Omaha daily bee., 1902-10-06
ROUND ABOUT NEW YORK.
RIDpIes on the Current Of Life in the
Metropolis.

twenty Thousand DarKeeperS, mostly
young men, are required to keep the ir-
rigation joints of New York City in proper
running order. "Barkeepers differ amaz-
ingly in different parts of town." reports
the New York Sun. '"The suburban bar
keeper can scarcely earn his salt on the
Bowery, and the easy, familiar and some
what cynical style of the Bowery barkeeper
would scarcely do in the great Broadway
and Fifth avenue hotels. The Bowery bar
keeper is suspicious Of human nature and
quick to make his suspicious known to the
object. He sees much Of the seamy side
of life. Something of the reserve that
used to be ascribed to the hotel clerk is
characteristic Of the barkeepers in the
great hotels. They are not so busy as
the Bowery barkeeper, but better paid.
They wear a good many more white jackets
a week than the most fastidious Of their
Bowery brethren. 1t would not be hard
to detect a Bowery barkeeper in his Sun
day best of duty, but the barkeeper Of
q big hotel off duty might pass for a Sun
day school superintendent or anything else
that is respectable. Even the humble per-
son who moves about all day slowly sweep
ing up the marble floor with a long-handled
brush often looks like a scholar in un-
usually hard luck. The barkeepers of the
flash places in the Tenderloin and else
where represent one striking extreme of the
trade. They are in daily and nightly con-
tact with the froth Of New York society.
They know thieves and thugs by sight, IL
not more intimately. They know, too. that
portion of the gilded youth Of New York
that takes Joy in the ugliest side Of bo-
hemian life. They could direct a discreet
person to the Iikeliest place to see a dog
fight or find a rat pit.
'Barkeepers in the downtown district
catch a businesslike dispatch from the Gus
toners that come before them. The afec-
! tation Of a sideboard instead Of a bar,
characteristic Of a few downtown saloons,
seems to breed a special kind of barkeeper
usually a well-appearing, busy and pre-
occupied man, who concocts mixed drinks
with marvellous speed and hands out the
full glass, the tiny napkin and the check
! carefully turned upside down, all with the
easy grace of a practiced hand.
"Then there is the downtown ~barkeeper,
who stands all day with four or five others
Of his own trade within a sort of cage, the
continuous bar. facing three or four ways
or perhaps making a complete circle. Such
saloons and such barkeepers are designed
10 answer the needs Of those who gulp
their liquor and hurry out to their daily
work. -
peaceful is the life Of the barkeeper Of
the German quarter. Drinking is here a
: fine art, a thing not to be INDUCED in with
out the company of friends. The Germans
drink slowly, and there are enough saloons
and vein stuben for all, so that none is
rowded. The untidy floor and sloppy bar
OF the Bowery are unknown in the Ger
- CnAA An dauvAudf alWaUQ
looks fresh on the floor, and the bar is
neat with bright brass decorations and a
polished dry top. The barkeeper is the
friend and companion of half Of those who
come in. Even in the larger vein stuben
the lively boys that serve wine are on easy
terms with the patrons. Waxed mustaches
and solitaire diamonds do not decorate the
barkeepers of the German quarter. II by
chance such a barkeeper wears a gaudy
decoration it is usually a trophy won at the
Schuetzenfest.
"Barmaids have not been popular in this
city. but there are women tending bar In
various parts Of Greater New York. As
often as not these women are the widows
of saloonkeepers who have undertaken, In
the absence OF any other means OF liveli-
hood, to carry on the business OF their dead
husbands.
"a large and lively Irish widow used TO
conduct a beer saloon for longshoremen
well uptown near the North river front. The
CLEAN in her eye, in merry contrast to the
hue Of her crepe. gave promise that her
widowed state would not be permanent, and
there we're indications that the business i'm
proved rather than declined under her ad-
ministration.
a. It3kla Garmau vyfdnW Epang the tinipgt
and neatest possible beer saloon In the old
German settlement OF Long Island City
and is a recognized institution of the quarter
In some OF the vein stuben OF the German
quarter any member Of the family. male OF
female, young or old, may be seen serving
behind the bar. The grandmother will leave
her knitting by the stove to serve a thirsty
customer, or the schoolgirl her book"
Nathan Strauss, who for several years
has been providing Pasteurized milk for the
poor Of New York City in the summei
months, announces that next year he viii
have In operation a new and larger labora.
tory, the demands on his unique charity
having vastly increased. The milk is giver
free to all who on examination are found
unable to pay, a nominal charge beinI
made to others. DT. J. Corwin Mabey, WHIT
was delegated by the health department 4
investigate the results from the use OF Pas
teurized milk and milk foods, said that h
} believed the low death rate among child
rem under 5 years OF age in the borough o
Manhattan Is directly attributable to tn
distribution of Pasteurized milk from tn
l stations maintained by Mr.. Strauss.
1 An original philanthropist dropped a 81
cold pfeca An Haster street. with a stril
! OF white paper wrapped about II. Upon tn
E paper was a suggestion that II the fnde
had anything TO cook and needed coal. h
could go and buy II. "If you need not Goa
or gold" he added. Il e~onjure you to con
1 vey this gold to some ~coinless and coalles
cuss to console, cheer and comfort"
= The money was picked up by a small boy
whose parents purchased him a new pal
a Of shnaa and nut The REMAINDER IN the saw