Northern Wisconsin advertiser. [volume] (Wabeno, Wis.) 1898-1925, 1901-11-14
MEN WHO PASS THEIR LIFE ON
THE ONE STREET.
THEIR LOYALTY PECULIAR
Sort of a Poetry About the Good Old
Lane Which Charms and Holds
Varying Moods of the Streets With
the Day and season-oueer Types
of Men.

| ION there may be found Well-dreSEed
prosperous-looking men, with that
about their gait and general bearing
which says plainly, for years
haven't been off the city payements."
All of them will tell you, with no
visible sign of amusement, that they
have not been below Fourteenth street
in years, and, with the exception of
some few principal side streets, they
assert that during that time only
Broadway has known them. Just
what the tie is that binds the con
frmed citizen of Broadway to his one
tEoroughfare only those into whose
blood Broadway has entered may say.
mo, / couldn't tell you just why |
love and live on Broadway" said one
Of fashionable hotel on the Rialto,
but this much can say: get my
living on Broadway. spend my
money on Broadway and l have my
lodgings right above here. never
go away for the summer, and the
men of my set don't either. If the
day is warm there is always a breeze
on Broadway. And the trolley cars
make it Away spossible to keep cool
Then most of the people who go to
seaside resorts spend a good portion
of their evenings listening to violent
vaudeville shows which are of the
poorest description. Now, right here
on Broadway, If | have any time Of
that sort to spend, | can get the best
vaudeville, with all the accompani-
ments Of cool breezes and cool drinks
As summer resort Broadway isn't
bad. Then in the cool of the evenings,
instead of associating with lot of
strangers, as one is forced to do at a
summer place, | merely stroll up the
fine. My friends are spread out all
the way to Forty-fourth street We
know each others habits so well that
it's only a matter of few moments
to find any given person.
"Of course, the average man with
out imagination who comes but oc-
casionally in contact with the Broad
wager would say that the reason we
we're lazy and the streets so con-
lvenient, with it's miles of assorted
wares. But there's something more
than that in it all. There's a sort of
poetry about the good old lane. To
me Broadway has as many moods as
woman, only they're not all feminine
moods, by any means. In the morning
when you feel like going out to battle
with the world, there's the rush and
roar of Broadway to set you on. Cars,
cabs and trucks beating their various
noises together make up symphony
which loses little, even though its
theme is buy and sell If man were
totally without ambition. believe if
he were set out on Broadway in the
morning he would be fired to do and
dare. Everybody is rushing some
where with very definite purpose, to
Judge from the bearing; so the loiterer
fels that it is no place for him, I'M
less he has an aim. And if he hasn't
one, he speedily finds one Why,
even /, on a slack day, when | may
chance TO stroll out on the old alley
although l haven't the least bit of
business to attend to in the world,
suddenly find myself rushing off down
the street as though to keep an APP
pointment with a railroad president
And sometimes, just to keep in the
swim, find out some new bit of bust
ness to attend TO, though when
started l hadn't any idea of so doing
Thus Broadway adds to my susten-
ance.
But Broaway isn't all business. She
has tenderer moments. In the even
ings she is given over to pleasure.
Smoothly drawn cabs take the place
Of the commercial traffic of the earlier
part Of the day. She is bright with
gay toilets, mems laughter and wo-
mems smiles. Up in the Tenderloins
the theatergoers take possession for
a few hours. Then their sway is over.
Ffercer and more unrestrained be-
comes the mood of Broadway. From
the side streets float up and down the
alley snatches of coon songs which
loriginate in the intersecting street re.
sorts Men in evening dress support
tipsy women to cabs Then the cool
might breeze of Broadway in the early
morning blows up. The loiterers and
pleasure-seekers disappear. Occasion.
ally some party of wellknown Broad
way comedians lurch up the way to
their hotels.
The forerunners of the days com
merce. the milkmen and newsboys,
come Gathering around. Then the
days round of moods is resumed.
There is one mood. however. that
comes TO Broadway but once a week.
If Rip Van Wrinkle were to wake up
from 20-years' cat.nap on Broadway
of Sunday afternoon, aftAr Staring
round bit, he would exclaim: I don't
know what this town is or who these
people are, but it's Sunday afternoon
/: For on that afternoon Broadway
displays her gentlest mood. There Is
no roar of traffic; commercialism, for,
gotten. sleeps. Bright sunshine and
quietly moving crowds are the rule
People from the extreme east and west
sides OF the town make the big wide