The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1898-07-10
THE WAR IN OUR FOREIGN QUARTERS
Patriotic Displays in the Jewish, French and
German Parts OF Town..

Patriotic Displays In the Jewish, French and
German Parts OF Town.
. Cheap flags. put MP In all the foreign quarters
OF the city when the war with Spain opened,
long since began to fade and some have been
torn from their sticks by wind and rain. But
there arc not lacking other signs In those quar-
tiers Of interest In the war. Grand street, q
thoroughfare OF oil nations save the American.
is quite as patriotic as Broadway. Ingenuity
has been taxed to express the patriotism OF
Grand street. Even q summer garden over
there has been named for one OF the new naval
heroes. while the portraits OF Dewey, Sigsbee
and Hobson. ready framed for hanging on the
walls OF n~eighborinR tenements. are sold In
half q dozen shops at from 10 to 40 cents.
One Grand street merchant of very foreign
name has so far anticipated events as TO dis
play In his window a tobacco leaf shaped into a
rude map Of Cuba, with Havana consplcuously
marked on the coast. and over all the Stars
and Stripes waving. A Grand street merchant
whose business Is plating and buttonholinR
displays in his window n female figure whose
plated draperies are composed Of the national
colors. Another Grand street shop announces
the sale Of the stock from a country merchant
ruined by the war. In fact a wa failure sale.
Far over toward the East River q Grand street
baker displays a Dewey banquet raisin cake"
Some Of the poorest Of the east side tone
ment streets have not maintained the patriotic
display that marked the first weeks OF the war.
This is especially true OF the Jewish quarter.
where the cheap flags 6utter feebly here and
there. with little else to indicate a period Of
special public interest. Even here. however.
the prevailing taste for the national colors In
articles OF dress makes itself felt. and butter
fly bows" bearing the Stars and Stripes are
freely sold by i%tinerant merchants. AJewish
corset-maker displays q lay figure gorgeously
corrected sso IN = the tn n IaHt az S SotpTe;,o d,sn,ov :, tho
German. quarter, whatever the attitude OF En-
Rcror william in the present conflict. but then
hear the opinion Of him freely expressed in
honest native German Iby frequenters Of the
popular Of these characteristics resorts displays
the tutelaEy American eagle unfolding the
e eIdee q It's, Wicker swinging ~ street door.
an ahe %el @an 's sRocR eafBs attery M hnd eaf L S poiiti S't To
cover hls little stand With the AMERICAN flag.
man m M09 a@a Ps ra Row W Wn9 our aafS own. and ne The The Ger GER
man flag entwined. and, indeed. the German
aaaSS Is w6 rarely yb d1IisP pa Gian,s German on H.,s sta ntG}nees
o ofP our n feet and of the deest csonman ID r'' The
Maine appears everywhere in the German
albums. an institution. by the way. chiefly con-
h9 TSe e . e ; a deartS Of patriotic dIspIey in the
trated weekly. especially devoted to the war
with Spain. Is published at Milan and sold in OF
least one OF the local Italian quarters. AFrench
publication also gives itself up to illustrating
the war. One OF the best known illustrated
weekiies Of Paris was unfortunate enough to
publish a picture OF schley labelled Dewey.
great sign Of interest n the var though they
national feast. French stationers and dealers
in periodicals seem to feel that their cSompatri-
yond current reports Of battles and sieges.
There is no such display OF the naval heroes
and our ships in such shops, throughout the two
French quarters as in like shops In the German
quarter.
side has been richly decked In bunting. and
that, too. mainly OF q quality that has enabled
the decorations to come fresh through the
varying weather q the last ten weeks: Two
one q saloon, frequented by local Britons
especially OF the horsy type. the other q chop.
house dear to the lower order OF English actor
folk, proudly display the new-sprung good will
Of the British. One keeps an American flag
above its bar mirror, and another has an
abundant display Of bunting.