Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-02-19

NHlI But 1t is opening
~A&A There is no deny
ing that fact. Mr.
Cookers end-of-December admiration
We've got to be good If we want to be
happy. Needed as it was with touching
n.eekness. submission and long-earedness
when 1t was issued. is gradually dying
away into the merest echoed faintness of
swan song. and the Tenderloin is be-
ginning to rub its eyes and stretch its
eFer-ienstheninS tentacles. and to inquire
with measurably sound reason, too when
you reflect upon it-"What the deuce was
the good of our helping to boost Tam
many in If We rot now to live in the
mellow sunshine of Tammany days and
the incandescent blaze of Tammany
n.ghts?"
When majority of the whole popula-
ton declared in November last that IL
wanted Tammany it did not mean that it
wanted improved systems of street light
iEg. street sweeping or street policing 1t
declared for the recrudescence of the Ten
derioln as the Tenderloin was before Mr..
Roosevelt enacted the modern Haroun-al-
Raschid and before DIR. Parkhurst began
to WELD his club and his broom-and the
Tenderloin it is going to have.
The Ingenious youths with sharp but
tred-looking eyes who in former years
OF Tammany rule mastered the difficult
esoteric art of living we'll on nothing a
year. but who seemed to be handicapped
IL the exercise of that art during the Roose-
Welt era. are beginning to reappear in the
Tenderloin in all the magnificence of their
redeemed FUR coats and rose diamonds. and
contribute their share to the picturesque
mysteriousness of the district The groom
ed and vanished practitioners of the per-
petually-profitable now-you-see-it- and-now-
you-don't game yclept green goods are
returning from their exile in Philadelphia
and Wilmington, and smile vaguely again
upon rosy world. The simple village
nrHV1ilpl RrOad-
ways intersection with 9Th avenue at SD
street is mingled in again by mild-looking.
scberly-clad male persons who in former
Tammany years found their ministerial
makeup of Invaluable aid TO them in dis
posing figure very much below the
bullion rate of dipped yellow bricks.
The New York youth is never one-tenth
as wicked he thinks he is and wants to
be. He sits at the feet of the top-coated
home-destroyers of the problem plays for
tips as to manner. attitude, carriage, and
generally he makes a sad hash of the at
tempted duplica ton When he gets into
his evening clothes every movement of his
body and every infexion of his voice seem
10 be designed to inquire of the onlooker:
Now. SIC here. amt bad? Amt just
about the wickedest bit of male youthful
ness that ever came down the pike? Amt
i just going the limit. hey? Amt / too
Gevilisnly dissipated for any use? Amt /
a rafting good central figure for a revised
edition of a hn-de-siecle Hogarth's 'Rake's
Progress Get next TO the way pour out
this wine Shows me to be hot stuff don't
II? Notice how l bully the walters? Can't
be a warm member nowadays Unless you
bully the walters, you see. Oh, gee, but
m bad
Nothing tickles the mental palate of the
New Yorker or the New Yorkeress of to-
day more than the New York stage depic-
ton of the hayseed. Deeply imbedded in
the bland soul of the average New York
man Is the conviction that all Americans
who do not live within radius of twenty
miles Of the New York city hall are fitted
by appearance. manner and the influence
or environment to assume star parts in
The Old Homestead" or Shore Acres"
The population of Greater New York being
IN round numbers, say, 100000. the re-
mainder OF the population of the United
States OF America about 66WOOOO human
beings. also in round numbers) is made up
OF "RGbes" and 'Zekes'-this is the actual
faith of the born-and-reared New York
man II is not the New York anglomaniac
alone who now refers to the outlying
states as the provinces" The phrase is
coming into general use here. 1t sounds
both pathetic and funny when emitted
from the lips of the New York young man
or woman who has never been farther
away from New York than Coney Island
or Rockaway Beach. 1t is about as diff
cult TO convince a New York man of the
absolute truth of the statement that the
bralnltst and most successful men of the
big town came originally TO New York from
Other states mot infrequently indeed from
the farm. generally in their young man
hcod, as II is 10 persuade a San Francisco
man that the climate of his city is barbar-
Gus: or Chicago man that the sky is not
higher over Chicago than IL is over any
other spot earth.
IL there lives in any municipality in this
country OF more than 80 900 inhabitants
from Maine to California and from Michi-
gan 10 the gulf, any class of provinciaIs
more prodigiously and absolutely proyin-
ciaI IMAM the average born-and-reared New
horker the present writer has simply never
happened 10 meet up with them
The proprietors of a large number of
great department stores of New York have
only recently found out that there are hun
uFeuS, ana II Is even said thousands of
wealthy New York and BROOKLYN women
who do all of their shopping on this side
OF the water in the city of Philadelphia
On all OF the railroads running TO Phila-
delpnla there are two trains a week called
shopping trains" for the accommodation
OF women Of these parts who maintain thar
they are treated with more courtesy and
consideration. and obtain. besides he,ter
gewgaws. trinkets. furbelows and things
Tor their money in Philadelphia than in
Ne" ok Inc proprietors of the big
shopping shacks are standing aghast al
thtlr discovery and spluttering many inane
IhliSs about lack of local feeling" nm
iaIr treatment and that sort of humbug
me cudSels are often taken up for the
shop girl as a whole class, and justly taken
up but the shop girl who presides al the
ooui'ers OF most OF the New York depart
,Htht stores Is pretty well able to care for
hefseI IN encounters with grabbed women
customers. or TO start such encounters
a-solhg. Tor the matter of that which ac-
counts in great measure for this constantiy
HCrsaSlns twice-a-week exodus of New
i1rk shopping women for the mild neutral
SolGriess town of Philadelphia. where they
MAINTAIN. they find courtesy from the Della
war 70 the HissahickOn. and cheapness
enough to pay for their jaunts over.
Not In many winters have there been
such vast and genuinely pathetic-lookino
cIe"s OF open date theatrical folk hover
ing around the agencies. The general stam-
pede 10 the vaudeville boards helped the
unfortunate theatrical third-raters out a
Eood deal last year but that game has now
been oVerdone, and the vaudeville manae-
ers now demand combinations of all-stars
TO maunder and drivel through their in
slpid sketches" in the music hall atmos-
phere OF tobacco smoke and Martigny cock
tan aroma The thrd-raters men and wo-
men. simply can't get jobs on the stage of
any sort whatsoever. even In the f,y%by-
gether By Bowery bunco artists for the in
Fiction OF one-nfght New England stands.