Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1901-08-29
NEW Y0Rk'S TENDERL0IN.
The Famous Quarter is Fast Disappear
ing Under the March of Progress.
(From the Brooklyn Eagle)


New Ycrk's Tenderloin is passing. Its
days are done.
When the wandering actor returns I'm a
few weeks to his Broadway haunts he is
Likely to wonder if he has come to the right
town. for there is little but the sidewalk
left of the Tendoroin he formerly know.
OF COURSE Herald Square is still there.
and, if any one ever used it for a land
mark, so Is the Greeley statue, but the
ruthless hand CT the wrecker has been iaii
uron everything else and nothing but ruin
and desolation remain.
Business has at last driven out pleasure.
In the place where James J. Corbctt once
showed himself to admring patrons thcre
is now nothing but an empty, silent
stretch of rooms. In the spot where he
was wont to tell his admirers how he dis
posed of Sullivan a steam drill is hard at
work giving free exhibition of which 1t
can do in the way Of knocking holes i'll
Manhattan rocks
Childs' restaurant. known gratefully to
many needy seeker after fortune. mas
been reduced to it's original brick, and VIII
sons corner drug store-once the favored
rendezvous of sweetho arts, the shelter for
street ear patrons, grease paint and cold
cream to the Tcrderloin at large is in the
hands of the wrockers.
Roster & Bial's--the survivor Of many I
iinarcial wreck has sutCombed at last to
a foe against which it's spirit battles in
"am It has rccciTcd its quiet us from the
kodse ureCkers. Daily its " alls grow less
end another three weeks will see its end
There is perhaps no place in town--with
the single exception of the Eden Musce-
better or more widely known than this
OECS famous music hall
The Hotel Aulc is doomed. That good
gray wall against which so many aspiring
vaudeville lacks have leaned is already
Undergoing demolition and there Is deep
holc behind it. The story that a discu-
gagged actor fell into the hole the other
night because he took the old familiar
place or trust and omitted to look for the
wall before he leaned against it. causes no
amusement III the Tenderloin. Tire hati-
tues of the TCndcrloin are sad. They are
past testing. Generations of budding ira
Ecd ans have leaned against the hulic
Willie they gazed upon thankless world.
As well might they expect to fall through
the solid eartn as through the stanch walls
| OF the Auc
Progress has at least been given the
whip hand and it is driving what some
PEOPLE call vice before it in a fashion that
all the reform societies in the world cam
not equal. The beer gardens, chop hous-
cs. music nails and other places of amuse-
men with which the old Tenderloin was
filled have scattered in many directions
and whole section has moved bag and
baggage to the vicinity of Longacre
Square.
me lower Class OF nCuses or amusement
sun mover around lWeitv-nlhth street
"cst Oh hioauWaY' but IL Is not iohS untll
licSe 100 must 20. since business mas
cldliheu inc srCphu III inns part OF town
ior Hs own IL mas become 100 valuable
LOT concert ha'ls ana places or thlS KIND
Inc hrst step In the direction or reform
was taken "hen the groGnd was bought
1or What Is promised to be the largest and
fhest depart ment store In the world. Al
READY the ground lying between Thirty
fourth street on the south, Thirty NTH
street on the south, Broadway on the
north, Broadway on the east and the ives;
wall OF Roster Balls on the west
S"arms with workmen. From little lis
tancc that site which was once the center
hill with hundreds of aunts running this
way and that each busily doinG his ow,
little share Of the work. 1t is less thar
three weeks since ground was first broker
there, but 3lready much has been done to-
ward getting the ground ready for build
iIg. over five hundred men are at WORK
night and day Three hig engines suppl,
power for the drills and cranes on tn,
Thirty fourth street side. There is anotl
er powerful plant or the Thirty-fiftl
street side, where long incline mas beer
built to allow the loaded teams to roac:
the street. The engine at this point PRO
Vides power for cable which is fastened
In the tongues of the wagons, for the slop,
is so steep that unless this help we're ac
corded the horses could not haul the loads