The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-05-16
IN
NEW YORK
People and Things in
Gotham.
THE AUTOMOBILE COAT
The Dewey Arch the Worse for Wear
Gallery Gods Going--Pun-
ishing Street Washers.

! NEW YORK, May 1-While Washing
ton is already radiant in it's vernal beau
| ty, spring seems to have halted hesitat-
| ingly on the hither side Of this island.
and the LEAKAGE in the parks is still but
| a timorous. uncertain promise The
weather remains unmellow and raw. 1t
! therefore appears probable that we shall
| have the automobile coat-that feminine
variant of the gunny sack-on universal
view until summer drives it to the cam
phor chest or the rag bag, for the fiat
has been issued from Paris that next
season the automobile coat will be as
| dead and gone as the hustle.
The one excuse that can be here pre-
| sented for infringement on fashion col
| uWns is that the automobile coat frenzy
| "hich has consumed the women of this
| town since the beginning of the cold
weather, is sufficiently extraordinary to
| be enlarged upon, even out of it's proper
| place They all wear 'em. The lady
who emerges from Rector's in an ap-
! pliqued automobile coat that cost some
| body $500 steps into her electric vehicle
ana IN the next block she sees a Young
woman returning from her labors in a
| sweat shop or in downtown hashery
Tor men stepping out splendiferousy in
a S99S imitation of the $500 wrap The
! bag wrap is as ubiquitous as the news
| boy If you stand in Madison Souare
Park just before O'Clock in the morn
ing you'll observe that the very cash
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wearing grisly, flapping counterfeits of
| the autocrats.'
IL Dress Alike.
| Women in New York take IN some
iads OF dress that are calculated to show
| them off to the best advantage. but the
woman who can look handsome or pret-
| ty1or graceful or in any wise attractive
1 IN an automobile coat has got to be
very magnificent creature indeed. The
aeIio,' aatolcoat frenzy is of a sort with other
I rtot;
! of the men in New York who can afford
TO buy good clothes dress precisely alike
/ 80 90 the women There are few Amer
| lean cities where there is less individu
ality in the dress of both men and WON
/ en-. For all of this the New York man
! smiles complaisantly when he returns
| from bit OF trip away from this town
anc Is highly pleased to dwell upon the
fact that everybody he met in the prov
| fore he told him So One of them was
telling a visiting provincial that the
other day.
mo doubt the provincial replied. 1T
was probably because you never thought
| OF giving up your seat in street cars to
women. because you dug your elbows in
| 10 everybody who obstructed your path
! on the public thoroughfares because YOU
| slammed storm doors in the faces of
folks behind you, and because you swag-
ger like royal marine with a two days'
liberty and four smllings drunk money
| on his person"
Oddly enough, the New York chap ap-
of putting it,
Marriage or Death.
1t will soon be necessary for Young
| women in this town who perceive the ad-
Vantageousness of declining the offers of
marriage of their Suitors to wear suits
OF armor chain and face protectors when
the hour arrives for them to pronounce
| the final No" The custom is RAPIDLY
growing among the suitors over here of
puncturlng the young women who de-
| al nd hao ,;tI,
leaden pellets out of heavy bulldog guns
until the girls resemble unanimated
sieFeS' or OF hurting quart or of
Vitriol into their countenances. There
nave been at least half dozen cases of
TINS sort in New York during the past
two weeks Three of the gentlemen
| burned their idols heads off right down
to the neck with vitriol when they got
the sack, and the remainder of them ex-
ecuted fatal one-sided gun knife plays
upon the objects of their alteration when
they were finally informed that they
wouldn't do as husbands. There should
steadies" be searched for implements of
death or Disagreement before they step
under the lintels of the doors behind
waiting.
A Brooklyn young woman escaped
deafh aih,.id the g. other r day by praiseworthy
man that she couldn't see" in the light
of a husband called upon her. her femi-
nine intuition deducted from his agitat-
some KIND OF an instrument upon his
person that wasn't going to do her any
sood IN case she wasn't agreeable to his
lmplorations. She had refused him some
Z,Wo times, but she didn't refuse this
,ime She said yes" right away, and
the young man was so enthused and car
rled abort over her reconsideration that
ne pulled large A. sIxshooter from ms
rear pocket, remarking at the Same
some o these pills il youse had. | ha' bin
good Mag took it all light-heartedly
put when the young man departed he
hadnt proceeded two blocks before
Ponderous cop wrapped his arms around
| hlm from behind, and the youth is
oolng little six months retreat over
| or Blackwens Island. Before he is
again turned loose the apple OF his eve
who lodged death at his hands because
| nave decided that the salt air over here
| is too trying on the complexion and re-
| move farther inland.
Gallery Gods Going.
The gallery god will soon be as extinct
| over here the dodo and the icthyosau-
| rus are everywhere. Most of the stand
ara price New York theaters charge a
| half dollar for a seat in the gallery and
as many women as men purchase seats
| in the sky parlors Most of these CALLER
| les are so sheer in their perpendicular
| ity that if they were lust one degree
! the galleries would fall forward on their
| faces into the orchestra or onto the
| stage. The old-time stamping and whist
/ ling and other manifestation of iov an
proVal or impatience on the part of the
|