The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1899-08-27
CROSSROADS ON BROADWAY
A COUNTRY TILLAGE ASPECT BEGINS
NEAR LONG ACRE SQUARE.

Appear-Tho Interesting Surroundings.
Broadway is a term that has come TO have a dis
tinct adjective quality inthe world IS ears Whether
in talk or In type, the term prefixcd TO anything
stands for as much as a dozen ordinary adiectives
A Broadway production, a Broadway shop, a
Broadway house answers to the popular conoep-
ton Of what the great thoroughfaro stands for,
namely, tho desirable In every line Of progress
and convenience, whether IL be plays, fine clothes
making, flower selling, hotel keeping, invention
showing, what not The street. however, that
has the most activity for the most people for the
longest time together in the "a hours all the year
round, has some obviously uncharacteristic parts,
and one part at least where the Familiarity famous
name on the lamp posts seems a misnomer
What street is this we've got TO- now" a sum-
NOR visitor asked lately while waiting with some
friends TO take tho not far from Long Acre
Square
This Is Broadway" he was told.
Broadway! You have three Broadwaya
Which is this? East or wost?"
The main Broadway. II lets Seventh ave
nue. get the start here and 90 on ahead with the
trade and the cable cars while IL slips of around
the corner to rest But it's the Same old Broad
way you were on yesterday and every day since
you came"
The stranger who wanted to know the town
looked at a rather shamefaced country school
house cut Of building on the oornSf back OF him
and at fatroofed sales place over opposite with
Hay, grain and salt" printed on weather ashed
sign the door and remarked:
Looks like country road"
Yes" said the pilot and country road that had
no particular reason for keeping straight at that
But this is only temporary lapse. The street
RECEIVERS itself further on and makes quite a show
,.rts, II
| see -"
| But just then the shabby, old patterned horse
iinglcd up and bore the party away 70 fresher
| and pretticr parts OF town.
II an impartial and dispassionate observer with
no preconceived ideas Of Broadway were TO be set
| down in this above Long Acre region be would
think for all the world that he out in Granger
vile or LacklIstre borough and that the time was
just after hard season forty or fifty years back
For five blocks the street seems like some isbegot
Broadway that the city had gone out of its way to
! adopt and not the reei thing. From corner to
| corner the houses are hardly any bigger or Of
! more consequence looking than those that would
| be put up on ptccmpters government claim TO
| secure possession. Some are of wood, some are
| OF brick, all dingy and behind the age and the
| wide street shambles back and forth between the m
with general lack evenuess and shiftlessness
VI H''' ~ o Wv mann "i''ous h'"''
| of great city Water works, gas, good pave
menus 'onuue''is iof "ase "a'er ana INSIDE doors
TO cellars must all have come in vogue since those
| squat little houses were built High ceilings
were unknown and broad window pancs also, and
many Of the houses set back from the street in
! old village fashion, having door yards width OF
sue "a'N' Tic ia. 'oppeu market win us stneary
SWING oo"rs anu ioi'ofh ola awnings taxes up
nearly oiock ana all the business caings on that
Sue vi 'h' Shee' die '"Se 'hd' "ouiu oe iouho III
village oeh"e' 'auuio inAhers anu sign pain'eis'
piasefefs anu on'"e ioeu s'res' ih'etspefseo win
a horsosnoer shop' a oird ana animal dealer
| quarters anu Dig ea'aener greenhouse 'ha' Is
In ooo eoh'as. 10 'ne afusuc' careiuiy arranged
h"rists shops famous iur'hef DOWN 'he thorough
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anu siii uos se' ou' ny uo ui'paih'eo ooof IN Dig
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gardeners eu'uS anu 'h'pie'nene 10 keep 'nen
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ping nofses anu "'"e !oopeis III harness. an'
wagon ''pa,i'i's' o"fpeh"iS ana mason WORK
JUST inc 'an'hsS ,ha' "ou'u pf useiui IN som'
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way anu nave '"c'f enfan'es Oh inc sue streets
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a''ho /" us''' "n''"" 'oh'o'"'''s shelter 'taue
ana uau'sileh ian'''ies as many on noor as II
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'on Vi ESSEN shoe" "heio shopS Anu living quar-