Kansas City journal., 1898-02-27
SEEN IN NEW YORK.
Made an Impression on
Visitor.

Letter to the New York Sun. :.
| live in the country-I want to say here
tina: New Jersey is not the only country"
Oh earth either-and l have been in New
York city for four days. half Of them wet
and half of them dry. 1 have seen things
| here which one does not see in the country.
| l have discovered why New York men in
| street cars don't get up and give their
places to women. II is because they haven't
| been trained that way. have seen any
number of boys holding fast TO their seats
in the cars while the women stood up
around them. AS the twig is bent the tree
in ircllned. Hence .. Z. u.
| The horses in New York vehicles don't
get steep enough, and you know what effect
| that will have. How do know they don |!
Because l have seen lvo asleep standing III
their shafts. 1t is a rare thing TO see a
| country horse asleep in harness.
| L saw a man well dressed and well-to-do
eating with his knife in u restaurant not
800 yards from the Waldorf. There were
| no bayseedS in his whiskers either.
| | saw Il man in frock coat, silk hat, gray
| trousers patent feathers. etc, and bunch
| of violets in the buttonhole of his coat
| lapel at noon in fashionable Fifth avenue
walking with 4 handsome woman. and he
| was smoking cigar! Is that New YORK
custom?
L saw a man walk up the wrong stairs
to an elevated train, and when heard him
swear because the signs We're not where
they could be plainly seen at the foot
of the stairs thanked him.
one minute after midnight and promptly
shut up his place. | saw several others
who We're not SO particular as that on the
Sabbath day.
l saw a woman in a theater take off her
hat when she heard a man behind her
whisper something to his companion. She
was New York woman too.
/ saw a Well-dressed man and woman on
Broadway half carrying between them a
poor, drunken, gray-haired old woman, get
ting her away where she might be cared
for flVNsah docs tn IurnN n
find good Samaritan tableaux vivants. does
he?
Ones linen and his hands will accumul
ate less soil and SCOT in New York in ten
hours than they will in Chicago in ten
minutes.
l heard a New York man call another a
liar over the telephone. and l never before
saw man seem to get SO much pleasure
out of an expenditure of 10 cents. The
New Yorker is thrifty.
I am pleased to observe that a reputable
woman may go out on the streets of New
York after dark in comparative safety. 1t
Is not custom to be advocated and prac-
ticed, but when it Is necessary II may be
done. and woman may go from Brooklyn
to Harlem at midnight with more peace of
mind than she could go the same distance
in my rural neighborhoOd.
I have been astonished at two things In
New York restaurants; one Of these Is how
cheap good things to eat may be had. and
low exorbtaItly dear they may lie II one
doesn't know where to go.
Who makes the women's dresses one sees
worn on the streets of New York? / ask
because I have seen so many women here
with the placket-holes of their dresses gap.
ing open at intervals as they walk. or as
they pick UP their skirts. II you dom,
know, Mr.. Editor, what a placket-hole is.
may say to you privately that 1t is the
slot at the waist slit down to allow the
wearer to get into her skirt. See?
I am panied and surprised to see so
many men in New York who at first blush
appear we'll dressed, but are not so. I hav.
frnck.
coats baggy trousers. rusty patent leath-
ers and other sartorial condiments to
match. Right out in broad daylight too!
The Chicago man is different in this. that II
he can't do 1t right he doesn't do 1t at all.
have not yet seen a hotel clerk in New
York who wore a diamond in his shirt
front which was held in place with putty
To one person I have heard speak of
house being in street I have heard
hundred say on street. from which
conclude New Workers are still Americans.