Evening star., 1900-07-07
BECAUSE THEY ARE 50 BOHEMIAN
Some Famous Turf'5PIunaers Who
Have Passed From View.
THEY NEVER LAST LONG

Bohemian" places in the town limits Nor
is this true only of the male Manhattantte.
His wife has the same notion, and she
wants to go along. and she does 20 along
1t is the thing in this neck O. the woods
for married men to take their wives to i'm
possible places. and sedate married couples
coming along here from more buckled COM
munities fall into the spirit of the game and
find themselves sitting quite cheerily in
those queer foreign restaurants that are
to be found in the most malodorous of New
Yorks slums.
One Of them down in East Houston
street, that can only be reached by passing
through many lanes of yelling infants, leer-
ing corner assemblages of brigandish-lo look
ing Sicilians ,chaffering fish peddlers and
their patrons of all nations. and more
smells than Naples ever furnished has got
such hold on the more polite element of
this town that you have to engage your
seat there three days in advance If you
want to draw your chair up to the table
d'hote meal the Hungarian proprietor of
the place serves. 1t is just to say that
this meal is admirable. You may not have
the least conception as to the composite
ingredients, or even the foundation. of any
one dish of which you partake, but you will
find yourself partaking of them all never
theiess and liking them. too, in addition to
enjoying the piquancy of not knowing what
you eating. 1t is Magyar cooking you
are told, and when you are all through you
ready to reflect that. on the whole,
Louis Kossuth wouldn't have Jared SO bad
ly had he never passed outside the borders
of Hungary. You pay 80 for this ample,
If mysterious. feed, with the wine to boot.
The wine. heady, rich Hungarian article
that leaves sediment in your glass. IS
irclosed in a wicker-covered gallon bottle.
of the lcrg-necked variety that is suspend
ed top-down over the center of your table.
You press a glass button on one side of the
a -
the glass that you are holding in the other
hand. You at liberty to drink the
whole gallon IL you elect. and then the
waiter Will hang up another gallon in It's
stead. 1t is all So very convenient. this
paten. bottle business that the frequenters
of the table d'hote find themselves toucn-
ing the button very often, perhaps only
with the bland childish idea of seeing over
and over again how the thing works.
Spi of the Place.
There is fine Hungarian string orchestra
rendering czardos, and many other things
that are sweet and low, behind the bank Of
ferns and palms, and, all In all, the tempta-
ton to keep right on touching up that
glass bottle button. if Only for the purpose
of keeping the spirit of the thing a-move,
seems to be very strong on all of the
habitues Of the place.
Most of the people who eat at this place
are of pretty good class-the better element
of professional folks in all walks, and
young married men proudly showing their
wives the outskirts of that queer old place,
Bohemia. The young married women, of
course, exhibit the proper amount of horror
over the antics of some of the professional
folks when those suspended fiagons have
reached the stage Of empti IS, but, never
theless, you are pretty liable to see them
there again with their husbands, after their
proper horror has worn out a bit. A gang
of the0trical folk, men end women very
well known on the stage. pulled up in front
of the place in couple OF tally-hos, after
spending the afternoon at the races, On
Saturday evening and for about eight
hours there was something doing" with a
vengeance on the sanded floors of this
queer Hungarian cafe. There was nothing
out of the way, however, in their gambol-
ings, and 1t is probable that a number of
the mummers did their lines from old parts
better on that festive occasion than they
ever rendered them on the stage. The pro-
prietor of the place exercises a sort of CEN
sorship on the amusements of his guests,
and he will permit nothing that would be
calculated to keep away his best class Of
customers in private life, namely, the afore-
said young married couples 'out for a good
time" 1t is even said that this proprietor
makes a few little private inquiries in
advance with reference to people who ap
ply to him for the reservation of seats at
his table dhote.
Seeing Chinatown.
The irrepressible CHUCK" Corners has
all that he can attend to in conveying par
ties around among the various Chinese res
taurants in Mott street. He gives hundreds
of young married people who don't mean
any harm what is called "a good time"
m the Chinese quarter in the course of a
year. You may see him on any night at
the head of crowd Of chattering we'll
dressed folks. walking in the middle of the
streets in the Chinese quarter, and setting
forth Information about the whole business
in that strange, nOQ-tranSlatable DatOlS OF
the Bowery of which he is the chief expo
nent 1t is an odd thing to see Chuck Con-
ners sitting beside a pretty young woman
at table In a Chinese restaurant, trying to
teach her how to eat with chop-sticks.
while her husband sits grinning on the
other side of the table. Conners is sensible
and kindly enough to advise all of the folks
who go around the quarter with him to
pass up the peculiar, whitey-brown wines
and liquors that the Chinese use at their
meals. and, while he will willingly take his
b parties through the opium joints-after
having gone through them in advance him.
self so as to make everything presentab.e-
he will exhibit immediate hauteur and chill
iiness toward any man in one OF his par
against the hop"-smoke the pipe-himself
Hey. fergit dat, Reggie" the one and
only Chuck will exclaim on these occa-
sions. with a horizontal movement Of his
extended palm directed at the man who
wants to do the whole thing Take hold
O. somebody's mitt or yousell git lost. Fer
git itv'
A Growing Fad.
In general, the MISUNDERSTANDING fad
has had strong hold on New Workers for
a number of years past and II is likely to
keep on growing. 1t is desire that glows
within the breasts of humans who are pros
porous enough and healthy enough to stand
1t to eat new and strange things amid new
and strange surroundings, and establish
ments of a novel character. designed to
tempt and divert folks of this sort. are con-
stantly springing up and obtaining vogue.
Grill rooms that formerly entertained men
only have made additions for the accommo-
dation of properly escorted women patrons,
and exclusively Welsh rabbit establish
ments that formerly got only the late-at-
night custom Of male FOUNDERS, now serve
up their chafing-dish products and their
tcbies of musty ale to as high-grade GUS
toners of both sexes as visit Sherry's or
Delmonicos.
While all Of this has been well in some
respects-in the respect of inducing mar
| ried men to make more frequent COM
| panions of their wives. for example-it has
initiated considerably against the preser-
| walton Of good manners in many of New
York's best eating houses for both sexes
| institutions that lay no claim to ''Bo-
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