The sun., 1900-09-10
eBAIrKR STREET ECLIPsED.
The Day OF the Paller-In over and Trade
Surging Elsewhere.

Baxter street Is on the blink. All tho mcr-
chants Of "the Bay agree that they have been
beaten out by Broadway and the Bowery.
Pullcrs-in are working only thirteen hours a
day, and four-dollar suits that used to sell for
siI and SIS bring only 81 or ss now, The cloth
ing dealers are wearing their own goods. and
the shoe trade Of the Bay Is on it, uppors.
There was n meeting yesterday Of the Bay
Lodge Of the Amalgamated Order Of Shoe and
Pants Men to discusss trade depression and
devise remedies. Resolutions were adopted.
and the Baxter street theory Of trade was gone
over with q view of discovering its defects
Prosperity IS the cause OF all our trouble,
said Misnt Isaac How | hate that word
What drove the sailor men from the Bay to the
Bowery? Prosperity What drove the rest
of our customers to Broadway? Prosperity
Times are good 40 times are worse When times
were bad times were good When a man had
only 81 he came to the Bay and got u four-
dollar suit Of clothes for IT, Now he take sl2
10 Broadway"
PROSPERITY il bad" admitted an oustide
man. but the fresh air. the civilization what
you call 1.-THE parks worse, When We have
Mulberry Bend trade il good with all the peoples
near us Then they tear down the houses
and make the park aud the peoples move away.
What Is fresh alr2 Nothings -nothngs at all,
What Is a park for tradef Nothings"
"iou are both wrong, said the next speaker,
broadway learned our secrets and that's
the trouble. One day puller-in got too proud
Tor the Bay where his father had made for
tune and he gut a job oh the Bowery He
told the BOwery how Baxter street made money
and that's when We began tp lose, lie told
them about pulling In and they improved tho
system Instead of having an outside man
on the curb they put sign III the window neat
and nohby; only So that's the same thing
Then the customer goes In and they III hun
Tor $40 Amt that Baxter street With just "a
few new wrinkles Then when they got the
game going II Was easier than In Baxter street.
he's going To got stuck and l. vory careful.
He's hard 10 best Amt that ~o' n. goes
on Broadway or the BOWcTy and thinks he's
all right there and its easy We've got 10
change the name Of the street, wash our vim
dows. put dummies In them with signs and
have fire saloS.'
The last -r"aler suggested the following
resolutions, which were carried unnnimou.'y'
"WheTCps. BaN ter street amt what II WHs
and l. suffering from unfair ComIeti it!ou,
"Rcsnrcd. By Bay Lodge. that our street
adout new method In place of our time hOnorod
customs, mat all our merchants make ~" Oi
their windows for DISPLAY purrO-a-. that We
have said windows washed regularly aud that
We have dummies in them Wearing Our pants
and COATS that uullers-in he di~renscd viii.
and that every outside man shall wear tape
measure around his shoulders 10 suggest
A. that n committee ho APPOINTED to arrange
Some system Of fire. food and bankruTt sales,
so that each merchant on ouoh bloch may have
ono n week' that we retitiOn Oi'r rp' re1eufa-
tive in the Council To- hnvc the name Of Baxter
street changed TO Mulberry Park West"