Belding banner. (Belding, Mich.) 1889-1918, 1899-03-02
OUR NEW YORK LETTER.
The Night Hawk Cabbies-Cuisine Pick
Ne Ups-signs OF the Times
In Gotham.
Especial Correspondence

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Shocked and visibly distressed by the
reports that the monster vice had reared
it's horrid head in the Tenderloin, Police
Captain Price has started a crusade
Sorrowful times have come to the ac-
commodating might hawk cabbies :
No longer do they dare to hold up the
country visitor and the inebriated citi-
zen with generous offers of "good
time" Their business has almost been
ruined, and all because one who did not
know his business had the temerity TO
invite a police commissioner to step in
to his cab and take peep at the sights
Police Captain Price learned of the kind
offer, and his knowledge has already
borne fruit While he was recovering
from his establishment that cabman
should dare to offer good time to po-
lice commissioner one of the bold ca
terers to midnight frolics actually APP
preached Captain Price himself. Such a
shock, coming to him in his own pre-
cinct, $50 free from vice, completely
unnerved the captain, and he did not
recover in time to make an arrest, but
he followed up the astonishing knowl-
edge by sending out detective CARRIED
in dudish citizens clothes and most
alluring pair of tan colored Dundrearys.
This brought arrest, for two "cabbies"
were arrested and fined. Along Broad
way the past few nights the absence of
hilarity among the cabbies is particular
" noticeable. who now realize that their
source of profits has, to great extent,
vanished forever.
Cuisine Pick Me Ups.
In an up town hotel in which the APP
petites of the guests at breakfast are
likely to show the effects of their pro-
ceedings the night before there is one
dish in unusual demand. The strange
ness of the article in such place COM
bined with the frequency with which it
is ordered. makes the dish one striking
feature of breakfast at the restaurant.
1t is Philadelphia scrapple, which Is
probably to be had in no other restau-
rant here. 1t is not ON the bill of fare
indeed in this place, and its presence is
known only to the initiated. There are
enough of them, however, to keep the
demand active. 1t takes the regular at
tendants at the up town restaurants to
discover these specialties which are in
tended to awaken the jaded appetite to
the possibilities Of breakfast. In one of
these places, for example there is on
certain days peculiar kind of herring
to be had. while in another there is
speciality simple in character, but so
excellent here in quality that it brings
a regular group of guests. This is a
way of serving spareribs, which ordi-
narily are looked upon as a lowly and
unworthy part of the pig. But they
have been elevated here to the value of
dish that tempts appetites never at
their best in the morning
Signs Of the Times In Gotham.
"There are all sorts of good money
around town now, and nothing goes
further to prove it than the attendance
at the theaters. They haven't been so
uniformly well patronized in five years,
possibly in ten, as they are at the pres
ent time, said Mr.. Colley, the ticket
seller at the Bijou theater, who is the
Oldest hand at the business in the city
since the death of Mr. Weymms of
Wallacks and further proof of it, "
put in an employee at Il big Broadway
florist 8, sis the fact that there never
has been a winter when there have been
so many or so high priced flowers sold
as there have been this winter. If / had
just the amount of money that has been
spent for high priced orchids since the
1st of November last, | wouldn't ask
for another penny as long as l live. 1t
would be a very comfortable fortune
indeed. "
The Hungarian Fad.
OF all the diversions that are INDUCED
in from time to time by out of town
visitors and the inhabitants Of the up
per west side none has continued so long
in favor as the nocturnal visits to the
Hungarian quarter on the east side,
where ''guylash' is the national dish,
where the wines are sweet and enticing
and where the wild music adds a charm
to the surrounding that cannot be
found anywhere else in all Gotham.
The inhabitants no longer stare at the
well dressed people who have invaded
their quarter. Hanson cabs and private
broughams are common sights along
Second avenue and East Houston street
now, for society has found pleasures
among the Hungarians that are not to
be consumed in single evening.
The Hudson River Tunnel.
At last the Hudson river tunnel has a
prospect of speedy completion. The
English capitalists who have taken hold
of the enterprise have taken steps to Sc
cure the sale of the property under fore
closure proceedings, three-fourths of
the bonds of the old company having
been turned in to the reorganization
committee. Chancellor McGill has al
ready decreed the sale of the property
in New Jersey. The tunnel was begun
years ago. but financial disaster over
whelmed the company and the panic
prevented any new capital engaging in
the undertaking Manhattan will soon
no longer be an island save in name.
Bridges of steel unite it to Brooklyn
and Bronx, and soon a tunnel under
the Hudson will unite it to New Jersey.