself unable to
satisfy a stomach not accustomed to a dinner
made up chiefly. of waterloggcd. radlshes,
metallio-tasting olives. and French rolls OF
dubious nativity but undoubted age. He saw his
S %ntfSsr sbs sliP8iR1 Sws ST4 x, y nor,h by yea" r. S and
they left him, Just ms the others had before
them. So no handed over the establishment to
a downtown restaurant keeper, who entered
into possession with his chronic deficiency in
the number OF walters necessary to attend to q
certain number of patrons. his supply of good
wines, and his chonp food. So the flag OF Bo-
heInia WINS once more raised on the building.
Out of the Italian basement. the second-story
French table d'hote; back parlors that Of
and other resorts of the kind. they
ditions of tho old days hung about and the I'M
Hhaven jowl IN once again In control, Sober cit
liens were attracted, out-of'town visitors wero
taken In, and the customers increased In num-
bcrs. Good wines kept them. and there were
the BOhemians. How long they will survive,
nobody knows. for the radishes, olives and gritty
bread no longer play 80 large n role as they for
merry did In the bill OF fare. Besides, they
are able to keep to themselves, ms tho rooms
as many ms ten or twelve, may be soon in ono
evening between tho hours OF z and 10. Maybe
they will revive the fame OF the cottages best
Bohemian days, which. being some ten years or
moro in the past. were, according 10 their repu.
tation, the wlttiest and Rayest that ever reached
the sentiments OF helpless Incidence or impotent
endeayor, sharpened with nothing but envy OF
the man who did well what the others had only
talked of doing.